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The issue was not individual factories,

September 11 2011 at 4:37 PM		Ed Gilbert  (Login oscar_gilbert)
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Response to T-34 Production standards
it was national philosophy.

As Stalin said, "Quantity has a quality all its own". All Soviet factories were using huge numbers of unskilled and semi-skilled laborers to manufacture a product that was only as good as it had to be to get the job done. Workmanship slowed production. And why bother to manufacture a highest-quality product with such a short life-expectancy?

You also saw this in US production. The emphasis was on producing LOTS of a serviceable product. I grew up in a city where foundries were a major industry (two of my uncles were foundry managers), and the workmanship on the average M4 series castings would have gotten a lot of people sacked in the 1950s and 1960s. But the M4s were good enough, and by Stalin's dictum, superior to the vaunted German tanks.

 
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