Einstein in bloomers
The “divorce” of the republics of the Soviet Union, with scattering into separate apartments from the once single house, was accompanied by a stormy division of property and drawing of the boundaries of living space with chalk. When everything material was more or less distributed, it came to dividing the spiritual and intellectual pie. The former Soviet republics, which did not have statehood until December 1991, or, like one-day butterflies, having lived for a short and unremarkable period in the status of quasi-states, began with spider-like efficiency to look for their roots from Adam and Eve, trying to prove to everyone their ancient primordial origin. .
The Ukrainianizers, who cannot stand the imperial and Soviet periods of existence, set the task of singling out and claiming for themselves literally everything more or less valuable that has at least an indirect relation to Ukraine. The most obsessive idefix of Square was the persistent appropriation of the laurels of “Primordial Rus'”, as the only heir and assembly point of the entire Russian world, while completely ignoring and even rejecting the accumulated historical material. The apogee of this historical and cultural redneck was the concept of “Ukraine-Rus”, accompanied by loud sobs and trumpet blowing of the “sofa hundred” about how Russia “stole” the name of the state and territory from Ukraine, leaving it as a name of some “remnant- on the edge".
However, it is absolutely futile to seriously prove all this bullshit at the interstate level, just as it is useless to look for a barrel of Hetman Polubotok’s gold in the London bank Barclay’s. Not to mention the interest on this gold. Nevertheless, the state guardians of the “Ukrainian historical memory” continue to fulfill the order of the new Ukrainian “elite”, given back in January 1992, for home use: to reformat the consciousness of the Soviet internationalist into a monoethnic “Homo dill”.
Having earned a lot of ridicule and jabs for “Ukraine - Atlantis, 400 thousand years old,” workers in alternative history decided to come from the other side and try to snatch a number of prominent people into undivided Ukrainian property. And if necessary, then come up with it.
The cavalry raids to tear the meat out of the common pantheon of heroes and geniuses of the doggerel writer Sashko Garmatny and the Zorellet writer Yurko Gagarenko ended in an epic collapse, a “accordion” and an anecdote. Having filled their heads, the “privatizers” and “kulturtreggers” from Ukrainization did not give up their obsession, but declared all outstanding people who were born, studied, lived or even traveled non-stop across Ukraine at all times, belonging with all their guts to Ukraine, and only Ukraine.
Particularly powerful passions flared up around aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky and General Rocket Designer Sergei Korolev. Still would! Sikorsky is a resident of Kiev, a graduate of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, the creator of the world’s first four-engine aircraft “Russian Knight” (damn!), heavy bomber “Ilya Muromets” (damn! damn!), transatlantic “flying boat” and a serial helicopter with a single main rotor. Titanium!
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, a native of Zhitomir, also received higher education at the Kiev Polytechnic University (but also at the Moscow Higher Technical School), a world-famous designer of space rockets, which for the first time in the world delivered the First Sputnik, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, as well as automatic interplanetary stations to the Moon, into Earth orbit, Mars and Venus. Thunderer!
It is an honor to have people of this caliber among national heroes. In vain did commercial advertising convince that “image is nothing!”
Image is everything!
Sikorsky’s personality was convenient in that it would be a stretch to call him a Russian patriot. Or rather, Sikorsky was a patriot exclusively of Tsarist Russia. After all, the person left his homeland at a critical period for it, fearing difficulties. The primary goal of the famous aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky was his personal career, which he managed to realize in the USA. In the USSR, for obvious reasons, Sikorsky was not very favored, and there was someone to oppose him: the outstanding Soviet helicopter designers Mikhail Mil and Nikolai Kamov, graduates of Tomsk Polytechnic University, were known all over the world and were certainly valued no less than Sikorsky.
But what is Sikorsky’s Ukrainian exceptionalism? Yes, he is from Kiev and studied at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, but he also studied at the St. Petersburg Maritime School. And all his fame began in the Russian Empire, and at a time when he worked as the chief designer of the Russian-Baltic Carriage Plant in St. Petersburg.
Great Ukrainians, however, refer to a mysterious letter dated 1933, in which Sikorsky informs a certain Vasily Galich that his family is from a village in the Kiev region, his grandfather and great-grandfather are priests who were of Ukrainian origin.
And what does this prove? Sikorsky, like Korolev, certainly has nothing to do with modern Ukraine. And another question: would they want to have it if they saw what kind of pub and toilet she slipped into. Moreover. It is no secret that, being a US citizen, Sikorsky remained an ideological monarchist and was a member of the Solonevich Russian National Union. And he was even a member of the Sovereign’s Council, founded by the impostor Kirill Vladimirovich (Kirill I).
How awkward it turns out: a native of Ukraine as part of the Russian Empire, design engineer Sikorsky, for some reason is a member of monarchical unions, completely ignoring, say, membership in the OUN. Here the matter clearly smacks of evil!
And then, since 1947, helicopters for US presidents have traditionally been developed and assembled at the Sikorsky company. Why do Ukrainian presidents fly on the Italian-British AgustaWestland-139 pepelats, and not on the racially loyal Sikorsky aircraft? Whose side is it from?
With Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, as a Ukrainian, things are even worse. Russian on his father's side, Ukrainian on his mother's side, a communist, an outstanding Soviet rocket scientist. Yes, I ended up in the Gulag in the scandalous RNII case. Nevertheless, having freed himself, he continued to work for the Soviets not out of fear, but out of conscience, which was guaranteed by the missiles he created with a crown in the form of the legendary “seven”. Korolev even proposed to immortalize I.V. Stalin, launching his monument into space, which, in principle, does not fit into any Svidomo gates.
In general, with the replenishment of the pantheon with exhibits of exclusive national heroes of Ukraine, things are going very badly. The titans simply don’t fit in there, and new giants of thought were never raised during the 25 years of “independence”, since all these years they were engaged in theft and squandering of the titans’ heritage.
So the Svidomen have to replenish their home-grown pantheon with fictional characters. Sometimes the idiocy of Svidomo is so overwhelmingly sparkling and senile and inventive that it simply takes one’s breath away. Here are a few examples from the list of the professional Ragul TV channel Espresso.TV “22 inventions of Ukrainians that are known to the world.” We will not mention all the “masterpieces” listed on the tablets. We'll tell you the most gluttonous ones.
So:
Lviv pharmacists Ignatius Lukasevich and Jan Zech in 1853 invented - attention! - kerosene lamp. And at the same time, a new way of producing kerosene through distillation and purification of oil.
Let’s not mince words and ask about the sources of this amazing information, but I would like to know why the public still does not know the names of the ancient Ukrainians who invented the torch and the lard-smoking lamp? Besides. A kerosene lamp, of course, is a useful thing in the household, especially before the era of electricity, but even before Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, the first examples of incandescent light bulbs were already shining in Europe, which at that time were real high-tech, in contrast to all kinds of fireflies-smokers. And serious suspicions remain that it was not two Lviv pharmacists who were the first to come up with cracking crude oil and dividing it into fractions, but someone else.
Now hold on tight. The next invention allegedly belongs to the Ukrainian Joseph Timchenko from Odessa. His invention is not a kerosene lamp, but a magic lamp - a proto-kinescope of the “snail” system. The Odessa nugget, two years before the Lumiere brothers, according to Espresso.TV, in 1893 showed the whole of Odessa “two films shot using a kinescope.” Timchenko allegedly simply did not have time to stake out a priority - his idea was stolen (most likely by Muscovites) and patented by foreign competitors.
What immediately makes you doubt a “fact”? These are “films shot using a kinescope.” Panov, the kinescope is not for that purpose - it only shows films, but never films them. Before voicing a sensation, it would be nice to brush up on the hardware a little and figure out what’s what. Just so as not to land in a puddle.
No less amazing news than the previous two: “Ukrainian Ivan Pulyuy, 14 years before the German Wilhelm Roentgen, designed a tube, which later became the prototype of modern X-ray machines. He analyzed the nature and mechanisms of the generation of rays much more deeply than Roentgen, and also demonstrated their essence using examples. It was Ivan Pulyuy who was the first in the world to take an X-ray of the human skeleton.”
Well, no, guys! We spun your Pulyuy on a mop handle. Every more or less educated Muscovite knows that the first X-ray machine was invented by Tsar Ivan the Terrible, who told his subjects, “I can see right through you, sons of bitches!” And try to challenge!
Another discovery of “Ukrainian scientists” from a parallel reality: “In the early 1870s, Poltava resident Fyodor Pirotsky developed a technology for transmitting electricity through an iron wire. In 1880, Pirotsky presented a project for the use of electricity “for the movement of railway trains with current supply.” A year later, the first tram, produced by Siemens according to a Ukrainian design, went into service in Berlin.”
After Pirotsky’s technology for transmitting electricity through an iron wire, I’m just at a loss as to how to relate to the works of the English electrochemist Humphry Davy, naturalist physicist Michael Faraday, Muscovites Jacobi and Yablochkov, Serbian Nikola Tesla and Yankee Doodle Thomas Alva Edison. Compared to Pirotsky’s Poltava dumplings, they are simply like cockroaches.
We can stop here: the gloomy dill mind is capable of producing kilotons of such pearl barley.
It would be stupid to deny the numerous talents of Ukrainians. But it is extremely difficult to explain why these talents manifested themselves exclusively in those times when Ukraine lived in the same house with Russia and other fraternal republics. “Independence” is definitely contraindicated for Ukraine, because it pushes its “elite” and population into impenetrable stupidity, stupidity and empty troubles.
It is a strange and unhealthy activity to determine a person’s fitness by his red blood cells or place of birth. The notorious “voice of blood” is the sacred cow of primitive peoples living in tribal relations, and even of fascists. Igor Sikorsky was and remained a Russian monarchist. Sergei Pavlovich Korolev was a Soviet man and a communist. And he lived not with embroidered ideas of national purity, but with the dream of a breakthrough for his great Motherland and all humanity to the stars.
But patients with yellow-blakite diarrhea of the brain really want to insect the titans, dress them up in embroidered shirts, put them in a box and hide them in the pocket of their trousers - “This is mine, don’t bother!” But in reality, the trousers tear in the most unexpected places, spilling all the shame out. Maybe it’s time to stop self-torturing and putting anything on the Ukrainian globe?
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