By now, they probably would be able to, especially if the POD involves the USSR getting more involved with computers earlier. A Raspberry Pi Zero literally costs 5 dollars and is capable of running at least early 2000s era software, giving everyone (assuming 400 million people) one of those...
Nah, Beancounter Bob privately thought thru most of the War that it was unwinnable, even at the start in his memoirs
Not that it stopped him from dooming all those guys he ordered to Vietnam
i meant in general with the thousands of planetions with the thousands of slaves as for the late as mentioned late roman slavery and especially byzantine slavery was different in the latter slaves working on fiels became very if not extremely rare compared to how common it was in the early...