Actually, no, it wasn't Stalin's.
In Stalin's era USSR was developing faster (actually, like 4+ times faster) than the West. He started with retrograde agricultural country and ended up with a nuclear superpower.
Hitler's economy was insanely good too.
And hell, yeah, we know about the price for both cases, no need to remind.

As far as USSR's economic growth goes, in Khruschev times it was still more than healthy, twice faster than the West.
However , in Brezhnev's era at some point in 70th it simply stopped growing. Let alone that most of the grows was done at the cost of the quality (higher number of lower quality machines). In 1978 Soviet Union didn't grow even according to the official statistics.

Then how is Earth 6000 years old? Isn't it what Bible states?
  http://creation.com/6000-years

She speaks Cantonese.
She has close relatives who speak only Mandarin (and Zuckerberg wanted to communicate with them).

So it makes perfect sense to call her Chinese in this context.
  http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/2...

Oh yeah. We saw how well things fly without vB, cough, Vanguard rocket, cough

None of them was even remotely at Von Braun's level.

Ok, it might be cheap, but "safe", seriously?

Chernobyl? 200 thousand square kilometers affected. Then, maybe that happened because it's a former communist country, right.
Is Japan, perhaps, industrial enough? Fukushima, cough?

The REAL negative thing about nuclear power is, that it's too damn RISKY to run the damn things. Benefits are not worth it (for many people, including me), THAT'S why it's being shut down in many countries.

There ARE better alternatives, in the first half of 2014 30% (thirty percent, yep) of electricity in Germany was generated using renewable sources (mainly wind, biogas and solar). (up from 6.3% in 2000)

They don't plan to stop at it either, current goals in Germany:
Renewable electricity - 40 to 45% by 2025, 55 to 60% by 2035, and 80% by 2050

There are countries which are far ahead. For instance Sweden was at 50% back in 2005.

I'm glad you didn't mention iPad. Remember the expensive devices Microsoft was pushing in late 90th?

For me, and I'm pretty sure for most owners of the pocket PC's in early 2000-s transition from "Pocket PC" => "Pocket PC + Phone" was more than obvious.
The only thing that was missing, was cheap enough tech.
Apple was not the only company working on it.

Multi-touch => pitch to zoom and the likes is obvious too, we had that back in 90th.

Musk, however, managed to create electric car market, when car manufacturers were saying, nah, maybe a decade later.

Lower crime rates, mandatory health insurance, larger middle class.

Well, yeah, but it's still a valid concern.
Weightlessness is a major problem, muscle atrophy, skeleton deterioration, both at rapid rate.

So Porsche, which sells about 80 000 cars annually, is "a fringe brand"? Seriously?

What makes F35 better or faster than F22?

Less than a half of "South Ossetia" was within joint Russo-Georgian peacekeeping forces mandate, so very kind of Russians to stop at the borders of entire "South Ossetia" a "country" with whopping 35 thousand population, which was offered wide autonomy and vice-president position with veto rights by Georgian authorities.

About 27 thousand Georgian internally displaced persons certainly appreciate the kindness of Russians.

I'm pretty sure they've also welcomed recent bulldozing their houses on "liberated" territory, it's certainly was done just to build new, more comfortable houses for them and not to cement ethnic cleansing.

Or, say, Abkhazia, with pre-war population 97 thousand Abkhazians and 246 thousand Georgians, no wonder Georgians wanted to flee the territory to let it become Russian protectorate.

No, it it doesn't necessarily end with "healthier content" unless you consider "dead" to be a healthy state.

Care to name all those "small countries" which are "broke anyway" dear friend?

Putin cannot use nukes in the Ukraine, even Russia's skilled propaganda machine won't be able to justify it.
He can't stop the West from arming Ukraine.
He can't prevail militarily in a county with 46 million people, which used to have 1 million men army back in USSR times, if it gets support from the West.