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Skriven 2014-08-24 11:37:00 av TIM RICHARDSON (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JOHN GUILLORY
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On 08-23-14, JOHN GUILLORY said to TIM RICHARDSON:


-> There's probably not much of anything we ever developed that the Russians
-> didn't get hold of, disassemble, study, and develope their own `version'
-> of within six months or less. They are very smart. In fact, we obtained
-> many of their scientists during the Cold War (defectors), many of whom
-> were just as brainy, if not more so, than our own.


JG>Your making Russia sound like China...  The folks who take our
JG>technology, make a clone of it, then sell it back to us cheaper, made
JG>with poorer quallity and generally more dangerous...  Hmmm, we should
JG>let China make our M-16's!


It was Russian entrepeneurs acting independently that greatly helped
the Russians defeat Germany in WWII.


Back when the steam engine led to railroads, Russians who developed
the Russian railroads each had their own notions of doing so.


Each had their own track guage, so that only `their' railroad cars
and engines would run on `their' railroad; their cars and engines
couldn't be expropriated by another's railroad.


When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, they ran up
against that problem immediately. Rather than being able to load
armor and equipment on flat cars and transport them to far flung
battle fields....they found they had to unload off of `this' rail
line...re-load onto another rail line...which took time and
manpower.


Even getting rail gangs (slave labor) to re-guage the tracks was
not just time-consuming, it was also dangerous. Especially when
the Russian Partisans began coordinated operations.


I worked on a railroad for about 10 years out west here, and even
with modern machinery, technology, and engineering, the best we
ever did was about 10,000 feet per day. Thats less than two miles,
with pauses to allow train traffic to operate, and 30 minutes for
lunch.


I don't know what their rail situation is today, but back then
its mix-mash saved the Soviet Union from being over-run within
weeks. Not that that would have won Hitler the war; It wouldn't
have. But it would have lasted much longer in Russia.


When they obtained the A-bomb technology in the early `50's
through espionage, it was determined they were themselves
weeks away from developing it on their own. The Rosenberg's
were tried and executed for nothing. The Russians almost
already had the technology on their own.







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