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After the #SovietUnion was formally dissolved, #US & #UK oligarchs demanded what was called #ShockTherapy, an immediate move from socialist-communist economics to capitalism, which resulted in a massive transfer of wealth to Russian & foreign oligarchs.


Many on the pseudo-left falsely blame the late #MikhailGorbachev for the #USSR's demise, but he was trying to prevent it through reforms intended to scale back the arms race, which was bankrupting the #SovietUnion.


When #BorisYeltsin, the all-too-eager puppet of Washington, D.C. was maneuvered into power as the #SovietUnion collapsed, a decade of #Western plunder of #Russia followed. This video gives a brief history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrNQeYYvabg


Interesting.

"This article aims to summarize the background of well-known and not so well-known Soviet rocket engines, the history of their development, their main characteristics, and the rockets they flew on."

https://everydayastronaut.com/soviet-rocket-engines/

#History #SovietUnion #Rockets #Engineering #Technology

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RDS-3 Soviet atomic bomb test (1951)


The third atomic bomb developed by the Soviet Union, RDS-3 Marya/Joe-3 was tested on October 18, 1951 at the Semipalatinsk test site. This was the first Soviet air-dropped bomb test.

The bomb was dropped from a Tu-4 aircraft from a height of 10 km, it detonated 380 meters above the ground.

The bomb had a composite design with a plutonium core inside a uranium-235 shell, providing an explosive power of 41.2 kilotons of TNT.
Source: Rosatom
#AtomicBomb #RDS-3 #SovietUnion

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