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>Growing from a bad start and where you can copy a more developed nation makes this easier. True. But you know what really makes economic growth easier? Foreig
by D_Alex 4y ago
>Growing from a bad start and where you can copy a more developed nation makes this easier.
True. But you know what really makes economic growth easier? Foreign aid. Also trade.
The USSR otoh had to deal with sanctions.
https://www.americanforeignrelations.com/E-N/Embargoes-and-Sanctions-Cold-war-sanctions.html https://www.americanforeignrelations.com/E-N/Embargoes-and-S...
- slothtrop 4y agoYet they weren't alone in the world. They were next to China and other friendlies.
- D_Alex 4y agoChina was friendly with the USSR only briefly, like in the 1950s. It was desperately poor at the time, and received a lot of aid from the USSR. I don't know what other friendlies you mean. USSR installed communist/socialist governments in the countries it liberated from German occupation after WW2, but those relationships were... complicated.