Timeline for Did a Soviet nail factory produce useless nails to improve metrics?
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| Nov 18 at 13:19 | comment | added | phoog | @MarchHo indeed, the assumption in this answer that the cartoon is the origin of the story is entirely unwarranted. It's perfectly likely that the cartoon was drawn to illustrate (and to make a joke of by exaggeration) a true story of a factory producing only large nails because of the way its performance was measured. | |
| Nov 15 at 13:16 | comment | added | DavePhD | does this version have any additional information about nails? : b.itemimg.com/i/275727241.2.jpg | |
| Sep 6, 2015 at 23:15 | comment | added | March Ho | -1 This does not actually answer the question. It cites a joke cartoon, but the cartoon itself has nothing to do with whether such a factory existed or not. | |
| Jul 18, 2014 at 17:47 | comment | added | user7920 | Add all this information to your answer. Your current answer throws in a link to a PDF, the noteworthiness of which has not been established, then a joke, and then concludes that "Of course the problem was indeed real". | |
| Jul 18, 2014 at 16:29 | comment | added | user20862 | Sorry, for my lack of clarity. :) Do you mean in the last sentence that this actually occurred? | |
| Jul 18, 2014 at 16:27 | comment | added | szarka | Tsvetelin M. Tsonevski has kindly provided me with the following translation of the text in the cartoon: The worker asks: "Who needs this nail?" and the factory bureaucrat answers "This is irrelevant. It's important that we fulfilled the plan immediately." | |
| Jul 18, 2014 at 15:57 | comment | added | user20862 | Please improve the clarity of the last sentence. | |
| Jul 18, 2014 at 5:20 | history | edited | Oddthinking♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2014 at 4:57 | history | answered | szarka | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
