Stalin taught us, economic managers, to treat the projects and proposals of "outsiders" with utmost attention, to encourage the technical creativity of the masses in every possible way and to achieve something. Of course, inventors and rationalizers, especially those who went against the official line, were in the 30 and 40 years. not very easy - lovers of "quiet life" and then missed at all levels. But, at least, departmental and scientific institutions fought effectively and efficiently in those years with conservatism, inertia, “group egoism”, incomparably less of this abomination. The situation when many of the most important and valuable discoveries and inventions have been on the shelf for decades, and their authors have been subjected to sophisticated harassment and humiliation from departments and scientific institutions pursuing the self-interested interests, in those years I imagine unthinkable. Even in the early stages, volunteers would be exposed to “sabotage” - and, in fact, it is such - with all the unpleasant consequences for them. Honestly, when you read today's newspapers describing the ordeals of the modern Kulibins and the Polzunovs, you inevitably think that the old method is ultimately more useful and "more humane" for the country than endless exhortations and appeals to the "party conscience" from the highest tribunes ...
