Use of foreigners in the 5 year plans
- Created by: Ella_Richardson
- Created on: 17-10-16 18:06
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- USE OF FOREIGNERS
- American Henry Ford advised on the car industry, training Russian engineers in the USA
- The Dam project used experience gained from HEP stations in Canada
- Moscow Metro construction relied on British engineers
- At a time of depression, communism attracted normal labourers to Russia
- Foreigners were sometimes looked upon with suspicion and it was easy to scapegoat them when things went wrong
- Foreigners and experts could speed up indust. but they still didn't meet targets
- Politically, Stalin had less control over his people as foreigners had more economic control
- The ideology was compromised as foreigners doing the work of Russians was against it, however, it did mean more people were experiencing communism
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