How soldiers were sent into battle empty-handed and told that they’d win their weapons in combat. They didn’t count the people, but they did count the rounds of ammunition. It’s understandable…It makes sense that people with these kinds of memories believed that in order to defeat the enemy, we needed to keep pumping out tanks and fighter jets. The more the better. There ended up being enough weapons for the USSR and America to destroy one another a thousand times over. And yet they kept making more. Then a new generation came to power. Gorbachev’s entire team was made up of the children of
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