20 inventions that the Soviet Union stole from the West and gave as their
It is no secret that the Soviet Union did not disdain lies in order to ascend in the eyes of its citizens and create the desired image of an omnipotent state that is "ahead of the rest." One of the areas in which merciless propaganda based on fiction was conducted was the sphere of new technologies. Residents of the USSR naively believed that the most advanced developments in electronics, mechanics, etc. belong to their fellow citizens, and the West is only making miserable attempts to steal and copy these ingenious inventions.
After the end of the New Year and Christmas holidays, millions of holiday firs, pines and firs are sent to landfills around the world. Useful plant materials slowly decompose, polluting the atmosphere with greenhouse gases, which are abundant even without them. In many countries there are special programs for collecting unnecessary New Year trees, which after processing turn into compost, sawdust, vitamin feed for animals or fuel briquettes. ...