The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." This is absolutely true, but this doesn't happen with countries. Some have oil or diamonds in their depths, some don't have access to the sea, and some have aggressive neighbors for a long time...
But what countries and people have in common is that just as any person can become a self-made one, rising from the very bottom to the top, or completely lose everything they had, a country can also make a real 180° turn - for both better and worse. And this viral thread in the AskReddit community is dedicated to such examples.
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