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    22 years ago

    I don’t think you can really compare pre and post industrial superpowers, especially measured specifically against the ridiculously advantageous position of the mid century USA (perhaps I should have said nuclear superpower, or space-faring). And pretty much everyone in the hemisphere “nearly” lost WW2

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      32 years ago

      pretty much everyone in the hemisphere “nearly” lost WW2

      I reread my comment and it was ambiguous. I meant nearly lost the war in the beginning due to lack of leadership which they basically executed early in the revolution.

      You’re right, nearly all of Europe lost in that war. The only two winners were USA and USSR

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        -12 years ago

        nearly lost the war in the beginning due to lack of leadership which they basically executed early in the revolution.

        The only two winners were USA and USSR

        A puzzling juxtaposition, that.

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          12 years ago

          What would you call the siedge of Moscow if not nearly losing?

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            History is rife with "nearly"s. The USSR had to content with y’know, actually being in the middle of both world wars and suffering the material consequences. And then went on to go toe-to-toe with the golden child of capitalism (safely nestled on its distant continent, far from the material consequences of war, with all the post-war industrial economic advantages that wrought).

            The US had a freakish advantage, no one should have gotten even close. And the USSR got smacked down bad through both wars. And yet, they were stiff competition. It’s like gloating that your thoroughbred greyhound barely beat out a half-blind, 3-legged street dog in a race. The fact that it was close should be your sign.

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              02 years ago

              That’s a very narrow view of what happened after the second world war. URSS occupied half of the European continent. It basically was the last empire in Europe with all the resources and human capital at its disposal to do anything it wanted. Not to mention war reparations.

              And it lost. The ideology wasn’t working. It took 40 years for that empire to collapse, but collapse it did because it was built on the wrong principles.

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                02 years ago

                I’m sure famine, sanctions, and concentrated international sabotage had nothing to do with it.

                • @RidcullyTheBrown
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                  02 years ago

                  There was no famine in URSS post world war 2. What are you talking about?

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                    12 years ago

                    Last I checked, 1946-1947 comes after 1945, double-check my math though.

                    And let’s circle back around to the far more important concentrated international sabotage if you please.