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Russia's bribing this JACKASS seems to have finally paid off for the Soviets.

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Russia still outproduces all of NATO in artillery shells, tanks, etc.

Without a qualitative measure, those numbers are nearly meaningless. It's also worthwhile knowing how much of that materiel actually gets to the front lines. Command economies are notorious about claiming to hit production targets, yet nothing actually changing downstream. Nobody wants to tell the boss they missed their production quota, since doing so can lead to defenestration.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They are certainly of lower quality, but in the words of Stalin, "Quantity has a quality of its own".

[–] Twig@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

I don't think Stalin actually said that. I can't find a good source anyway.