Quote Originally Posted by mishau_
Probably you or your parents used to work in the GosPlan or something. Thusyou do not know at all how people lived during the Soviet time.
Nope, you missed completely.
My father worked (and works) as translator from German and English. In these times, he worked in ЦБНТИ (Central Bureau of Scientific and Technical Information) and translated technical articles in various magazines.
My mother worked in one of the GLAVK's of Minmedprom, on some insignificant post.
Neighter of my parent was even a Party member.

Quote Originally Posted by mishau_
>>So, come on and give me a list of engineers, who “never saw their inventions introduced”, with the list of inventions and reasons, why they did not.

Read "Дело Хинта", it's just a drop in the see, but so significant.
Do you want to say, what I.A. Hint is an engineer, who actually invented something? He was director and administrator of constructor bureau, and was sentenced to prison for purely economic affairs.

BTW, do you know, who was one of the main inspirators of this doubtful criminal case? It was Telman Gdlyan, the future hero of Perestroyka and fighter with the totalitarian system.

Quote Originally Posted by mishau_
>>This statement surely counts as direct and obvious lying.
USSR had a powerful pharmaceutical industry, and all medicaments actually needed for health care were available without problems and by very low price.

You defeintely was a major.
Who-who?

Quote Originally Posted by mishau_
>>For example, antibiotics, vitamins, analgetics, sedatives — most of these were domestically produced.

However, people perefered American aspirin when they got a chance to catch it. But you can't know, you lived under communism.
Yes, it was a serious social stratum -- a clinical idiots, considering everything western-produced to be better. Even Edichka Limonov ironised in some of this novel about some soviet-breed idiots, who detested Soviet-made 100% cotton shirts and preferred western-msde synthetic ones. (And when he emigrated to USA, he discovered, what values are slighttly different there -- pure cotton shirts are worn by millionaires, and synthetic -- by young bandits in negro ghettos. )
The same is true for aspirin, which is just an acetil-salicilic acid and is absolutely identical, regardless of where it is produced.
And idiots, even if they are numerous, remain an idiots.

Quote Originally Posted by mishau_
>>Some of these “gray and stupid” leaders look for me like the geniuses, compared with some modern ones…

The modern ones formerly are the same CPSU members, that you know. I see them every day.
You did not understand me -- I'm talking about most of the modern political leaders, including ones from the West. (I guess, the later ones never were members of CPSU ).

Quote Originally Posted by mishau_
>>And how you can so surely know, what these people are thinking “more about their own prosperity”? Have a working telepathy skills?

No, I just work with them side by side. Affiliated compamies, relationship of godparents, sabotage, and so on. Very predicalbe.
I wish you were a victim of their numerous plots; it'd be a good lesson for you.
So, you are working now, or *was* working? I have absolutely no illusions about the modern politicians -- but I guess we were discussing the situation of the past, not the present times.
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Quote Originally Posted by mishau_
>>Pure and demagogic BS, which don’t worth much commenting.

the Radio Svobody today at around 12:50 was translating pager messages. They were all similar to my idia. Too many demagogs, don't you know, and all of them are only on the Bristish radio station. Too strange, isn't it? The western propaganda.
I'm astonished. Didn't you really know, what RL ("Radio Liberty") is 100% controlled by USA state dept.? Of course, it is an instrument of propaganda (and not vaguely "western" -- but, specifically, US officious). Denying this is kinda like deny the "Pravda" was an official paper of CPSU.

(And, personally, I'm not surprised, what "Radio Liberty" shares lots of your views. I expected something like this. )

>>For example, due to their efforts USSR became the first country in space

Quote Originally Posted by mishau_
Yes, and the people who contgributed a lot, lived and still live much worse than the party functioners.
The leading scientists and engineers (like Korolev) had exactly everything, what the higher Party functioners had. BTW, this was quite a modest life level by modern standarts.

Quote Originally Posted by mishau_
The state has forgotten them as those once who worked at the Chernobyl.
*Which* "state" you're talking about? Soviet Union ceased to exist 5 years after Chernobyl disaster. In Russia Chernobyl "liquidators" have some social priveleges. I have no idea about situation in modern Ukraine and Belorussia (for which the leaders of these countries are responsible).