This is good, but I've asked about achievements "made in USSR" which ordinary people still use in their daily lives. Not sure that many people are using deciphered Mayan glyphs in their daily routines.
> There were no questions In Soviet Russia question marks aren't marking questions!
Sputnik was a proof of GPS concept? That's... amazing.
> excerpts from the magazine "Trud" from 13 June 1941 Those excerpts miraculously appeared only in 2013, when another wave of Russian nationalism sweeped over. Consider me suspicious. > Soviet scientists did a lot…
So, GPS wasn't invented by Soviets and nobody is listening to Soviet radiobeats. What's your point then?
And I'm still wondering about that mysterious Soviet microwave oven in 1941.
> The Obninsk power plant has been connected to a grid in 1954 Are you aware that Obninsk was a "closed" city and wasn't marked on the Soviet maps initially? So whole town was classified, among the power plant.
> Are there any? Yes. A lot. > Making iPhone copies will probably be prohibitively expensive, otherwise China will already make those in numbers. According to iPhone 7 teardown [0] there's 3x difference in components…
> it's hard to defend the idea that nothing of value can be made there So you can provide examples of those "values"? But not mythical Soviet microwave ovens in 1941, please.
I've said "scientific achievements "made in USSR" which ordinary people still use in their daily lives" So, yes, basically - commercial achievements for ordinary people.
Sure. Good luck trying to sell iPhone copies.
> The USSR's nuclear espionage helped their bomb project, but it was not essential. Definitely! They've steal US nuclear documents just for laughs, comrade!
> Everyone's smartphone listens to radio beeps to geolocate Are you telling me that Soviets invented GPS?
For stealing Western tech? Look at glorious Soviet cars, for example. Now look at glorious Soviet massframe computers.
> That is probably why USSR had nuclear weapons Blueprints stolen from USA. > and space technology _borrowed_ (wink, wink) from Germans.
Yes. But if atomic bombs were mentioned as a reason for surrender, why you're calling it a myth?
> then ended up accepting the Japanese condition anyway What?? Japan was forced to accept Allies' condition.
> The US response was to carpet bomb Japanese cities full of civilians, carpet bomb foreign cities held by Japan holding civilians and citizens of foreign nations, etc... then to top it off, they felt fully justified to…
Sorry, your defensive arguments are very weak. Like "if they had leaks related to Russia they'd publish them. But they don't. Probably because Wikileaks isn't necessary for Russian leakers" - really?
> WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical So somebody would imagine that he will publish Russian data as well, to make Russian capitalism more free and ethical...
> Why would Russia (or other anti-US entities) need to create such a climate Because they're following Soviet playbooks. And if they'll create enough FUD they will be able to freely annex neighbouring countries.
Moonbase will be a lavish boondoggle designed to blow up and then activists will argue that this boondoggle must be scraped and money redirected to world hunger/saving whales etc.
So, you're ok with Turkey and Syria being included in Europe?
USSR tried to hide all the "gory" details of WW2. For example, Babiy Yar (a place in Kiev where Germans killed tens of thousands) was a garbage dump until 1970-s. Or (which is ironic, given their "Nothing is forgotten,…
If you think that USSR "praised progress and science" for 70 years, I have some grim news for you...
This is good, but I've asked about achievements "made in USSR" which ordinary people still use in their daily lives. Not sure that many people are using deciphered Mayan glyphs in their daily routines.
> There were no questions In Soviet Russia question marks aren't marking questions!
Sputnik was a proof of GPS concept? That's... amazing.
> excerpts from the magazine "Trud" from 13 June 1941 Those excerpts miraculously appeared only in 2013, when another wave of Russian nationalism sweeped over. Consider me suspicious. > Soviet scientists did a lot…
So, GPS wasn't invented by Soviets and nobody is listening to Soviet radiobeats. What's your point then?
And I'm still wondering about that mysterious Soviet microwave oven in 1941.
> The Obninsk power plant has been connected to a grid in 1954 Are you aware that Obninsk was a "closed" city and wasn't marked on the Soviet maps initially? So whole town was classified, among the power plant.
> Are there any? Yes. A lot. > Making iPhone copies will probably be prohibitively expensive, otherwise China will already make those in numbers. According to iPhone 7 teardown [0] there's 3x difference in components…
> it's hard to defend the idea that nothing of value can be made there So you can provide examples of those "values"? But not mythical Soviet microwave ovens in 1941, please.
I've said "scientific achievements "made in USSR" which ordinary people still use in their daily lives" So, yes, basically - commercial achievements for ordinary people.
Sure. Good luck trying to sell iPhone copies.
> The USSR's nuclear espionage helped their bomb project, but it was not essential. Definitely! They've steal US nuclear documents just for laughs, comrade!
> Everyone's smartphone listens to radio beeps to geolocate Are you telling me that Soviets invented GPS?
For stealing Western tech? Look at glorious Soviet cars, for example. Now look at glorious Soviet massframe computers.
> That is probably why USSR had nuclear weapons Blueprints stolen from USA. > and space technology _borrowed_ (wink, wink) from Germans.
Yes. But if atomic bombs were mentioned as a reason for surrender, why you're calling it a myth?
> then ended up accepting the Japanese condition anyway What?? Japan was forced to accept Allies' condition.
> The US response was to carpet bomb Japanese cities full of civilians, carpet bomb foreign cities held by Japan holding civilians and citizens of foreign nations, etc... then to top it off, they felt fully justified to…
Sorry, your defensive arguments are very weak. Like "if they had leaks related to Russia they'd publish them. But they don't. Probably because Wikileaks isn't necessary for Russian leakers" - really?
> WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical So somebody would imagine that he will publish Russian data as well, to make Russian capitalism more free and ethical...
> Why would Russia (or other anti-US entities) need to create such a climate Because they're following Soviet playbooks. And if they'll create enough FUD they will be able to freely annex neighbouring countries.
Moonbase will be a lavish boondoggle designed to blow up and then activists will argue that this boondoggle must be scraped and money redirected to world hunger/saving whales etc.
So, you're ok with Turkey and Syria being included in Europe?
USSR tried to hide all the "gory" details of WW2. For example, Babiy Yar (a place in Kiev where Germans killed tens of thousands) was a garbage dump until 1970-s. Or (which is ironic, given their "Nothing is forgotten,…
If you think that USSR "praised progress and science" for 70 years, I have some grim news for you...