Some #Soviet history for you:

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

Some #Soviet history for you:

The technological heart of the #USSR was #Ukraine

#Dnipropetrovsk (aka #Dnipro) was nicknamed "Rocket City" during the #ColdWar

So when #Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian innovation answered. Russia has been paying for that miscalculation ever since, and will pay a lot more for their colossal error

Ukrainian ingenuity will win this stupid war

"Ukraine Quietly Tested Space-Launch Capabilities in Middle of War Twice"

Ukraine Quietly Tested Space-Launch Capabilities in Middle of War Twice

Ukraine's military intelligence conducted two secret space missions during the war, reaching altitudes of 100km and 204km.

UNITED24 Media (united24media.com)

#UkraineWar

[janantos@f.cz]

@benroyce and Estonia was Soviet hub for computer science, cybernetics and software engineering. Institute of Cybernetics was established in 1960.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@janantos

And thus Estonia gave us Skype, before Microsoft ruined it

[janantos@f.cz]

@benroyce and a lot of other things eg. Starship Technologies (those small delivery robots, also deployed in US, engineering hub is in Estonia) and we can continue …

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@janantos