Brezhnev's reign didn't cause the stagnation of the USSR, the seeds of the collapse were sown decades before. Stalin's economic policies were the real cause, collectivisation annihalated Soviet agriculture and the massive expansion of heavy industry was practically useless in the post-industrial world...apart from when you want to make tanks.
In case you haven't looked up Chinese steel production figures recently, they are at the moment at 500 million tonnes per year. That's, in case you don't know, approximately 1500 % higher then Soviet production at the death of Stalin.
I mean seriously, do people still buy into this post-industrial stuff? From were you think you get the food on your table, the bus you rides to work and the road that it moves on? Production.
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