Soviet Contributions to Modern world

[Maimonides]

For the OP who thinks the Soviets invented advertising...uh...I invented water. Oh yeah, I also invented sliced bread. Open a book or something.

Womans Suffrage, equality they were good thing of USSR,

What's the point of suffrage if you can't vote on anything. Could they even vote on their local party bosses?

As far as equality, many people originally supported the Bolsheviks & Mencheviks because they thought communism would guarantee equality where none existed under the tsars. They were very wrong, as they later discovered. Ethnic Russians were dominant over the other ethnicities of the diverse Soviet Union. Religious minorities supported the communists only to see their churches & synagogues confiscated by the communist government & laws set in place to discourage or ban religious teaching. Equality in the USSR was only for Russian atheists.

Didn't the Soviets contribute some awesome tanks though?

Yes. The T-34 was a major advance & probably the best tank of it's day.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

#4 - Created the "Golden Age" of Russia - Created another time of great achievements for Russia, Peter the Great times was another time of great Achievements for Russia

So are you saying that these great achievements, such as the AK-47 and Sputnik would not have come around if it weren't for a bunch of Reds?

#5 - Overthrow a few Dictators - Like the ex-dictator of Cuba, now Fidel Castro is controllin Cuba,

Castro booted Batista by himself, and came to the United States for aid. We denied him because we liked Batista, so he went to the Soviet Union. The USSR did not "install" Batista, I don't know what you're on about.

and we all know how much Fidel Castro is loved,

He is?

lol, he got a white dove on his shoulder one day (which everyone thinks is a good omen)

So?

Anyone got any others???

Killed millions of people.

Tried to exterminate an entire race of people.

Brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

Showed the world unparalleled levels of opression, corruption, and economic disaster.

Served as an example of why communism is stupid.

 

[BEHIND_THE_MASK]

Brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

Thats arguable... The US started that by putting Nukes in Turkey close enough to hit the USSR. You knew Stalin was Paranoid and that paranoia would probably spill over to the next leader.

I will not protect the actions of the USSR. I myself support communism but not the actions of the majority of the Soviet Union.

But we did do some good. We made some rather great bounds in Science, weaponry (I know that weaponry kills making it terrible but it weapons also protect so can be used for good)... I dont know much else, though I do recall hearing of my countries work in reviving the dead by "bringing to life the head of a dog"... I personally find it bulls*it but it was filmed so we engineered Modern Special Effects

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-wGIbesMGc&mode=related&search=

But if it is real... then by god we Russians were idiots. We could have made an Army of the Dead!!!

 

[ParkCungHee]

Tried to exterminate an entire race of people.

Which one? Theres something of a list.

 

[BEHIND_THE_MASK]

He's probably talking about the Jews when Stalin went after them. And probably the Russian Populance too...

But again that was mostly the work of Stalin and the goons he installed in places such as the KGB.

 

[Commy]

Equality in the USSR was only for Russian

Yes, Russians and other nations have non equal rights in CCCP. There was a big discrimination. Of Russians.

 

[BEHIND_THE_MASK]

The Thing is that in reality, the only time all the races in a country have ever been treated equally is during Stalin's reign.

Because everyone was treated the same. F*cked.

He tried to make it look less bad by trying to make it look like he was concentrating against the Jews. But everyone was screwed either way.

 

[Princeps]

Okay, Im tryin to find out the Soviet contributions to the modern world, so this is all I got so far...

#1 - Propaganda/Advertisement - Lenin Proclaimed the best way to get Communist Ideology around the people was small animated movies, and the capitalist corporations stole this idea for their own ideology so they created advertisement.

Americans and British are the true masters of propaganda. The British even impressed Hitler so much that he chose many of the same methods, and like the British, who turned their population into raving anti-german fanatics, Hitler turned (many) Germans into willing mass murderers and warmongerers. Today, the same style continues, and Americans are dragged into pointless wars and deeper submission into state domination, and relinquishing rights and priviliges... All this is due to very effective media propaganda. But, true, many western medias have much in common with soviet propaganda, namely the Pravda.

 

[Atticus]

So are you saying that these great achievements, such as the AK-47 and Sputnik would not have come around if it weren't for a bunch of Reds?

You know, you can nullify any achievment with that kind of comment, like "What's so great about Newton, if he hadn't, someone else would invented the theory of gravity". It might be true, but it's not relevant if you speak about someones achievments.

I'd like to thank USSR for the wellfare in noncommunist countries, especially in Europe. If it wasn't for fear of revolution, working class people would still be de facto slaves.

 

[pboily]

While I can't vouch for the state of the sciences, they did top notch mathematics: Kolmogorov and V.I. Arnol'd are easily amongst the best 20 mathematicians of the last century.

 

[Neonanocyborgasm]

Okay, Im tryin to find out the Soviet contributions to the modern world, so this is all I got so far...

#1 - Propaganda/Advertisement - Lenin Proclaimed the best way to get Communist Ideology around the people was small animated movies, and the capitalist corporations stole this idea for their own ideology so they created advertisement

#2 - The fall of the Nazis - Russia brought down a great deal of the Nazis in World War Two, if they was never even in there (Like if they wasnt against Germany durin WWI so it wouldnt get Hitler all pissed off at Russia), then the Allies wouldnt have killed that much of Nazi Soldiers meanin that, there would be alot more secret Nazis in hiding around the world (old people tryin to pass their ideas to their children??)

#3 - Guns, such as the Ak-47 - They just kick ass, you gotta admit, from the 5MM Skorpion to the Classic AK-47

#4 - Created the "Golden Age" of Russia - Created another time of great achievements for Russia, Peter the Great times was another time of great Achievements for Russia

#5 - Overthrow a few Dictators - Like the ex-dictator of Cuba, now Fidel Castro is controllin Cuba, and we all know how much Fidel Castro is loved, lol, he got a white dove on his shoulder one day (which everyone thinks is a good omen)

Anyone got any others???

The only contributions the USSR made to the world were, being a 50% partner against the Nazis in WW2, and being the first in space. Outside of that, it was a cruel and terrible regime whose harm far outweighed its good.

Some perspective:

1. The USSR greatly industrialized and modernized its economy in the 1930s, but this was horribly inefficient, as its cost was millions of lives.

2. The USSR helped defeat Nazi Germany, but this was only after joining them as allies and then being betrayed.

3. The first manned spaceflight and satellite launch was from the USSR, but once that was achieved, the US quickly surpassed it, so that by the 1980s, they had nothing to show for it other than the decrepit Mir space station.

 

[cthom]

the ekranoplane, hydrofoil?

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Which one? Theres something of a list.

The Kuhlaks (sp?) were the ones that immediately came to mind.

You know, you can nullify any achievment with that kind of comment, like "What's so great about Newton, if he hadn't, someone else would invented the theory of gravity". It might be true, but it's not relevant if you speak about someones achievments.

While I can't vouch for the state of the sciences, they did top notch mathematics: Kolmogorov and V.I. Arnol'd are easily amongst the best 20 mathematicians of the last century.

the ekranoplane, hydrofoil?

The argument was that the Soviet Communist Regime brought these things to exist, not that they were created under the Soviet Regime. That's what I was trying to say, that these sort of things would have happened anyway, whether the Russian government had been Soviet, Czarist, or whatever. It was the people who made them, not the government that caused them to happen.

 

[Evie]

A Kulak, in Soviet parlay, was a "wealthy", land-owning peasant.

While it was indeed a social group within Russia, it was not in any way, form or shape, a race.

(IIRC the Soviets did engage in a few genocide-ish attempt, though. Just the Kulaks don't fit that definition)

 

[pboily]

IMHO, the next time a government causes any innovation to happen will be a first.

I'm not sure we can take 'Soviet Contributions to Modern World' to mean 'Exclusive Soviet Contributions to Modern World That Wouldn't Have Occured Any Other Way'... as Atticus points out, every human achievement was bound to happen one way or the other.

I would like to be able to claim the achievements of the West.

 

[Alpha Killer II]

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS -
The MiG - Was probably one of the best jets around till the US started copyin the Soviet Designs
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Now I was watching a video yesterday and it showed that one of the most hitted countries by Soviet's animated propagandas was USA, they showed how much racists they were, and that one black Cuban Shoe shiner that questioned the ex-cuban dictator and died 4 it (well I think he died, I didnt hear him that good, too much background sounds)
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AND Ho Chi Minh was a good dictator I think, he had the hearts of the people, except for the corrupt South Vietnamese Government
AND Fidel Castro is well loved by his people EXCEPT for the Cuban Exiles that hate their own country
AND Laos Rules =]

 

[BEHIND_THE_MASK]

Heres a contribution. The beautiful Soviet Anthem (In English just for you) :::

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtU3vUOa2sw

 

[Alpha Killer II]

...I was wonderin, what is the SovieT anthem Called???
Is it "My Army"?
or something else?
Bcuz I 4got xD

 

[REDY]

I think that Soviet hymn hasnt name, however before end of WWII Soviet anthem was Internationale.

 

[REDY]

And I bet that "My Army" its not, because lyrics is not about army but about Soviet Union...