That there was no Soviet V1,etc,does not mean that the V 1 production was wrong .The Germans produced the V 1/2,because they were thinking they need them,the Soviets did not need the V 1/V 2. On the other side,the Soviets had no long range bombers,which could be considered as a mistake .LWD wrote:I don't seem to recall reading about the Soviets devoting a whole lot of effort to the equivalant of the V 1, or the V 2, or the Maus. Nor were the Soviets wasting huge amounts of resources killing off some of their more productive people because they were part of the wrong "race". The Soviets also seemed to have had (at least IMO but I'm not an expert) a more realistic idea of where they were headed and what they needed to do to get there and tailored their efforts based on that. Of course I could be wrong in this and would certainly like to see more info either way.ljadw wrote:There is no proof that the SU made better use of its resources then the Germans . There were as much cooks in the SU as in Germany .steverodgers801 wrote:But you are not counting for the fact that Germany had added Czechoslovakia for 1939 production and then Poland and western Europe for 1940 and then the Soviets lost a good percentage of their production in the invasion. The Soviets clearly made better use of their resources then the Germans. There were too many cooks for Germany and no one person to organize it as there was in the Soviet Union. Add in to this the Soviets made a few basic models and didn't change things all the time as the Germans did.
The amounts the Germans used for the extermination of the German Jews,were meaningless compared to the total war expenditures,and,the German Jews who were murdered were not more productive than the average non jewish Germans .