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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
The modernization of an agrarian society into a world superpower within a single generation is one of the most impressive accomplishments in human history.
That the soviet union was utterly decimated by the Eastern Front in the middle of that modernization just makes it that much more impressive.
The chinese great leap forward is but one small step by comparison.
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One wonders what it could have accomplished had it not had to engage in an arms race with another superpower who decided to wage an ideological war against it. That supposedly liberal superpower being all tolerant of dissent and whatnot.