Quote: (05-02-2014 07:29 PM)Orion Wrote:
Quote: (05-02-2014 07:12 PM)Tail Gunner Wrote:
You are mixing apples and oranges. The Soviet Union was a third-world nation
It was a second world nation.
The phrase "second world" simply refers to communist countries during the Cold War. The Soviet Union very clearly had a third world economy.