05-16-2019, 02:34 AM
(05-15-2019, 03:24 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Still -- the Second World War was extremely destructive in the Soviet Union, even if the physical destruction was heaviest in Belarus and Ukraine, both of which went fully under Nazi rule. Such is Crisis, like it or not. WWII was a Crisis for Russia even if it was generated elsewhere.
Then one gets a reset. Stalin was unable to initiate purges as he did in the 1930s, and by 1953 his ferocity was repudiated in practice.
Rebuilding the wrecked western Soviet Union looks like a 1T activity.
Was WW2 horrible for the USSR? Yes. Was it a crisis? No. Was it a reset? No.
Why? Because the USSR and Russia today is still a full turning ahead of the West.
Seriously PBR are you naturally this obtuse or do you work at it?
It really is all mathematics.
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