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Re:The Soviet Union's Monster Mi-6 Helicopter Airliner by Waterluvian on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @12:34PM (#40858224)
My perception was that the Cold War was partly about exploiting this trait, forcing them into financial ruin by running races they couldn’t help but compete in.
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Re:The Soviet Union's Monster Mi-6 Helicopter Airliner by pvg on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @02:35PM (#40859273)
A short and fun to read corrective is Kotkin's Armageddon Averted. The competition, inefficiency and the demands of its own power projections were a costly strain but nowhere close to leading to ruin or an irrecoverable state.
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