I went to the U.S.S.R. as a tourist, in 1976. The story at that time was that The Mighty Soviets had reached parity with us, and soon, would overrun Europe. When I got there, they couldn’t put decent food on our table, the phones were awful, the average Ivan could not afford a car, theree generations to an apartment, the flagship department store had people lined up to buy goods that none of us Americans wanted.
I realize the Red Chinese are a threat, and better funded than Moscow could have dreamed of, but I remain skeptical of the claims, offered here. Thank you.
Interesting post yours. Back during the Cold War someone in the West remarked that the Soviet Union was a third-world nation with a first-world military. I guess there was some truth to that.
And perhaps China is headed that way today.