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Originally Posted by AdrienXII
I don't know about that. The USSR had too many problems with its agriculture, I think. But what's that to do with the Cold War? The USSR ended when Russians got really fed up with it.
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Had the Soviets not had to spend all that hard currency on weapons systems, upgrades and R&D to stay current with the US they could have spent some of it to buy the consumer goods their economy was so piss poor at producing. That would have kept the people fat dumb and happy for at least a little while longer and hence kept the bolsheviks in power a while longer.