Between 1922 and 1962, USSR's economy grew at an average of about 9% real per annum
Growing from a bad start and where you can copy a more developed nation makes this easier.
https://bearkunin.medium.com/soviet-union-facts-and-fictions...
Growing from a bad start and where you can copy a more developed nation makes this easier.
https://bearkunin.medium.com/soviet-union-facts-and-fictions...
True. But you know what really makes economic growth easier? Foreign aid. Also trade.
The USSR otoh had to deal with sanctions.
https://www.americanforeignrelations.com/E-N/Embargoes-and-S...
I don't know what other friendlies you mean. USSR installed communist/socialist governments in the countries it liberated from German occupation after WW2, but those relationships were... complicated.