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Like the running gag in Star Trek TOS where Chekov would invariably assert that "Russians invented it first". Only, for real this time.
by tempodox 6y ago
Like the running gag in Star Trek TOS where Chekov would invariably assert that "Russians invented it first". Only, for real this time.
- jacobush 6y agoFor all its faults and imperial tendencies and repression of its minority peoples, the USSR was more than just Russian. It had many peoples who all contributed to discoveries, but "Russia" today has inherited the "creds" to what the USSR accomplished, both good and bad. (For a tiny glimpse of the USSR "feel", watch the BBC movie "Afghan experience" where some USSR soldiers from other republics than Russia proper speak.)