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Photo by STR/AFPĪ few months ago, the likelihood of the Chinese experiencing an evil empire moment was less than nil. A man reads a book in front of a board with an image of Chinese President Xi Jinping at a book store in Shenyang, China, on April 23. Yet when the liberation of Europe from the Soviet empire followed six years later, and the Soviet Union ceased to exist two years after that, the courageous dissidents behind the Iron Curtain revealed that the forthright condemnation of the Soviet Union as an “evil empire” was a critical turning point.

President Ronald Reagan’s “evil empire” speech, which was, at the time, ridiculed by the international diplomatic establishment.

The Soviet Chernobyl moment came three years after U.S. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.