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* When [https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/01/freenode_issues_help_irc_grow/ millionaire tech entrepreneur Andrew Lee bought the commercial entity behind the long-standing IRC network Freenode in early 2021 and made it his personal fiefdom] (possibly with an eye toward turning it into some manner of money-making engine), its all-volunteer staff abandoned the network ''en masse'' and started a new one called Libera.Chat.<ref>This so enraged Lee that he began banning anyone who even mentioned the new competitor and seizing control of any channel where it was mentioned, even those which said "we're not going to Libera.Chat, we're staying here", which [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|drove virtually all the remaining Freenode communities ''off'' Freenode and onto Libera.Chat anyway]] and left him with an empty IRC network devoid of both staff ''and'' users.</ref>

* [[Nikita Khrushchev]] [https://www.rbth.com/history/327869-soviet-disneyland-failed proposed building] the Soviet Union's very own [[Disney Theme Parks|Disneyland]] following a much-publicised incident where the Soviet Premier was barred from entering ostensibly due to security concerns. Wonderland, as it was called, was conceived as "the entire Soviet Union in miniature" instead of focusing on a fantasy world sprinkled with various fictional characters as is with Disneyland's, affording Soviet children the chance to appreciate the country's diversity. While the Wonderland idea never came to fruition due to Khrushchev's removal from power in 1964, the Moscow-based [https://dreamisland.ru/ Dream Island] [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/business/russia-dream-island.html picked up where Khrushchev's project left off], and offered its own takes on Disney's attractions, even adapting [[Hans Christian Andersen]]'s ''[[The Snow Queen]]'' story in an effort to evoke Elsa from ''[[Frozen (Disney film)|Frozen]]'', though a Russian mother named Nadya Soloyeva expressed her doubts as to whether the park and its takes on fairy tale characters will have the same level of brand recognition as Disneyland's.

 

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