It's like if the U.S. lost the entire east coast up to the appalachians and decided to just fuck off to the midwest and still rebuild all industry in like a year
It was equivalent to the US losing all industrial capacity east of the Mississippi River and all agricultural land west of the Appalachian mountains. The death toll the USSR suffered would have killed 1/6 of the American population
It's like if the U.S. lost the entire east coast up to the appalachians and decided to just fuck off to the midwest and still rebuild all industry in like a year
It was equivalent to the US losing all industrial capacity east of the Mississippi River and all agricultural land west of the Appalachian mountains. The death toll the USSR suffered would have killed 1/6 of the American population