>>853 In a few words: there is no such thing as Soviet technology. Almost all - perhaps 90-95 percent -
came directly or indirectly from the United States and its allies.
In effect the United States and the NATO countries have built the Soviet Union.
Its industrial and its military capabilities.
This massive construction job has taken 50 years. Since the Revolution in 1917.
It has been carried out through trade and the sale of plants, equipment and technical assistance.[2]