why was our engineering culture so incredible?
It was mostly pretty shit.
Because you poached a bunch of German rocket scientists after the war
>>109566487Because when humanities are ideologically captured the only faucet of life free of tyranny is math. That's why there were so many decent engineers in the Warsaw pact - everybody grinded math
>>109566487>steal outdated technology>spend the time you'd have used on researching that technology to instead improve itwow... genius...
>>109566487Why isnt it now?
>create the first satellite (admittedly very impressive)>accomplish nothing else of note>die
>>109566548It's even funnier than thatOne of the reasons that there were so many prominent Hungarian mathematicians was that communism made the country so fucking poor that they couldn't really invest in any science that required more than a pencil and paper>>109567060Plain and simple brain drain. Whatever you do and whatever you earn in Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Romania etc, you'll earn significantly more doing the same thing in Germany, Netherlands or, God forgive me for uttering this word, the UK
>>109567096>brain "drain"You killed off all the brain you had left in WW2 retard.
>>109567096>Whatever you do and whatever you earn in Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Romania etc, you'll earn significantly more doing the same thing in Germany, Netherlands or, God forgive me for uttering this word, the UKnot in IT
>ourWhat did you contribute out of curiosity?
>>109567070What about Kalashnikovs?
>>109566487They should have invented food.
inventors of square wire
>>109566487You fucked up compute. You're still very bad at it and the flow on effects have filtered down to everything else.
>>109567130by now there's been brain drain for 30 years to western empires
>>109566487>incredible>RBMK
>>109566487>>109567070More like>build stuff that doesnt break>undercapitalize R&D due to it>die
>>109567173>Germany, Netherlands or, God forgive me for uttering this word, the UKWhy would anyone want to live in these shitholes? No amount of money in the world is worth it.
>>109570238Compared to what, united niggers of israel?