The more I think about it, the more I realize they must’ve been sabotaging their fascist masters on purpose so the Soviet Union could win.
The more I think about it, the more I realize they must’ve been sabotaging their fascist masters on purpose so the Soviet Union could win.
That’s what you get when you’re trying to run a total war economy with capitalist mode of production. Shitload of contractors, all competing for them sweet sweet government money, with no regards to efficiency of the end product or compatibility between parts
Not to mention in the dash to cut costs, almost all the companies turned to using slave labor from concentration and POW camps. Which unsurprisingly led to catastrophic rates of sabotage and purposely shoddy work, which then led to mechanical failures and tanks that had to be abandoned after not even getting to fire a shot.