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mostly because people had no option to leave the country. also the salaries of scientists and engineers were notoriously shitty, so only those with passion for
by vlian2088 3mo ago
mostly because people had no option to leave the country.
also the salaries of scientists and engineers were notoriously shitty, so only those with passion for the subject studied it.
- vhantz 3mo agoGood thing we've overcome that! Today, in the land of the free, researchers' passion is rewarded with good salaries and working conditions. Right?
- vlian2088 3mo agoI assure you that Soviets did not have the kind of ```science``` that is temporarily defunded in the US.
- throw-the-towel 3mo agoOh come on, Scientific Communism was even a separate discipline in universities.
- vlian2088 3mo agoyes, but Soviet communism was the "he who does not work, neither shall he eat" kind, not Cultural Marxism beloved by the Western academia. I'm sure even the people who studied hard sciences had to endure a few hours of commie bullshit each week, but just like in present day China, there were preciously few people who took it seriously. it was just nagruzka. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%82_%D0%B2_%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0#%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B3%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%BA%D0%B0 https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80... >In the USSR, retail stores weren't allowed to promptly raise prices on popular items or lower prices on unpopular ones. One way to circumvent this was through "loading": stores would combine a popular (scarce) item with one or more unpopular ones into "food sets" on their order desks, preventing customers from purchasing the scarce item separately.