Spend.

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As from You Tube the original courtesy Iranian PressTV.

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"Top 15 countries in the world by military spending per year from 1914 to 2018"

Spending as measured in American dollars [$].

Those years the Soviet Union spending more on the military than the USA during a period when the Soviet economy only one-tenth [1/10] as large as the United States. A huge and stupendous burden than could never be sustained.

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