The Soviet Union suffered heavy losses in World War II, why was it able to compete with the United S

<> Soviet Union can be said to have suffered the heaviest losses in World War II, with 27 million Soviets in this war**, but not long after the end of World War II, the Soviet Union has regained its strength and can compete with the United States, how did the Soviet Union do this?

In fact, the Soviet Union suffered very heavy losses, but the Soviet Union had a population of 100 million at that time, and the common people at that time had to provide military supplies and did not participate in the war. The territory of the Soviet Union was vast and very rich in materials, and in the post-war development, materials were absolutely not a problem.

Moreover, the Soviet Union was much more advanced than Germany during World War II, and its industrial level was among the most advanced in Europe. In fact, the industrial technology of the Soviet Union was developed through World War II, and before the German army attacked the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union used a lot of agricultural products from Germany to exchange a lot of advanced industrial products.

This laid the industrial foundation of the Soviet Union during the war, and then in World War II, Germany was the common enemy of the Soviet Union and the United States and other Western countries, so the United States also assisted the Soviet Union with a large number of first-class equipment, which also greatly improved the military strength of the Soviet Union.

From the beginning of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union went through four major periods. Its economic and military growth was also completed and largely finalized during these periods.

At the end of World War II, in 1945, the Soviet Union and China became allies and signed the Sino-Soviet Friendship and Alliance Agreement. In May of that year, Soviet troops captured Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany, and the Battle of Berlin was won, and Germany was declared defeated. Later, in August, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and sent troops to northeastern China and northern Korea.

Although World War II ended, the Soviet Union earned the dignity of a victorious nation. But in this world war, the Soviet Union paid an extremely heavy price. The Soviets lost some 27 million lives before they captured Berlin, when six republics were occupied by Germany, 1,700 towns and more than 10,000 factories were razed to the ground, and nearly a quarter of the nation's wealth was destroyed.

However, in just a few decades after World War II, the Soviet Union was able to maintain its development with that of the United States, the world's leading power. This begins with the first post-war period of perestroika in the USSR, the Khrushchev period.

Because Khrushchev reused scientific and technological talents and vigorously developed the fields of science and technology and aerospace, the Soviet Union's science and technology made great progress during this period. Gagarin's entry into space in 1961 gave the Soviet Union and the United States a first-mover in the battle for space technology.

In 1964, the Soviet Union entered the Brezhnev period. In 1973, the Soviet Union became a net importer of grain for the first time in history. The average annual growth rate of national income in the USSR was 1966-1970, 3% in 1971-1975 and 1976-1980.

During this period, Soviet military spending continued to grow at an accelerated pace. It has become the world's largest military spender, and although this arms race has led to rapid growth in combat effectiveness and science and technology, it has inhibited economic development.

The period of the rule of the old man was the period of Andropov and Chernenko, who made bold reforms and made great contributions to the development of the national economy and the improvement of people's welfare. But after that, during the Gorbachev period, he abandoned Brezhnevism and lost the hearts of the people.

Of course, after World War II, most of Germany's high-tech talent was brought into the country by Russia. At the same time, in the confrontation with the Japanese army in northeast China, a lot of resources were also obtained. In the fight against Germany, the expansion of the Soviet Union in Europe made it supported by many small countries.

Although the war took a heavy toll on the Soviet Union, most of the country's industrial areas remained.

Coupled with the subsequent reforms, the Soviet Union will soon be able to compete with the United States in strength.

At that time, they were supported by socialist allies, and they had preserved their strength very well, and the losses were not particularly serious.

Economic: manufacturing exploits the exploitation industry, industry exploits agriculture, and various industries are downstream exploitation of upstream industries. In this way, the primitive accumulation of industry, especially manufacturing, is completed.

Interior: KGB.

Military aspect: The Songun policy developed the military industry.

In terms of welfare: reduce the consumption power of residents, reduce the production of light industry, food and other consumer goods, and use a large amount of industrial capacity in manufacturing.

Publicity: Encourage low-end people to become high-class through various means of hard work to obtain high-class treatment.

Because after the war, the Soviet Union was a federal system, and a bunch of countries joined this federation to form a state of consent, and you say it wouldn't be strong?

Britain and the United States were worried that they were still too far away from Berlin when the Soviet Union occupied Berlin, so they were in a hurry to move forward, how could they stop? If Britain and the United States had not entered Germany when the Soviet Union occupied Germany, then it would have been impossible for Britain and the United States to intervene in Germany's post-war affairs after the war. Germany has been unable to resist for 45 years, what is the difference between letting Germany continue to work in the USSR and giving the entire country of Germany to the USSR.

The Battle of Berlin had not been for the illusion that the United States would have surrendered to the United States as soon as possible, and Hitler himself had surrendered. If Britain and the United States had not entered Germany at that time, Germany would have surrendered earlier, and there would have been no possibility of stubborn resistance. The best situation for Britain and the United States should be to occupy Berlin before the Soviet Union breaks through on the Eastern Front, so that after the war the whole of Germany will be obtained, and the Soviet Union's power will still be controlled in Eastern Europe, unable to intervene in rich Western Europe.

Moreover, when Germany surrendered in May, the United States did not even take Okinawa. How could it be possible for Japan to turn around and fight the USSR. Japan and the Soviet Union did not declare war at that time, how could they provoke a big country here, and before the war was over, they went to provoke another big country, and Japan is not a fool.

Moreover, Japan was very gentle with the Soviet Union at that time, and even sent people on many occasions to persuade the Soviet Union to mediate and let Japan surrender conditionally.

A closer look at the information on the situation in the development of the Cold War will show this. The Soviet Union was not ordinarily strong in the early stages of the Cold War, and it was only in the 70s that it began to decline. It was only after the United States began to give full play to its economic advantages in international markets such as Western Europe and Japan and South Korea that the Soviet Union gradually fell behind.

And the Soviet Union could not have had fewer troops than Britain and the United States at that time. There were 2.5 million Soviet troops entering Germany alone. During the Korean War, the reason why the US top brass repeatedly rejected MacArthur's request to bomb Northeast China was that it was afraid of Soviet intervention.

Almost all military experts in their war assessments believe that if World War III breaks out, the Soviet Union can quickly sweep across Europe, and the United States has no defense capability in Europe. That is why the United States carefully controlled the Korean War within the confines of the peninsula.

And you completely ignore the time for combat readiness ... War doesn't mean that you want to start fighting again, you will start fighting on time tomorrow. The opening of the second battlefield in France was decided in 1942, but it was only implemented in 1944, so why did you go in these two years?

As for the transportation of supplies to Britain, if it were not for the great victory in submarine operations at the end of 43, it is estimated that it would not have landed in 44 years. The United States wants to cross China and North Korea in the civil war, and make a detour from Mongolia to fight the Soviet Union, and it can't find a supply line, let alone war preparations. Even if you prepare, you spend 5 years to prepare, and in 1949 the USSR would have had an atomic bomb.

And the United States, although it had an atomic bomb in 45, did not pose a direct threat to the USSR. At that time, there were no intercontinental missiles, and the United States could not find any of its own airfields from Asia and Europe that could bomb the Soviet Union.

At that time, the Soviet Union supported the Chinese Communist Party led by Stalin, and the United States led by Truman supported the Kuomintang. Later, the civil war broke out between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the United States saw that Chiang Kai-shek was not an opponent, so it stopped militarism. In fact, I am also worried that I will interfere if I join too much of the Soviet Union, and both countries have enough nuclear power to destroy the world, so they dare not rashly turn against each other.

The United States did not want to fight on its own soil, and went to the Soviet Union and was worried that it would not be able to adapt to the cold weather there, in addition, World War II had just ended, Germany and Japan had their own national garrisons, and if they started a war, they must make preparations, but they could not hide from each other's spies, so they had to start using economic strength as a belligerent, during which the Soviet Union and the United States also sent spies to each other.

Dealing with the Japanese army has already made the American army anxious. Why was the atomic bomb dropped on Japan? There is an important reason because the US military is afraid that it will be too big.

Iwo Jima and Okinawa made the U.S. military believe that if they landed on the Japanese mainland, the U.S. military's ** would be in units of 100,000. In order to reduce **, and at the same time to give an explanation to domestic taxpayers (the Manhattan project is quite expensive), Japan was given two atomic bombs. If you want to fight the Soviet army, the U.S. military once had a war game, which is estimated to be in millions, and it may not be able to win.

At that time, the Soviet army had a large number of mechanized troops that had been tested in the war, and there were also a number of strong officer corps, represented by Zhukov, and the overall national strength of the Soviet Union at that time was not much worse than that of the United States, and the war-weariness in the United States at that time was also very high. Based on the above reasons, the US military did not choose to fight to the death with the Soviet army.

Personally, I think the reason for going to war is that the United States sent troops only to oppose the axis center. Second, the United States was not necessarily able to defeat the Soviet Union at that time.

Third, if the United States had not taken out Germany first, the world would be under Nazi rule today. At least when Germany was defeated, the nuclear ** was only about to be manufactured and put into production, think about V3 rockets, think about submarines, and estimate that the end will be even more tragic.

The United States is not a fascist, and besides, it is not capable of destroying the Soviet Union.

If the United States launched a war against the Soviet Union, there would be no popular support base in the United States. The Soviet Union's strategic depth was relatively large, and Germany's powerful military strength was defeated by the Soviet army, and if the United States dared to invade the Soviet mainland, it would be subjected to a powerful counterattack by the Soviet people and army, and it was doomed to defeat miserably.

First, there is no need, although the ideology is incompatible, but the two sides do not have great hatred, and at the same time learn the lessons of World War II Germany and Japan, they can completely use non-war means to achieve their war goals, and after the war, they are full of devastation and ruins, peace is the mainstream public opinion of both sides, in line with the strategic interests of both sides, they are already very happy, there is no need to fight with a super opponent without hatred. Any politician will put national interests first, and the US Congress will not agree to wage a world war unless it is forced to do so.

No, I'm telling you very clearly that if the Soviet Union goes to war with the United States immediately after Japan surrenders, it will lose. There are several reasons for this:

1. During World War II, the war did not affect the United States, but the Soviet Union suffered heavy losses at home under the attack of Germany.

2. The United States has a strong industrial system and resources, and its war potential is extremely strong; during World War II, the national strength of the United States was the sum of the allied forces except the United States, and it can be seen from the way the United States fought against Japan in the Pacific theater, and it used countless warships, planes, and bombs. Although the Soviet Union also has abundant resources, due to the socialist exploration carried out by the Soviet Union after the October Revolution, although a certain heavy industry system has been formed, it cannot be compared with the old super-capitalist power of the United States in terms of quantity and quality.

3. The United States has more troops and a larger population than the Soviet Union.

4. The most important reason was that the United States had the atomic bomb at that time, and although it used only two atomic bombs against Japan at that time, it was actively manufacturing and assembling it in China, and the Soviet Union was still in the development stage, and the Soviet Union was not an opponent of the United States in terms of the performance of long-range attack aircraft, and the American B-29 bomber at that time was not much worse than our H-6 now. Therefore, the United States was the most powerful in the world at that time in terms of its ability to destroy, and there was no one.

During the Cold War, the national strength of the Soviet Union was restored to a certain extent, and in 1949 the Soviet Union also developed the atomic bomb, with the atomic bomb is different, in fact, nuclear force is the core military force of a country, at least for now.

You think too much, a lot of equipment on the Soviet-German battlefield was aided by the United States. The United States is involved in several theaters at the same time and serves as the main force. The size of American industry was three times that of Germany and more than five times that of the Soviet Union.

And then the Soviet Navy, have you heard of it?? Without the Navy, what to fight with the United States?

The strength of the army is probably about the same. I am afraid that the Navy and Air Force are far behind the Soviet Union and the US military.

The Soviet Union fought on American soil, and the Soviet Union was bound to lose. The United States fought on the territory of the Soviet Union, and the United States was bound to lose, and the Soviet-German war was the best example.

I think if you say that the United States is fighting Russia now, the United States has a better chance of winningButIf the United States were to fight the Soviet Union, it would be defeated by the fighting nationsThis is also the reason why the United States only dared to fight a cold war with the Soviet Union before, and secretly competed with each other but did not dare to do it with real guns. I think the Soviet Union will win for the following reasons.

First, from the point of view of the best equipment, the Soviet Union was completely victorious.

We all know that the Soviet Union was very powerful, and the Soviet Union at that time had more than 60,000 most advanced tanks, more than 70,000 very powerful armored vehicles, and more than 10,000 combat aircraft alone, not to mention more than 1,000 aircraft carriers.

Second, the Soviet Union won in terms of territory and population.

You must have enough people in the territory you have already captured to guarantee your chances of victory. At that time, the Soviet Union's land share was more than twice that of the United States, and its geographical location was also very conducive to war. At that time, the number of people in the Soviet Union had already reached more than 200 million, which the United States really could not compare.

Although the United States has the Pacific Ocean, the United States cannot stop the Soviet Union from giving it a missile, and it is not capable of receiving it, and the possibility of victory is very small.

3. The Soviet Union is a fighting nation!

The Soviet Union fought to the death and did not retreat, and the combat effectiveness and willpower of this nation really have to be admired. And the United States can be said to have lost completely at this point, because American soldiers are very weak in combat effectiveness and willpower, and as long as there is a slight defeat, they will choose to surrender rather than persist in fighting.

Therefore, based on the above three points, I personally think that the Soviet Union won completely!