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February 22, 2000 marked the collapse of the Thai state's precarious military junta that had been in place since the mid-1970s. For years, the Communist Party of Thailand, and allied democratic paramilitaries had been in a locked struggle for dominance with the standing military regime, whose right-wing insistence had further alienated her from the closest ideological ally -- the United States.

By the turn of the millennium, the United States, China and the Soviet Union had practically reached an agreement on how the world worked -- they stayed primarily out of each other's business and tried not to fuck each other over; and the world would stay peaceful. Soviet-Chinese-American joint efforts in space, science, technology and environmentalism showed that the Cold War had ended, and a new geopolitical era had begun.

February 22, 2000 was the day that the "United Front For Democracy" finally broke the power of the Thai junta. Managing to score a string of victories, the junta's forces phased back and attempted to erect a defense of Bangkok. However, the paramilitaries found allies within the city, and the military faced significant upswing in civilian unrest; forcing attempts to make the civilians submit, which only exacerbated the obvious unrest.

Late in the night of February 22, the junta leaders were arrested by the United Front, and the state fell to the Communist leadership, who immediately set out to prop up a new "People's Republic of Thailand"; yet another People's Republic in a sea of communist states in the Far East. The new PRT government affirmed to democratic principles, and began looking into restoring faith and democracy in Thailand.

Though, one of the first actions of the new Thai regime, was a large-scale purge of generals from the Thai military; primarily with the assistance of the other paramilitary groups and the People's Liberation Army. This was undertaken in the hopes that it could avoid yet another military coup d'etat some years down the line.