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In 1838, Part One of Tocqueville's Democracy in America was published in New York; towards the end was an astonishing prediction:

There are at the present time two great nations in the world—allude to the Russians and the Americans... All other nations seem to have nearly reached their national limits, and have only to maintain their power; these alone are proceeding—along a path to which no limit can be perceived... Their starting points are different and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems to be marked out by the will of heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.

The US and Russia went on to become the two global competing superpowers just over a century later -- and as it happened, Russia first underwent a communist revolution, and used its superpower status to head the communist powers.

The challenge is to fulfill Tocqueville's prophecy in the same time or less -- minus that last detail (;)). No PoD's before the above mentioned publication, though I'd actually prefer if the first one was much later.
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