FairAndUnbiased
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Depends on how you define free or authoritarian. Many Chinese view India as an autocratic tyranny and Russia as a free country.No, I'll bet that free societies will eventually outlive authoritarian regimes in one form or other. It is simply difficult to keep the mind control going through generations. Eventually the system will relax its restrictions at some time and that will result in a breakdown. Soviet Union is a good example.
Technical supremacy or wealth is not specifically tied to system of government. Germans had good tech. under Hitler and they have it now as a free society as well.
In India there's no freedom to do what you want in everyday life. You are constrained by religion, caste, poverty, tradition and crime. You have to watch where you go, who you talk to and what you say.
Meanwhile in Russia what restrictions are there in everyday life? You can eat what you want, do what you want, mostly say what you want within reason. And the things you can't say, you can't really say in India either.