Where can the Soviet Union in the 1970s rank now? Is it still fierce?

1, natural resources

The Soviet Union is the third largest country after the British Empire and the Mongolian Empire, and its vast territory has endowed the Soviet Union with extremely rich natural resources. In addition to energy, the Soviet Union at that time did not try to develop a variety of economies, such as the famous Khrushchev's corn and Brezhnev's potatoes ... Of course, this was just a joke. The industrial structure of the Soviet Union is very rigid and single, which is a typical example of underdevelopment now.

The former Soviet Union.

2. Strategic depth

Himmler's son wrote in his diary when he was serving in the SS armored forces: "We fought tenaciously, but the land of the Soviet Union seemed endless."

In the 1970s, when the Soviet Union was the most powerful, its land area reached an astonishing 22.4 million square kilometers. Such a huge strategic depth provided the Soviet Union with the most favorable circuitous conditions in the world. During World War II, the Soviet Red Army relied on this advantage to gain time by delaying the preparations for the whole army and dragged down the German lightning offensive. Today, the Soviet Union can still get geopolitical chips and multiple buffers of regional security affairs, and the situation is much better than today's Russia.

Soviet militia

3. Military strength

If Russia relies on relying on the old capital and local innovation to maintain the situation, then the Soviet Union is not afraid at all and clamors for sanctions, which may not work at all for the Soviet Union. At its strongest, the Soviet Union surpassed the United States in the total number of troops and nuclear weapons, even today. However, with the continuous explosion of technology, many weapons and equipment in the Soviet era have been unable to keep up with the pace and requirements of information warfare. It's okay to hit children, but compared with the United States, the disadvantage will be very great.

A huge armored cluster

4. Economic strength

This is the weakest point of the Soviet Union. Everyone knows that the Soviet economic system is rigid, the economic model is single, and tanks and cannons walk sideways, but you want to eat some fresh fruit ... sorry to distribute it according to the quantity, it is not easy for ordinary people to eat. During Gorbachev's reform, the salaries of Yeltsin and his wife could barely buy a bundle of green onions, and people returned to the state of queuing to buy a piece of brown bread. If the Soviet Union crosses today, it will disintegrate in less than a year, and external economic factors will completely destroy all the economic systems of the Soviet Union.

The living standards of superpowers are not high.

5. Political system

Now there are very few countries that follow the political system of the Soviet era, and you can count them with half a hand. The deformed and extreme politics of the Soviet Union is the chief culprit of its disintegration. Even without external factors, it will disintegrate on its own. Because the disadvantages are too serious. This system did play its due role during the Great Patriotic War, but it did more harm than good to social and economic development in peacetime. 2 1 century, the speed of economic development is much higher than any period in history, and the thick thighs of the Soviet Union will be unable to move a step because of rigidity, and will be far behind by other countries.

Soviet farmers

If the Soviet Union reaches 20 18, its military strength will still be equal to that of Russia, second only to that of the United States, but its GDP and human development index will probably lag behind many places, especially its economic construction will be far behind that of China, Japan and developed countries in Europe.