Russia's First Lunar Mission in Decades Crashes Into the Moon (cnn.com) 179
"Russia's first lunar mission in decades has ended in failure with its Luna 25 spacecraft crashing into the moon's surface," reports CNN:
The incident, a blow to Russia's space ambitions, happened after communication with the robotic spacecraft was interrupted, a blow to Russia's space ambitions. Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, said it lost touch with Luna 25 on Saturday around 2:57 p.m. Moscow time... According to a "preliminary analysis," Luna-25 "switched to an off-design orbit" before the collision, Roscosmos said. It was not immediately clear what caused the crash... The news comes a day after the spacecraft reported an "emergency situation" as it was trying to enter a pre-landing orbit, according to Roscosmos...
The spacecraft was meant to complete Russia's first lunar landing mission in 47 years. The country's last lunar lander, Luna 24, landed on the surface of the moon on August 18, 1976... Luna 25 was seen as a proving ground for future robotic lunar exploration missions by Roscosmos. Several future Luna spacecraft were slated to make use of the same design. If it had been successful, Luna 25 would have marked a huge stride for the country's civil space program — which some experts say has faced issues for decades — and demonstrate that it could still perform in high-profile, high-stakes missions. "They were having a lot of problems with quality control, corruption, with funding," said Victoria Samson, the Washington office director for Secure World Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes the peaceful exploration of outer space, during an interview Friday.
News that Russia experienced issues with its spacecraft elicited sympathy that reverberated throughout the space community. Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's former head of science, said in a social media post that no one in the industry "wishes bad onto other explorers... We are reminded that landing on any celestial object is anything but easy & straightforward," he said,
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Baron_Yam and TheNameOfNick for sharing the news.
The spacecraft was meant to complete Russia's first lunar landing mission in 47 years. The country's last lunar lander, Luna 24, landed on the surface of the moon on August 18, 1976... Luna 25 was seen as a proving ground for future robotic lunar exploration missions by Roscosmos. Several future Luna spacecraft were slated to make use of the same design. If it had been successful, Luna 25 would have marked a huge stride for the country's civil space program — which some experts say has faced issues for decades — and demonstrate that it could still perform in high-profile, high-stakes missions. "They were having a lot of problems with quality control, corruption, with funding," said Victoria Samson, the Washington office director for Secure World Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes the peaceful exploration of outer space, during an interview Friday.
News that Russia experienced issues with its spacecraft elicited sympathy that reverberated throughout the space community. Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's former head of science, said in a social media post that no one in the industry "wishes bad onto other explorers... We are reminded that landing on any celestial object is anything but easy & straightforward," he said,
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Baron_Yam and TheNameOfNick for sharing the news.
Russian suicide drone attacks off-world territory (Score:4, Funny)
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let's unite! for the moon!
Re: Russian suicide drone attacks off-world territ (Score:3)
Special Lunar Operation.
Past is prologue. (Score:4, Insightful)
"They were having a lot of problems with quality control, corruption, with funding," ...
Were?
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Ya, as though its a thing of the past. Corruption is the main business in Russian government establishments. Them fumbling like foolish bums on the streets of Ukraine was a result of the same corruption too.
Re: Past is prologue. (Score:2)
No actually.
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US corruption: army pays 10x for gear it gets. Russian corruption: army doesn't get any gear.
Not just in space. (Score:2)
We are reminded that landing on any celestial object is anything but easy & straightforward," ...
Apparently, Russia is failing to learn that sort of lesson in many places.
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We are reminded that landing on any celestial object is anything but easy & straightforward," ...
Apparently, Russia is failing to learn that sort of lesson in many places.
Things were easier back when they had Ukrainians, Georgians, Lithuanians, Azerbaijans, etc running the technical agencies of the space program.
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Oh, that great Lithuanian and Azerbaijani "Rocket Science"!
You may laugh but go look at the heads of various technical agencies for major systems. Even the little states made major contributions. It was very much a multi-state effort from the leadership level down to engineers and workers.
Let the memes begin (Score:4, Funny)
I'll start:
It wasn't a crash, it was a special lithobraking operation.
Re:Let the memes begin (Score:4, Funny)
I'll start: It wasn't a crash, it was a special lithobraking operation.
Putin outlaws the word "crash" in 3... 2... 1...
(Punishable by 5 years of having to work at Roscosmos.)
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In all seriousness, I am half-expecting Russia to soon start insinuating they're finding evidence that "foreign state actors" infiltrated Roscosmos' systems, eventually leading to the claim that the West caused this crash.
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having to work at Roscosmos
Is that what they are calling Wagner's 1 week training program?
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Putin: Is not moon, is potato.
Re: Let the memes begin (Score:4, Funny)
âoePutin: Is not moon, is potato.âoe
Think of all the vodka they could make! Though for the water itâ(TM)d have to be at the poles, and the Poles are pretty pissed at him, so idk.
In today's news (Score:5, Funny)
The moon successfully thwarted an attempt by a Russian dictator to invade its territory. Further news at 11.
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The moon successfully thwarted an attempt by a Russian dictator to invade its territory. Further news at 11.
On the other hand, this was just another incident of Russia successfully crashing a drone onto something, though I am not aware of any Ukrainian assets currently on the Moon.
I had no idea (Score:4, Funny)
I had no idea there was a Ukrainian pre-school on the Moon. You learn something new every day.
Re: I had no idea (Score:5, Insightful)
One thing that isn't funny is how easily you are manipulated by Russian propaganda.
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Seems the landing Radar (Score:2)
detected a Ukrainian pre-school so it accelerated the lander
so sad (Score:2)
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The Russian newspapers (Score:2)
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'Technically' true.
Space travel is hard (Score:2)
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MoonGate will be providing tours to the wrecked lander next year. Experience the world's first carbon fiber space vessel!
They literally landed in the dark to beat India (Score:2)
Ukraine . . . (Score:2)
. . . claims credit
In soviet Russia... (Score:2)
.. Moon lands on you!
well... (Score:2)
I guess Putin won't be able to annex the moon this month. He'll probably claim there are space Nazis there and that the moon was never actually independent from mother Russia, but he'll not be annexing it...
Yeah, not surprised (Score:3)
sadly, Putin continues to drive Russia into the ground.
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Russia has been falling apart since converting from authoritarian communist nation into a authoritarian âoecapitalist âoe nation.
sadly, Putin continues to drive Russia into the ground.
The USSR was essentially a Russian empire.
After the USSR collapsed Russia and the most heavily Russified countries tended to let the same people get back in charge and ended up back under authoritarian rule.
Countries with more of their identity put their own people in charge and tended to turn democratic.
Ukraine had been half-Russified, so pre-2014 there were still a lot of people in the Eastern half looking back on the USSR days as "us being a superpower", not "us being ruled by Russians".
Post-2014, now al
Glorious Victory for the Motherland! (Score:2)
Re:Good news, bad news (Score:4, Insightful)
Well, the engineers were working with two strikes against them - there aren't any apartment buildings or train stations on the moon, so they're aiming blind.
In truth I am a bit conflicted about this. I am glad to see the Little Spymaster take another blow to his ego, while I feel somewhat bad for the engineers. On the other hand, they're helping keep Putin in power, so I don't feel *too* bad for them.
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I always get this too--like, I appreciate the ability of engineers in North Korea to build missiles and nukes, but I also wish we had launched a top secret commando raid to destroy the whole operation before it started.
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while I feel somewhat bad for the engineers.
Don't. The majority of their first class engineers left Russia long ago, they have second rate engineers working on this.
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They won't be put to death, they'll be invited to fight in Ukraine in exchange for possible future rehabilitation.
Actually you're right, they will be put to death.
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Don't be. You can be against the war and the soldiers fighting it and the politicians running it - while at the same time rooting for engineers trying to explore the solar system, no matter which country they were born into. It's not like someone brings you up to speed on global politics before birth and let's you choose.
It's a nice sentiment to restrict blame the guy in charge but ultimately a country is whatever the people who live there say it is. The guy at the top is one person who often has the excuse of being a deranged basket case. It's everyone else that goes along with or actively supports the indefensible that makes it possible.
I'll root for Russian engineers who left the country, help build weapons for Ukranians, join the FRL, work or advocate against the regime...etc. Those who stay and merely follow the scr
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Besides the points made by Tom, all good points. It is not that easy to leave, especially if you have family staying behind who may be punished. The one software engineer I know who left had a hell of a time. Have to basically sneak out of the country, hard to take much with you, including money, left stateless for a while with a 3 month limit in which ever country you move to and if you don't have resources, very hard to do. Also may never be able to go back, and no matter what, your country is home and le
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I'm sure this will be a blow to Russia's space ambitions.
Re: Good news, bad news (Score:5, Insightful)
I have no love, at all, for Russia, but we are still talking about brainy peeps attempting amazing feats of engineering. Frankly I hope my impression of Russia is incorrect because I fear engineers being executed or sent to the front lines for failing to ensure Putin's glory.
Re: Good news, bad news (Score:4, Insightful)
Putin is in no position to piss off his remaining scientists and engineers. While he's not the brightest light on the tree, I doubt he's that stupid. He probably didn't even notice.
Putin's game appears to be kick the can down the road long enough and hope the former alleged president wins in the U.S. and hands Ukraine over to him. And the wannabe dictator would probably try just because Volodymyr Zelenskyy wouldn't gin up bogus charges against Biden that the former alleged president could use in the last campaign. That train is still chugging along, you can see in comments on slashdot asserting the "Biden Crime Family".
From https://www.politico.com/news/... [politico.com]:
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday described Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as “genius” and “savvy,” praising his onetime counterpart for a move that has spurred sanctions and universal condemnation from the U.S. government and its trans-Atlantic allies.
“I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine — Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful,” Trump said in a radio interview with “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.” “He used the word ‘independent’ and ‘we’re gonna go out and we’re gonna go in and we’re gonna help keep peace.’ You gotta say that’s pretty savvy.”
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Why not link straight to the original source, complete with a full transcript? See https://www.clayandbuck.com/pr... [clayandbuck.com]
I've no comment, only the suggestion people read the quote, then read the above post.
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OK, so having read your link, Trump wasn't agreeing that Putin should have invaded, but was saying that Putin was being smart about how he went about it - which is what just about any thinking person already thought about the quote, anyway. (OK, I know, there are a lot of unthinking peopl
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No it is not good news. It is a scientific mission. Sending probes to the moon don't kill people in Ukraine. If anything, it diverts budget out of the war.
If Putin way of boosting his ego is in doing scientific missions then good for him. It may even push him into doing more scientific missions and less killing Ukrainians. The space race may be the best thing that came out of the cold war, and had the USSR made it to the moon, maybe the race would have continued and maybe we would have something like a moon
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No it is not good news. It is a scientific mission. Sending probes to the moon don't kill people in Ukraine. If anything, it diverts budget out of the war.
It's excellent news! More inept Russian fail for the world to enjoy. Enabling industrial base is literally killing people in Ukraine and Roscosmos itself is actively recruiting soldiers to fight in Ukraine.
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In one way I'm saddened for their loss.
In another, I'm very glad these people are working on this and not weapons development.
Let Putin burn. And while it seems Russia is just an extension of Putin, most Russians are his victims not his coconspirators.
Re: Good news, bad news (Score:3, Insightful)
wait, isn't that the referendum that was done at gun point and after chasing all non russian by beating them up?
Re: Good news, bad news (Score:5, Informative)
It might have been the one where they were literally counting blank ballots.
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Those stealth Ukraine shells that leave no craters?
If you want to know what it looks like when real shells hit the ground, look at what Ukraine looks today and compare to 2014.
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look at what Ukraine looks today and compare to 2014.
since we're routinely doubling down, now with f16s, i'm afraid you have seen nothing.
and ukraine (i mean the part they have left) matters to absolutely nobody in power. that territory and anyone in it is royally fucked for decades either way. collateral damage.
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and that wasn't putin, that was peter the great in the xvi century. chechnya hasn't been independent since, except only de facto and partially for 3 years during a hiatus in its secession war. it for sure was a very dirty war (and which isn't) but describing it as a war of conquest, an absorption or even an attack is factually incorrect.
Being occupied by russian empire for long time doesn't mean they have no right for freedom. Russia is last colonial empire and its fate will be no different of similar empires.
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is that so? i would swear they literally escalated it just a bit further yesterday. dunno how this theory pans out in practice.
Are you talking about providing (eventually, and over a protracted period of time) F16s? That's only an "escalation" in the bizarro world of Russian propaganda. In the real world, here rational people live. You can't "escalate" the war by providing F16s to Ukraine when Russia is already using SU-35s. It's hard to imagine how anyone can see that as an escalation unless they're so severely impaired they can only see the conflict from one side.
the script is that he wanted to restore the russian empire. still ridiculous, though. besides nobody said this before 2022.
Ultimately, he wants to restore both - and neither - of those. It's
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That's only an "escalation" in the bizarro world of Russian propaganda. In the real world, here rational people live.
speaking of propaganda, representing the opponent as irrational is war propaganda 101. same as placing focus on a single person who can conveniently be villainized. an irrational villain, i admit that putin is a dream candidate for that.
but make no mistake, putin isn't alone in this, and the russians aren't acting irrationally at all. they are dead serious. they might be mistaken, they might be ill intentioned, they might be ill advised, they might be many things, but they are not irrational at all. they do
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speaking of propaganda, representing the opponent as irrational is war propaganda 101. same as placing focus on a single person who can conveniently be villainized. an irrational villain, i admit that putin is a dream candidate for that.
You're confused about the difference between thinking that your opponent is irrational and understanding that their propaganda is straight out of cloud cuckoo land. They've spent too long not being publicly pushed back on in their own sphere and they think they can say anything. Just today I saw a picture of a Russian supersonic bomber on the ground engulfed in a giant fireball, just roasting away. The Russian news just says that a plane was "damaged". It was quite obviously completely destroyed. They refer
Re: Good news, bad news (Score:2)
More generally, resources, politics and paranoia.
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That's a pretty apt summary.
Re: Good news, bad news (Score:2)
If it's about oil then why isn't Russia being invaded?
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I said kinda. It's not just oil. And it's not mineral oil. Take a look [atlasbig.com] and check whether you notice something.
And that's not all, the list goes on. Ukraine is one of the biggest producers and (more importantly) exporters of agricultural products. And now take a wild guess where in the country most of that is produced.
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The whole country is blessed with very fertile soil. There's a reason Ukraine was the USSR breadbasket.
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Even the people of the Donbas wondered why the Russkies ever thought the natives would support an invasion.
One American general remarked that the invasion was clearly planned by the spooks. It was as if they never had any logistics training. Ya, well, they didn't. And even the Russian military was claiming the spooks had lied when they told the military there was support in Ukraine for Russia's invasion. I imagine there were a few nutjobs that supported it, but they were in the minority.
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Votes, not people (Score:2)
The liberated people of the Donbas region overwhelming voted to join Russia.
You mean there were more votes to join Russia than votes to stay.
That had nothing to do with the people, or what they wanted.
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Dude, put your tinfoil hat away. The only reason the war is only taking place in that region is because russia lost the capability to advance together with their best troops and equipment.
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I don't need media when I have eye witnesses who have lived through several months of russian occupation and the only ignoramus here are you.
There have been many fights in other places along the russian border last year. This is where russia lost their best troops and equipment in the first place. They advanced from belarus through Chernobyl in the west, surrounded Chernihiv in the north, occupied half of the Kharkiv oblast and generally everything 20 km inside Ukraine's border with russia and Kherson in th
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Even the western media seems to leave out that it was western countries who pressured Ukraine march 2022 not to sign a peace treaty and keep fighting, even Boris Johnson flew personally there to make sure Ukraine didn't sign..
LOL. Ukraine (rightly) has no interest in a peace treaty unless their territory is returned. They did not need any convincing by anyone. Zelensky is not a pussy like Putin.
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Zelensky is doing a fine job rallying his country and their allies in the civilized world. The little man in the Kremlin just looks more pathetic every day. Even the moon is laughing.
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Russian Space Program is not USSR Space Program (Score:5, Insightful)
1. The Soviet Army that beat the Nazis (the real ones from Germany circa 1939) was not the Russian Army.
2. The Soviet Space program that put the first man into space was not the Russian Space Program.
That Soviet Army and Soviet Space Program had a lot of people from outside of Russia. The space program in particular had many department heads that were Ukrainian. Ukrainian, Georgian, Lithuanian, Azerbaijan , and other former Soviet States contributed many scientists and engineers. Prior to the 2015 invasion the "Russian" Space Program was still heavily dependent upon Ukraine.
Re:Russian Space Program is not USSR Space Program (Score:5, Informative)
As much as Russia might like to believe otherwise: 1. The Soviet Army that beat the Nazis (the real ones from Germany circa 1939) was not the Russian Army.
Not only that, they conveniently omit that they used a lot of materiel provided by the USA. We're talking a lot:
400,000 jeeps and trucks
14,000 airplanes
8,000 tractors
13,000 tanks
More than 1.5 million blankets
15 million pairs of army boots
107,000 tons of cotton
2.7 million tons of petroleum products (to fuel airplanes, trucks and tanks)
4.5 million tons of food
A whole tire factory, and uncounted guns, ammunition, explosives, metals, medical supplies, radios, and other stuff. The U.S. sent $11.3 billion, ($180 billion in 2016 dollars), in goods and services to the Soviets.
2. The Soviet Space program that put the first man into space was not the Russian Space Program.
That Soviet Army and Soviet Space Program had a lot of people from outside of Russia. The space program in particular had many department heads that were Ukrainian. Ukrainian, Georgian, Lithuanian, Azerbaijan , and other former Soviet States contributed many scientists and engineers. Prior to the 2015 invasion the "Russian" Space Program was still heavily dependent upon Ukraine.
Maybe they could ask Ukraine for some help with their space program?
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Maybe they could ask Ukraine for some help with their space program?
/me looks at the news. Perhaps they did?
Cosmonaut Putin? (Score:2)
Maybe they could ask Ukraine for some help with their space program?
If they guarantee Putin will be on the first rocket to the moon, Ukraine might even agree to help.
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Maybe they could ask Ukraine for some help with their space program?
If they guarantee Putin will be on the first rocket to the moon, Ukraine might even agree to help.
They might even send one to the Kremlin for him to personally inspect!
Re:Russian Space Program is not USSR Space Program (Score:5, Informative)
The US supplied nearly as much aid to the USSR (17,5m tonnes) as it supplied to its own forces in Europe (22m tonnes).
The Soviet Air Force, esp. after their devastating losses in 1941, was overwhelmingly western, not only numerically, but also in terms of capabilities. On the whole, 7k out of 10k aircraft were received under Lend Lease, but that downplays in particular the importance in the early years of Lend Lease, and the capabilities of the craft received. Planes of course need fuel - Lend Lease provided nearly 60% of aviation fuel and 90% of all high-octane fuel.
Most of the German military officers supported Operation Barbarosa and the timeline of taking Moscow within only a few months, but those that objected were the logicians, who pointed out that German troops could only get so far before they'd outrun their supplies, have to stop, and would progress in a stop-start manner that would drag out the conflict. This is exactly the same situation the USSR would have been in, had they not received over 400k heavy trucks and 2k locomotives from the west.
Trucks of course need tyres. The US dismantled and sent an entire Goodyear factory to the USSR.
Due to the invasion, over 40% of sown land and half of livestock in the USSR was lost. As a general rule, people don't fight very well if they've starved to death. Lend Lease not only made up food shortages (including the trucks needed to transport it), but freed up 20 million farmers to fight and work in factories - including said tank factories.
Boots were hugely in shortage in the Red Army; soldiers stealing boots from their dead comrades or killed enemies was very common. As a general rule, soldiers don't fight well if they've lost their feet to frostbite. Lend Lease provided 15 million.
Half of all USSR ordinance was supplied from the west.
On and on. The main thing that remained primarily domestic was tank production - only 7% of tanks (and 25% of heavy tanks) were provided from Lend Lease, as Soviet tank lines remained far enough from the front. But in addition to freeing up workers, lend lease provided parts and raw materials to keep them running.
Overall, US Lend Lease alone was $11B (there was also Lend Lease from other countries). To put that into perspective, a typical tank of the time cost $50K. The total aid provided from the US was thus equivalent to the value of 220000 tanks.
Look, you don't have to take anyone on Slashdot's word for the impact. From Nikita Khrushchev:
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All this is irrelevant, because the US of today is also not the US that supplied the USSR. And, that is also evident in the space program, since no one knows how to build the Saturn V any more. ...Which, ironically, required Nazi engineering.
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All this is irrelevant, because the US of today is also not the US that supplied the USSR. And, that is also evident in the space program, since no one knows how to build the Saturn V any more. ...Which, ironically, required Nazi engineering.
We "know" how to build the F1 engine today. But it is not built the way modern engines would be. And we don't necessarily need a LOX-RP1 monster engine.
We use a lot of solid booster technology now, so the LH-LOX RS-25 makes a fine engine for the purpose, so you don't have to re-design the thing.
The 4 RS-25 engines make 1.6 million pounds of thrust compared to the Saturn 5's 5 engines 7.6 million pounds of thrust. But the solid boosters make up for that. What is more, the Saturn 5 is one hella lot of en
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The US supplied nearly as much aid to the USSR (17,5m tonnes) as it supplied to its own forces in Europe (22m tonnes).
Excellent post! WW2 has a hypnotic attraction - and I see you've done some good research.
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Interesting take [prismic.io].
Very interesting take [mosaicmagazine.com].
Interesting indeed [wikimedia.org].
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Tell that to my grandfather. The katana and two Rising Sun flags we found in his attic (one signed by all the men in the Japanese company that was overrun) says otherwise.
And FYI, the second link is North Africa and the third link is Italy, two fronts of the war you're apparently entirely unaware of the existence of, which US troops were simultaneously fighting in while taking on the entire nation of Japan, *and* sending an army's worth of resources to the USSR - resources that it could have instead used fo
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Re: Russian Space Program is not USSR Space Progra (Score:2)
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And? That means that the US were paying for the war with their money which they had plenty of, not with their lives. Instead of fighting Germany they were sitting on their asses till 1944. Very convenient.
You are way out of your league in this discussion. Reading and learning is indicated. What Rei has posted is good enough that I havenb't found anything to disagree with him about.
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Jewish pogroms were carried out everywhere that the Nazi army conquered, because that's what they encouraged, who they empowered as territorials, and they killed anyone opposed to it. People of all nationalities/ethnicities in occupied territories collaborated approximately equally (if there's any group that appears to have collaborated slightly more, it's ethnic Germans, while if any collaborated slightly less, it's Belarussians, but overall, it's pretty even). The Russian collaborator flag was literally
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Ironically, a major part of Nazi mythology was that the Soviet Union was a sort of "Jewish Empire", that Jews are communists and communists are Jews**. Which is part of what encouraged collaboration, and a reinforcement of their own mythology. If an occupying army with a reputation for killing or enslaving people en masse breaks into your house, and you're a known communist, and they're saying "All communists are Jews", how do you respond? For most people, it was to say "Yes! You're right, and as I can p
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Oh, and let's not omit the simple fact that, only second to Adolf Hitler, nobody bears more responsibility for starting World War II than Joseph Stalin. Who plotted with Hitler in 1939 to divide eastern Europe with the Nazis, and launched essentially simultaneous invasions.
Which actually was not Hitler's original plan - his first plan was to ally with Poland to invade the USSR (knowing the animosity between Poland and the USSR, incl. the Polish-Soviet War at the end of WWI), and only later turn on Poland.
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The 1881-1882 pogrom was triggered by the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, which the Tsarist government (falsely) blamed on Jews to rile up rage in the Russian empire against them. Adding insult to injury, Alexander III blamed the pogroms on the Jews themselves and passed a harsh series of restrictive laws against Jews. The 1903-1906 pogroms were pushed by the tsar's secret police, the Okhrana, the same group that also created the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to whip up anti-Jewish fervor.
The only rea
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To quote from the Virtual Jewish Library:
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Wrong. Makhno's army was the Black Army (Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine). Green Army is a general term for localized peasant groups, lacking broad geographic organization. The primary perpetrator of pogroms among green armies was Danylo Ilkovych Terpylo, who not just fought the Reds and Whites, but also the Ukrainian People's Republic itself (it was an insanely complicated war...).
The TL/DR: Russia's tsarist government had spent centuries, but particularly the last half century before the civil
Re:Couldn't get it right (Score:5, Funny)
It has fewer Ukrainians defending it.
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Re: Obligatory.... (Score:3)
Shouldn't it be "moon lands on you"?
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This sounds like it's going to be a blow to Russia's space ambitions.
Well they are relatively new to this. The Soviet era technical institutional knowledge was outside of Russia to a large degree. Much of it in Ukraine.
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And I bet they'll say it's gonna be done in 3 days but after more than a year they'll still have nothing to show for except a lot of scrap metal.