Yes the Soviets, first people to launch a satellite, invent the satellite phone, and land a probe on Venus, hated science
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2025
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yes, obviously the people that figured the lowest bar of entry for university should be engineers hated anything scientific
Wait, what is that? The Soviets made it... more popular to get STEM degrees, is that what that means?
The lowest bar of entry for a soviet university degree was engineer, because you need a lot of those. the highest bar of entry for a soviet university was something like actor, pianist or trumpet player, because you don't need a lot of those for your national project.
It's why former soviet states have women in stem numbers that windmill-slamdunk on every western nation. We need some railway engineers and I don't care about your bits, get planning.
Eerily fascist, you mean
In USA, if you have to say something is bad, you have to link it with Russia (in this case Soviet) or China. It activates their coping defense mechanism.
They themselves are never ever at fault.
Turgid Tankies everywhere.
Didn't the Soviet's invest heavily in science? Not to say they didn't have other problems, but I don't think scientific investment was one