Sinoviet honestly sounds more like a combination of Sino (meaning China) and Soviet (meaning workers council in Russian, but more affiliated with the Soviet Union).
Sinoviet honestly sounds more like a combination of Sino (meaning China) and Soviet (meaning workers council in Russian, but more affiliated with the Soviet Union).
The trivia section of the Sinoviet Heavy Machinery article on this wiki actual has an explanation for it, with Sino indeed meaning China and Viet actually being another name for Vietnam.
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