[batter]

'second biggest industrial power' assume this is a joke. Poor quality: anything that was made was so bad, this habit is still alive and even russians hate their own products. Stealing: ancient car designs and engineering is good example. And as you know it never improved. Millions of lives were taken to achieve nonsense goals, people were starved, frozen, deprevated from food. What kind of human you have to be justify that? Well, but it didn't touch you or your family, so it's fine. Lets continue glorifying crazy stuff, we're just engineers, right?

[skhr0680]

I have a Soviet camera lens built for the domestic market (so worse quality) from the 80s and its build and optical quality is fine. It doesn’t compare to similar vintage lenses from Japan but was much cheaper new at the time.

[anthk]

Japan in the 60's and early 70ś produced the same crap or worse than the Soviets, similar to Chinese clones for hardware today. Later in the 70's and the 80's they produced amazing hardware.

[maydup-nem]

Soviet products might not have been very pretty, but they were made with durability and, indeed, quality in mind. The electrical components from the Soviet era are still working. Any mechanical/metallic stuff is very solid.

Yeah, designs were utilitarian. And they had to make a million of everything. But there was no good reason to aim for low quality.

Counter that with any product of capitalism, huh: buy a shiny thing and wait for it to break in 2 years.

Not trying to glorify communism, but what you said in your comment is complete bullshit mixed with questionable sentiment.