> Never has a country build itself into a super power in so little time. Stalin took the USSR from an pre-industrial economy to an industrial superpower in a c

> Never has a country build itself into a super power in so little time. Stalin took the USSR from an pre-industrial economy to an industrial superpower in a couple of decades. I do not consider either Stalin or the USSR an exemplar, but many people said very similar things about the Soviet Union, as you are saying about China, but I don't think history has validated the idea it was an exemplar.