Re:How English beat German as the language of science
by leoc on Monday October 13, 2014 @05:51PM
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Yes. The Soviets largely manufactured (and designed) their own combat vehicles, but everything from trucks on down came in vast quantities from the US. Meanwhile the mighty Wehrmacht was still mostly horse-drawn.
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Re:How English beat German as the language of science
by orbifold on Monday October 13, 2014 @09:13PM
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That was probably also because they did not really have a reliable source of fuel once the US gave up neutrality, beyond a synthetic one via coal, in fact I believe both the failure to capture the oil fields in Africa and beyond Stalingrad led to a faster defeat.