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The US resettled 1,600 German scientists and engineers in the U.S. through Operation Paperclip, a boon to its nascent rocket program. The Soviets relocated 2,000 scientists and engineers to Russia. Did the Soviets get as much value from "their Germans" as the US got from theirs?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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