re: #428 Vicious Babushka

I was thinking about all the apocalyptic warnings before Y2K.

My pet one for that sort of thing was the “Great Leap Downward” mentioned in _The Great Dinosaur Robbery_.

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This 1970 novel featured (in passing) the fiendish Communist Chinese plot to have all citizens in China climb atop 8’ step ladders and then jump down at the same moment.
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