when and how did the Soviet Army learn the new technology enough to build tank factories, etc in the Urals?

Question

how much aid or help did they get from the USA? and is it true what some "conspiracy historians" (such as Anthony ?? ((cannot remember last name )) writes ) that Henry Ford, in person, or his engineers traveled to Russia to help them establish their tank factories, etc..as well as General Motors and General Electric sent their engineers to help them set up these factories?

why the US goverment would have allowed this,,especially since they were so concerened about Communism taking over the world?

please explain what you can

thansk for your answers!

Answer 1

Even before the war Western capitalist corporations and individuals were aiding Stalin in the industrialisation of Russia.



Armand Hammer, the founder of Occidental Oil, knew and dealt with every Soviet leader from Lenin to Brezhnev. During the Cuban Crisis he provided backdoor access to Kruschev for the Kennedy Administration. He made his money by getting the Russian pencil industry up and running again after the Revolution and by auctioning off Tsarist treasures in New York for Stalin.



Fords, GM, GE and UK corporations like Armstrong Vickers, went were the money was, whether it was Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia whether it was setting tractor factories in the Urals, supplying spare parts for Wehrmacht vehicles or tabulating machines that were used to facilitate the Holocaust.



Why did the US government allow this? The US government is a creature of corporate capitalism. If you think that the US government controls what the corporations do then, for a historian, you are being incredibly naive.

Answer 2

Just about all of the soviet industry was built by western engineers- especialy US ones. Ford did travel to the USSR and sold them (among others) several truck assembly lines (eg. the soviet GAZ AA and AAA designs are actually Ford trucks). The soviet T-26 tank is in reality the British Vickers 6-Ton tank and the famous T-34 (and some earlier model BT tanks) were designed by US engineer Christie



Most of the factories were built in the Siberia in the first place- not only because Stalin was paranoid but because he wanted to "develop" the empty land there. A lot of factories were moved in 1940-41 because Stalin planned to attack Hitler (and was simply beaten to the punch- so much for honour among Socialists)



In 1940 Stalin had a force of over 20000 tanks. more than double of the rest of the world- combined



As to the US government cooperation- Hitler was the present danger, who needed to be stopped NOW. Stalin was "only" a potential danger, who might still be persuaded by diplomacy. A question of priorities.

Answer 3

Richard Overy, professor of contemporary history at King's College London, said that after the war, Hitler's foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop listed three main reasons for Germany's defeat:

1.Unexpectedly stubborn resistance from the Soviet Union

2. The large-scale supply of arms and equipment from the US to the Soviet Union, under the lend-lease agreement

3. The success of the Western Allies in the struggle for air supremacy.

Because Britain and the US had to invade Europe by sea they have a sense of 'liberating' a German-conquered Europe the Soviet historians underplayed the significance of US and UK lend-lease in the Soviet Union's success, but Russia has recently shown just appreciation and now accepts how much of a difference it made. The Russians copied all the technology we supplied then improved on that by making the most of all the ex German technology that they captured too.

Answer 4

The nazis have been stunned that the supposedly inferior Russians had a miles better tank--T-34-- than they did, and in significant parts. credit for the T-34 became not in elementary terms because of designers yet to Stalin, who rightly emphasised conflict production, which incorporate tanks, to handle an eventual enemy attack. some historic works i've got viewed agree that the Germans could've made an attack on Moscow a concern. Guderian did not desire his panzer forces to be tied down sealing wallet of soviet troops in Ukraine. He and Halder wanted to sprint to Moscow, in spite of the hazards of bypassing vast enemy armies, yet Hitler favored the greater careful attitude of trapping and destroying them first. the concern, as one author placed it, became that the two perspectives have been ideal and mutually unique. There in basic terms wasn't sufficient tooth to handle this plenty enemy and enemy territory. taking pictures Moscow would not have stopped Siberian forces from accomplishing ecu Russia. it may've gained the conflict, in spite of the undeniable fact that, given the cost of Moscow as a rail hub and armament production center.

Answer 5

Antony Sutton



The Ford-Soviet Agreement was in 1929.

Answer 6

befoe the war Hitler and Stalin had a pact. German troops could train in Russian and they get war materials for new Technology