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By the late 1970s, the true failure of the Soviet economic invasion became glaringly evident. Data from 1975 revealed a stark reversal: the USSR, which had aimed to penetrate Western markets en masse, was instead importing American agricultural machinery at a staggering 90-to-1 ratio compared to its exports to the West. The USSR exported only $900,000 worth of tractors to North America, whereas it imported $80 million worth of Western equipment.