@CriticalCupcake
> Soviet Union consistently spent a greater share of its GDP on its military than did the United States does slightly take away from the message
Isn't it exactly what makes it funny? The hypocrisy: how USSR always pretended to be for peace, but had always been preparing for war — in the end it never got invaded, but got buried under the rubble of its inefficient economy. And while it itself is long gone, the tanks made in the Soviet Union are on the battlefield today.
@m0xee Russia is a continuation of USSR. Same budget strategy: massive expansion of military budget while many thousands of people are literally freezing because of infrastructure failures. Thousands of apartment blocks without heating all over the country in -20°C temps. And that only the latest manifestation of social spending cuts and plain corruption.
@pointlessone
Sure, there are lots of similarities, but a lot of things are different. I think that USSR genuinely spent a lot on it — and that is why we still see Soviet tanks, Russia's war machine on the other hand is mostly a corruption device — the damage caused by it is still catastrophic, but it's a far cry from what everyone was expecting from it.
There was corruption in USSR too, but in my opinion it was very different in nature from what we have now.
