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You're comparing 300 million and 1500 million people to the entire rest of the world. And in that rest of the world is about 1000 million people with significantly better living conditions, infrastructure, institutions and education, who of course have huge advantages in being able to create advanced technologies.

And even then you're ignoring that there are industries where the Soviet Union and China both managed to become world leaders.