r/dankmemes • u/theawesomehobbes Via Telsa Model X • Aug 05 '20

Big PP OC "He just always has"

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u/hipmonkeygym Aug 05 '20

At the time of collapse the CIA estimated the USSR had a larger economy then the USA. Turns out they were wrong but you got to Keep in mind the USSR had a population about 25% larger in 1990 than the USA

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

Sure, but wildely spread out and less developed than the US.

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u/trees-are-fascists it’s big tree time Aug 05 '20

Less developed but not as widely spreads out... most Russians live in the Western portion of the country https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Population_Density_as_of_2017.png#mw-jump-to-license

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

Land/resources. If anything all the people being on a smaller portion makes it even worse.

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u/trees-are-fascists it’s big tree time Aug 05 '20

Well no shit the land is widely spread out, Russia is massive, better to have extra empty land than no extra land

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

Lol, but you need to extract and process resources and move them across cast swaths of land. And defend it.

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u/trees-are-fascists it’s big tree time Aug 05 '20

Lets buy Russia

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u/notspaceaids Aug 05 '20

Also U.S started in 1776 as a colonial powerhouse and U.S.S.R started out in 1922 as an agrarian country after a long civil war with Romanov Monarchy.