Cold War Comparison: United States vs Soviet Union/Russia (1950-2020)

[@RankingCharts]

Hope everyone enjoys, and be sure to like and comment! Correction: the US had 7,340 nuclear warheads in 1958, not 73,400!

[@passportauthority3399]

How do you make these graphs

[@moochie101880]

What's the name of the song? I need to know. Luv it

[@davidpopovici7784]

CAN YOU TELL ME THE NAME OF THE SONG?

[@dafit.la1435]

@@passportauthority3399 use flourish in chrome

[@dafit.la1435]

@@moochie101880 from russia with love~huma huma

[@yoinks9907]

It’s impressive how powerful the soviets were and how fast they rebuilt their country after ww2 considering most of its industry was destroyed during the war

[@volumist]

@@allykid4720 Massive? No. Investments? No.

[@anhvunguyen6888]

Because that’s the power of communism

[@volumist]

@UCalJj8bjKqCb7jAY05IzjQw USA stopped investing in 1945, and demanded payment for lend lease. You cannot compare Soviet Lifes to American weapons. USA gave away only 11 millions dollars to SU, while Great Britain get 30 billions dollars from USA. SU got from USA 11 MILLIONS DOLLARS. And they demanded their 11 millions back.

[@volumist]

@@anhvunguyen6888 Yeah, people was very patriotic and heroic, so everyone was ready to die for the motherland.

[@volumist]

@@allykid4720 You cannot compare lifes to plants and factories. Shut up, 1500? Sovet Union did built 3200 by itself. It is western propaganda.

[@alexhussinger3550]

Its kind of Crazy to think that the Soviets were spending 25% of their GDP on Military Spending in the 1980s. Even with their involvement in Afghanistan, that's kind of absurd.

[@JimCOsd55]

Which probably explains why the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 when you have 50,000 tanks, 10,000 planes and 1000 warships along food shortages where the average Russian had to stand in long lines to buy milk, bread, eggs and potatoes!

[@j.r.h.9265]

North Korea in a nutshell.

[@RandomGuy9]

North Korea spends 25% too

[@antichoice1]

@·♃I· That's what I call stupidity to the core.

[@thalassaer4137]

@@antichoice1 shoo

[@besacciaesteban]

Maybe is not a good idea to double the military spending of a rival that has a tenfold economic advantage over you.

[@cageybee7221]

russia doesn't decide the US military budget lmao

[@tophatv2902]

True lol imagine thinking you are a economic threat lmao

[@rayquaza1245]

@@cageybee7221 he's not talking about the US military budget...

[@TheCrazierz]

@@cageybee7221 yea, because he's talking about Russia, my God, were you dropped as a child?

[@cageybee7221]

@@TheCrazierz dropped or otherwise atleast i was raised with manners.

[@seashellbeesaveres7951]

It terrifies me that a single nation could possess tens of thousands of nuclear warheads.

[@birdatbattlefield]

Dont be scared little one. Those nations are scared to press the button cause they will die too.

[@ok-dw1xf]

@@birdatbattlefield Yes but, The fact a few people have the power to destroy the world many times is scary

[@pahtar7189]

"I'm not afraid of the man who wants ten nuclear weapons. I'm scared to death of the man who only wants one." - Dr Julia Kelly (Nicole Kidman) from Peacemaker

[@thunderbird1921]

It was nice to see the nuke numbers go down to at least more logical levels. Plus, at least both superpowers eventually quietly acknowledged the high possibility of mutual assured destruction and thus worked to avoid any direct conflict. The biggest concern for nuclear attack would be rogue states, who feel they have nothing to lose and a lot to gain. Hence why getting North Korea denuclearized should be such a critical foreign policy priority.

[@open7264]

@@arianbehnami1050 It is precisely because North Korea is afraid of the United States overthrowing itself that it uses nuclear weapons to protect itself

[@ungusbungus2486]

“I bet I can disarm faster than you!” “You’re on!”

[@Minhang-pt2hz]

If only that is how they compete

[@fromthedumpstertothegrave3689]

Except going back up with trump/putin. Miserable legacy.

[@yyeeeyyyey8802]

@@fromthedumpstertothegrave3689 Yeah, and then Russia invaded Ukraine on Trump's term right?

[@mrbisshie]

@@fromthedumpstertothegrave3689 Obama is in office, Ukraine gets invaded, and Crimea is annexed. Trump is in office, ummm. Biden is in office, Ukraine gets invaded once again. lol

[@tylere.8436]

@@yyeeeyyyey8802 It was in the making since the Obama, sure Trump sort of served as an intermission, but did little to quell it, then Biden bumbled, Putin laughed and invaded. Though Putin is having a hard time.

[@josephsmith2259]

We all talk about US military spending and how it's way too big (I generally agree) but it's crazy that the Soviet States for many years was over 20% of it's economy.

[@minhtran7431]

That why it failed in later year I think. Due to its economy crisis caused by overspending.

[@alexanderdanieljika4047]

@@minhtran7431 that was part of of the reason it collapsed but not the full story

[@kaydenlewis9246]

@Superp0o0per 2020 not really

[@minhtran7431]

@Superp0o0per 2020 yeah but i dont think such thing will happen to USA because Soviet Union is a union like its name suggests so it broke up while USA is a country.

[@RedLancerMoto]

@Superp0o0per 2020 Explain

[@mitsumikyoya8746]

Ah, one thing I like about Eisenhower : *balanced military budget*

[@priestofronaldalt]

Ironic considering he used to work in that field

[@mitsumikyoya8746]

@@priestofronaldalt well the more reasons for him to see why wars is generally stupid.

[@Ghostking98]

@@priestofronaldalt Eisenhower warned the US about military industrial complex

[@ice8776]

Eisenhower >>>>>> Reagan

[@alexiarai955]

@Notrius Eisenhower is based regardless

[@bobbyswanson3498]

It’s incredibly scary how many nukes existed during the cold war. I had no idea the number was even higher than 10,000 until recently but to think of both the us and russia having 30,000 each is dreadful and disturbing.

[@cedric3973]

You should really be thinking, how many nukes does it take for a nuclear winter? 500 explosions? 1000? The US and the UK blew up more than 900 nukes in a 30 year time span.

[@billjones7223]

What’s even crazier is at one time america seemed to have over 80,000 while the soviets had around 800.

[@randomlycasual4941]

@@billjones7223 it was probably incorrect

[@cedric3973]

@@billjones7223 during that period most of the bombs did not get over 10kt. The bombs have just gotten bigger and they remanufactured the material into the other bombs. What we should also wonder is how many russian silos are full of water. Like they discovered after the USSR feel apart more than 60% of russian silos were full of water and thus pretty useless.

[@M0rshu64]

@@cedric3973 did they flood?

[@unconscious1076]

It's impressive how Japanese economy was bigger than USSR and was almost 3/5 th of USA economy during it's peak in late 80s to early 90s despite Japan being smaller than some of their states lol

[@pepehimovic3135]

Not really. Today some US states have economies almost as big as Japan’s despite Japan having a population of over 120 million since the 80’s toll today. What’s impressive though is the Netherlands always being top 10 in almost everything despite a population of only 15 million or so.

[@pepehimovic3135]

Singapore, Norway, Australia, etc too may be economically “impressive” (whatever that means) but tbh when you go down to the reasons it’s not really impressive, it all makes sense. In Japan’s case it makes sense from a historical POV too. They were already pretty big before 1945. They annexed Korea in the 1900’s and Taiwan (free labour and resources). Then annexed Manchuria then invaded all of Asia. Their population arguably the most educated non-European/American population too. There’s a ton of other factors as well to point out but it’s almost 4 am so I’m gonna sleep now.

[@unconscious1076]

@@pepehimovic3135 I'm talking about peak Japanese economy not today's Japanese economy Vs USA lol

[@unconscious1076]

@@pepehimovic3135 well Singapore is pretty small Norway was not much effected by wars (not destroyed) Then you have japan (country which is completely destroyed during war) and just few decedes later a economic Superpower way bigger than all European countries only close being Germany (another most destroyed one) lol

[@joshbentley2307]

@@pepehimovic3135 that’s a lie. The US’s richest state (by far) is California, with a gdp of $2.9 trillion, Japan has a gdp of $5.1 trillion.

[@allykid4720]

25% of gdp for military spending in SU for about 30 years? What economy can handle this? Damn, politicians, kgb and military generals should be super rich in SU.

[@viiizzaalishvili9967]

they are this was the reason for corruption in the ussr

[@free_boiling4502]

When you look at the economy numbers, you clearly see that the ussr was never really on par with the us, but they wanted to give off that impression to the world. So they had to spend ludicrous amounts of money on defense. This eventually bancrupted them.

[@connorh2215]

None, a big reason for their collapse

[@Студент-й9ы]

@@viiizzaalishvili9967 There almost wasn't corruption in SU, because it was almost senseless

[@Студент-й9ы]

They should because USA

[@seashellbeesaveres7951]

Boris Yeltsin goes to power, Russia proceeds to decline real fast.

[@soofjandepr0]

Because the population went from like 300 mil to 170 mil

[@dr.vikyll7466]

@@soofjandepr0 and Boris Yeltsin was a terrible leader.

[@LiteralCrimeRave]

@@dr.vikyll7466 There really wasn't amy way for him to save the economy though. He just got used as a scapegoat

[@Tenebraeification]

@@soofjandepr0 This, seriously the Soviet Union at the time of its collapse had more people in it than the USA. Russia by comparisons is outnumbered by the USA by a factor of 2 1/4. That's also not taking into account that Russia's population is hardly growing whereas the USA continues to add more people at a relatively stable pace.

[@endeavourist5287]

Yeltsin of course wasn't the cause of Russia's collapse. But he had the misfortune of overseeing the country during a very difficult transition period.

[@BobBob-cy9cu]

A graph showing population of the two countries as well would’ve been really helpful, either way, nice video

[@zmeu_md3831]

soviet union had a larger population than USA ,still they had way lower GDP

[@Leantenant]

@@zmeu_md3831 What?Soviet union have small population than USA...

[@jensdanbolt6953]

You can see it from the difference between the two GDP figures: When Soviet GDP/C relative to USA and GDP relative to USA are both the same ratio, the populations are same size. When the Russian GDP/C ratio is 1.5x higher than the nominal ratio, it's because the population of USA is bigger by 1.5 times.

[@Leantenant]

@Mike K But USA have more good time and rulers USA not was full idiots how Gorbachev,Chrushev,Elcin

[@Leantenant]

@Mike K And SU very much give money/resources to African,Asian,Europe states,but you right about population,ok.

[@Jake-rs9nq]

The Soviets kept up their wartime spending for 50 years. It's amazing they lasted as long as they did.

[@williewonka6694]

only through oppression is this possible. People disappear at night.

[@shrujanamsyama9940]

Communist economy is a direct economy without middlemen and hence does not have GDP overcalculation. In Capitalist countries, if you sell your goods to a middleman who then sells it to another middleman and finally to customer, there is a doubling or even tripling of GDP but with no additional production or gains. This is why USSR could spend heavily on military

[@beburs]

They had the biggest industrial base in the world,they could back it up.

[@JuPiTeR_0211]

According to official figures, the Soviet GNP in 1985 was 776 billion rubles, while the military budget is 2.4% of the GNP. If GNP is converted into dollars at the official rate (60 kopecks per dollar) and compared with military spending in PPP, then we get 6.1% of GNP, which is almost the same as the share of US military spending in the US GNP. You are using erroneous CIA statistics from the 80s.

[@medievalist8441]

I think if the USSR didn't spend its money in the arms race it could have maintain stability and probably still exist in a lesser degree

[@teemuvesala9575]

well USSR clearly outspent US on military for most part of 1980s despite being many times smaller economy...

[@Joseph-dw8qc]

@@teemuvesala9575 they could simply surpass usa economy tbh but their leader just doesn’t want to. If yuri andropov live longer ussr economy could surely surpass usa economy

[@le_meme_man8983]

@@Joseph-dw8qc what did andropov plan that you're saying USSR would've surpassed US

[@Joseph-dw8qc]

@@le_meme_man8983 this scenario is based if andropov live longer Begin: it is the 10th of February 1984. The front page of Pravda announces that after a 6-month battle with renal disease, General Secretary Andropov had made a full recovery and has been released from hospital. Without delay, he sets to work continuing the ambitious programs he had embarked on during his short rule. Shortly after his release from hospital. Andropov launches a massive anti-corruption purge of the party (OTL he made huge anti-corruption efforts) Old officials that had been allowed to roam free under Brezhnev are exiled from the party, and lose their positions. This purge percolates down into lower ranks of the party, resulting in tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands of officials being demoted, or expelled from the party. These actions would be in direct contrast to his predecessor Brezhnev, who let corruption run free. There would be quite a few upset party members, but it would result in a noticeable increase in economic efficiency and performance, as corruption was one of the two main factors that explained the underperformance of the soviet economy, the other being military spending. In terms of foreign policy, he would make attempts to bridge the gap between the two countries, but it is unlikely Reagan would respond positively, given his opinion of the Soviet Union. During OTL Andropov made several attempts to promote friendly relations, but nothing came of it. Regarding the war in Afghanistan, Andropov saw it as a mistake, and it is likely that he would have negotiated an end to the conflict. The terms of any hypothetical peace treaty is hard to say, but it is likely that the soviets would be fairly lenient, as Andropov understood the vast ramifications the war in Afghanistan would have, both economically and politically. It is hard to overstate the cost that the war in Afghanistan, and soviet military spending in general had on its economy. The soviets spent nearly 50 Billion dollars US dollars (116.25 Billion in 2017 dollars) on the war in its first half alone, and costs only rose as the war progressed. Stopping the war before it got out of hand would have been a major boon to the soviets, as that money could have been spent in economic or social sectors. On the topic of the economy, Andropov would be a major benefit to the soviet economy, and that would have improved with time. His labor discipline measures and reorganization would result in a stronger economy (as they did OTL) with this effect being compounded over time. He believed that the soviet economic stagnation could be solved through socialistic methods, and during his tenure we would see an alternate perestroika, focusing on streamlining bureaucracy, eliminating corruption and encouraging work discipline rather than market reforms. Finally, perhaps the most dramatic change we would see would be in domestic policy. By the early 1980’s the soviet people had begun to be quite cynical, a process which we would see culminate OTL in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s with chronic shortages, independence movements and a rejection of communist principals by a sizeable portion of the population. Andropov saw that the soviet people had lost their shiny-eyed optimism about the future of communism that they held under Stalin and Khrushchev, and he seeked to restore national pride, as well as crack down on independence movements. The 1980s would see a massive resurgence in propaganda efforts by the government. Andropov, like many others in the party, sought to reinvigorate national pride and hope for the future, and would likely excite the population by increasing consumer goods (which would be helped by the newfound economic power) and secure stability through a crackdown on dissent. Firstly, it is important to note that in OTL, the explosive growth of independence movements in the late 1980’s was due in large part to the dire economic conditions that manifested under Gorbachev. Without those underlying conditions, or at least with them reduced, independence groups would be significantly less powerful. But it is still reasonable to assume that Andropov would have cracked down on independence groups very hard. It is not hard to imagine mass raids, arrests and perhaps even executions. It is unlikely that independence leaders like Levko Lukianenko would have survived the Andropov era without being imprisoned or executed. This would most likely shock the west, but It would secure the stability of the USSR, and combined with economic improvements would most likely prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union. Domestically, however, citizens would remain relatively free, provided they were not politically active, and combined with economic improvements and newfound national pride, we would most likely see significant popular support for Andropov from the soviet populace. It is possible that with the election of Bill Clinton in 1992, we could see a reduction in tensions and perhaps even a peaceful end to the cold war, but that is purely speculation. I believe that by Andropov’s death on February 9th 1995 at the age of 80, The USSR would not only still be a global power, but a stable, well off nation with high living standards and a content populace. Much like the 1960s OTL.

[@DonMrLenny]

The ussr economic model was flawed in its core and in fact communist economic model is flawed in its core thats why it didnt worked anywhere even in china that is seeing economic success its because they actually implemented a relative more financial freedom (they basically became more capitalistic and succeded what a suprise!)

[@thatguy-xt7dz]

Makes me laugh when I see an American say our military is falling apart

[@volodkobakowsky9800]

Didn’t someone say “Sir, we (the US) have run out of bullets, the cupboards are bare?” Could that possibly have been a lie?

[@thatguy-xt7dz]

Being Canadian and a former service member. We could only dream of what the US has. Along with basically every other country in the world.

[@idontbelieveinthealliespro4426]

It's falling apart because of the people in it. Not the equipment.

[@peterlustig6888]

Are there seriously people which believe that the US military budget is too low?

[@mattmcdonald4033]

@@peterlustig6888 the question is how high can it go

[@templar3209]

If anyone says that 2000-2021 are scary times, introduce them to the Cold War where 2 Superpowers was about to wipe out each other and Europe

[@Ulaanbasaar]

*introduce them to ww2*

[@templar3209]

@@Ulaanbasaar If Cold War went down badly, most of us wouldn't be here. So..

[@Ulaanbasaar]

@@templar3209 true but if the nazis won ww2 NO ONE would be here that isn’t a nazi

[@templar3209]

@@Ulaanbasaar Resistance has always existed within earth. No empire will always exist no matter what decisions it makes.

[@Ulaanbasaar]

@@templar3209 is still be a terrible state to live in

[@richardarmstrong9770]

Its bad when the nuke numbers start going back up again for the first time in like 15 years

[@Prodelem]

That's what really shocked me.

[@fromthedumpstertothegrave3689]

When you look at the years of moving in the right direction under a wide range of presidents for nuclear disarmament and then that legacy undone with trump/Putin, miserable record.

[@antichoice1]

@@fromthedumpstertothegrave3689 Biden is the president bruh, place blame on HIM for letting Putin invade Ukraine and forget about the nukes, it doesn't matter obviously. 5 is enough.

[@levytaxes1454]

@@antichoice1 how the fuck did biden “let” putin invade ukraine you brainwashed idiot. also, nuke numbers increased under trump

[@tylere.8436]

Number of nukes went down because the nukes got bigger.

[@trihard7323]

Never realized how much the USSR spent on the military as a % of their GDP

[@Husker513]

20-25%

[@Husker513]

USA 6-7%

[@JuPiTeR_0211]

According to official figures, the Soviet GNP in 1985 was 776 billion rubles, while the military budget is 2.4% of the GNP. If GNP is converted into dollars at the official rate (60 kopecks per dollar) and compared with military spending in PPP, then we get 6.1% of GNP, which is almost the same as the share of US military spending in the US GNP. You are using erroneous CIA statistics from the 80s.

[@yunwenzhu2193]

The arms race is completely wrong way for Soviet Union, and it costs Soviet Union almost everything they earned from WW2 and Russia lost half of population after the Soviet Union era.

[@zakaryloreto6526]

Not all of the Soviet Union was Russian so saying Russia lost half of its population is misleading

[@danonimusgombelinius7254]

Well, because of American war plans for destroying the USSR in 1946-1950th and because of quantity of nuclear weapons by country in the beginning of the video, fears of the Soviet government and its attempts to catch the USA up and leave it behind seemed not so paranoid. They simply thought they don't have choice.

[@orangecobraEU]

@@zakaryloreto6526 more 40 millions of soviets died during ww2 more 10 millions ww1 Vietnam war 1 millions diseses 5 millions corea war 100k staline 500k died from cold food no water 20 millions the mojority of russian population died in only 100 years

[@inhambuacu2630]

@@orangecobraEU 1. ~27 million of soviets died in ww2 2. In ww1 It was the Russian Empire, then Provisional Government, then Russian Republic, not USSR 3. Only 16 soviets died in Vietnam war 4. You forgot that in the same time that people were dying, there were people borning

[@yunwenzhu2193]

I mean almost every soviet republic(and even some part of Poland) are Russian Empire territory or actually ruled by Russian though some of them do not like this. Russia lost control on these republic after the Soviet Union era

[@pedrojuan8050]

To spend up to 20% of your gdp into war machines is pretty wack not gonna lie lmfao.

[@СССРСКОРО]

За СССР

[@basedkaiser5352]

Pretty based you mean

[@cuentaprincipal3225]

with the weapons they bought they ended up killing each other battle royale, chechnya georgea and ukraine

[@tylere.8436]

@@basedkaiser5352 Debased you mean, it's why they collapsed as a nation, all these war machines and nukes, yet can't feed your own people effectively? Military of a superpower, yet the economy of a small European state

[@JuPiTeR_0211]

According to official figures, the Soviet GNP in 1985 was 776 billion rubles, while the military budget is 2.4% of the GNP. If GNP is converted into dollars at the official rate (60 kopecks per dollar) and compared with military spending in PPP, then we get 6.1% of GNP, which is almost the same as the share of US military spending in the US GNP. You are using erroneous CIA statistics from the 80s.

[@nonsensevideos1870]

Brezhnev years are considered "age of stagnation" but here we have another perspective (for example gdp per capital 1964: 1100 vs 1978: 3500). I think that really the "end" begins with the crazy military spending and the invasion to Afghanistan (late 70s-early 80s).

[@Foria777]

Collapse begins much earlier.

[@samuelkelly112]

Their economy slowed massively for a decade leading to Gorbachev. It never fully recovered from the 1973 oil crisis.

[@BoxiesAU]

Computers accelerated it. The Soviet Union had no wish to get into the digital age, losing to the US in innovation. It was likely if you lived in the USSR in the late 80's you wouldn't see a computer unless you worked in a nuclear power plant. By that time, the US had them in elementary school.

[@Foria777]

@@BoxiesAU false. Wanna know?

[@BoxiesAU]

@@Foria777 it’s not false it’s fact, Gorbachev has repeated it in interviews.

[@ItsAstie]

so soviet union literally is just bruteforcing its military without having a stable economy in the first place

[@antichoice1]

And corruption skims the money, and the military is a joke.

[@DmitryySergeevich]

Measuring Soviet economy in GDP doesn't work.

[@joj4096]

@@DmitryySergeevich what do you mean?

[@vixinitydbz]

@@DmitryySergeevich idk, but there was only one side that was putting machine guns on the border to stop it’s people from escaping

[@DrummerJacob]

Basic economic measurements apply to any country.

[@mmxmmxm]

I never realized how bad the 90s were on the other side of the curtain

[@ComradeHellas]

I know really, and we never found the truth until we brought Communism down, we all thought everyone in the west was a rich movie star with fancy cars and easy women.

[@squareblocks2826]

Ну да, тогда очень много бандитских группировок было

[@alezmak111]

@@squareblocks2826 и сейчас есть, одна из них в кремле сидит

[@dzonikg]

I know in ex Yugoslavia where i am from fall was really bad ..my father monthly net salary failed from 1500 deutsche marks in 90/91 to just 50 deutsche marks in just 2 years (1993 was worst year) ...so if you did not have savings i dont know how people survived that few years because it was not possible to live from salary. But that big fall in 90s was in all ex socialist-communist countries..like some shock

[@evzenvarga9707]

Not everywhere, central Europe and the Baltics were doing well, but the former USSR, Bulgaria, Romania etc. They were doing horribly, fortunately today most of the former eastern block is a decent place to live.

[@jzlnz]

How Soviet able compete with US is beyond reasonable considering the US' GDP is almost 3 times of what Soviet was.

[@Kolokommouna]

Wonders of socialism

[@zucaritasenjoyer7259]

Because communism is easier to spread than capitalism, revolutions are always more attractive than status quos.

[@BiasN]

It came at the Expense of the soviet people 😔

[@ERRORhxc13]

Their economy was in the toilet. Besides the vast amounts of natural resources like iron ore, oil, natural gas, coal, and timber, the Soviet economy didn't have much to trade, to enrich themselves. Their people suffered as they poured as much treasure as possible into their nuclear program and land armies, which are not only expensive to build, but very costly to maintain as well. In addition, the Soviets didn't have any year-round deep water ports to field a large navy like the US, which could have secured overseas trade arrangements with parity against the West, mostly limiting them to trade with contiguous partners in Asia.

[@alexeyberkov3590]

Just make all people equally poor and don't show them that any other case is possible. Same with North Korea now

[@ExHyperion]

Fun fact, if the US was spending as much of its economy on the military as the USSR, the US would be spending 4-5 trillion dollars per year on the military. Quite insane the amount of money the USSR put into its military

[@teemuvesala9575]

It was its downfall.

[@antichoice1]

And still they are garbage. Can't even take Ukraine. They would probably get rocked by Canada.

[@Bonta999]

Their leaders probably still thinks that you can just invade a country if you need more resources. We have gone past that. The economy is more important than military power. Cause you can always ask for help from allies. Something that Russia also lacks.

[@betaplain297]

1 tril per branch

[@arandomuser166]

@@antichoice1 you’re not very smart, aren’t you? User fell in 1991, and 90% of its equipment got destroyed after the fall. Ussr would invade Ukraine and Europe in 1 week 😂 Ussr was the most powerful country in history.

[@prashanthbharadwaj5504]

Soviet union's NOMINAL GDP was almost $3 trillion in 1991 not $983 billion.

[@Dylan-bc2po]

According to where

[@prashanthbharadwaj5504]

@@Dylan-bc2po United States CIA Factbook

[@erichvonmanstein1952]

@@prashanthbharadwaj5504 Nah you can’t really trust on GDP value of a communist nation.By the way it says 2.6-2.7 trillion USD not 3.Either way less than half of what US had. And i don’t really trust CIA Factbook,it’s the only source that claims USA is bigger than China in terms of area.

[@nicholasoneal1521]

@@erichvonmanstein1952 that's why he said almost 3 trillion

[@tythorn13]

A big issue is that the USSR would count the same production multiple times in different stages. And that it's statistics weren't based in any market average, making them difficult to understand.

[@Tigerai_]

Everyone talking about the soviet union unreasonable military spending in the comment But shouldn't we talk about the fact that the military spending of the US doubled since the end of the cold war ? How the hell is that justifiable "There's no more real threat to us but we need two times more spending on our military than when we had a real threat in front of us"

[@salvationcore5120]

lol you have no idea whats going on in the world, the US has new theats like China and still russia and iran and much more.

[@amireyvazi9251]

@@salvationcore5120 and Iraq back in 2003 And also the terrorist military groups such as taliban

[@seanthe100]

That because the military downsized substantially in the 90s, it just returned to it's previous size but still not cold war size.

[@pyrrusi6070]

Other thing is more interesting - USA spend more on the military than Soviets, but for Soviets it was nearly 1/5 or more of their economy, while for US it was far lower percentage

[@ceoofcomedy3569]

@@salvationcore5120 We made them threats. They didn't just become threats. The US just wants to remain top dog. They have no real reason to spend as much money as they do on military. Hell, cut the budget in half and it'll still be much greater then those three countries combined. Fact is, that money can go to much better stuff like health care, education, and generally improving the lives of everyday Americans. But the military industrial complex won't allow it.

[@theinfotainer3451]

Ohh cool you added the serving leaders as well, I wanted to do that too in mine but couldn't do that:(

[@xman7695]

Why do I feel like tripling the military spending within 20 years is a kinda stupid move?

[@antichoice1]

Only if you can't afford it, like Russia...

[@JuPiTeR_0211]

According to official figures, the Soviet GNP in 1985 was 776 billion rubles, while the military budget is 2.4% of the GNP. If GNP is converted into dollars at the official rate (60 kopecks per dollar) and compared with military spending in PPP, then we get 6.1% of GNP, which is almost the same as the share of US military spending in the US GNP. You are using erroneous CIA statistics from the 80s.

[@AlekThink]

Hungry rebels in desert: *exist* USA: hm we need 800bln to fight them

[@yeeyee5057]

Most of that 800 billion is spent on maintaining bases on your allies in Europe and Asia

[@a-drewg1716]

@@yeeyee5057 also paying Soldiers salaries and benefits such as education and healthcare.

[@GonnaDieNever]

You do realize the US maintains bases in about a hundred countries, and does anti-piracy all over the world with it's gigantic navy

[@mhmhmmhmhm5162]

To all of the people in the comments who claims the exchange rate in the video was pulled in favour of the US. The exchange rate was actually pulled in favour of the USSR. If we compare the standard of living to the exchange rate in this video made ussr look a lot richer than they actually were...

[@GodsStrongestScroller]

There’s so many fucking tankies in these comments I can’t

[@ennui9745]

@@GodsStrongestScroller It's pretty incredible how retarded people can be, isn't it?

[@TTCanadaJapan]

ppl in denial

[@LaVaZ000]

@@GodsStrongestScroller KZbin is just like that, most history videos have 14 year old Stalinists in the comments.

[@alanywalany6460]

What "exchange rate"? Between the dollar and the ruble? It objectively is in favor of the US you troglodyte, any nominal GDP is. The numbers in the video UNDERSTATE the wellbeing of the USSR

[@nazariit171]

Great video!!

[@RankingCharts]

Thanks you!

[@Real_Tower_Pizza]

@@RankingCharts thanks you too

[@kece1]

@@RankingCharts yours welcome

[@TopShot501st]

The USSR was literally spending 40% of its nominal GDP on defense in the 70s'/1980s... Why the USSR collapsed in a nutshell.

[@hansvonmeinstien3660]

It was just 4.9 per of its gdp go and check in chrome

[@Remix2366]

You forgot Gorbachev

[@JuPiTeR_0211]

According to official figures, the Soviet GNP in 1985 was 776 billion rubles, while the military budget is 2.4% of the GNP. If GNP is converted into dollars at the official rate (60 kopecks per dollar) and compared with military spending in PPP, then we get 6.1% of GNP, which is almost the same as the share of US military spending in the US GNP. You are using erroneous CIA statistics from the 80s.

[@youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan6687]

At some point. Japan has a bigger GDP than USSR in the 1980s

[@unconscious1076]

Japanese economy was almost 75% of USA economy way huge than Soviet It would have suprass USA's too if not they were forced to sign Plaza accord

[@basaraydn7030]

@@unconscious1076 no they wouldnt they are to small for that and their demographics is thrash

[@teemuvesala9575]

@@basaraydn7030 shit demographics is what west has and now they’re going downhill. China taking over

[@mathewjose4753]

@@teemuvesala9575 West is not a country. US' demography wasn't shit(now it is becoming slowly). You're saying that China's demography isn't bad? It should be considered one of the worst. Japan's demography is currently in a really bad state.

[@teemuvesala9575]

@@mathewjose4753 It basically is. US empire and it’s vassal states.

[@kennooo535]

Crazy that the soviet gdp almost dropped by half in the last years of the ussr

[@le_meme_man8983]

@STALIN and oil prices

[@suzuya_96]

@@le_meme_man8983 and exchange rates

[@malvinolimit]

US beat USSR at economic, from GDP to Per Capita to salary, while Soviet beat US at military stuff.

[@why1513]

@@le_meme_man8983 What does oil prices have to do with USSR and Russia. Don't they use natural gas. Plz explain.

[@le_meme_man8983]

@@why1513 well actually, the Russian and Soviet economy relied/s heavily on natural gas and oil. 60% of Russian government income comes from natural gas and oil

[@papakelso]

It's like a rivalry between a sword and a stick. The Soviets only ever outdid the United States in military size, yet they were considered the world's second Super power? Wild.

[@Songbird645]

*military spending

[@DmitryySergeevich]

Measuring Soviet economy in GDP nominal is basically doing nothing. It's not how Soviet economy works. In fact, it was the same or even bigger than the US economy.

[@elysiumstation]

@nigga at least not a ni99a

[@meltedicecreamsandwich]

They also had massive influence and lead the communist countries, had bunch of puppet states, a huge amount of nukes, and the second biggest economy. Literally no other country could match them besides the US.

[@prasanth2601]

Short answer:Military strength

[@Ken_Brz]

Based on this graph, It seems like making nuclear capable warheads is easy 😂 Plus you just see how it went down for 30 years and steadily rising again between both nations

[@antichoice1]

That's why Russia, a corrupt nation, invested in nukes. It's much easier to threaten people with nukes (even though the US will instantly end Russia if they even THINK of launching a nuke) than to strategize, and run the logistics of a military force. Russia is a stupid bully that gets tackled from behind and laughed at.

[@スガル]

Nuclear warheads are expensive to maintain, and the number of Warheads shown aren't all in ICBM form in Silo or Submarine ready to launch any moment. Most of them are stored in a warehouse, and the one that do standby are short range cruise missiles (Non tactical Nuke) that can easily be jammed or shot down. Their power while stronger than Fat Man and Little Boy, not as strong as the Tsar Bomba

[@Ромыч-х7и]

@@antichoice1 oh nyooo is this how you cope how all of USA production comes from China, how all corporations prefer the Chinese market instead of american one, how your super stars praise China and how your sport praises China. You can cope post as much as you want but you still kneel to China.

[@antichoice1]

@@Ромыч-х7и Hahahaha wow. Is that what they tell you? I feel sorry for Chinese people...

[@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding]

I mean, north korea has a gdp of 30billion and has made a couple.

[@curiousSloth92]

Before the collapse of the soviet Union military spending was 50% 😮 It really seems 1984.

[@TomorrowWeLive]

Even Orwellian

[@eduarddv00]

Can you cite sources? According to CIA World Factbook, the USSR's GDP in 1989 was 2.7 Trillion USD

[@louayghanjati5056]

It's a propaganda video. The numbers are severely misleading and wrong and I can't believe how many people didn't check the numbers first before liking the video.

[@Enkilov]

Во-первых, верить данным ЦРУ - такое себе дельце. Во-вторых, у ЦРУ речь идёт о ВВП ППС и ВНП СССР, а не о номинальных показателях.

[@vocuong4684]

@@Enkilovrussia poor country

[@maxxxon516]

@@vocuong4684 Ahahahah, dude, are you seriously trying to hurt someone with this? Especially Russian? Delete the comment with shame.

[@why1513]

@@vocuong4684 I don't know if I should laugh or be confused.

[@AradSP]

Never knew that the nukes arms race accelerated in 2017

[@Whyoakdbi]

That's when Trump withdrew from a bunch of nuclear treaties, thus restarting the nuclear arms race. It's sad.

[@tylere.8436]

@@Whyoakdbi Russia wasn't even obeying it anyway.

[@chaosXP3RT]

I think the US and USSR/Russia should be praised for deactivating so many nuclear weapons! From over 30,000 to "only" 6,000!

[@colbymcarthur7871]

Well, we were both down to 4000. I’m concerned at the current trajectory

[@r.o.b8728]

they didn't really get rid of their nukes they just got rid of the atomic onces and kept the way bigger and more powerfull hydrogen bombs

[@bubastis6306]

New York City has a larger GDP than Russia lol

[@malkaviano14]

And can't solve their homelesssness problem

[@edwardrikker]

@@malkaviano14 so is Russia though

[@malkaviano14]

@@edwardrikker Russia is not the richiest country in the world

[@bubastis6306]

@@malkaviano14 Russia isn't a rich country period

[@parlyramyar]

@@bubastis6306 used to be one of the richest. Communist and leftist policies fucked it up.

[@anatoliansettler9922]

3:25 plot in Nuclear Warheads R: Yeah right we're denuclearizing our army US: Yeah lmao R: ... US: Oh wait what u doin? R: Nothing just peace right? US: yeah R: *Gotta go fast* US: HOLD ON come back hee yO little commie!

[@boko1564]

Kind of sad that it went up after so much progress.

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

The Soviets burned themselves out trying to keep up with the U.S.

[@analname5428]

not true. it was in many cases the reason why they got stronger

[@fedbat2199]

In fact the USA started the cold war, not the USSR

[@vixinitydbz]

@@fedbat2199 prove it, Stalin blockaded West Berlin first

[@fedbat2199]

@@vixinitydbz The NATO was born 6 years before the Pact of Warsaw and the westerns have been the first to take a position against the communism during the korean war. Yes, the northern dictatorship began the war but the USSR didn't send troops, USA did to stop communist expansion. It's also important to say that South Korea wasn't a democracy. More over, Churchill, who wasn't american of course but was a western, thought to invade USSR after the WW2. It's called Operation Unthinkable, but they didn't invade because USSR had a way bigger army

[@vixinitydbz]

@@fedbat2199 the blockaid of Berlin was in 1948.

[@amrahmed7856]

Do the US and China next

[@ryufireblade]

China is a difficult one to do because they lie about much of their information (overstating the size of the economy and under-reporting the amount of military spending, for example).

[@Moonlight-uv7jo]

@@ryufireblade Overstating? Do not u know china deliberately devaluate its currency for exports which means its nominal GDP is underestimated. Its PPP is already 40% larger than the US

[@maggotfeast]

@@ryufireblade The US economy is also inflated and their debt level is insane.

[@xinyuingluo6295]

@@ryufireblade lol someone is jealous

[@kkhmdfk]

@@Moonlight-uv7jo wumao

[@db417]

There was a period when the soviets were out spending the Americans in defense but their economy was nowhere close to the Americans. That's why they collapsed.

[@DmitryySergeevich]

No, it's the opposite, they spent a lot on military because they're about to collapse.

[@kpop-vi9mz]

Usa🇺🇸 they are amazing!

[@Remix2366]

No,it's not

[@herisuryadi6885]

​@@Remix2366it's part of the reason

[@Remix2366]

@@herisuryadi6885 projected to pass the us in 2000 was pretty close

[@calebdelosreyes3872]

1950s is the golden age of United States 🇺🇸

[@mntsam1930]

All thanks to General/President Eisenhower.

[@MsPaintMr]

@@mntsam1930 You're delusional if you think this. Eisenhower was good, but he wasn't solely responsible for the fifties.

[@whereismymind1402]

Your absolutely right, But the 40s were even more gold because that's when General Patton was still alive.

[@freddiereagan6705]

Yeah

[@stellaccio3844]

America Fuck Yeah

[@radjalomas8854]

This needs to be shared more since it makes it quite obvious as to why the Russian army is actually no where near as powerful as people think.

[@ecaesar614]

Not that nuclear war would be less devastating with potentially 10,000+ missiles hit both sides...

[@sukeban1337]

What are you talking about? What's wrong about russian army?

[@IncaWarrior.]

@@sukeban1337 almost a month with its smaller neighbor and it is somehow losing.

[@SenyaS3]

@@IncaWarrior. Russia uses only 10 percent of its troops. 150,000 Russian soldiers against 800,000 Ukrainian and the Russian army is gradually gaining territory. cities are not planned to be taken, they will simply be surrounded. But Mariupol was not taken, because we have a lot of civilians, so there is a very slow progress. And about huge Russian losses, this is a lie of Ukrainian propaganda

[@IncaWarrior.]

@@SenyaS3 Even though a Pro-Putin newspaper confirmed that Russian losses were above Western estimates? Over 10,000 losses in less than a month confirmed by Komsomolskaya Pravda. Yikes! You know what.. I change my mind. I am gonna stop listening to Ukrainian propaganda that said Russia losses are 7k and listen to Russian propaganda that tells me the losses are actually over 10k. Thank you for opening my eyes.

[@denniscain7218]

Interesting selection of music with Prokofiev's "Montagues and Capulets"

[@jwhippet8313]

The Putin/Medved increase in Russian standard of living was wild. 7 fold increase in gdp per capita. What did they do?

[@gavriloprincip9634]

Invade Ukraine in 2014

[@gttgnn]

They didn't do anything, it was just for the increase of oil prices during that time

[@1990-w1l]

And Invade Ukraina again

[@lesthodson2802]

Lie.

[@АнтошаЧехонте-д8ч]

Oil

[@konferansjer]

What this graph shows is that the introduction of market economy has been a giant disaster for Russia.

[@VortexNow]

A race to who has the most nuclear weapons to the race to have the least nuclear weapons

[@totemas2010]

Pause at 2:33. At that moment, U.S. Military Budget was bigger than the entire Russian Economy. That is absolutely insane.

[@SuperMrBentley]

1998-1999 a very tough time for Russia : (

[@mrcool2107]

Well history repeats again 2022 also is though time for russia

[@antichoice1]

Every year is a tough year for Russia. They suck at being a country.

[@metamoose_]

It's funny that they are still fighting aver who has more warheads but they can both destroy humanity with less than their amount

[@priestofronaldalt]

They know of the aliens so they need a surplus in case they attack

[@metamoose_]

@@priestofronaldalt ok just making sure this is a joke

[@priestofronaldalt]

@@metamoose_ "what if it is what if it isn't what if the world was made of pudding!"

[@kpop-vi9mz]

Usa✊

[@Primetiime32]

Thank you for the upload

[@kun4046]

Respect USA from Russia 🇷🇺🤝🇺🇸

[@fenner1986]

Respect to Russia from the USA. Love gaming with you guys!

[@larryhats4320]

respect Russia from US (hope this comment doesn't land me in the woke gulag)

[@ryufireblade]

Respect to Russia from the USA! They're both great countries :)

[@user-fb9ql8bm2e]

Respect to soviet union from an american resident. Shame they collapsed they were very good for the world

[@joeydebus1329]

Aren't Russia and The USA enemies lol

[@Kepler2527]

Básicamente la URSS siempre fue un gigante con pies de barro. Mientras que Estados Unidos apenas le metía el 10% del PIB a defensa, la URSS tenía que meterle el 25% y ni durante muchos años ni así alcanzaban en presupuesto a Estados Unidos.

[@sanexpreso2944]

Exacto

[@pelao1558]

Pero si en los 70 la URSS tenía casi el doble de gasto militar que EEUU o estás ciego

[@Wyliecoy0te]

Wow the USA and Russia have massively reduced their nuclear warhead stockpile since the 1980’s yet that Doomsaday clock always seems to get worse.

[@rome316ae3]

Credits to john f kennedy

[@hacienda2490]

It's media fearmongering and sensationalism. They need people to be scared and weak.

[@riscnx]

They didn't reduce, it degraded with time.

[@herisuryadi6885]

Eh I mean recently they have been adding the risk of climate change to the mix That is probably a reason

[@Wyliecoy0te]

@@herisuryadi6885 sounds like they are moving the goalposts. That doesn’t sound like a scientific thing to do.

[@danonimusgombelinius7254]

Well, because of American war plans for destroying the USSR in 1946-1950th and because of quantity of nuclear wepons by country in the beginning of the video, fears of the Soviet government and its attempts to catch the USA up and leave it behind seemed not so paranoid. They simply thought they don't have choice.

[@protorhinocerator142]

Maybe, but after WW2 we saw the USSR gobble up half of Europe. We fought Germany to free Europe and now they're worse off than before? Backing the invasion of Korea didn't protect the USSR from American nukes. They did it because they were pushing communist expansion. They wanted to conquer the world in the name of communism. It must also be pointed out that in the Soviet Union's constitution, they stated their goal of turning the USA into a communist country. Unacceptable.

[@danonimusgombelinius7254]

@@protorhinocerator142, first of all, I read the Soviet constitution, you didn't. I know you didn't because there wasn't such point in any version of USSR's constitution. Secondly, the US backed anti-communist forces in Greece and Japan against their strong local communist movements in 1945-1950th, even before the Korean war started. So who really wanted to push its expansion? Also, the main reason Europe wasn't conquered and hold by Nazis is the Soviet Union, its peoples and its army. Yes, all sides fought well and I deeply respect Allies' contribution to victory, but the US army isn't the main "freeer" of Europe. USSR gave even less part of Europe than it had liberate. And what do you know at all about communism as idea and political theory so you think it's evil?

[@memecliparchives2254]

@@danonimusgombelinius7254 So you're just going to excuse on hwo the USSR basically suppressed almost all of Eastern Europe for half a century and now as soon as they got free from communism, the people are more than willing to put communism behind them especially the Baltic States and Poland (which the USSR invaded alongside Nazi Germany BTW). The reunification of Germany allowed the country another chance to prosper and now look where it is, the most prosperous country in the EU. Completely devoid of communism and its far in its past. And communism actually came from Germany, yet most of the country is now more than willing to never return to it again. Hell, the Baltic States and Poland are now one of the most pro American nations in the world and as soon as they left the Eastern Bloc and joined the European Union, their economiea rebounded and quality of life increased. Yeah, it was the UK who intervened in the Greek Civil War to prevent a communist takeover. And America did everything to prevent the rise of communism in Japan. And look at where Japan is now. One of the most prosperous countries in the world.

[@vanek2793]

@@memecliparchives2254 You talk about communism but you don't know anything about it. You talk about history, but you know it only superficially. You say that the USSR invaded Poland together with fascist Germany, but you do not say that Poland invaded the USSR during the revolution of 1917. Why don't you say that? Do you not know or are you simply making the USSR a universal evil, saying only bad facts about it and forgetting the good ones? You are not trying to analyze and come to the truth, so your facts can be considered weak

[@vanek2793]

@@danonimusgombelinius7254 Thank you for not twisting the story like the others and trying to think broadly and not biased

[@intenseverything]

Damn I always kinda thought Russia was closer to us and more competitive. I guess China and the US are the main powerhouses

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

China was doing way worse than the Soviet Union and Russia were until about 20 years ago.

[@Cam-sl8ve]

Russia has never been on par with the US in modern times

[@Акбархон777]

@@Cam-sl8ve In the Cold War, Russia would have destroyed the United States

[@GonnaDieNever]

Neither China nor the USSR have seriously approached the US in capabilities. The US is a hegemonic power for a reason. It also has excellent allies, which nobody else does because basically anyone who's not a dictatorship is already allied to the US, making it damned hard for rival powers to find anyone decent to work with.

[@antichoice1]

@@Акбархон777 Did you NOT see the charts in the video LOL? No, they would have laughably been ended once and for all.

[@rr.in.the.cosmos]

This is wrong grossly, in 1990 USA gdp :: 5.3T (1st) USSR gdp :: 2.7T (2nd) This is it not what is shown here.

[@ГеоргийМурзич]

Please include gdp ppp next time if possible

[@SuperLusername]

GDP PPP is a useless statistic. If you are going to use GDP PPP then use it per capita. GDP PPP is useless because countries dont exist in a vacuum and a lot of industrial products and even food is bought and sold on international markets

[@sheevrealname2365]

@@SuperLusername Its way more useful than nominal gdp or nominal gdp per capita. Especially when you're comparing capitalist and communist countries.

[@SuperLusername]

@@sheevrealname2365 I wouldnt use nominal GDP either. Real GDP is the best metric. Nominal and PPP GDP are both useless. Nominal GDP doesnt include inflation, while PPP is uselss because it doesnt acocunt for the fact that both Americans and Russians have to import bananas from the same producers on the world market for example. But USA can buy a lot more bananas than Russia

[@attsealevel]

Very cool (nice display), but too bad it didn't use PPP (which woulda been bit more representative).

[@phased-arraych.9150]

Crazy to think at one point, Russia was spending almost half its GDP on the military.

[@jamessorrel]

Could be why the USSR failed. The weapons race is always expensive

[@sadsovietspy]

1:34 and here we can see the soviet economey start to stagnate, as it was predicted to do so in the 60s

[@sadsovietspy]

@@daddy_1453 They had concrete proof, but if anyone actually said anything they would be commiting treason by not beliving in the communist system and the party, and no one wanted to be "that guy"

[@SirValiantKnight]

meanwhile everyone in the west thought the soviet union would surpass the united states lol

[@Deroliebe]

I’m glad Russia’s priority was their nuclear warheads above the wealth and life of the people (sarcasm)

[@tyleraddey-jibb6867]

At the very least the Soviet’s provided strong state services for it’s citizens (healthcare housing, employment, etc.), while the poorest Americans languished in poverty with no help from the state. Now the US is in a similar position where it spends almost a trillion on it’s military every year while more and more people are forced into poverty by unfettered capitalism.

[@ExHyperion]

@@tyleraddey-jibb6867 the amount of money the US spends on its military is actually really tiny percentage wise compared to the USSR, The us spends 4-5% of its GDP on military while the USSR spent 20-25% most years. You can’t really say the US military budget is too high compared to the soviets

[@GonnaDieNever]

@@tyleraddey-jibb6867 ah yes, that's why the Soviets had to put inward facing machine guns on their side of the Berlin Wall, because everyone was trying to flee from their excellent state services to go live in poverty in the west. Tankies are just sad.

[@GonnaDieNever]

@male princess They're far too incompetent to execute something like Desert Storm or Iraqi Freedom. The first Gulf War took the US literally 4 days to win, while the second one took just 3 weeks. Ukraine meanwhile looks like it will drag on for months if not years.

[@GonnaDieNever]

@male princess Where exactly did the US kill a million civilians again?

[@ЗаурМагомедов-т2г]

Ussr gpd 1991-2.7tr dollars. per capital-3.3tr dollars. 1contry war

[@erichvonmanstein1952]

No if USSR’s economy was that big they wouldn’t fall apart that easily.Even thought if it’s true it’s probably GDP PPP not nominal.

[@jebpvpw.dgaster.3662]

@@erichvonmanstein1952 They fell down because of the reforms that Gorbachev made in 1985

[@jebpvpw.dgaster.3662]

@Jenwin Jos M Instead they destroyed the USSR :/

[@jebpvpw.dgaster.3662]

@Jenwin Jos M What kind of question is that? Lol

[@vaibhav2k13]

@@jebpvpw.dgaster.3662 They fell because socialism doesn't work.

[@sarwenaz]

Gorbachov and Yeltsin, the greatest nightmare of every russian !!!

[@Tosse901]

Gorbatschow was the best, he saw the reality of the soviet union.

[@sarwenaz]

@@Tosse901 for sure 😅😂😂😂

[@Tosse901]

@@sarwenaz that's why he started reforms which were long overdue. I mean the soviet union was almost bancrupt. Only chance was to end the cold war, let the nations of the east do their own thing and therefore reduce military spendings which the soviet union no longer could afford.

[@maggotfeast]

@@Tosse901 It could afford the military spending for decades, problems started when Gorbachev fucked up the economy

[@Tosse901]

@@maggotfeast bs, the economy was already fucked up. And no the soviet union couldn't afford these military spendings for years, that was one of the problems.

[@soulplexis]

USSR: Lets be friends usa, I will let some capitalism into my economy. Also USSR: Why are we collapsing?!

[@herbertant4096]

Because of Pizza Hut, capitalism always works, Human needs to work for themselves not for the government

[@deisk2707]

First McDonald's is opened in morning in Moscow, and it was the same date the USSR collapsed by night.

[@priestofronaldalt]

@@deisk2707 Ronald he did it look at my username I would know. it was all an elaborate ploy to sell more bergers

[@pmv2015]

They started stagnating under Brezhnev's policies. Gorbachev tried to find a way to reverse it, that's why he tried to bring about liberal policies quickly. But it was in vain, as enough damage had already been done.

[@mendopolis]

Would be good for source citations to accompany this for people wanting to learn more.

[@danielsilvestre7881]

2:43 2001 the year of the apex of power of the United States.

[@filyapanzerman335]

the soviet union should be compared with africa

[@rome316ae3]

Lol then Soviet would win by huge margin

[@filyapanzerman335]

@@rome316ae3 the real standard of living of the population will be like Africa

[@jespino2390]

True

[@jespino2390]

@@rome316ae3 Libya>Russia 😂

[@rome316ae3]

@@filyapanzerman335 nah it's even more great than America

[@yslchristian]

I never realized the Soviet Union GDP never even reach half of the US at and given point.

[@markemailonly3114]

keep in mind this is nominal GDP, not PPP, with the later the Soviet economy probably reached about 60% those of America's. Nominal GDP had little meaning in the Cold War, as there was no open trade between the two sides anyways.

[@TomorrowWeLive]

@@markemailonly3114 whereas actual Soviet living standard never reached even a fraction of America's

[@alexanderballa6152]

@@TomorrowWeLive yep. But the myth of not having food and such is false after ww2 the average person aste as much as an average person in the US

[@barbarapitenthusiast7103]

@@TomorrowWeLive it was actualy about a hundred Times higher than The one in the US

[@Cam-sl8ve]

@@barbarapitenthusiast7103 100 times higher? lol

[@maciejgrun6503]

great music , whats the name ?

[@ivan.r1459]

I don't know why all my eyes are locked on only the number of nuclear warheads

[@selinane2Seli-zw3pz]

Your eyes aren't locked on nuclear warhead. Nuclear warhead are locked on your head. ^^'

[@gavriloprincip9634]

Russias gdp went from 200 million to 2 trillion and down to 1 trillion in 20 years yikes seems like putin was good at his job in the early 2000s but in 2010s seems the economy ended up dipping

[@arty5876]

No, it isn't. Nominal GDP is a very bad instrument of economy statistics.

[@catcheese94]

The GDP growing is plot of work that Boris Jeltsin does, he hired a bunch of experts that can normally rule the country, that was foundation for the future, which Vladimir Putin successfully ruined.

[@temporelucemtenebris5313]

Western sanctions, simple as

[@tluangasailo3663]

@Sayem it is but if it weren't for Crimea annexation , after Crimea their gdp really start declining

[@jwhippet8313]

Sanctions combined with population decline.

[@tamzidmohsinkhan3333]

0:25 lol so under Eisenhower , United States almost had around 70,000+ nukes 😂

[@MsPaintMr]

They didn't, that was a mistake.

[@freddiereagan6705]

@@MsPaintMr you almost too late

[@MsPaintMr]

@@freddiereagan6705 ?

[@freddiereagan6705]

@@MsPaintMr you don't get it is it

[@MsPaintMr]

@@freddiereagan6705 And you don't "get" the English language.

[@redsignature1754]

"Our battle will be legendary"

[@wren2900]

Polite reminder: printing tons of money by FRS does not mean healthy economy.

[@hailexiao2770]

It doesn't mean an unhealthy economy either. Not printing enough money also causes problems.

[@wren2900]

@@hailexiao2770 literally living in debt is not healthy. Not even for a nation but for a human being. It’s called parasitism

[@jimmcneal5292]

Lol you really don't understand how modern economy works

[@wren2900]

@@jimmcneal5292 modern economy according to the federal reserve system and banking mafia?)) do you know something about the US debt? Or do you you know what multiplier is?

[@jimmcneal5292]

@@wren2900 US debt is large, but just a little bit larger than GDP. There are countries with much higher debt/gdp ratio. And multiplier is completely ok. Yes, banks create money out of thin air this way, but as long as goverment keeps inflation about 2-4%, economy will be ok. The only risk of multiplier is bank run.

[@The-Daily-Hustle]

Damn Brezhnev was spamming those nukes 😂

[@xXxMonkeyBoomxXx]

He probably had 300% research bonus for nuclear technology

[@localman9063]

@@xXxMonkeyBoomxXx Ah, that one hoi4 comment.

[@t.a9822]

Russia GDP per capita 2020 was like the US have in 1975... o m g

[@Waldemarvonanhalt]

Reality is kind of like an immovable object: You can't ignore the fact that you can't run an economy at a loss indefinitely. In that sense, communism is like a Laputan machine.

[@PRubin-rh4sr]

I didnt know they kept making nukes well into the 21st century lol. Maybe they'll finally have a chance to try them out in the years to come.

[@EugenO.S.Adlerbach]

What music plays there in the backround?

[@eddielopez2373]

1980 USSR: $800 billion GDP; $300 billion military spending. Calling the USSR powerful would be a lot like calling an airline successful for spending all of its money on the largest fleet in the world, only to have nothing left to invest in fuel, pilots, or any other aspect of running the business. Eurasia has historically always been the absolute worst.

[@selinane2Seli-zw3pz]

Eurasia is Asia and Europe, wtf are you talking about

[@JuPiTeR_0211]

2.7T GDP in 1985 not 800 billion, also the USSR was a much different country, so baseless comparison

[@Emanon389]

Out of curiosity, what stats did you use for this ? Officials one? Intelligence services one ? Estimation from third party ?

[@herisuryadi6885]

Apparently IMP, World Bank, The UN, Wikipedia, And SIPRI

[@JuPiTeR_0211]

he used sources from andrew tate's hair

[@bob6168able]

Please a video showing income per capita. When I see some countries at the top and look at its people I find the poorest it have no meaning to me.

[@renbro2592]

That would be more interesting

[@crkcrk702]

Luxembourg, Quatar would be basically firsts

[@yarrybka]

They use nominal gdp, but correctly was use gdp ppp

[@seanthe100]

@@yarrybka when comparing nations nominal is better as with PPP only reflects within that nation, not it's actual value when it leaves that country.

[@ExHyperion]

You look at the lower end of the range to dispute the validity of the mean. Both bad math and bad logic

[@C.Zacarias-Main]

The United States and the Soviet Union/Russia are still competing for the number of nuclear missiles and bombs. That's not good. 🙄🇨🇦

[@Husker513]

They are useless, because old and from ussr

[@plaguedoc7727]

The Soviets should've built more factories. They had so much more resources than everybody else and yet none of the leaders ever followed through with Stalin's 5-year plan for the world's largest steel complex. They had the resources to support these factories and had the possibility of being self-sufficient.

[@hamzaalami7358]

America built on strong base economically geographically humanly... Suviets has no chances

[@rome316ae3]

Murica looted all money from other countries 🤡🤡

[@malvinolimit]

@@rome316ae3 And so does Soviet Union. They invade Afghanistan, silence and beat protest in Eastern Europe, no freedom of speech, and the biggest reason I hate Soviet Union is they have no freedom of religion (atheist). They has destroyed thousands of old Orthodox church, it hurt me as Christian😢 But thank goodness now Russia become Christian again...

[@TomorrowWeLive]

@@rome316ae3 which countries? Lmao, America singlehandedly created modern Japan, Germany, South Korea after they were destroyed in war, and has spent countless trillions in aid to various countries since then. Why would you even say shit like this? America is the richest country in the world, they don't need to 'loot' anyone.

[@Man_0f_Trenches]

@@rome316ae3 America rebuilt other countries, while the Soviet Union installed puppet governments and looted them. Capitalism is about TRADE, while Communism is about Slavery and theft.

[@g-1393]

Lost to taliban , Vietnam

[@TChops-hi7hr]

I'm an American, and the one thing I don't understand is from Ronald Reagan onwards, where the hell are the hundreds of billions of dollars coming from?

[@attiepollard7847]

Unfortunately from borrowing lots of money from other countries.

[@philoslother4602]

There is one problem...this graph doesn't show what was happening during 1920-1940 ;)

[@chapayev6787]

You expect to see some high numbers from a country that just recently emerged from the civil war and half of the budget was spent on industrialization?

[@philoslother4602]

@@chapayev6787 considering that US was going through a depression between 1929-1933 and the first 5-year plan was considered a success, the gap must have been smaller

[@rome316ae3]

Yes USSR was strongest under stalin

[@CountArtha]

It says "Cold War" in the title.

[@bob6168able]

Please a video on rise and fall down of nations.

[@renbro2592]

Yes, going back, way back. The one on top always falls eventually.

[@Isomeria450]

I like how in comparison of military spending it's Russia who always was considered threat and agressor, not US.

[@Euro.Patriot]

Soviets were too poor to match America.

[@GodsStrongestScroller]

Russia is currently invading a country wtf is your point

[@Isomeria450]

@@GodsStrongestScroller pfff, USA was invading other countries last 30 years. Your point?

[@SHVRWK]

@@Isomeria450 Bad bot! Whataboutism is not an argument. Report back to the Kremlin for reprogramming.

[@georgiykireev9678]

@@SHVRWK Ad hominem isn't an argument either. I'm tired of seeing anyone who tries to say anything in defence of Russia or USSR labelled as a bot or a troll. Being dehumanised. Really seeing the inner workings of the propaganda machine. It's truly depressing to see so many people brainwashed this hard

[@marcos3497]

Biggest takeaways are: Jesus, that's a lot of nukes, and young Vlad looks like Steve Miller's cousin.

[@boyiyelcham2630]

Respect the USSR from China 🚩🇨🇳😔

[@ЛетающийБанан]

Thank you...

[@Husker513]

How you are using KZbin from China? VPN?

[@Lacvuongthang]

@@ЛетающийБанан your country, our brother, collapsed. :(

[@Andrey-Lyan]

@@Husker513 Probably he lives oversea

[@Husker513]

@@Andrey-Lyan perhaps

[@Kanal7Indonesia]

The USA has the best economy in the world.

[@Karekan]

28....

[@juicywater5954]

you mean china

[@malvinolimit]

@@juicywater5954 currently US, but China may take over the US as the largest economic in the world in the future (probably idk) But as of 2021 its currently the United States

[@juicywater5954]

@@malvinolimit gg then cant let winnie the pooh be no.1

[@Karekan]

29)

[@devioustea]

I thought the United states and Russia had a deal to slowly dissemble nuclear weapons

[@vincebrownf8519]

Yep never was gnna happen because you have corrupt countries building nukes regardless of everyone else aka north korea all despite the constant decreasing of nuclear warheads, there was no justification for any other nation after the cold war to start building any more, but sadly these filthy regimes cant be trusted, + you don't really want a world without nukes, lets say the US and russia didn't have any, Nato could steamroll russia so they wouldn't want to.

[@CountArtha]

They did: SALT I in 1972 and SALT II in 1979. But the more modern nuclear weapons had multiple warheads.