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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The Soviet government, Stalin from 1941 to 1953, put priority on superpower expansion, including nuclear weapons, rather than reconstruction.
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