maybe you aren't aware, but the russians slaughtered their ruling family and installed a different government at one point, too.

there's an interesting parable in the movie A Bug's Life where the grasshoppers get a lesson from the boss grasshopper about how if the individually-puny ants ever realize that they vastly outnumber the grasshoppers, the grasshoppers wouldn't be able to steal from the ants any longer.

if every ant woke up tomorrow with an unresistable biological urge to overthrow the grasshoppers, it would be done in a day.