Originally posted by Carrikature
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BTW the Soviet Union usually lagged beyond the west in technology and industry and was only really able to keep up by giving harsher conditions to it's people and the reason they lost 25 million people was mainly due to Stalin's paranoia and fear about his own power in which he killed/imprisoned anybody who could oppose him before the USSR entered WWII and therefore ensured that the country was unprepared to fight the Nazi's. If anything, Stalin's poor choices is what got many of his people killed.
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