How did they become a world superpower and almost overtake the us? During ww1 russia had the highest death toll, this led to the Russian revolution and an even higher death toll. Russia was the only entente nation that surrendered.
Ww2 was even worse, they lost 26 million people and the west was completely ravaged. The British and French empires fell apart after Ww2 but somehow soviet Russia was stronger than ever.
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They completely chucked out human rights in order to reorder the economy exactly as they wanted it. People had zero luxuries and we’re expected to do as they were told. Many people were pretty much forced to do jobs they didn’t want to do, even if they involved locating to the middle of Siberia to work in a mine.
Having said that, the USSR’s economy was never close to surpassing America. By the end of the soviet union, America’s GDP per capita was about four times what it was in the soviet union.
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