Associating the soviet union, which before china was the fastest country to ever industrialize, modernize, and innovate past its competition, with stagnation is kinda wild.
They won the space race with 1/10th the budget and more efficient rocket motors. If they saw computers for what the actual potential was like Chile did with project cybersyn, the wall wouldn’t have fallen and a lot of countries would be speaking Russian right now.
The flip side is the kind of stagnation where you get a soviet-era hunk of junk that’s still in operation, but horribly inefficient.
Associating the soviet union, which before china was the fastest country to ever industrialize, modernize, and innovate past its competition, with stagnation is kinda wild.
They won the space race with 1/10th the budget and more efficient rocket motors. If they saw computers for what the actual potential was like Chile did with project cybersyn, the wall wouldn’t have fallen and a lot of countries would be speaking Russian right now.
I wouldn’t really take the soviet union as example for the flip side tbh
I just meant, “60-year-old rust bucket held together by duct tape and prayers,” but soviet-era was shorter.