Counter-counterpoint: one of the reasons the USSR failed is because it spent more of its GDP on the arms race than it did on its people. Let's not pretend there was no one smart enough to identify/solve these problems, had they the resources.https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1021443784368795649 …
They were also, as @deadprogrammer points out, able to make the world's biggest microchip. A technology that is now sadly lost to the world.
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There's so much more than that. You've heard of "spetsnaz", but there was also a group of elite warriors called "stroybat". These were soldiers so elite and terrifying that nobody dared to give them firearms: they fought exclusively with shovels.
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And then there are the deep black ops soldiers so fearsome, they fight only within themselves.
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