00:00To improve the skills of Red Engineers, a magazine called American Technology and Industry was
00:04published, and of course, the company's employees did not neglect industrial espionage.
00:09For example, with the onset of the Great Depression, Ford representative Charles Sorenson came to
00:14Soviet Russia and, after visiting the Putilov plant, was surprised to discover that Ford
00:18mechanics there were illegally assembling American tractors, which rolled out of the
00:22plant under the Krasny Putilovitz brand. Unfortunately, the workers were unable to
00:26reproduce all the Ford parts, and the quality of the Soviet copies was much worse than the American
00:30originals. But the government was extremely determined to carry out an industrial revolution
00:35in the country. Therefore, in 1928, a group of Moscow engineers came to Detroit and made a
00:39proposal to the company Albert Kahn Associates, Inc. to design industrial buildings and to train
00:44Soviet specialists in this field for the astronomical sum of $2 billion at that time. Today, that would
00:50be about $250 billion. For Albert Kahn, who was essentially the father of Detroit industry,
00:56this was the largest contract of his career, and of course he agreed. So in 1928, he was
01:01in Moscow, the brilliant designer of Ford factories, the head and owner of the largest design company
01:06in the world, which could develop documentation for a plant of any scale and then provide the
01:10entire cycle of production and construction.
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