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With the Chinese manned space launch approaching (scheduled for October 15), the world is learning the new word - "taikonauts". Based on the Chinese word for "space".China is quite proud of having developed its own space program in a very short time... true, but this is 2003, not 1960, let's not forget that. Today many nations would be able to do that if so desired - who would doubt that Germany or England would have the technological muscle to launch a man in space? Hardly anyone.
So it is simply the matter of ambitions. You can't feed the population - do the next best thing: launch a space craft.
So all this sounds incredibly silly and shows that communist China is in its mental development still a few decades behind the rest of the world.
Most of us have grown out of games like Who Farts Laudest... too bad the great nations don't even have the brains of 14 years old.
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I think "assembled" is more accurate, with much thanks to Loral, Boeing, and many European companies. Kruschev's remark about Capitalists and rope sales didn't only apply to the USSR.
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In 1961 it was Khruschev who whipped the Kennedy's ass, not the other way around.He also humiliated Eisenhauer over the U2 flap - also without suffering any setbacks on his own.
WE - not even sure who that "we" is - did not bury Nikita. In fact during his years the USSR had solidified its position great deal, while "we" kept swallowing shit.
So thank Brezhnev and others for getting rid of Nikita, don't rush to congratulate yourself.
The West has been playing one giang pussy during those years, make no mistake about it. Even the missile crisis was not realy something to be proud off.
The Soviet Union gave in to the U.S. with regards the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy showed his considerable abilities under duress and resolved the conflict without pulling the "trigger". I shudder to think what would happen today if the same thing were to happen in the Bush administration.
***The Soviet Union gave in to the U.S. with regards the Cuban Missile Crisis.You think so? Then tell me what exactly (outside the rhetorics) did the USSR give up?
Then please tell us what the US gave in return.
When you weight the two objectively there should be no doubt who walked away with more.
I was only six years old at the time, so I'm relying on my history lessons.. The Soviet Union turned the ships around carrying arms to return to USSR. In a secret agreement between Kennedy and Nikita K. the US agreed to dismantle military bases in Turkey. So, we gave up the bases in Turkey and USSR gave up arms in Cuba... I'd say it was a push. Interesting that you maintain this Soviet "air" of superiority, yet you live in "The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave"...
Unlike the post-Mao Chinese, the Soviets could never accept the disgrace of becoming "employees" of the West to earn the cash needed to finance development. If Nikita had actually absorbed what he saw in his 1959 visit to the US, Walmart would be probably be stocked with "made in USSR" goods and China would still be making steel in backyard charcoal ovens.
The next...big challenge will be the Chinese! They are taking over rapidly all the key economics industry..
The US and Europe are beeing taken by storm.
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