I had a book left in my parent’s library, published in that glorious period, which is called “Tales of the Russian Primacy” – from it it follows that the first steam engines, and the first airplanes, and the first electric bulbs, and the first radio and a lot of other things first appeared in Russia, and Edison, Marconi, the Wright brothers, Watt and other great scientists and inventors were just small scammers and plagiators. This struggle entered history under a poisonous slogan, invented by some fearless slogan: "Russia is the homeland of elephants."