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That is quite harsh. While no credible consumer goods requiring complex manufacture or design come from the former USSR area (except of Baltics which retained p
by fsloth 5y ago
That is quite harsh. While no credible consumer goods requiring complex manufacture or design come from the former USSR area (except of Baltics which retained pre-soviet spirit) to this day, the industrial complex managed to create quit a lot of ... industrial
stuff that they managed to sell around the world.
Some well known examples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAZ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAZ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_(rocket_family) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_(rocket_family)
And of course the list would not be complete without:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalashnikov_rifle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalashnikov_rifle
- pantulis 5y agoAnd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lada_Niva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lada_Niva
- helge9210 5y agoMost of the stuff in your list was basically produced manually in very small quantities. UAZ/AK would be an exception, but they were unusable without careful selection or manually manufactured replacement parts.
- fsloth 5y agoWhile inefficient, the system did create complex things that worked more or less as advertized - which is quite far from the the claim that the system could not make anything real or worthwhile. It's just not a very good system.
- helge9210 5y agoThere was a joke in Soviet Union: Americans stole plans for super secret soviet stealth fighter. Every time Lockheed-Martin engineers try to replicate the design according to documentation they end up building steam engine. So Americans kidnap one of the Soviet engineers to help them to decipher the design. Once he sees the documents he points at the small remark at the very end: to get the desired device after building a steam engine shape it manually with a file. This joke is a pretty accurate description of the state of precision manufacturing capabilities of USSR. Manually created single prototype is not a "complex thing that worked".
- seanw444 5y agoThe Kalashnikov rifle family is undoubtedly the most common weapon platform in the world (even if only having a slight edge in numbers over the AR platform). They made a lot of them. And they were quite effective. I'm no USSR shill, but credit must be given where due.
- rsj_hn 5y agoKalashnikovs were great. Many Russian things were great -- mathematicians, physicists, composers, attack helicopters, etc.
- helge9210 5y ago
- artem247 5y agoSU produced a lot of airplanes, both military and for civil use. If that's not an example of complicated industry, I don't know what is then. And with 'modern' capitalism in Ukraine Antonov aircraft factory is as good as dead.