When the Soviet bloc, the former USSR, disintegrated in 1991, it was a turning point for the world, not only because communism fell, but globalization took a giant leap as Russia, and all the satellite states formerly part of the Soviet bloc, now entered into free trade on the global market. Then there was China, which during 1990s shifted from strict adherence to Maoist communism and adopted the party-state capitalist platform, essentially combining global market commerciali