In January 1996, Democratic President Bill Clinton declared during his State of the Union address that "the era of big government is over." And following America's decisive victory in the Cold War, it seemed it might be so. Socialism began as a hypothesis - that central planning would improve the human condition. The ensuing decades-long experiment, stretching across all corners of the world, resulted in the opposite: Where communism spread, liberty's flame was extinguished, ushering in unprecedented human suffering for billions.

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