Comment by QuercusMax
1 month ago
> IIRC Wikipedia says the term was coined ca. 1950s, so it could be argued that the USSR's decline was already factored into the term.
What? The Soviets got the bomb in 1949 and launched Sputnik in 1957. That makes no sense.
That success was not evenly distributed.
Regardless, the Soviet Union was very far from collapsing in the 1950s. Again, what are you talking about?