"It is this struggle that has caused one Russian ruler after another to put guns before butter, to build steel mills instead of fine new apartment houses, to invest in physics laboratories rather than swimming pools, to dig new canals instead of building public parks, to manufacture heavy tanks rather than sports cars."

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About Harrison Salisbury

Harrison Salisbury was an American journalist and editor for The New York Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and wrote extensively on the Soviet Union and World War II.

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