Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "PeriscopeFilm"
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By 1934, the US Gov knew that war was coming, which is why a new bomber was called for. Germany was already building up a war machine, Italy was changing, and Japan had its eyes set upon China.
In the book, Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision, by R. Wohlstetter, the US knew that the nation would be attacked by Japan, but they didn't know the target. At the time, they thought the target would be the Philippines. The Ambassador to Japan, Joseph Grew, had forewarned Washington that an attack was imminent, but the target was not known. This attack was even kept secret from the Japanese Embassy in DC, so Japan's own ambassador didn't know when it would come. He was still trying to negotiate when the orders came to destroy their records.
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They do get it a bit wrong about where the ideas and thoughts about creating the US came from by stating it was France. It was mostly from England, as John Locke was English, and so was Adam Smith and Thomas Hobbes. Our entire government is a copy of the one at Westminster, except we changed the names of the chambers, and have an elected president, though some wanted to make George Washington a monarch at first. Our House of Representatives is their House of Commons, and our Senate is their House of Lords. We used the nomenclature of the Romans to rename everything.
Who they're referring to in France was Rousseau, Voltaire, and Montesquieu, and they were thought of as radicals during the founding of the US, though some of their ideas were adopted, especially later on.
Kant was another, and he was from Königsberg (now Kaliningrad). However, they adopted more from Locke than Kant.
Of course, this was made during FDR's days in office, so you can excuse what is stated, as it even mentions the Soviet Union as a "great experiment."
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Inventors of 70s fashion, the bikini, and, uh, well, the see-through rainbow dress.
The Kibbutzim that are left are about gone and have changed dramatically. I was watching a documentary, where they stated that when they allowed the people to have televisions, and they learned of life outside the kibbutz in Israel, the capitalist lifestyle, that many of their children became fed up with the communal life and wanted out. Now, the people own their own homes, cars, and other things, which they didn't before. The first settlers in the Kibbutzim didn't own anything, even their clothes. Everything was owned by the Kibbutz and shared communally.
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The Europeans have a better name for an electron tube, and that is a valve. In fact, all tubes, from a diode to a pentode, act like valves. The diode acts like a check valve, and the triode to the pentode acts like a hand or pressure controlled valve, where the grid is the handle that opens or closes the valve when a voltage (pressure) is applied.
This was taught under “water theory,” which was what the US military taught at one time, to simplify electricity and electronics. As a matter of fact, Georg Ohm merely used the existing hydraulic equations for liquid pressure and flow, to create Ohm's Law, where he noticed that electricity flows like a liquid through a circuit. Pressure equals voltage, and current equals amperage. Both hydraulics and electricity encounters resistance in the flow, thus the third part of the equation.
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@johnp139 Ford built, in a co-op project, the huge GAZ (Gorky) automobile plant. GM was also there before the end, and so were others through the depression before that. They did this as they were building up Germany as well.
"In May 1929, the Soviet Union signed an agreement with the American Ford Motor Company. Under its terms, the Soviets agreed to purchase $13 million worth of automobiles and parts, while Ford agreed to give technical assistance until 1938 to construct an integrated automobile-manufacturing plant at Nizhny Novgorod. The factory was founded and production started on 1 January 1932."
"In 1929, due to a rapidly growing demand for automobiles and in cooperation with its trade partner, the Ford Motor Company, the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy established GAZ."
Source: Wikipedia
"Mikhail Gorbachev may know about this chapter of Soviet-American relations; the Soviet press and historians have publicly forgotten it. But in any case, Gorbachev seems determined to repeat it. Perestroika without American technical and managerial input is probably no more conceivable to him than was a socialist future without Fordism and Taylorism to Lenin. Likewise, many Americans do not know about one of the most remarkable episodes of technology transfer in history. The American engineers, architects, and industrialists who helped build the productive base of communist Russia swept the record under the rug.
"In the 1920s the cream of American firms involved with automobiles, electricity, and workplace management were eager to sell the state of their art—give or take a few years—to the “Reds,” despite powerful anticommunist voices on the right. The Soviets were ready to buy, despite their aversion to capitalism. (They distinguished, as many Americans cannot even today, between America’s history-shaping means of production and our free-enterprise economic superstructure.) The United States had never enjoyed greater worldwide respect—or envy—than after World War I. The Soviets believed that the American system of production could consolidate the Bolshevik Revolution."
Source: American Heritage: How America Helped Build The Soviet Machine
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@jacksons1010 Deny it all you want, but everything about this history is held at the Hoover Institute at Stanford. Much of it was written about by a British academic that moved to the states, Antony C. Sutton, who taught at the California State University.
"At the Hoover Institution, he wrote the study Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development (in three volumes), arguing that the West played a major role in developing the Soviet Union from its beginnings until the then-present year of 1970. Sutton argued that the Soviet Union's technological and manufacturing base, which was then engaged in supplying North Vietnam during the Vietnam War, was built by United States corporations and largely funded by US taxpayers. Steel and iron plants, the GAZ automobile factory, a Ford subsidiary in eastern Russia, and many other Soviet industrial enterprises were built with the help or technical assistance of the United States government or US corporations. He argued further that the Soviet Union's acquisition of MIRV technology was made possible by receiving (from US sources) machining equipment for the manufacture of precision ball bearings, necessary to mass-produce MIRV-enabled missiles."
The Internet Archive has all three volumes of: Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development, 1917–1930.
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