Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:39:22 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

Still, those stories of German businessmen meeting with their U.S.
counterparts in New York in 1940 are a bit chilling.

https://www.americanheritage.com/how-america-helped-build-soviet-machine

"In the 1920s the cream of American firms involved with automobiles,
electricity, and workplace management were eager to sell the state of
their art—give or take a few years—to the “Reds,” despite powerful
anticommunist voices on the right. The Soviets were ready to buy, despite
their aversion to capitalism. (They distinguished, as many Americans
cannot even today, between America’s history-shaping means of production
and our free-enterprise economic superstructure.) The United States had
never enjoyed greater worldwide respect—or envy—than after World War I.
The Soviets believed that the American system of production could
consolidate the Bolshevik Revolution."

https://it.usembassy.gov/america-sent-gear-to-the-ussr-to-help-win-world-
war-ii/

Which was the evil empire depended only on who lost the war.