Oh, my mistake there then. A shame the USA didn't adopt it and instead went to war with the Lee/ Sherman and the terrible M3/5. I didn't realise Christie's design went as far back as the Twenties. And proximity fuses? where they discarded by the US Military and passed on openly to Soviet Russia? Perhaps they were as well.
The Soviets obtained the Christie design during the Hoover adm. when the US Army showed no interest in adopting the design.
The British also used the design in the Crusader tank.
His conduct towards Lt Cmd George Earle, an honorable officer of the USN and one who carried out his duty to the utmost was reprehensible, petty and petulant. Earle did his job as ordered and submitted his findings, all based on evidence, but FDR was so far up Stalin's ass he just didn't want anything to do with it. Churchill was concerned that his good friend was increasingly and alarmingly becoming more and more compliant to Stalin's wills but of course was powerless to do anything about it.
FDR's admin was thoroughly infiltrated by Soviet agents by the late thirties, the best example was the Christie armored vehicle suspension used on the BT tanks and later T-34 - a war winner for the Soviets - not stolen by the Russians but passed on by American sympathisers, and there were numerous other technical secrets that easily filtered through. People such as Harry Hopkins, Alger Hiss and FDR's laughable ambassador Joe E Davies were at the very least Soviet Shills, and there were many more, notably in his State Dept.
Another example of the infiltration of Soviet collaboration during the FDR years is the fantasies produced by the thoroughly indoctrinated Hollywood movie industry. Three favorites stand out and they are absolutely must watch movies, 'The North Star', 'Mission to Moscow' and 'Song of Russia'. These fabulous movies so distorted the reality of every day life of the Soviet Union that the Russians themselves couldn't help from wincing in embarrassment when viewing them. Find them somewhere and watch them, they're a treat, Red Hollywood at its finest and all given the green light under FDR's 13 years or so.
If FDR's a poster-boy president for you and many others fine, there is no dispute, but his admin had serious flaws that should not be ignored.
He saved capitalism in this country and the capitalists never forgave him for it.
They had to stop some officers from celebrating--if the crew heard of it, there'd be a riot.
FDR gave them the greatest fleet in history, but that wasn't good enough for them.
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