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I always appeared to me that the Soviet Union had an Armed Force much larger than what they actually needed.
So what if they scale down their Tank Armies from ready-to-invade-western-europe-any-moment to just-enough-to-keep-the-WP-states-under-control and rely on their strategic nukes as a deterent.
They also do away with medium range missiles, a lot of the support for countries like cuba and egypt and so on.
Would that greatly improve their economy or am I missing something?