On December 30, 1922, the Russians established a huge state - the former Soviet Republic, the former Soviet Union has 15 republics, the population is close to 300 million, the territory area is as high as 22 million square kilometers, the former Soviet Union is not only the largest territory in human history, but also the first socialist country of mankind, with a vast territory to obtain huge depth, the former Soviet Union defeated the powerful German fascists during World War II. And after the end of World War II, it became the second superpower on an equal footing with the United States, and although the Soviet Union no longer exists, the huge Soviet empire at that time still deeply shocked modern people.
On the map of the former Soviet Union, the land area reached 22 million square kilometers, making it the largest country in the world
When the former Soviet Union was first established, the country was very poor, it can be said that it was devastated, and later after Stalin became the leader of the Soviet Union, a large-scale industrialization movement began, the main core of which was to take heavy industry as the center, vigorously develop heavy industry and military industry, after Stalin's transformation, the Soviet Union became the country with the highest total industrial output value in Europe, the Soviet Union became the world's military power and industrial power, the economy was second only to the United States is the world's second economic power, during the Cold War, in order to be able to surpass the United States, The former Soviet Union invested most of the income of the national economy into the military industry, and after years of development, the military strength of the Soviet Union increased sharply, so do you know how strong the military strength of the former Soviet Union was at its peak?
A torrent of steel from a military parade during the former Soviet Union
An intercontinental missile in a military parade during the former Soviet Union
The strongest period of the former Soviet Union was during the Brezhnev administration, that is, the period from the 70s to the end of the 80s, when the total strength of the Soviet Union reached 5 million, the reserve force exceeded 10 million, with more than 60,000 tanks, 20,000 combat aircraft, 100,000 artillery, thousands of various warships, more than 40,000 nuclear weapons, and in that period, the industrial production capacity of the former Soviet Union could produce 3,000 tanks, 5,000 armored vehicles, 2,000 combat aircraft, and more than 100 ships. The weapons it produces in a year can weapon the entire European Union, according to the peak of the soviet military power, the Soviet Union can step on the entire Europe in just one week, and the former Soviet Union's nuclear weapons can destroy the earth several times, and the "Western-81 military exercise" held in the former Soviet Union in 1981 is regarded as the largest military exercise in human history.
The abandoned weapons of the former Soviet Union seem to see the strength of the former Soviet Union
If only from the military point of view, the former Soviet Union is indeed a very powerful country, but the seemingly powerful Soviet Union is a crappy giant, military industry and heavy industry are extremely developed, light industry and agriculture can not even guarantee the basic food and clothing of the people, which hides a huge crisis within the Soviet Union, because of the long-term inability to reverse this situation of heavy industry strong and light industry weak, and finally this giant fell in 1991, many people regretted, after the collapse of the former Soviet Union, Weapons and equipment from its subversive period have also been thrown everywhere, and a large number of abandoned soviet weapons and equipment can be seen everywhere in Russia, which seems to tell the glory of the former Soviet Union.
On the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the people gathered
The collapse of the former Soviet Union is a very happy thing for the United States, because the old opponent who has competed with it for decades has finally hung up, in fact, I want to say that the disintegration of the Soviet Union is not only a good thing for the United States, but also not necessarily a bad thing for the whole world. Russians have been bleeding outward expansion since ancient times, and this was no exception during the Soviet era, when the former Soviet Union boasted of its military might, how many times it interfered in the internal affairs of other countries for its benefit, how many times it invaded other countries, for the people of the world, would rather have a strong United States exist than a strong Soviet Union, and now this fear has disappeared.
The Soviet Union eventually disintegrated into 15 countries