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By spending most of their resources on the military and driving the country into bankruptcy.

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Russia became powerful because of it's nuclear weapons: it has over 16,800 nuclear weapons, more than anyone in the world (the US is in second with about 9,600) that is where Russia mostly gets its strength

even more correct answer:

after Stalin succeded lenin he set out to mass industrialise the country.

he succeeded more a less in time for World War 2 in which these new factories could churn out thousands of tanks, guns, whatever

this turned russia into a industrial and military superpower

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