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GROSS AVAILABILITIES
A comparison of the 1949 gross national incomes of the USSR and
the US leaves the same impression of Soviet disadvantage that the first
comparison of productive capacities left. The ratio of one to four is
roughly the same--the United States with a gross national income of about
250 billion and the USSR with about 65 billion.
However, again the strength of the USSR vis a vis the US cannot be
adequately gauged by this simple comparison of national incomes.
Several factors modify this comparison. For instance, with respect to
military expenditures the money spent in the USSR goes much further
than in the US. The use of slave labor, the low pay scale in the Soviet
armed forces, and state control of the means of production enable the
defense dollar to stretch much further in the Soviet Union than in the
United States.
It is also true that the United States actually leads the Soviet Union
in capital investments even though the percentage of national income is
less. However, in the United States the consumer economy determines
that the predominant amount of investment be channeled back into con-
sumer's industries. In the Soviet Union the major share of this capital
investment is put into heavy industries geared to a war economy. The
exact figures for this capital investment are difficult to determine.
OTHER FIELDS
In other fields--scientifio - development, general technological com-
petence, skilled labor resources, productivity of labor force, etc.--the
gap between the USSR and the US roughly corresponds to the gap in pro-
duction indicated on the previous chart (No. 5).
Secret
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