How strong was the USSR militarily at its peak?

At the peak of the Soviet Union, the military equipment was twice that of the United States, which was much more powerful than the United States.

At its peak, the Soviet Union's military capabilities were very powerful, it was able to have a strong army, and the combat capabilities of the army were very powerful.

At its peak, the Soviet Union ranked second in the world in terms of military level, and it and the United States could compete with each other.

The USSR was inCold WarDuring this period, it was the most powerful and the only country in the world that could compete with the United States, and at its peak it comprehensively crushed the United States in many fields, and only in the military aspect, the Soviet Union had a fleet of nearly 60,000 armored vehicles at its peak.

And the total strength has reached 12 million, a real torrent of steel, and the Soviet Navy is also the only one in the world that can compete with the American Navy.

The countries that fought one-on-one, as well as the nuclear ** of the Soviet Union.

It is also the largest in the world, with its own military bases in many countries and its influence all over the world.

The relevance is as follows. First, when the Soviet Union was at its strongest, both the army and the navy had quality and quantity guarantees, and according to the military strength at that time, if the Soviet Union wanted to invade Europe, it would only take one month to divide all Europe into its own territory, and no army could resist the Soviet Union's steel torrent.

Second, in terms of strategic missiles, the Soviet Union had a total of nearly 150,000 military personnel of the missile unit at that time, and various types of intercontinental missiles.

Nearly 1400 units, while in total, these ICBMs can carry almost 7000 nuclear warheads.

These nuclear forces could achieve all-round nuclear deterrence and nuclear strikes against all countries and places in the world, and became the most powerful nuclear power in the world at that time.

In the field of aviation, the Soviet side could also crush the United States, and Soviet spacecraft could fly directly to the limb clump moon.

Third, and the Soviet Union carried out one of the world's most famous Western 81 military exercises during its own strongest period.

The military exercise was held in 1981 and was the largest military exercise in human history, with a total of about 500,000 troops and tens of thousands of armored vehicles of various types.

Western countries, on the other hand, believe that if the Soviet Union launches an attack, it will be destroyed within half a month, and that it will rank second in the world in addition to the military and economic aspects, and that the economic growth rate of the entire country will remain in double digits, and that the country will be truly rich and the people will be strong.

How strong was the USSR at its peak?Stomp your feet, and the whole continent will tremble.

From the October Revolution in 1917 and the establishment of Soviet power in Tsarist Russia to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the world's first socialist state existed for more than 80 years. From the moment it was founded, the world's first socialist state, led by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, had an extremely profound impact on the course of world history.

As we all know, the Soviet Union, which inherited the territory of Tsarist Russia, was extremely vast, and the Soviet Union became the world's largest territorial power with an absolute advantage, and the territory of the Soviet Union, which was as high as 22 million square kilometers, had almost all the natural resources known to the world.

The economic development of the Soviet Union was roughly divided into two stages, before and after World War II. From the founding of the Soviet Union to before World War II, it was the first stage of economic development in the Soviet Union, and it was also the most rapid stage of development. After the establishment of the Soviet power, after a hard war, the Soviet Red Army successively defeated the White Army at home and the intervention armies of Britain and France, and achieved the independence of the Soviet Union.

It was thanks to these advantages that the Soviet Union had built itself into the first place in Europe before the outbreak of World War II.

1. The world's second largest industrial country. At this time, although the industrial level and scientific and technological level of the Soviet Union were slightly inferior to those of Germany, the total economic volume was still surpassing. And this was the greatest reliance on Stalin's ability to lead the Soviet Union to the arduous Soviet-German war.

However, the Barbarossa plan for Germany to attack the Soviet Union in World War II was still not at the peak of the Soviet Union. After paying 27 million people, the Soviet Union led by Stalin won the final victory of World War II, and the invincible Nazi Germany finally fell. However, in order to win the Soviet-German war, the Soviet Union also paid a very high price, almost all of the European and industrially developed areas of the Soviet Union fell into the hands of Germany, and at the height of the war, almost all the men of school age in the Soviet Union went to the battlefield, and the most elite European regions of the Soviet Union were beaten into a ruin of war.

However, the Soviet Union's victory in World War II was not without gains, in addition to plundering a large number of talents from Germany, a large number of advanced German technology and equipment were also almost plundered by the Soviet Union. After World War II, the Soviet Union again began its own industrial construction.

For example, when it was first founded in 1917, the industrial output value of the Soviet Union accounted for only 3% of the world's total industrial output, but in 1937, before the outbreak of World War II, it increased to 10%, and in 1970, at the peak of the Soviet economy, the industrial output value of the Soviet Union was able to reach 20% of the world's industrial output, accounting for the top 1 5.

Constant economic growth means, of course, an increase in national income. In 1960, the total social output of the Soviet Union was 304 billion rubles, and in 1985 it had increased to 1,382.5 billion rubles, an increase of many times, and the per capita national income in 1967 was equivalent to 1,000 US dollars when converted into US dollars. The Soviet Union ranked first in Europe or the world in the production of many industrial products, such as power generation, oil production, commercial coal production, pig iron steel, iron ore, etc.

Military parades in Soviet times

First, at its peak, the Soviet Union's economy reached 40% of that of the United States. The Soviet economy reached its peak in 1975, when national oil prices were at a high point, while the United States was affected by the Vietnam War and the oil crisis, and the economy had not yet fully recovered. In 1975, the total GDP of the Soviet Union was $685.9 billion, and the total GDP of the United States was $1,688.9 billion.

Many people may wonder why the Soviet Union, which is the same superpower as the United States, had a total GDP equivalent to 40% of that of the United States at its peak

Vegetable market in Soviet timesThe first McDonald's opened, and the Soviets lined up

Third, the closest economic aggregate to the United States in history was Japan in 1995. Since World War II, only Japan has reached its highest level of GDP in the United States. In 1995, Japan's total GDP reached $5,334 billion, while that of the United States was $7,664 billion, accounting for 69 percent.

However, Japan has since entered a recession, with its current GDP totaling only $5 trillion, compared to more than $21 trillion in the United States.

The strength of the Soviet Union was mainly due to military strength, not to economic strength. It is precisely because the military occupies too many resources that it will lead to the gradual decline of the Soviet economy and its eventual disintegration.

Economically, the per capita national income of the Soviet Union in 1965 was 62% of that of the United States, and by 1975 it had reached 67% of that of the United States; Militarily, when the time transitioned to 1975, the Soviet Union's nuclear stock at this time surpassed that of the United States, and the strength of the Strategic Missile Forces surpassed that of the United States in an all-round way; In terms of land and population, the Soviet Union has a land area of 22 million square kilometers, making it the largest country in the world. At its peak, the Soviet Union had more than 100 million people.

At its peak, the economy of the Soviet Union was quite developed and could be compared with that of the United States, and the two could compete in all aspects.

The advantages of the Soviet Union at that time were unmatched by other countries in the world, not to mention the land area of 22 million square kilometers, and its industrial output reached 20% of the world!

It was very strong, because at that time only their country could be very powerful and advanced.

When the Soviet Union was at its strongest, it was by no means when it had 5.13 million troops, 80,000 tanks, more than 100,000 aircraft, more than 10,000 nuclear warheads, and 46 overseas military bases.

When the Soviet Union chose the mode of imperial hegemony with the United States, his defeat was already assured.

The strength of the Soviet Union was based on the emancipation of the minds of all mankind and in the determination to forge a new world for the proletariat, and when the CPSU ceased to care about the well-being of the people, feared the class struggle, and tried in vain to rely solely on the state apparatus to maintain its rule, its strength would inevitably weaken.

When the Soviet Union loses the support of the proletarians of the whole world, he will have to face the attack of the reactionaries of the whole world single-handedly, and no matter how much he makes advanced **, how many troops he recruits, how many ** he trains**, he cannot match the reactionary forces.

The Soviet Union was at its strongest during the Third International, the Communist International, which Lenin led the founding. The Comintern has developed party organizations in more than 70 countries around the world and has grown more than 4 million members. These 4 million members and later the 20 million members of the CPSU were not at all of the same nature.

The vast majority of the 20 million members of the CPSU at its peak were opportunists, who entered the organization after losing their ideals and in order to make a living or to go into camps. The vast majority of the 4 million members of the Comintern were willing to serve the Communist Party, who joined the organization at every moment in danger of being killed, and who were heroes of the top 100. There is a world of difference between 20 million scum with evil intentions and 4 million fearless heroes.

Therefore, when the Soviet Union was just established, in the face of the joint efforts of the Entente countries that had won a great victory in World War I, they could resist stubbornly and achieve victory. But when the power on paper was not inferior to that of the United States, it was vulnerable, and it fell into its own greed.

So how powerful was the USSR when it was at its strongest? So strong that the proletarians all over the world regard the Soviet Union as their hope and are working hard to transform the whole world into the Soviet Union! The USSR was invincible then!

It may be because the Soviet Union has collapsed, so everyone blindly does not know much about the strength of the Soviet Union during its heyday. So today, the school uses a series of data to tell you how strong the Soviet Union was in the past, so the United States did not dare to infiltrate him at that time.

The Soviet Union not only had a very developed heavy industry, but also a very large land area, which was 1 6 times the land area of the world at that time. It is made up of many Eastern European countries, such as Russia and Ukraine. Although some land was plundered from China, the land area was still very large.

At that time, the Soviet Union produced eight to nine times as much oil as the United States. This is enough to show that the USSR was superior to the United States at that time.

From 1960 to 1970, this was the most powerful military moment of the USSR. The Soviet Union had a million regular troops and more than 20 million in reserves, while the United States had only 3 million at that time. Therefore, compared to the Soviet Union, the United States looks a little "bleak".

But it is not the number of people who determines the victory or defeat on the battlefield, but the advanced nature of the equipment. So the reason why the USSR was so strong at that time was also because of its "torrent of steel" in ** equipment.

In the heyday of the Soviet Union, the army had tens of thousands of heavy items, such as armored vehicles, tanks, etc. In the Navy, the USSR had more than 200 attack submarines and ballistic submarines. These powerful submarines often appear in the waters of some countries in the United States, which to a certain extent has caused great pressure on the United States and neighboring countries; In terms of the Air Force, the USSR had thousands of new aircraft.

All this has made NATO countries tremble.

The military developments of the USSR at that time were also frightening. He launched 1,500 strategic bombardments. At that time, the USSR had more than 3 times as many nuclear bombs as all countries.

From the above data we can understand why the United States at that time chose to develop the economy, and not compete with the USSR at the military level. Many netizens felt sorry for the prosperity of the Soviet Union, and couldn't help but rejoice that the dead hairy bear was a good hairy bear.

In the final analysis, the destruction of the USSR was more due to itself. Although the development of heavy industry is so prominent, its light industry and people's livelihood industry are too backward. This apparent lame leg continues to cause many problems and has become a fatal cause of hindering its development.

At its peak, the Soviet Union was very powerful, a superpower and the United States were on an equal footing, and they did not give in to each other, and it was the first industrial power to develop rapidly in industry, and it could really occupy the whole of Europe in seven days.

In military terms, it is very strong, there are very many elite soldiers, and they can occupy the whole of Europe in seven days, because the Soviet Union has a vast territory, a large population, and many advanced **.

At its peak, the Soviet Union was particularly strong militarily, and it can be said that it was on a par with the military strength of the United States. It is true that it can occupy the whole of Europe in seven days.

At its peak, the Soviet Union was basically invincible in military terms, and the Soviet Union at that time was indeed able to occupy the whole of Europe in seven days.