Computer, 3D cinema, electric cars, microwave oven - all this was created in the USSR. I tell you why developments were slowed down
The country - the Soviet Union - was a fan of science, hence the ton of various inventions and discoveries by Soviet scientists.
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Among them are famous ones, such as, for example, in the field of
✅ space exploration,
✅ nuclear energy,
✅ aviation,
✅ medicine and
✅ weapons.
But there are other important discoveries and inventions of our country, which no one remembers, but which everyone uses; or those whose laurels of success were taken by other countries.
I will mention these amazing discoveries.
❓ But the main question is why these discoveries were not given a go in the USSR?
What is sad is that this is not an accident due to some bureaucracy.
This was a deliberate strangulation of the potential of our country by evil forces that were in power.
❓ Who was it?
❓ And why did they do it? - will be discussed further.
Let's begin.
THIS WAS INVENTED IN THE USSR
✅ MICROWAVE OVEN
✅ On June 13, 1941, the newspaper “Trud” published a note about the invention of a device that uses ultra-high frequency currents to process food.
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From the archive of the newspaper "Trud" for June 13, 1941. Source: https://www.trud.ru/article/03-04-20...e_iz_sssr.html
In this unit it was possible to:
🔹 melt fats,
🔹 cook sausages,
🔹 defrost meat tens of times faster than with the usual method.
Simply put, it was a microwave oven.
But a few days later the war began, and there was no time for innovations.
And therefore, the microwave oven's birthday is not considered to be 1941, but October 8, 1945, when the American Percy Spencer received a patent for it.
At the same time, I will note that the first microwave ovens were huge:
➡ height - about 2 meters,
➡ weight 340 kg and
➡ cost $5000 (almost $53 thousand in our prices).
Those devices that we are accustomed to appeared in the West only in the 60s, and in the USSR in the late 70s.
Although, no matter how you look at it, the first microwave oven was created by Soviet scientists.
interesting fact
Why was microwave ovens banned in the Soviet Union?
Microwave ovens were banned in the USSR. And the reason for this was not resistance to progress, but the opinion of scientists. They found that radiation is extremely harmful to humans.
The speed of waves reaches 300,000 km / second. Under such influence, food molecules disintegrate, which leads to the loss of micro- and macroelements and vitamins. Even the healthiest foods contain carcinogens.
The constant use of a microwave oven leads to the development of malignant tumors. This is what Soviet scientists decided. So concern for the health of citizens came first. But after the collapse of the Soviet Union, microwaves appeared in Russia. The financial benefits exceeded health problems.
And what about abroad
In the 1990s, publications about the harm of microwave waves also began to appear in other countries. In 1992, a study was conducted in America. Then Switzerland picked up the baton. Their scientists also conducted large-scale studies and confirmed the harm of microwaves.
They proved that microwave dishes lose 97% of useful things. The subjects developed cancer of the digestive system after some time after constantly eating dishes cooked in a microwave oven.
Swiss scientist Hans Ulrich Hertel was fired for publishing the results of his research. His article was published in the journal Franz Werber in 1991. That was the price of truth.
But the scientists' research and publications had little effect. Microwaves became a very popular household appliance. Their production only expanded. And users did not pay attention to the harm from their use. Soon, almost every home had its own microwave oven, along with a refrigerator and other indispensable things in the kitchen.
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✅ ROBOT SECRETARY
✅ The first humanoid to help around the house was created in the USSR.
In 1966, Boris Grishin invented the robot secretary ARS, or “Arsik”.
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Robot secretary "Arsik" and its creator Boris Grishin
This miracle machine could:
🔹 wake up the owner and
🔹 remind him of his daily schedule.
🔹 In the owner's absence, the robot answered phone calls and
🔹 recorded messages.
🔹 "Arsik" could dial a number in case of an emergency.
🔹 In addition, it turned household appliances on and off,
🔹 maintained the temperature in the house by turning the valves on the radiators,
🔹 and could open the door for guests.
The robot consisted of:
🔹 separate blocks and
🔹 13 engines,
🔹 weighed almost 100 kilos,
🔹 but was easy to assemble and disassemble.
"Arsik" was presented at an exhibition in Germany, where it attracted a lot of attention from Western specialists. https://www.kp.ru/daily/27506/4767206/
Later, ARS was improved and implemented in enterprises around the world.
⛔️ However, the robot never received any money for development in the USSR.
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✅ "SMART HOME"
✅ The concept of "Internet of things" appeared at the turn of the 21st century. This is when devices collect information, analyze and exchange with each other through applications.
However, in the USSR such a system was shown back in 1987.
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Project SPHINX: a unique computer system, the Soviet "smart home"
It was called SPHINX and was developed under the supervision of Dmitry Azrikan within the walls of VNIITE (All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Technical Esthetics).
Azrikan essentially created the electronic filling for a smart home.
The system included devices that were supposed to communicate with each other:
🔹 monitor,
🔹 speakers,
🔹 headphones,
🔹 remote control,
🔹 disk drive and
🔹 computer with several memory blocks - one for each family member.
Interestingly, all the prototypes of the devices are surprisingly reminiscent of modern technology.
If Soviet scientists had been able to realize the full potential of the project, there would be no analogues to it now.
⛔️ But SPHINX appeared at the wrong time: the wrong people were at the helm of the country.
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✅ 3D CINEMA
Remember the movie “Avatar” in 2009? It attracted attention because it was shown in 3D: you put on special glasses and the picture becomes three-dimensional. The States, so to speak, brought in new technologies back then.
✅ But in Moscow, back in 1941, the world’s first commercial cinema opened, which showed 3D films.
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The screen of the Moscow cinema with a wire raster installed in front of it. Source: https://resbash.ru/articles/cotsium/...eryali-2506981
And the technology that made it possible to get a 3D picture was created back in the 1930s by workers at the All-Union Film and Photo Institute.
And this without any glasses!
All that was required was to slightly re-equip the movie theater.
In 1965, a new technology was developed - "Stereo-70", which dramatically improved the quality and showed wide-screen films in color and volume.
Soviet scientists even received an "Oscar" for it.
The "Stereokino" network consisted of more than a hundred movie theaters not only in the USSR, but also in other socialist countries, for example, in Vietnam.
Specialists from the IMAX company, Ernst McNabb and Colin Low, who later developed the IMAX technology, came to the Soviet Union for unique experience.
Today, IMAX is more than 1,700 movie theaters in 80 countries with a profit of a billion dollars.
⛔️ In Russia, the Stereokino cinemas were closed in the 90s. They are not mentioned on TV or radio.
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✅ ELECTRIC CARS, FLYING CARS, WATER CARS AND A HYDROGEN BUS
✅ Now everyone brags about electric cars, but they started producing them back in Stalin's time
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The electric tractor HT3-12 appeared in the Soviet film "Knight of the Gold Star" (1950) starring Sergei Bondarchuk. Photo: Still from the film.
These are "Teslas" for collective farmers.
The first working design was created in 1937. It was even written about in American magazines. https://www.kp.ru/daily/27100.3/4172666/
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After the war, Stalin continued the revolution in agriculture.
The most advanced model was the ET-5 of 1948.
🔹 A powerful electric motor was installed on the tracked chassis.
🔹 Power was supplied via a 750 m long cable.
🔹 The tractor was connected to a substation and processed up to 60 hectares of soil.
🔹 It looked absolutely fantastic.
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🔹 He appeared in the film “The Knight of the Golden Star”. The film was released in 1950 and “planet rovers” in collective farm fields looked like a fantasy come true.
🔹 After the war, there was little oil, and each electric tractor saved 25 tons of diesel fuel and 850 kg of lubricants per season.
⛔️ True, Khrushchev later shut down Stalin's plans.
He decided to throw all his efforts into developing virgin lands. He did spend money, but instead of fluffy flatbreads, the people got sticky corn bread. And Stalin's plans for electrifying collective farms remained only in films.
However, the USSR then tried to create cars of the future.
⚠️ So in 1962, designers from the experimental department of the Gorky Automobile Plant created a flying "Volga", or "GAZ-16".
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GAZ-16
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Experimental air-cushion vehicle GAZ-16
🔹 Resembling a spaceship,
🔹 the car was only 15 cm off the ground.
🔹 But that was the purpose of the car: the flying Volga was supposed to be something like an SUV that could rise above potholes and fly over a river.
⚠️ Then, in 1976, specialists from the Kharkov Institute of Mechanical Engineering prepared a Moskvich that was fueled with ordinary water.
🔹 It ran on a hydrogen engine.
🔹 In addition to a gas tank, it had a miniature reactor where water reacted with a catalyst and hydrogen was released.
🔹 In 1980, several hydrogen "rafiks" served the Olympic Village in Moscow.
In general, the RAF-22031 is called the world's first hydrogen minibus. https://www.zr.ru/content/articles/9...orodnyj-rafik/
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So what Toyota and Hyundai are now presenting to us as breakthrough technologies was successfully developed in the USSR half a century ago.
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✅ MOBILE PHONE PROTOTYPE AND CELLULAR COMMUNICATION
The first mobile phone is considered to be the Motorola DynaTAC, which looks more like a brick. It was presented by the American Martin Cooper in 1973. It cost almost $4 thousand and for this money you could buy a new car. The Americans then declared that they were the pioneers of mobile communications and that they had no equal.
✅ However, 16 years before that, in 1957, Moscow engineer Leonid Kupriyanovich created a prototype of the LK-1 mobile phone.
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🔹 It weighed 3 kg and
🔹 had a base station that communicated with an automatic landline communications station.
🔹 At the same time, the device itself worked autonomously within a radius of 30 km from the base.
🔹 Later, Kupriyanovich reduced its weight to 0.5 kg,
🔹 and by 1961 he had created a pocket model weighing no more than 100 g.
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In an interview, Kupriyanovich said that the latest model was ready for serial production.
⛔️ However, this was where the talk about development ended. He was simply told "thank you" in the form of a Volga.
✅ Interestingly, in 1963, two years later, the USSR launched the Altai cellular communication system, which was ordered by the country's government.
🔹 It included base stations and subscribers - that is, phones that were installed in cars.
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🔹 A similar system appeared in the USA only a year later.
🔹 "Altai" worked in 114 cities and functioned until 2013.
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✅ THE PROTOTYPE OF A MODERN COMPUTER THAT FITTED ON A DESKTOP
✅ And up until the 70s, the USSR was a leader in the field of computer technology. Only the emphasis was placed on large computing machines that were used by scientific and government institutions.
Although it was here that the prototype of a modern computer was developed - MIR, which fit on a desktop.
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🔹 The USSR authorities presented the outlandish machine at an exhibition in London in 1967.
⛔️ And there they sold it to IBM, allegedly to confirm the primacy of the Soviet engineer Viktor Glushkov in the creation of a personal computer. https://www.gazeta.ru/tech/2023/08/24/17467928.shtml
The Americans got their hands on the latest Soviet development. And soon they had an even more compact analogue.
⛔️ And in 1972, the USSR made the final decision to copy IBM as a single computer standard. Like, why reinvent the wheel if it has already been invented?
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⛔️ This decision was fateful for the computer industry. It threw the Soviet Union back years.
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✅ FLYING SHIP AND Hovering Aircraft Carrier
✅ And, of course, the USSR had a lot of developments in military technologies, which made the West simply drool.
✔️ So the external outline of the American Dream Chaser shuttles was copied from the Soviet space project "Spiral", in particular from the BOR rocket planes, which were developed back in the 1960s.
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During tests in 1982, Western military personnel managed to photograph the BOR, and 30 years later, the Americans had a shuttle that replicated the aerodynamics and wing configuration of the BOR.
✔️ This flying ship is the only ekranoplan of the Lun project built in the USSR in the 80s.
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Lun project ekranoplan
🔹 A unique invention that was designed to destroy surface ships.
🔹 There was nothing like it in the world.
🔹 The ekranoplan rose 2.5-3 meters, that is, it practically flew, slightly touching the water
🔹 and developed a speed of up to 500 km / h.
*For comparison, at that time the full speed of all sea vessels was no more than 100 km / h.
🔹 High-speed and invisible to radar,
🔹 it could approach the enemy at a distance of an accurate missile launch, for which it received the nickname "aircraft carrier killer".
⛔️ But due to the fact that the USSR collapsed in 1991, work on the project was stopped.
✔️ In 1987, the Yak-141 took to the air for the first time in the USSR - the world's first fighter with vertical takeoff and landing, which exceeded the speed of sound.
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Yak-141
🔹 It was intended to gain air supremacy and
🔹 to strike ground and surface targets.
⛔️ And in 1991, the Americans signed a contract with the Yakovlev Design Bureau, as a result of which all the documentation went to the West. The developments of Soviet engineers were used in the F-35 program.
WHERE DID IT ALL GO?
In the USSR, they weren't afraid of the future. The future seemed wonderful. Unlike Western ideas.
❌ No outbreaks of unknown diseases,
❌ no zombies or vampires,
❌ no uprising of machines.
✔️ The movies showed a bright tomorrow,
✔️ in which the world no longer wastes energy on wars,
✔️ and everything is done for the good of people.
✔️ And, of course, in the future, Soviet people conquer space,
✔️ study the past with the help of a time machine and
✔️ establish contacts with aliens.
✔️ In the Soviet Union, even a cyborg that got out of control turned not into a killer terminator, but into the most humane person (a similar thing is shown in the comedy “His Name Was Robert” from 1967. The film does not scare in any way, but, on the contrary, gives faith in humanity, in its mind and feelings).
Hollywood, almost from its very beginning, feared
❌ a robot revolt,
❌ new technologies and
❌ an alien attack.
Of course, such plots look epic. But they are not suitable for the dream of a bright future.
And this is not without reason: such scares are and were created purposefully - to slow down development.
In 1960, Soviet publicists created a filmstrip about how the USSR would live in 2017. The date was not chosen by chance: the centenary of the October Revolution.
They took science fiction books, calculations of scientists and the most daring projects of engineers as a basis.
According to the authors, you and I should already
✔️ control the climate,
✔️ reverse the Ob and Yenisei rivers,
✔️ fly to Alpha Centauri,
✔️ build an intercity metro and
✔️ an underground city of Uglegrad,
✔️ and connect the shores of Alaska and the USSR with a dam,
✔️ along which nuclear trains travel.
In fact, none of the predictions came true, except for a couple of small details from the film: video communication and 3D projection.
But they could have!
↪️ People dreamed,
↪️ scientists advanced science,
↪️ and engineers invented devices that were ahead of their time.
But they were forgotten. And years later they appeared somewhere, but not here.
It was as if the future of the Soviet Union had been cancelled.
In the late 60s, according to Andrei Fursov, a Russian scientist and historian, the USSR could have put an end to capitalism and made a breakthrough into a communist future, because the United States lost the economic race.
To do this, the country needed to solve three problems:
1. Reach a higher level of production.
And this was quite realistic.
⚠️ In 1962, Soviet cyberneticist Viktor Glushkov proposed creating the OGAS network, a computer-based management system for a planned economy. The way the system was supposed to work was similar to neural networks. It would collect information on the economy and manage it online based on Gosplan.
It must be said that the Americans understood what this threatened, and under Lyndon Johnson in 1964, the Stop Glushkov group was created.
According to their forecasts, if the USSR had implemented OGAS by the end of the 70s, it would have completely pulled ahead economically. An article was even published in America, “Punch Card Controls the Kremlin.”
⛔️ It presented a scenario in which the Kremlin elite was replaced by computers. And this scared Soviet officials. They were very afraid of being left out of work. And also that the computer would reveal fraud on the ground, because the economy was becoming transparent.
Glushkov’s project was hushed up.
2. Provide the country with cheap energy.
And the USSR was then on the brink of an energy revolution.
⚠️ In 1957, Soviet scientist Ivan Filimonenko discovered cold thermonuclear fusion. He proposed a new way to obtain energy through the reaction of nuclear fusion of helium from deuterium.
Under his leadership, a reactor was created that produced energy in the form of high-pressure steam, produced hydrogen and oxygen at the output, and suppressed radiation.
The implementation of this project would mean that oil was no longer needed.
⛔️ But in 1968, Filimonenko was removed from work for “political disloyalty,” as an upstart. The attempt to give the world safe energy ended in failure.
⛔️ In fact, by abandoning Filimonenko’s developments, the Soviet government missed the opportunity to reduce dependence on oil and bury the West.
⚠️ By the way, thanks to Filimonenko, the USSR could have had its own flying saucer.
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He invented a unique flying machine-magnetolet, which used the planet's magnetic field for movement.
The commission met the inventor with skepticism, but the machine really took off on its own without propellers or thrust!
A couple of days later, the project was completely classified.
3. Provide a high level of military protection.
⚠️ And already in the mid-60s, under the leadership of the Soviet designer Vladimir Chelomey, a defensive complex was developed that could leave the United States 50 years behind!
The basis of the complex was the offensive-defensive missile system "Sunset". It was meant "Sunset of America".
It was a unique, the world's first, autonomous missile complex.
In simple terms, a container with missiles that was sunk on US territory and could be activated if necessary.
Moreover, even if a war suddenly broke out and the Soviet Union was almost destroyed, these missiles would still work.
Their autonomy was provided by a program-free missile guidance system that had no analogues in the world.
⛔️ In the 90s, this system was presented to the Americans, which amazed them, since they had nothing like it.
⛔️ Well, as you already understood, Chelomey's project was also deliberately ruined.
⛔️ And the USSR was drawn into a new round of the arms race to the delight of the Soviet military-industrial complex. And the American one too.
That is, the USSR had all the opportunities that could help make a breakthrough into the future.
But as we can see, development was stopped.
And here is the reason 👇
In 1968, on the initiative of Rockefeller, the Club of Rome was created, so to speak, a kind of global brain.
And already in the first report “Limits to Growth” they put forward the concept of “zero growth” — slowing down economic development in the name of preserving nature.
But the Western elites did not just create this club, they managed to draw the Soviet top into the projects of the Club of Rome in the area of ecology and global governance.
They proposed a policy of “détente” — a respite needed first of all by the United States, which found itself in an extremely difficult situation at the turn of the 1970s. When the United States simply needed pressure, the authorities of the Soviet Union did not do it.
Why?
Because part of the Soviet party nomenklatura, headed by Khrushchev, wanted to join the capitalist environment.
And they went along with everything they were offered. But they were deceived: under the pretext of protecting the planet, the rapid development in the USSR was stopped.
So the Soviet authorities began to integrate into the Western system. And we all know what this led to: Gorbachevshchina and the collapse of a great country. Well, and naturally, no one sat these officials at the same table. None of them made the world elite.
That's how the Soviet Union was brought to heel at its takeoff.
