@CriticalCupcake
> Soviet Union consistently spent a greater share of its GDP on its military than did the United States does slightly take away from the message

Isn't it exactly what makes it funny? The hypocrisy: how USSR always pretended to be for peace, but had always been preparing for war — in the end it never got invaded, but got buried under the rubble of its inefficient economy. And while it itself is long gone, the tanks made in the Soviet Union are on the battlefield today.