Truth be told, the USSR would have imploded decades earlier -and probably would have never been a threat of any kind(& certinly not a super power, lol)- had not the USG subsidized the USSR directly and/or allowed it be subsidized by US interests from its origins.

Give me grief after you read Antony Sutton. Or if you're old enough, perhaps you shared my wonderment as a kid when we were shipping our fearsome enemy food/grain.

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