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most of the inventions occured in 1800's. Communism is quite a new phenomenon-say after Russian Revolution of 1917. They beleive in manufacturing rather then inventing. Look at your computer or Cell Phone or Television-all are Made in China.
you must have been asleep for asking such a lame question - hope you don't hear an AK-47 gun sound in your neighbourhood- wait a minute it was invented in a communist country!
Yes but they stole the design from the Germans......
We need a proper distinction between engineering and invention, here.
The Soviet space program, for instance, came up with a lot of technological developments, some of which probably would qualify as proper inventions, but I am not enough of a rocket scientist to discern "smart engineering" from "brand new invention".
Somewhat trivial: The basic cam device used for climbing - great, useful piece of safety gear - was invented by a Soviet climber.
Yes but they stole the design from the Germans......
I am nut a gun nut by any stretch of the imagination, but that is simply not the case. They look superficially alike, but the mechanisms (tilting bolt vs. rotating bolt), the way they're disassembled and the arrangement of the safety and fire mode selector are completely different.
Kalashnikov has been cited as saying that he was looking to build a weapon based on proven engineering, so the AK-47 has DNA from any number of past weapons. And so has the StG44, there was nothing technically groundbreaking about a carbine with full-auto capability - it was just that no one had found a reason to field one operationally before.
Howcome it seems like virtually EVERYTHING was invented in the U.S., over the past century? Are there any major notable inventions that were invented in another country, over the past 100 years? In particular, communist nations? I can't think of a single invention from a communist nation, such as the USSR or Cuba.
The interstate highway system. It was created by Hitler(Well, he took credit for it) and called it the Autobahn. That is how we based our highways including our 4 leaf clover exits. Hitler was a POS, but he at least had ideas to fuel Germany's economy that actually worked.
The interstate highway system. It was created by Hitler(Well, he took credit for it) and called it the Autobahn. That is how we based our highways including our 4 leaf clover exits. Hitler was a POS, but he at least had ideas to fuel Germany's economy that actually worked.
Yeah, too many people today seem to put all the big bogey men "isms" together: liberalism, fascism, communism--it's all the same thing for many Americans and they will not listen to the distinctions. For most, these isms are all bad and hence, are all the same. Hitler and Stalin and LBJ were all best friends, who vacationed at Il Duce's summer retreat and sipped cognac with mafia bosses.
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- hope you don't hear an AK-47 gun sound in your neighbourhood- wait a minute it was invented in a communist country!
