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Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

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Re: Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

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Post by medo-bear »

victorbjorklund wrote: post #40
victorbjorklund wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ukrainians that died in holodomor caused by Stalin disagree

Aha checked your comments and you are clearly a russian. Half your comments are about defending russia. The other half is about "NATO is bad".

lol i actually have no connection to russia. but whatever helps you deal. i rather enjoy broadening peoples perspectives. dont worry though, if you were a putin fanboy i would have quite a bit to say too

and yes ... nato is bad. every imperialist organisation is bad. be it russian, american, chinese, or whatever

Re: Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

#42

Post by medo-bear »

victorbjorklund wrote: post #39
medo-bear wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

soviet union was actually very good at providing basic needs (food, housing, education, medical care) to its population. in fact much better than even the US does right now. that is not the reason ussr collapsed

Ukrainians that died in holodomor caused by Stalin disagree

i probably should have made it clear that i was talking about post ww2 ussr. you know, the one that took away crimea from russia and gave it to ukraine. also the same ussr that gave national autonomy rights to almost every ethnic group within its borders (something unheard of in the west); actually this is the "atomic bomb" that putin said lenin placed under russia :)

Re: Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

#43

Post by medo-bear »

medo-bear wrote: post #37
aivisol wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Source? As the person who spent good part of my life there, I would like to know more details. I do remember my parents waiting for an government provided apartment for 15 years though.

its pretty well documented but here is a quora answer https://www.quora.com/How-expensive-were-housing-costs-in-th...

another source

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_ow...

all ex socialist countries

Re: Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

#44

Post by victorbjorklund »

medo-bear wrote: post #41
victorbjorklund wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aha checked your comments and you are clearly a russian. Half your comments are about defending russia. The other half is about "NATO is bad".

lol i actually have no connection to russia. but whatever helps you deal. i rather enjoy broadening peoples perspectives. dont worry though, if you were a putin fanboy i would have quite a bit to say too and yes ... nato is bad. every imperialist organisation is bad. be it russian, american, chinese, or whatever

Sure you are totally not a russian troll. :) let me guess you also deny that russia is engaged in a genocide?

Re: Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

#45

Post by victorbjorklund »

medo-bear wrote: post #42
victorbjorklund wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ukrainians that died in holodomor caused by Stalin disagree

i probably should have made it clear that i was talking about post ww2 ussr. you know, the one that took away crimea from russia and gave it to ukraine. also the same ussr that gave national autonomy rights to almost every ethnic group within its borders (something unheard of in the west); actually this is the "atomic bomb" that putin said lenin placed under russia :)

Sick that you as a russian troll claims russia gave ukrainians indepence. They are fighting for their lives to be free of the evil russians raping and killing them. Do you deny that?

Re: Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

#46

Post by medo-bear »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #34
medo-bear wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

soviet union was actually very good at providing basic needs (food, housing, education, medical care) to its population. in fact much better than even the US does right now. that is not the reason ussr collapsed

The poorly stocked Soviet grocery stores would suggest otherwise.

do you think that means that people in postwar ussr were malnurished ?

Re: Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

#47

Post by kevin_thibedeau »

medo-bear wrote: post #46
kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The poorly stocked Soviet grocery stores would suggest otherwise.

do you think that means that people in postwar ussr were malnurished ?

I think they were left living in an unnecessarily bleak existence because of the failures of centralized resource allocation.

Re: Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

#48

Post by mopsi »

medo-bear wrote: post #43
medo-bear wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

its pretty well documented but here is a quora answer https://www.quora.com/How-expensive-were-housing-costs-in-th...

another source https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_ow... all ex socialist countries

At the time of Soviet Union's collapse, 70-80%+ of all housing stock belonged to the government. New independent countries privatized it all as fast as they could for peanuts (could get an apartment for the price of a Sony VCR), because their condition was horrible and there was no money for repairs in state budget.

Re: Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

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Post by mopsi »

medo-bear wrote: post #42
victorbjorklund wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ukrainians that died in holodomor caused by Stalin disagree

i probably should have made it clear that i was talking about post ww2 ussr. you know, the one that took away crimea from russia and gave it to ukraine. also the same ussr that gave national autonomy rights to almost every ethnic group within its borders (something unheard of in the west); actually this is the "atomic bomb" that putin said lenin placed under russia :)

> the same ussr that gave national autonomy rights to almost every ethnic group within its borders

Yeah... no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification

Re: Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

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Post by mopsi »

frostyj wrote: post #6

sometimes you do wonder how USSR, with all these mad scientists and engineers, could ever go down

> sometimes you do wonder how USSR, with all these mad scientists and engineers, could ever go down

Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone docuseries by Adam Curtis gives a great answert to that.[1] While it may be factually inaccurate at times, it conveys the feeling those times better than anything else I've ever seen.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDA3hIsf7LA&list=PLSjQL8MYni...

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