If Nazi Germany won, how long would they last?

Sorry but that data is simply wrong if that was true the Soviets would've been spending afar greater percentage of GDP on thier military than bloody North Korea is today.:rolleyes:

By some accounts, the percentage of its GDP that the Soviet Union spent on armaments was higher than that of North Korea. Anders Åslund, for example, a Swedish economist, claims that the Soviet Union spent about a quarter of its GDP on the military. There are other authors who give much lower numbers (15 to 17 per cent), but still others who say it was as high as thirty or even forty.

The numbers for North Korea also vary wildly. In this article the estimates vary between 18.8 % and 30.4 %.

So what you consider as a reductio ad absurdum of the statistics I have quoted so far, may be a fact, depending on which Soviet or North Korean figures are correct.


So far I have provided statistic tables and links, and you have bandied about words like "farcical" and expressions like "lol". What about you providing some statistical links showing that the Soviet Union had the second strongest economy during the Cold War, as you have claimed?
 
So far I have provided statistic tables and links, and you have bandied about words like "farcical" and expressions like "lol". What about you providing some statistical links showing that the Soviet Union had the second strongest economy during the Cold War, as you have claimed?

You provided some yourself, earlier on when you wiki-linked.
 
Except this is the key period: this is the only window in time where US economic power was so overwhelming as to represent about 50% of the world's economic output. This after famine, an economic crash and the overall breakdown of its economy.

An economy spared from, if not stimulated by, the hardship of a truly dreadful war.
 
You provided some yourself, earlier on when you wiki-linked.
No, I certainly did not. Here is the wiki-link again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ten_largest_countries_by_GDP


The one table that shows the USSR on second place for some years is the one from the United Nations. In my earlier post, I have already pointed out why this does not show that the Soviet Union had a stronger economy than the biggest Western European countries or Japan: it is based on nominal GDP, which, I suspect in this case means that the GDP is measured in rubles and then converted into US dollars at the official exchange rate, which grossly overvalued the ruble.

But even if we do not take this very important fact into account, and accept the official exchange rate as reflecting the real value of the ruble, even then Japan has the second strongest economy from 1978 onwards (making the USSR the third strongest) and from 1986 West Germany also overtakes the USSR.

Here is another table, also based on United Nations figures, but this time not using nominal GDP, but using constant 2005 US dollar prices. The year is 1970, but many earlier or later years would also show that the USSR was far from having the second strongest economy during the Cold War:

Former USSR.................................................US$..........463,083,133,955
France..............................................................US$..........892,172,865,602
Germany.........................................................US$......1,312,894,209,499
Italy....................................................................US$.........788,910,117,779
Japan...............................................................US$.......1,654,537,529,469
United Kingdom............................................US$..........988,136,553,239
United States.................................................US$......4,204,123,054,571


You can find these data at this site (I have already provided this link in an earlier post): http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/selbasicFast.asp
You can make your own statistical table with this site. As a first step, select the country or countries whose figures you want to display, by clicking on the country in the list and then on the "add" button. As a second step, you choose the currency, and finally the year or years you want to display, and then you push the "Submit" button.
 
You provided some yourself, earlier on when you wiki-linked.

Plus you can look up souces on the web in dozens of places including the CIA. Which did tend to overestamate Soviet military power it was however good at gathering intel on other areas.

AMF, the overwheming date and historical record supports my claims. So asking me to souce it is as superfluous as asking me to source Bolshevik revolution. Plus you seem to ingnore things like total industrial output etc focusing on fiscal issues which arnt applicable vis-a-vis the U.S.S.R due to the nature of a planned economy.
 
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