World War II Shanghai Russian Immigrant Industrial Base

Before 1930s, Russia was a huge country, but its industrialization level could not be compared with that of western European countries. Although czar Peter the Great realized this gap long ago and made every effort to promote Russia's industrial reform, it was nearly a hundred years later than the industrial revolution in other western European countries. Therefore, in the eyes of countries such as Britain, France and Germany, Russia is just a huge but not powerful country.

Entering the Soviet period, while the Soviet Union was fully promoting the industrial development of the Soviet Union, World War II broke out, which caused a devastating blow to the whole Soviet Union. The bitter Soviet-German war wiped out many important cities in Europe, the core of the Soviet Union, and made the Soviet Union worse than Britain and France. However, people still feel that in World War II, the Soviet Union not only became stronger in the Vietnam War, but also quickly became a world power after the war.

Then the problem comes, the foundation is not as good as Britain and France, and it was destroyed by World War II. Why did the Soviet Union become a world superpower on a par with the United States so quickly after the war?

After the Soviet Union took control of the Soviet regime, it spent more than 20 years concentrating on national construction and devoted itself wholeheartedly to domestic construction. Before World War II, the Soviet Union had implemented a five-year plan at 1928, striving to build the whole country into a brand-new socialist country. The Soviet Union stepped up its construction. From 1929 to 1933, global capitalism broke out in an economic crisis and fell into the Great Depression.

The economic crisis sweeping the capitalist countries forced many factories to go bankrupt. In order to alleviate the crisis, the United States, Britain and other countries have to sell industrial equipment at low prices. Western European countries are in crisis and life is difficult. The Soviet Union seized this opportunity and bought the most advanced machinery and equipment in the world at that time. At the same time, a large number of talents from capitalist countries were absorbed by immigrants and moved to the Soviet Union.

According to authoritative statistics, the industrial machinery and equipment purchased by the Soviet Union occupied 30% of the world market in 193 1 year. 1932, the Soviet Union's purchasing power of industrial equipment reached 50% of the world's, and almost half of the machines in the United States and Britain were exported to the Soviet Union. Moreover, as many as 65,438+million technical engineers immigrated from the United States to the Soviet Union. Nearly 25% of the foreign experts employed in the heavy industry sector of the Soviet Union are from the United States. It can be seen that the Soviet Union not only worked hard by itself, but also seized the historical opportunity of the world economic crisis, quickly made up for the industrial shortcomings and shortcomings of the agricultural powers, and even surpassed the capitalist industrial powers in many fields.

Also, the czar liked to collect gold and deposit it in the state treasury during the Russian period, which made the Soviet Union have almost 30% of the world's gold reserves. When the economic crisis broke out, the Soviet Union used gold to buy the most advanced industrial equipment in the world and vigorously developed its own economy. Moreover, the Soviet Union has a vast territory, and no country can match the reserves of natural resources. This is also one of the important reasons why the Soviet Union can quickly restore its productive forces after the war, and when other countries are exhausted after the war, the Soviet Union can quickly rise to become a global superpower.

Although World War II made the Soviet Union pay a heavy price, it also won high international prestige and was recognized by the whole world. The bloody battle between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in Europe once contained more than 90% of Nazi Germany's troops. It can be said that the Soviet Union contributed to the final demise of Nazi Germany. This not only makes the Soviets proud, but also makes revolutionaries all over the world pay more attention to the Soviet Union. The growing influence of the Soviet Union promoted the formation of Soviet superpower status.

Therefore, the Soviet Union can quickly become a superpower after the war, which is inseparable from its earlier industrial reform, 20 years of concentrated construction, rich resources and economic crisis.

Then there is the great power of the Soviet Union. World War II made the Soviet Union pay a heavy price of 27 million deaths, but forged a powerful army with excellent equipment, rich operational experience and good combat effectiveness. This army was almost invincible after its defeat at the beginning of the Soviet-German war. It is with such a powerful army that the status of the Soviet Union rose sharply and its influence expanded outward. Eventually, Eastern Europe and some Central European regions were included in its sphere of influence, and the Eastern Group was established, which laid the foundation for the Soviet Union to become a superpower in Europe and even the world.