Unfriending due to Political Differences

[SanAndreasX]

WolfpackN64 said:

Final-Fan said:

And by what measure do they have anything resembling 87% of the economic output of the USA?

Also, is there an easy link to showing that the former member states of the USSR do indeed have population about the same as the USA?  Russia itself is less than half.   Never mind. 

The industrial output of the USSR in 1986 was 87% of the industrial output of the US. But declined sharply after the fall of the SU.

The combined population of the USSR also exceeded that of the United States at the time by over 50 million people. USSR = 292 million in 1990, USA = 240 million in 1990.