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It certainly was, by an American named J. Walter Christie, in America, for the U.S. Army. But he was, as engineers go, a starving artist, and didn't have enough money to bribe the government to buy his design. Which was SOP at the time; just look at how much the government paid GM to develop the lackluster Allison V-1610, and at how Sloan's GM treated politicians at the time.
Desperate for cash during the Depression to survive, Christie went shopping for buyers for the design, and found one in Stalin. Perhaps the dictator was motivated by a feeling that he was stealing something from the U.S. Army. In any case, he very rarely made a better investment.
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