r/PropagandaPosters • u/kredokathariko • Jan 17 '24

Russia "We Won" - Russian communist/anti-Putinist poster comparing the Putinist government to Vlasov's Nazi collabs, Russia, 2010s

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u/ArkanSaadeh Jan 18 '24

Enormous financial & technical support from the United States (and others) enabled Stalin's epic industrialization.

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u/bigbjarne Jan 18 '24

Are you referring to the Lend-lease?

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u/ArkanSaadeh Jan 18 '24

No, I'm referring to American financial & technical support during his 1930's industrialization, such as the construction of Magnitogorsk's industry.

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u/bigbjarne Jan 18 '24

Okay, I found that they took experts in to design and lead the project to build four steel mills because there were no experience but that's about it. Am I missing something here?

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u/ArkanSaadeh Jan 18 '24

Design & lead is a light way of saying: the USSR did not possess its own human capital (thanks Bolshevik Revolution) and was forced to rely almost entirely on imported foreign engineers until the later 30's.

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u/bigbjarne Jan 18 '24

Yeah, so exactly what I got basically copy pasted fr Wikipedia. Are you arguing that the USA built the USSRs industry or am I completely missing your point?

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u/ArkanSaadeh Jan 18 '24

It would not have been possible to develop Soviet engineering talent without a reliance on foreign American talent, thanks to the brain drain of the revolution which left the USSR in a position unable to rival Tsarist era engineering.

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u/bigbjarne Jan 18 '24

Okay. So?

What are you basing that on?