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Common perception about soviet anything is generally wrong, at least in the us.
by monadic2 7y ago
Common perception about soviet anything is generally wrong, at least in the us.
- CamperBob2 7y agoAnd yet, we're still here, and they're gone. I guess that's our fault, huh. It always is.
- WanderPanda 7y agoMaybe you didn‘t win each sprint, but you definitely won the marathon
- CamperBob2 7y agoEh, I dunno. We'll see. There are indications that the race didn't actually end, but took a turn through some very dark woods. And unless your name is Pheidippides, there's not much point in winning a marathon if you die on the other side of the finish line.
- monadic2 7y agoThe people of the USSR are most certainly still around.
- blattimwind 7y agoIt's not like you could just walk up to some preserved soviet microelectronics and compare their technical sophostication (e.g. metal layers, feature sizes, power density) to contemporary Western technology.
- rimliu 7y agoThis one is not. Computers were clones (IBM?), cameras were clones made on equipment brought from Germany, cars were clones of FIAT. (I grew up in USSR, for what it matters).
- int_19h 7y agoNot in this case, from personal experience living in the last years of the USSR. I remember just how "magic" the microwave ovens were to us, and how much better non-Soviet-made tape players and recorders were.