| well...there were a period that Soviet Union's GDP is some 70-80% of U.S's GDP...
although not a free market, Soviets' economy still helps Soviet union to have a huge and strong military during that time.....
one thing we must agree is that only strong economy can sustain a strong military power in a long term base (not short time, if russia's economy still does not improve, and its military facilities stop selling weapons to india and china, its "strong" and "state-of-art" military tech will perish probably) |