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And the novelty is? I mean, everyone fantasized about life in outer space - why would the soviets not? Or is the novelty that it is amazing how the people that
by ailideex 7y ago
And the novelty is? I mean, everyone fantasized about life in outer space - why would the soviets not? Or is the novelty that it is amazing how the people that wrote those magazines somehow eluded the gulags? Because the answer there presumably is that they probably did not elude the gulags.
- dang 7y agoThis is a case where the leading "How", which HN's software sometimes drops from titles, makes an important difference. The point of the article isn't that they did it. We've re-howed it. Please don't post shallow dismissals to HN, though. The article doesn't make it hard to find out what its topic is or why it's interesting, and there's no need to reflexively 'gulag' every Soviet story. The internet pattern of rushing to the cosmic hash table to find the biggest thing associated with any key, then rushing to post about it, makes for lame discussion. We're looking for things that are less predictable here. Edit: having looked at your account history, I realize that I misread your comment. You've been abusing HN for nationalistic and ideological flamewar. That is not allowed here. I've banned the account until we get some indication that you want to use the site as intended. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22622844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22622844.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoIt’s interesting because in the west we didn’t hear much about what was going on in the Soviet Union.
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoPity how much of that cultural content was lost during the post collapse years of the USSR.
- carapace 7y agoTesla's space truck! It's time to start dreaming again because we are about to be able to do it.
- pjc50 7y agoMuch of it was officially produced and supported. No question of gulags.