Typhoon submarine photo gallery

[Neil]

I can confirm this.  Apparently Soviets lagged behind 14th century Europe when it came to understanding the nature of infectuous diseases.

Well, the Russian understanding of biology is way behind that of the civilized world.

[DGuller]

Here's a typical Soviet soda vending machine as I remember them from my childhood:

[The Brain]

I remember when I was in the Soviet Union they sold some soft drink in brown bottles all over the place. Wasn't bad but it didn't have a very strong taste.

[Ed Anger]

Here's a typical Soviet soda vending machine as I remember them from my childhood:

In Soviet Russia, the machine dispenses with you.

[Siege]

Mindblowing.

Nothing like seing the rotten remains of the enemy's war machine.

[Josquius]

I can confirm this.  Apparently Soviets lagged behind 14th century Europe when it came to understanding the nature of infectuous diseases.

Well, the Russian understanding of biology is way behind that of the civilized world.

Wasn't (some aspects of) medical science one of the few areas where the soviets were doing better?

[Savonarola]

Wasn't (some aspects of) medical science one of the few areas where the soviets were doing better?

I can't speak on medical science specifically; but in many areas of theoretical knowledge the Soviets led the western world.  Taking that knowledge from the lab to the real world was their problem.  For instance they were far ahead of us in telecommunication engineering theory; yet the telephone system they constructed was far inferior to the one that existed in the United States.

[Neil]

I can confirm this.  Apparently Soviets lagged behind 14th century Europe when it came to understanding the nature of infectuous diseases.

Well, the Russian understanding of biology is way behind that of the civilized world.

Wasn't (some aspects of) medical science one of the few areas where the soviets were doing better?

Possibly.  However, their attempt to introduce dialectical materialism to genetics ensured that they were a generation or so behind the West in that particular area.