Holy shit. Jokes aside, if this is real it’s a damn shame. It’s actually insane that he would get killed for a scientific experiment. Why would anyone want to be involved in science in Russia if this is how they deal with failure? It’s no small feat to land on the fucking moon.
And this right here is why this war has literally made russia a dumber nation because of the “brain drain.” So many of russia’s scientists and intellectuals fled when they invaded Ukraine. Looking at this and all the russian doctors/covid scientists who ‘fell’ to their deaths from windows, it seems putin is determined to make russia a stupid nation.
Holy shit. Jokes aside, if this is real it’s a damn shame. It’s actually insane that he would get killed for a scientific experiment. Why would anyone want to be involved in science in Russia if this is how they deal with failure? It’s no small feat to land on the fucking moon.
Killed for failing a very propagandized mission doing stuff that was mostly routine back in the Soviet era.
It’s not about the failure. It’s about the embarrassment
And this right here is why this war has literally made russia a dumber nation because of the “brain drain.” So many of russia’s scientists and intellectuals fled when they invaded Ukraine. Looking at this and all the russian doctors/covid scientists who ‘fell’ to their deaths from windows, it seems putin is determined to make russia a stupid nation.
Here’s the new rocket design for their space program.
Don’t forget all the intellectuals and educators and researchers, etc that couldn’t leave have likely been drafted or are damn close to it.