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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism Another soviet science myth, which basically obliterated their potential for livestock/crops for so many damned years. As it turns out, blind obedience to 'science' is a bad idea, QUESTION EVERYTHING.

To my knowledge the Alfa class was never really designed to stay around long enough for that to happen, so once they shut off, they stayed off. You could in theory restart a metal cooled reactor but...Good luck with that! Afraid I haven't heard of that rumor, but knowing Soviet quality...

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh so about that. Some of their titanium hulled submarines are exceptional boats, from a performance standpoint. But in the case of the Alfa class, if their reactors ever turn off, the entire submarine is bricked and the reactor has to be replaced, due to the fact it's cooled by...

To be fair the KV had a 76mm cannon, while the Matilda 2 had a 40mm.

I think it's seriously hurt them in the long run however, many of their models have greater armor than Western tanks...In claims. In practice it seems their glacis plates can be penetrated due to lack of LOS thickness, and with no bustle all the ammo has to be thrown about randomly inside the...

T-43 was pretty radical as well, it had more armor than the T-34M, also had torsion bars, and so on. Unless I am mistaken it's hull shape was more different to the baseline T-34, than the T-34M was.

They kinda did, and they kinda didn't. They revolutionized tank design in several places, but the West always caught up and ended up doing it better. They also kept on doing "T-55 with improvements!" all the way up to the T-90, with only a handful of unique prototypes going away from the...

Another example of the T-34 being bad just from a design standpoint. Crew compartment fuel tanks. Okay, not exactly the WORST idea, notice modern western tanks have many fuel tanks in the front/sides of the tank. But notice they have splinter-proof plating behind them with the intention of...

Truth is a lot of tanks were like that, when the total size of a tank must be kept to a minimum to maintain weight/reliability, crew comfort is never exceptional. Sherman was very well designed from an ergonomic standpoint, good space for crew, hatches for every crew member, and the hatches...

Frankly once the tides turned and Germany was on the backfoot, production of the T-34M should've been made. Continued usage of such a flawed design is nothing but barbarism towards the fighting men, treating them like expendable numbers. Even Germany's last-ditch projects like the Hetzer showed...

In that case you would be incorrect I'm afraid. With mass production you want simple, reliable, and easy to develop. T-34 was not simple, was not reliable, and was challenging to upgrade. I'm not a huge fan of the Sherman but it ticks all three of those boxes. With WW2 tanks you primarily...

One set of 'commie' myths I dislike is the praise for the T-34. Once you study tank design you start to notice things about the tank which just are plain silly, things which aren't even related to cost or production requirements. Like the Panther and it's famously bad setup of optics. Hurt the...

Considering the after-ww2 "Num half of Europe" thing the Soviets did, Hitler doesn't seem to have been completely wrong in attacking the Soviets.

You're neglecting how much shit they were handed over for free. In terms of pairs of boots alone they got 15 MILLION. 92% of railroad production was foreign. 30% of their planes weren't Soviet. 33% Trucks were American. We're talking about an army where without lend lease, it would've been less...

Logistics are going to be far less of a concern for the Germans when the Russians equally lose a comical amount of logistics without the infinite trucks America sent them.

Can't say anything about alt history politics, but I can say that I really dislike the 'Russia won the war for the allies' myth. On the whole, America with its 'Infinite production' cheatcode won the war.

The Eastern Front was a complete meatgrinder but the Russians were propped up by lend-lease by several nations, and the Germans had to ensure their Western gains were secure. Make Britain/America peace out/go neutral and Russia gets its head caved in by the Germans. It'll still be VERY messy...