but everything they exported was a commodity

and not specialized crops

so no almonds and shit

or tomaotes. russia is a potato stan

china finally industrialized the right way in the deng xiaoping era

SLOWLY

yup

Deng really suffered all the evils of communism

china is fucked now as 1. it can't raise the standard of living much more

too much people

their labor already costs too much for totally mindless industries

and they have a rust belt

as it's easier to build a new steel plant than upgrade an old one

which is what happened in the USA and europe. USA rules for specialty steels

the japanese built new plants making better steel

chinese steel sucks

indian steel is minutely better

ussr made steel with 1930s tech

the usa had 40s-50s tech

the usa was the only country in ww2 that had a mechanized army

ussr was not mechanized but could assemble the stuff the usa sent them

the german and japanese armies were not mechanized

the british were sligtly

tanks != mechanization

the germans pretty much walked to moscow

for hte most part

that involves trucks as well

alright spergs, have fun

yeah

no trucks

the germans basically had enough MATERIEL to get to the line from Leningrad to Moscow to the Caucauses where most of Russias stuff was

urss would not have reached berlin without the lend lease.

not nealy enough stuff to CONQUER it

actually they would've fucked them in the ass probably no matter what

stalin moved all hteir production eastward which basically won the war strategically for him

there is nothing hitler could do. hitler could even take the caucauses, sieze the oil fields. what the fuck is he going to do?

he doesn't have the tankers to ship it togermany

he can't build a pipeline

he could kill every single private in the red army in 1942-43. what does that do? nothing

they hvae more being conscripted and still outnumber the germans.

the red army has better infantry tactics and training than the germans too.