The Soviet Union fell no doubt about it, but Russia is still alive and will continue alive for many years, to say the Russians and Soviet were not great is a lack of historical honesty, here are some example of Soviet technology that never were surpassed by the West before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990
Yak-141 in 1990 had no known western equivalent its cruise engine was completly ahead of any western design and was retaken in the JSF.
An-225 had no Western equivalent in the West and still has not any counter part in 2007, its closest equivalent was the C-5 in 1990 but the Galaxy still yields to the An-124, the An-225`s little brother
Mi-26 it had no western equivalent in 1990.
Ka-52 had no western equivalent
Tu-22M had no western equivalent and was a quit complex machine
in fact i will say that the Soviet Union collapsed but its technology was not behind the west in terms of aircraft, the Su-35 was in no way behind any fighter the west built up to 1990
If the Soviet Union would had not collapsed in 2000 they would had many increadible machines, a nuclear aircraft carrier with Yak-141s, several hundred Su-35s and some MiG 1.44s, however its collapse was a product of a revolution that at the end if well taken will make Russia a wealthy nation, if not turn Russia again in a super militarized nation.
And by the way this man is an example of Soviet Greatness
First man in space:
Yuri Gagarin made his historic flight on April 12, 1961First space “walk” by a man:
A.A. Leonov, “Voskhod-2” – March 18, 1965First space station:
“Salyut” – April 19, 1971.First space “walk” by a woman:
S. E. Savitskaya, “Salyut-7” – July 27, 1984.Longest space flight – more than one year:
V.V.Polyuakov – 437 days, 17 hours, 58 min, 31 sec (continuous flight); 678 days, 17 hours, 33 min, 18 sec (total flight time).
What an outstanding post. Our own propaganda allowed us to believe that it was Rusky copying the west, but it is more likely that we followed the Russians. They certainly had more brain power working on the projects, just not as much money.
I miss the cold war. No questions on defence spending, hundreds of thousands of secure jobs, just think how far ahead the technology would be right now…on both sides of the curtain.
The real enemy was never Russia, we had more trouble with the usual rabble, that rabble is still at it now.
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