I am Soviet.
In the flash of coronavirus outbursts, reorganizations and refinancing, he did not pay any attention to the memes that appeared in the messages. Until now, such a "funny" mem with a "dirty" Soviet symbol has not stolen into business correspondence with a very reliable and very decent Moscow partner. Also a former Physfakov, also from MGU and also from OIAI. and unexpectedly. With a good person with misunderstandings you can only talk long and carefully. Such relationships are valuable. The answer was long. Here is he:
“You know that I was born and raised in Frunze. Now it is Kyrgyzstan. And 10 classes before the physical facade of the Moscow University graduated there, in the simple Soviet school number 2. At present, Frunze (Bishkek) is a deep hopeless province. My thanks to the unified Soviet textbooks and the unified Soviet school program. The school program and textbooks were the same - both in Moscow and Kyrgyzstan. Everywhere in the USSR. Soviet culture (culture, as Harari even interpreted it in "Sapiens") created a small fractal there - in our "academic" house in the very center of the city of 82 apartments, about 70 were for visiting specialists. The Soviet specialists. Which from scratch raised everything the outskirts needed - science, medicine, production, cinema, trade, even dance and circus, you name it... The center at the same time won at least twice - sent specialists had a fantastic career growth, impossible in the center, and the outskirts produced themselves, - and products, and people. Yes is. produced the people.
The production of people in Soviet culture. Where to find research staff in Kyrgyzstan? My parents, both mom and dad, were schoolchildren in the villages, they only spoke Kyrgyzstan. Both of them were pulled out of the village by a commission arriving, capturing gifted schoolchildren throughout Kyrgyzstan. There were only Jews and Russians. To avoid local “protection”. All tests (then "tasks") were virtually independent of the language. It was in Stalin’s time. My future parents and other gifted children were selected by the commission (in two different regions), and they were brought to the 5th school-internat, in Frunze, where they were taught Russian and prepared for the necessary subjects to the university - future chemist and biologist, future professors. All this was already done by a local university, also with a single Soviet program. It was also part of an integrated program.
The son of these parents enrolled in the physfak of the Moscow State University, graduated from the department of quantum statistics and worked at the OIAI (Soviet Nuclear Institute, established in the 50s) at N.N. Bogoliubov. It must say something to you already.
When Gorbachev, Pavlov, Yeltsin, Chubais and others with them made life absolutely impossible for the salary of a physicist in the IAEA, this same guy from Frunze left with his wife and children to Los Alamos, to the state nuclear center, he was taken immediately, lightning as he indicated the readiness to move. Here, the potential opponent appreciated the quality of Soviet training.
You know that this guy lives and works in Zurich. And in this life he is not only engaged in science, - those very Soviet special courses in philosophy and Marxist-Leninist political economy have proved very useful for the development of Swiss space and European humanitarian material.
The ability to learn, immersed in it by many dozens of exams at the MSU, made studying at a Swiss business school a simple walk. Why am I all?
I was often asked and asked here in Zurich: “Do you have a Russian wife and you speak Russian, do you feel Kyrgyz or Russian?”
I always answered and answered the truth: “I am Soviet.”
Ideal countries and cultures in history have not been, are not and will not be. But the Soviet Union was and will remain unbeatable in the true greatness of its fantastic victories, innovations and breakthroughs, and the main of them is Soviet culture. She is now forever. With all the Soviet wounds, problems and tragedies caused not by systemic but managerial errors in an absolutely new system. And the further, the better it will be seen, history will tell it all.
I am a Soviet. I am afraid of the Soviet symbols. And I see in them the light of what they thought.”