Ahhh... the A-bomb changes things... Why didn't you mention this before? Yeah... then the man power does not matter.

And yes, we were technologically superior (in some stuff) to the Soviets, the radio and electronic communications and things like that. But the Soviet technology produced quite good stuff, didn't it? Example: T-34.

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