![]() ![]() ![]() It's not as simple as "Stalin was cruel and goal-oriented and brought Russia from a third world nation to a second world nation ezpz", because Russia had way more resources available to them than, say, Laos, Angola, or Sioux. Yes, it was a backwater by many European standards, but a large contributing factor to the heat of WWI and politics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was that everybody knew Russia was about to industrialize and become unstoppable. People greatly underestimate the amount of resources that Russia had at its disposal.
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