# Say something that is true to a person in 1985 that will make you sound like a crazy person

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> The Soviet Union is going to renounce communism and break up. In six years.

And the US will renounce democracy and embrace fascism, and attempt to become a christian theocracy on par with Iran.

In 1985 I could have believed the first, but never the second. Even as a fan of dystopian science fiction.

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