kravietz 🦇 (npub1vz5…qdta) In the late 70s we had a joke:
An American visiting a museum in Moscow.
His guide explains: "Here you see the radio that was invented by comrade Popov"
The American raises an eyebrow, but he doesn't want to be impolited, so he says nothing.
And on and on it goes: "Here is the TV also invented by Popov. Here is a diagram of the submarine invented by Popov."
At the end of the mueseum they pass a bust and the American asks "Who is that?"
"Oh," the guide says, "this is the comrade Sokolov."
"And what did he invent?" the American inquires.
"The comrade Popov, of course"
When I was in Moscow in 2017, I visited the cementery beside the Kremlin, where the VIPs are buried.
And the joke suddenly happened. Our guide explained that "Here you have the grave of the doctor X who made the first heart transplant" and "Here you have the grave of the engineer Y who invented the radio".
At that time (2017) I laughed about it. In 2022 I had to recognize that I had the chance to learn something about Russia back then and only did so five years later: Our guide was dead serious.
Martin Seeger /
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2024-10-13 10:52:26
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