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Zapad 81 | Soviet Armed Force

Great what happened to them and where are they now ?
 
All that military power and despite that USSR dissolved away. Pakistani's who cry for more ships, more tanks, more aircraft note. Pakistan would not in 100 years manage to get the number of tanks, aircraft, guns, submarines, nukes the Soviets built up.
This is what I worry about Pakistan the Soviet Union was always a economic mismanaged place but it was at least 2nd world by the 1960s and the Soviets were the 2nd largest economy in the world until the Japanese overtook them in 1988 also interventions in Afghanistan and other regions of the world costed them alot did not help Carter and Reagan went on massive arms race that killed the Soviet bear.Pakistan on the other hand is much poorer and I worry about it nukes are an insurance but not a toy we need to have modest economic growth
 
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Pakistan would not in 100 years manage to get the number of tanks, aircraft, guns, submarines, nukes the Soviets built up.
Nor should it. Exactly this type of reckless arms spending brought about the demise of the USSR. What is all the point of all these weapons when your people are suffering from a crappy Socialist economy?
 
Nor should it. Exactly this type of reckless arms spending brought about the demise of the USSR. What is all the point of all these weapons when your people are suffering from a crappy Socialist economy?
They did not go the Chinese route they did not bide their time
 

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