tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030145265861917845.post9179629894823090247..comments2024-03-28T14:35:30.147-04:00Comments on Tank Archives: The Golden StandardPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09622237223229485503noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030145265861917845.post-903167291792349952019-09-30T09:49:51.740-04:002019-09-30T09:49:51.740-04:00Oh, definitely. It was bad timing: 37-38 was the h...Oh, definitely. It was bad timing: 37-38 was the height of Stalin's paranoia and any perceived slight had a good chance of becoming lethal. Many high ranking AFV designers and administrators were arrested and executed for sabotage, even though we now know that anything they built was as good if not better than what was being built in the West.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09622237223229485503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030145265861917845.post-34825590199306201462019-09-29T21:28:53.463-04:002019-09-29T21:28:53.463-04:00Peter perhaps you misunderstood me. My point was t...Peter perhaps you misunderstood me. My point was that despite mistreatment, Stalin had no shortage of pro Westerners moving to the Soviet Union with visions of a Communist Utopia in their heads. The T-29 was as good as anything being built in Europe or America. A few years of use could of ironed out the mechanical bugs. The designers did not need to be punished with death and prison. Imagine a world where in 1965 in response to the market success of the Ford Mustang, the designers of the Plymouth Barracuda or Chevy Nova feared being sent to jail for producing a inferior product. Not that I felt the Plymouth was inferior. I loved my black 64 Valiant convertible with push button automatic.Sager ,William A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06830369127449299646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030145265861917845.post-70987678131211502472019-09-29T13:01:03.096-04:002019-09-29T13:01:03.096-04:00By the time Stalin's big purging period kicked...By the time Stalin's big purging period kicked off in '36 the USSR was already largely past the point where they needed to bootstrap their technology and industry with foreign consultants anyway.Kellomieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04915110653443066212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030145265861917845.post-44093345882298989382019-09-29T00:20:10.044-04:002019-09-29T00:20:10.044-04:00The experience wasn't poor because nobody woul...The experience wasn't poor because nobody would come to the USSR, far from it. The Soviets paid well, it's just that nobody in the world really had any idea what a proper medium tank is supposed to look like. That's why the T-28, strange as it was, ended up as the most numerous medium tank of the interwar period.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09622237223229485503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030145265861917845.post-65902200285327990722019-09-28T20:51:13.722-04:002019-09-28T20:51:13.722-04:00Experience with attracting foreign designers was p...Experience with attracting foreign designers was poor. Classic understatement. Considering the number of citizens and foreigners who were jailed as a insurance policy it is a wonder as many Communist zealots did move to the Soviet Union. As for the T-29 it seemed average for it's day. Perhaps a little faster than most tanks of it's size. But it is easy to see why the Russia eventually chose the sloped armor T-34. The designers of the T-29 may have failed but they didn't deserve their fate. Sager ,William A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06830369127449299646noreply@blogger.com