basically they just traded their human capital and land resources for imports of machine production

i don't see how

and created the infrastructure that supported their entire system through means we would deem unreasonable

how not?

read the links i posted

they built up the industrial sector through planning

they planned for imports

did you actually think they launched an industrial revolution that was purely native?

i mean sure some gulag labor was used but the vast majority would have been regular labor

their machine production was shipped from foreign countries

especially the US

the industrialization that they saw was nothing more than a product of them importing machine production, relocating labor and building mass infrastructure through immoral labor sources

the fall that they start seeing is when the source of those imports drop due to onset of the cold war

the soviet union could not support itself by native industry alone

dyno automod

youre using a banned word

hold up

what

lol say natsoc instead

a few words cause discords tos to flare up so we just have dyno remove em

n4zi is a banned word? cringe.

and the importation of machine tools occurred well before the lend lease on the onset of the 30s

yes but not for free

they had to trade for them

yes ofc

so what is the point you are trying to make

which is why i stated they just traded immense natural resources and human capital to obtain the capital to buy these things

that any system with the same resources couldve done the same at that time period

practically any system

well then how come a country like india that is rich with resources and human capital did not become superpower

like replace the soviet union with the polish government and you still probably see the same results

india was under colonialism

and their natural resources is far lower per capita

Siberia and the Caucasus represent near endless oil and coal

compare that to germany who had little oil but good quantities of coal and even they were gimped

italy who neither even more so

well it is true they had lots of natural resources but then explain how tsarist russia wasn't so powerful in their time

Britain only got by due to human capital of india

and how modern russia is way less powerful even than russia SFR

tsarist russia didnt exist in the post depression where the US was seeking to expand in exports through machine tools

and russia doesnt exist in pre opac world