What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Among the former Soviet leaders, Khrushchev was the most interesting. There were two nicknames, one was "corn cob", at that time, regardless of the natural environment of the Soviet Union, forcibly learned to grow corn in the United States, but the corn sown by farmers in many places found nothing, which spoiled their own farmers; the second nickname was international big mouth, what is the opening of the mouth, the whole world can know.
No, this mouth is back. In 1959, the United States held an exposition in Moscow, and the Americans moved all the automation facilities in order to show their own cattle. At that time, Vice President Nixon of the United States came to the opening ceremony, and Khrushchev accompanied him on the tour.
Next Nixon took Khrushchev on a tour of the sausage-making workshop, and as soon as the whole pig went in, the sausages came out. Nixon pointed to the machine and said, "Do you have this equipment in the Soviet Union?" ”
When Khrushchev saw that this thing was indeed advanced, the Soviet Union really did not have it, but Khrushchev was not a man who conceded defeat, and immediately said: "We are building missiles at the speed of making sausages." This startled Nixon. At that time, the Soviet Union was generally weaker than the United States in terms of military strength, but it was ahead of the United States in missiles, thanks to the fact that the Soviet Union captured a large number of missile engineers and technicians from the German Penemünde Rocket Center in World War II, and all the equipment and drawings.
Khrushchev went on to say: "Planes, aircraft carriers are useless, we have missiles to hit directly", in front of the missiles everything is a target, of course, except for submarines.
What does this mean? Even the submarines of the Soviets were leading. Nixon wanted to set up intelligence and say, "So how many submarines are you going to build?" Khrushchev opened his mouth and startled Nixon again: he could build as much as he could.
Later, the United States believed it, he did have this strength, and once he tried, the missile was really an assembly line operation, and Khrushchev made a big joke, and at that time the Soviet Union wanted to follow up, but the national strength did not allow it.
Later, the United States also learned from Khrushchev's trick and engaged in a military fraud. The United States played a high-end game, sent people to the moon, and embarked on a space program. The Soviets looked at it and we couldn't be left behind, so the Soviet Union was also the first country to send people into space.
Finally, the United States engaged in a series of arms races and Star Wars, the Soviet Union followed up with a brain, not according to its own national conditions, it can be said that the Soviet Union dragged itself down alive.