I made sure to say relative political stability.

I don‘t like it (in fact I hate it), but capitalism won the cold war. And communist revolutionaries went dormant as a result. The cold war brought a different kind of stability, particularly to Europe, and the end of it created a massive turmoil (mainly along nationalistic lines rather then political ideological ones).

In hindsight perhaps I should have been more specific and said “relative political stability along ideological lines.”