Which was rich, the USSR or the USA, and the USSR was stronger or the USA stronger?

The Soviet Union has not introduced the statistical method of GDP, so both in the Soviet Union and in the West, there are large errors in the statistics of Soviet economic data. In terms of the living standards of the people of the Soviet Union and the United States, the United States is certainly ahead of the Soviet Union in terms of material and culture. The Soviet Union was richer than the United States in terms of energy and minerals, and spiritually speaking, the Soviet Union was still very attractive in the early days, but due to the long-term imbalance in economic development and the long-term shortage of daily necessities, the Soviet Union was tired of the economic and political system established on the Stalin model, so the Soviet Union could not be compared with the United States except in the military aspect.

Of course, the United States is rich. At the height of its heyday, from the mid-to-late 70s to the early 80s, the Soviet Union's economy was about one-third of that of the United States, and the population of the Soviet Union was not much smaller than that of the United States. So it's the United States that is rich.

It has always been that the United States is much, much more than the Soviet Union. Also, don't talk about the resource advantage in front of the United States, the resources of the Soviet Union are not as rich as the United States, and don't think that the Americans have no resources and can only import resources because the Americans are shrewd and do not develop their own resources. The Soviets simply did not have many resources for the Americans, and even during the Cold War they had to import them from the United States.

Russia has the advantage in terms of resources, and the United States has the advantage in economic structure.

Geographical advantages ......White people say sourly that the United States is carefully built by God and his old man and the mistress.

Now the USSR no longer exists.

The USSR was stronger! The USSR was the first country to launch satellites! Or the first country to send astronauts into space!

It took just over 4 years for the USSR to work on the hydrogen bomb! It took more than 6 years for the United States! The Varyag aircraft carrier of the USSR is advanced in the world!

The god of the Arctic makes the Americans fidget! The Soviet Union once developed a hydrogen bomb of 10,000 tons! NATO countries called the USSR the Red Monster!

The Soviet Union mainly lagged behind the United States in civilian goods! To tell the truth, the degree of mechanization of agriculture in the USSR was about 80 percent! It's just that now our country does not have this level!

The collapse of the USSR is not the cause of the United States! The collapse of the USSR was due to the fact that the social contradictions were too great! Uneven urban development!

There is racial discrimination, and the country is too captive! The advantage of the United States is that it is economically strong! Innate geographical advantage!

The First and Second World Wars were defeated! After all, the United States has a history of hundreds of years! The USSR has only a few decades!

Let's be honest! The USSR was not in the 60s! The 85s were not!

It's the situation of the Soviet Union attacking the United States! From the beginning of the 50s to the 60s, the United States was the United States! Otherwise, the United States will not improve relations with China!

Engage the USSR with China! After all, the USSR was made up of 15 countries! The contradiction is still very big!

Khrushchev put the economy that had just been done! It's all in the military! So I can't get the blockage of China, Britain, the United States and France!

United States. Among them, the military gap is not very large, and it even surpasses the United States in some areas, but the economic gap is very large.

The smallest gap between the United States and the Soviet Union was probably in the eighties of the last century. The comparison of the data shows that the gap between them is still relatively large.

Population: 264.5 million in the Soviet Union and 222.6 million in the United States.

Gross national income: 705.4 billion US dollars, United States: 1,052.8 billion US dollars, 67% of the United States

National income per capita: $2,667 in the USSR; $4,730 in the United States, which is 56% of the United States

Steel production: 148 million tons in the Soviet Union and 103.8 million tons in the United States, which is 143% of that of the United States

Electricity generation: 1,295 billion kWh in the USSR; The United States has 2,475 billion kWh, which is 52% of that of the United States

Oil production: USSR 603,000 tons; 4300000 tons in the United States, which is 140% of that of the United States

Natural gas production: USSR 406 billion cubic meters; 600 billion cubic meters in the United States, is American.

Commercial coal: 653,000,000 tons in the USSR; 7840000 tons in the United States, which is the United States.

The above data are quoted from the "Handbook of Basic Figures of the Soviet Union", 1982 edition of the Current Affairs Publishing House, ** which is a number of statistical yearbooks of the USSR and newspapers and periodicals of Western countries.

The territory of the Soviet Union is much larger than that of the United States, but history has proved that the United States is stronger than the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union will be inferior to the Soviet Union in many military and intelligence technologies, but the economy of the United States is far stronger than that of the Soviet Union, and the United States is dragging the Soviet Union into the trap of disintegration with military competition.

Military science and technology are comparable, the economy cannot be compared The military Cold War is sometimes the Soviet Union, sometimes the United States is strong, the period is different, they suppress each other, some people say that the Soviet Union's military strength has always been far inferior to the United States, that is a fart, if the Cold War has been one-sided, it can still last for half a century, it has long been over In the 70s and early 80s, it was the Soviet military that suppressed the United States, and then Ronald Reagan** came to power and came up with a Star Wars program that dragged the Soviet Union, and the United States reversed the balance of the Cold War The United States defeated the Soviet Union economically and strategically It is not a military force, and in terms of military alone, the armed forces of the Soviet Union are by no means even stronger than those of the United States.

The United States was strong, the Stalinist model of the Soviet Union had serious drawbacks, and the economy was slow. The economic strength is not as good as that of the American people, and the living standards have not been improved for a long time.

In general, the United States is strong.

But the former Soviet Union was also ahead of the United States in many areas.

Moreover, the ruling class and think tanks of the former Soviet Union seem to be much inferior to those of the United States.

It has always been that the United States is strong, and the Soviet Union has never been an opponent of the United States in terms of the comparison of strength.

When the Soviet Union existed, its overall strength, especially its military strength, was greater than that of the United States!

The winner is the prince, and the loser is Kou.

In terms of overall strength, on the ability to grasp opportunities, and on results, the United States is still strong.

The United States, the high degree of economic prosperity determines that the United States is superior...

Generally speaking, a country's strength is mainly reflected in several aspects, such as political stability, diplomatic influence, conventional military deterrence, strategic deterrence, domestic industrial production capacity, and national living standards.

In terms of political stability, the political landscape of the United States during the Cold War was far superior to that of the Soviet Union, which had fierce internal contradictions, and since Stalin's death, there has been a lack of a leader who can deter all member groups.

In terms of diplomacy, after Stalin's death, the diplomatic influence of the Soviet Union declined significantly, and there were discordant voices in the red camp. And the NATO countries led by the United States, under the strong threat of the Soviet Union, firmly supported the United States. The United States has a dominant position in decision-making at United Nations conferences and in decision-making on the world pattern.

The Soviet Union was far superior to the United States in terms of conventional military deterrence, and the Soviet Union invested more than 7 percent of its GDP in the military, and at its peak, the Soviet Army had 5.5 million armored troops and the ability to wage war with countries around the world at the same time. And the United States adopts aircraft carrier diplomacy, the geopolitics is relatively simple, and within the scope of conventional deterrence, almost all of them are their own people.

Strategic deterrence, in general, the strategic ** is still excellent to the United States. However, strategic nuclear deterrence basically guarantees the principle of mutual destruction, so the United States and the Soviet Union are on equal footing in this regard.

Industrial production capacity, the industrial capacity of the USSR in any era was less than 70% of that of the United States.

The standard of living of the people, the American people enjoy the happy time of picnics and barbecues on the weekend, while the Soviet people have to queue up to buy toilet paper bags.

So in general, the Soviet military victory, the economic victory of the United States, and the political aspect of both sides have their own merits, regardless of whether they win or lose.

As we all know, after the end of the Second World War, it didn't take long for the Cold War to take place. The United States and the Soviet Union had a faint tendency to compete for hegemony, and the two countries eventually became representatives of their respective systems. But those who are familiar with history will find that in the process of the United States and the Soviet Union competing for hegemony, the United States became more and more developed, on the other hand, the Soviet Union was a little weak, and it was also the top power in the world at that time.

First of all, it comes down to the issue of war, which was of a different nature during World War II in which the United States and the Soviet Union entered. First of all, throughout history, wars on the American mainland have been rare, the most famous of which was the Revolutionary War of the United States, such as the border war with Mexico. By the time of World War II, the war between the U.S. and Japan had not yet swept the U.S. mainland after the outbreak of the Pacific War, so it can be said that the impact of the war on the U.S. domestic was not a matter of life and death.

In the Soviet Union, on the other hand, the situation was very different. The Soviets gained vast land after World War II, but due to the invasion of Nazi Germany, the Soviet vitality was greatly damaged at that time, and Moscow was almost defeated at the most dangerous time, which shows that the Soviet Union was sluggish at that time, and the results of World War II affected most of the territory of the Soviet Union, and the number of soldiers who participated in the war alone was as high as 27 million. In addition to the massive human damage, the Soviets faced an even bigger problem: an economy that was difficult to recover at home.

Second, after the surrender of Nazi Germany, the United States, the Soviet Union and other allied forces successively "visited" Germany proper, absorbing a large number of resources left by the fascists. The Soviets seized a lot of industrial resources, people, and equipment from it. But the Americans were smarter, and they took almost all of Nazi Germany's top scientific elites with them, giving the United States decades ahead of other countries in postwar scientific research.

With the development of time, we can see that the Soviet Union was dragged down by the subsequent war, and the economy was further depressed. During the period of hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, the United States could not only give its younger brothers military aid, but also spend money without any distress, which was much better than the symbolic arms supply of the Soviet Union.

The last point is also an extremely important point, since the beginning of modern times, the United States has gradually practiced authoritarianism, and during the Gulf War, the US military relied on powerful equipment to crush its opponents and firmly hold victory in its own hands. For those defeated countries that have lost their sovereign interests, the profits obtained by the United States are equivalent to the value of the national economic production of the former for several years or even more than a decade. With access to oil resources, it is not surprising that the gap with the USSR is widening.

The Soviet Union became poorer and poorer because it did not develop its economy and frantically developed its military, while the United States, unlike the United States, developed its economy and then relied on economic development to develop its military strength.

Because the USSR got rich on resources, the United States got rich through high technology. So the Soviet Union has fewer and fewer resources, and the United States will have more and more money.