We are still experiencing the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Socialist Republic. So what happens when the minions of an authoritarian are suddenly given freedom? They whip around like a failed missile test.
"As when death smites the swollen brooding thing that inhabits their crawling hill and holds them all in sway, ants will wander witless and purposeless and then feebly die, so the creatures of Sauron, orc or troll or beast spell-enslaved, ran hither and thither mindless; and some slew themselves, or cast themselves in pits, or fled wailing back to hide in holes and dark lightless places far from hope.”
The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King - Book 6 - Chapter 4 - The Field of Cormallen
An interesting analogy.