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How did military superpower USSR become the backward, failing society?

Question by : How did military superpower, “first-in-space” USSR become the backward, failing society it is today?
Within 30 years after the USSR’s creation, it was already challening the might of the United States. it was the first in space, a military and economic superpower, and excelled in the sciences.

Today: rabid “slavic nazis” (oxymoronic morons) roam the cities drunk and high on glue, harassing guest workers. no real scientific output anymore, faltering economy, the failure of Putin to contain the situation today…

…What Happened?

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Answer by Prowd Tee Partey Membar
Them thar folks is drankin too much o’ that thar tater shine called vodka.

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Comments ( 11 )

  1. Wave2012 says

    Exactly the same way as nation of first atomic bomb, fist step on the Moon and dozens of Noble prizes nowadays can do the only thing: write dirty comments about millions of people they NEVER saw because on TV they told them how they should think about the rest of the world.

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  2. tweedypiie says

    PACCIA needs god, the orthodox church ,,trade with those nations it occupied after the pogrom of ww2,poland,litvania, cesku,clOBAkR

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  3. fdk says

    Their leaders had the ideology of today’s American Democrat Party

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  4. brown9500v13 says

    They ran out of German Scientists.

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  5. davieguy says

    the soviet union was run the way most democrats seem to dream about how to run this country. everyone worked for the government. everyone made the same income and had the same status in society. no matter how hard they worked. so there was no reason to be imaginative and invent anything because you did not get rewarded. there was no reason to work hard or do anything for yourself because the government took care of everything. if you dropped out of school and worked at mcdonalds, you pretty much made the same money and had the same life as the guy that went to 8 years of college and became a doctor, so why bother.

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  6. Hey! says

    Russia is doing better than Canada really. It is just that Russia doesn’t let it’s citizens max out credit cards and live in million dollar homes with no down payment.

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  7. LibraryFan says

    It failed because it was rotten from the get go. It was never good. Communism and socialism are wrong, simply put, and only lead to failure. Any military might or scientific knowledge was a sham, a mask for a country that was in ruin. The same is true of North Korea. They have a glittering military, but I’ve heard that some citizens are so hungry they are trying to cook tree bark as a way of getting food.

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  8. Citadelgrad87 says

    They were never really technically competitive, they take a sledgehammer approach to science, and sometimes that works.

    But in a system that mimics union protections and incentives to every worker, who is going to work hard?

    Answer:

    Nobody.

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  9. Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death! says

    You can fool some of the people all the time, all the people some of the time, but you will never fool all the people all of the time.

    The illusion of a perfect soviet empire has long faded. The after effects of authoritarian communism has broken the moral and will of the majority of Russian people.

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  10. no one here gets out alive says

    appearances can be deceiving

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  11. David says

    They are a bunch of drunks. Communism stole everyone’s will to succeed. No moral backbone.

    Reply

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