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>>18328155
America did steal Nazi tech, both of them did, neither side actually invented anything and america ultimately fell behind Russia and China completely.

Blessed Vladimir Putin

>>18328155
You need a well regulated economy (in a Second Amendment's sense) to actually produce stuff. The Soviets stealing western plans would have as much use of them as Australian Aborigines stealing plans on nuclear aircraft carriers.

they did though? they stole everything that wasn't nailed down.

>>18328486
This
Communism can’t truly produce anything since under communism all output is directed at the central party rather than society

>>18328155
In some regards the Soviets didn't need to, on a tactical level much of their equipment was on even grounds or superior to the American Counterpart (Small-Arms, Tanks and at first IFV's before America closed the gap). They just lost their head-start because technological blueprints are meaningless when your work force comprises of unqualified and/or unmotivated workers. You can't just tell a factory to build something, even if you have the technology. Engineering is much more sophisticated, down to the very screw which keeps together the machinery. With ever progressing technology, the microlevel became more important. The specs of a vehicle don't matter when you don't know how to properly produce high-quality metal, when resources for production are distributed wrongly, when corrupt overheads cover up the flaws and when Workers are not hired on merit.
That may have worked when they were fighting a weaker enemy with foreign help at a time where quantity was more important during WW2, but the Cold war wasn't that.

>>18328155
it did it just wasn't able to produce it

>>18328155
Tech doesn't work the way it does in a videogame OP. Especially for modern, high tech, military and industrial equipment each one requires vast numbers of incredibly complex and hard to produce components to work; components that modern day Russia (never mind Cold War era Russia) absolutely cannot/could not produce, even in small numbers.

They could get hold of every single blueprint and research document ever generated in the West, and it would only be able to show them how far behind they were.

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I was typing a response to the OP for a long time and just now noticed the idea I wanted to communicate is already in the thread almost word for word. (>>18328155)