Soviet Union
About Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until its dissolution in 1991. It was the world's third-most populous country, largest by area, and bordered twelve countries. A diverse multinational state, it was organized as a federal union of national republics, the largest and most populous being the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. In practice, its government and economy were highly centralized. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party, it was the flagship communist state. Its capital and largest city was Moscow.
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It does not sound like a great party, the 26th Congress of the Soviet Union. It sounds pretty grim because the leaders were pretty sclerotic and elderly at that point. Was it Brezhnev who was in charge at the time? And he spoke for five hours, didn't he?
from No Such Thing As Catastrophic Shoelaces, 2017-04-28 at 00:01:31 · read transcript
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If you see them sort of pushing forward and backwards their hand, it will sort of make that kind of... It's basically a ghost impression is what it sounds like. Leon Theramen invented what basically was the precursor to the modern laser microphone that we have today and it was used by the Soviet Union and he was given a Stalin prize for inventing this, what was advanced espionage technology. Theramen found Osama bin Laden.
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Right. It's pretty amazing all the stuff that happened just after Chernobyl had the moment where everyone in the government was trying to downplay it within the Soviet Union trying to say, oh, it's not as bad as it seems. I read this amazing article by a lady called Natalia Charykova, who spoke about being there and what it was like and all the things that were being done.
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It's really icy there. Even the dynamite wouldn't get through the permafrost because it was so cold. Wow. What? That is way cool. I have a little more stuff on things being named oddly in the Soviet Union and elsewhere. Go. Okay. Loads of people during the French Revolution. started changing our names as well. Basically, whenever there's a massive political upheaval, people start naming their babies crazy things.
No Such Thing As Catastrophic Shoelaces, 2017-04-28 · listen
They found them there, and when they first dug it, it's in near Yakutsk, I think, so it's really cold in the middle of Siberia, and they had permafrost, so it's really icy there, and even the dynamite wouldn't get through the permafrost because it was so cold. Wow. What? That is way cool. I have a little more stuff on things being named oddly in the Soviet Union, and elsewhere. Go. So loads of people during the French Revolution started changing their names as well. Basically, whenever there's a mass of political upheaval, people start naming their babies crazy things.
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