Kharkovchanka

"Kharkovchanka" - The Colossal Soviet Antarctic Cruisers
Some people like to make things, some people like to talk, some people like to play in the sand. Doesn't really seem to matter whether they live in a totalitarian dictatorship or the land of the free wage slaves. The more I think about it, the more impressed I am by what the Soviets managed to accomplish. For the USA, they were the only power on Earth that was even worth worrying about. They managed to maintain arms parity for 40 years, until their whole house of cards collapsed. Their engineers and mechanics were carried on the backs of the proletariat, something like we do here, just the Soviets didn't care whether they ground the peasants into the ground. We at least pretend to care.