Was the USSR brutally sanctioned by a superpower? It was a superpower itself - it was supposed to be even more of a superpower! "In the 1961 edition of his fam

Was the USSR brutally sanctioned by a superpower? It was a superpower itself - it was supposed to be even more of a superpower! "In the 1961 edition of his famous textbook of economic principles, Paul Samuelson wrote that GNP in the Soviet Union was about half that in the United States but the Soviet Union was growing faster. As a result, one could comfortably forecast that Soviet GNP would exceed that of the United States by as early as 1984 or perhaps by as late as 1997 and in any event Soviet GNP would greatly catch-up to U.S. GNP." https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/01/soviet-growth-american-textbooks.html https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/01/so...