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Ford sold the complete factory to the Soviet Union in 1928, building Ford Model A cars and AA trucks. They were also being made and used in England, France, Germany and Hungary. This continued during and after WWII. Other vehicles made by International Harvester, Studebaker, Packard, and many other American manufacturers were sold(complete factories) to the Soviets. And much later, in 1972, the Fiat 124(Lada)
Anyone curious about detailed information, you can read "Western Technology And Soviet Economic Development" by Antony Sutton.
The T-34 tank with Christie suspension was pretty much an American tank, and the Soviets took a 1926 BMW aviation V12 block and made it into a diesel for the T-34

Igor Sikorsky had left in 1919, and the soviets had almost no indigenous industry. Post WWII Mig-15 was actually designed by Siegfried Gunther, who along with 6000 engineers and scientists had to go to the Soviet Union(Werner Von Braun came to the US as part of Operation Paperclip)The engine was the Rolls Royce Nene, which then they copied and improved
Only gradually by the late 80's and into the post soviet period in 1991 did the new Russian Federation achieve industrial independence-






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