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1994
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Pierre Lépinasse, « La supériorité militaire soviétique : l’alibi et l’instrument de l’hégémonie américaine », Revue Française d'Études Américaines, ID : 10.3406/rfea.1994.1550
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The end of the Cold War following the collapse of the Soviet system caused many, on being told about the sorry state of the USSR's whole economy and industry, to wonder why and how the Red army had been built into such an ominous threat. After reviewing a number of American books and journals from 1944 to 1993, one may come to surmise that Moscow's purposely inflated power was used as an alibi to federally subsidize private corporations, with the taxpayers' money, so as to make them highly competitive in world markets.