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by Fins 8y ago
Decent underwear was not that easy to find even in the 80's. There certainly are reasons for space exploration. In a country where a year after Gagarin's flight army shot unarmed civilians who were demonstrating asking government
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by Fins 8y ago
I completely agree with the latter point, but while Americans have no problem admitting that von Braun was instrumental to the US space program, Soviets never even mentioned von Ardenne's name anywhere (just like it has never been ment
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by Fins 8y ago
Only that it wasn't some martian silk underwear embroidered with gold and unobtainium threads. Just regular underwear, but even that was something that your regular Soviet citizen had great trouble finding. I can believe that those we
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by Fins 8y ago
There certainly was enough time, but they never made it to the moon. These days, though, there is a nice cottage industry of "moon landing was a hoax" experts, with one of main arguments being "hey, even we couldn't make
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by Fins 8y ago
Sure. But just to think -- a few sets of underwear were something that would be considered among things that you need to have gifted by the government, along with a car or a house. Can you imagine John Glenn being presented with some underw
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by Fins 8y ago
Don't forget that while Americans got von Braun and his brains, Soviets got not only von Ardenne (who was quite bright anyway) but also everything from rocket (and other) factories) that wasn't nailed to the floor. Whatever was na
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by Fins 8y ago
https://www.kp.ru/daily/26061.3/2969912/ if you read Russian has even better descriptions of what cosmonauts were receiving.
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by Fins 8y ago
Well, after his first ever space flight, Yuri Gagarin was granted, by the order of the Soviet government, among other things, several pairs of underwear. That should tell you all you need to know about how well even celebrities lived in the
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by Fins 8y ago
It would be news to von Ardenne et al to hear that they were Soviet, and their input to Soviets' "pioneering" space travel is at least as important as von Braun's to American space program. (edit: spelling)
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by Fins 8y ago
It truly boggles the mind when some kids from Berkeley (or Montreal, as the case may be) start telling people who actually lived it that it was all some "cold era Western propaganda" (whatever the hell this is supposed to mean). W
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by Fins 8y ago
Kids these days... I am sure there were kitchen conversations even under Stalin, but to far less extent -- most conversationists ended up in some unpleasant places.
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by Fins 8y ago
He has a record with Henry Kaiser as well. GrOb started in early 80-s though.
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by Fins 8y ago
Gorbachev and Reagan, sure. Even Brezhnev and Carter. But by then you'd have to tell particularly strong ones to get sent to a labor camp, unlike under previous regimes.
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by Fins 8y ago
I'm not sure if many of these are really good things, certainly not "recreational" marijuana, but in any case they do cost money. And I think it is highly ironic to praise "pro-privacy" legislation of a state that i
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by Fins 8y ago
And what connection could it possibly have to installation of a bidet seat?!
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by Fins 8y ago
What are those "nice things" that blue states have that others don't? Looking at the two states in the TFA I can hardly see what meaningful good things CA has that TX doesn't.
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by Fins 8y ago
Sarcastically, not everyone enjoys stepping into human feces and dodging used needles. Less sarcastically, how is that an advantage?
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by Fins 8y ago
Actually, just did., and being 1700 miles away from SJ already feel much better. I guess if you move to SJ from some hamlet 3 hours outside of Cheyenne, it's probably exciting. When I got there from Chicago, I couldn't believe tha
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by Fins 8y ago
What Artistri121 said (I also worked for a major competitor of Epic). Also, this isn't wi-fi based juicer machines or Uber for llama rentals nonsense that SV is so good at disrupting. This is a very complex business that often makes no
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by Fins 8y ago
One impression I got of San Jose was that it IS the sticks. Climate is nice, but culturally it is about as exciting as Omaha (no offense to Nebraska meant).
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by Fins 8y ago
It was international (it was probably easier to find an American children's book in USSR than a Soviet one in US, but then US is pretty insular in that regard) but I would not call it free of ideology. Translated books were often selec
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by Fins 8y ago
Volkov's first book, "Wizard of the Emerald City" follows Baum somewhat closely. "Urfin Dzhus and his wooden soldiers" has nothing to do with anything Baum wrote other than a basic setting, and further sequels even
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by Fins 8y ago
Фита and ижица are Greek, though. Ять is archaic.
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by Fins 8y ago
Strictly speaking, Soviet goods (very few of them, though) were of somewhat decent quality when compared to the cheapest crap made in a non-name sweatshop for dollar stores. Or export to the Eastern Europe and ex-Soviet countries. Even in t
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by Fins 8y ago
There weren't many Latin letters in Russian at that point. Greek, maybe.
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by Fins 8y ago
To be fair, for pretty much the entire existence of the USSR, Frank Baum was present only as a retelling that had very little to do with Oz, and never even mentioned Baum's name anywhere.
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by Fins 8y ago
Umm, have you ever lived in USSR? Being born in the 80's doesn't count either. There absolutely were times when being a few minutes late to work (not during the war either) would get you a long prison sentence at the very least. A
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by Fins 8y ago
Oh, yes! Certainly Miele. Built lake a tank and actually works. Although Dysons do have a more futuristic look, but that's not the most important part of a vacuum.
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by Fins 8y ago
Kaspersky was (is?) a KGB/FSB man anyway.
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by Fins 8y ago
Yup, something like this. I rusty bolt-filled pelvis is an interesting image, though.

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