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Generation-WinVista t1_j101gkc wrote

I'm curious where precisely this was made. The USSR had some incredible accomplishments but since the war I've been learning that Ukraine, Belarus and Georgia to an extent were the "heavy lifters" of the USSR in many ways. Russia today has only a limited claim to any good that could be attributed to the USSR.

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SoItWasYouAllAlong t1_j10czbu wrote

You should ease off the propaganda, bud. The following is the list of USSR Nobel laureates in science. Of a total of 8, Lev Landau is the only one I can identify as non-Russian (I'm not sure about it - he was born in Baku, which was in the Russian Empire at the time, but today is in Azerbaijan so I thought I'd count him as non-Russian).

​ Physics:

  • 1958 Pavel Cherenkov, Ilya Frank, Igor Tamm
  • 1962 Lev Landau
  • 1964 Nikolay Basov, Aleksandr Prokhorov
  • 1978 Pyotr Kapitsa

Chemistry:

  • 1956 Nikolai Semenov
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linotype t1_j11b26a wrote

How did you make the leap from manufacturing prowess to Nobel prizes?

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SoItWasYouAllAlong t1_j11dakh wrote

How did you manage to misread "claim to any good" as "manufacturing prowess"? The expression "manufacturing prowess" does not appear in the discussion before you mentioned it.

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an_actual_human t1_j10vjd5 wrote

Landau was Jewish.

A very interesting character BTW, a Soviet Feynman of sorts.

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