When German troops, engineers, and factory foremen came to Russia two years prior under a two-year contract to bring the nation's industry and production up to spec, nobody expected them to achieve so much in so little time.
But now, in the autumn of 1918, Russia was producing submarines, destroyers, aircraft, armor, and small arms — not only in line with the most advanced weaponry in the German arsenal, but also at similar production figures.
If Germany produced 100 E-25 series Panzer IIs in a month, then Russia produced 75. If Germany launched one U-boat every four months per dockyard, then Russia did the same.
And that was before one even began talking about the joint-development research the two nations had undertaken. Whether in nuclear physics, advanced chemistry, medicine, or engineering fields of all kinds, the two empires were rapidly solving their greatest challenges — and ushering in a new age of technology.
