Just before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the country's defense industry mobilized 14 million workers in more than 6000 factories. It then produced nearly 2 new tanks each year, as well as 500 artillery pieces, 3 planes and 500 submarines, and represented 1% of industrial activity and 700% of the country's GNP. The collapse of the regime and the break-up of the Soviet Union in 9 also caused the collapse of this industrial tool while the Russian state, under Boris Yeltsin, was on the verge of bankruptcy. Many large factories were forced to stop production, and some of them, like Uralmash in Yekatarinburg, even fell into the hands of the country's mafia. Shortly after taking over the Russian presidency, Vladimir Putin however began the reorganization and modernization of this entire industrial tool, by injecting several hundreds of billions of euros into it since 80.
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