>>11684this is some a-historical bullcrap.
Stalin tried to use all the available international resources he could, The Soviets bought oil drilling equipment from the US, and industrial machines from European industrial countries like the UK, France and Germany.
And then the capitalist press wrote
<see the communist are buying stuff from capitalists, that disproves communism.And the Soviet response was
<Lol don't care, Thanks for all the means of production.By the way the Soviets exchanged a lot of gold for machines, and some of the capitalist countries began blocking those transactions, when they realized how quickly the Soviet economy grew.