Famous Ukrainians

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Nestor

Have a look at this site.

http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/foreword.shtml

This is a list of peoples in Russia that are on the verge of extinction.

Then you have those that are extinct like Meryans, Kamas, Yupik, Sirenik, Motors(Maters) and Koibals.

Then you have the peoples that were marked for destruction lik ethe Ukrainians who were to be deported from Ukraine after WWII.

1. I refuse to blame the process of sovietisation on the Russian people. Besides, "genocide" implies a brutal physical action to exterminate a people, which is not the case.

2. Your agenda is absolutely biased. If you want to play that game, then bring also in the accusations of "criminal activities" by Ukrainians during WWII.

3. I refuse to blame Russia for keeping Mongol and Tatar tribes at bay.

4. Your agenda will only achieve that someone else starts searching and posting on so-called "Ukrainian war crimes".


Now, consider this a warning to drop your agenda once and for all. There will be no further warnings and your threads will end up in C.O.

[Nestor]

Excerpt:

Korolev family lore holds that manned flight, notably travel to the moon, obsessed "The Chief Designer" from an early age. As a toddler young Sergei gazed at the moon from his hometown in Ukraine (Zhytomyr) and badgered his mother with question about "what was on the moon?" As a young father amidst the ruins of World War II his daughter recalls a 1946 conversation. She was reading Jules Verne's Voyage to the Moon, father saw the book, "He told me, You know, in about 30 years a human will be on the moon." Of course it turned out that thanks to the space race Korolev ignited, his rivals in America's Apollo program --by Neil Armstrong's July 1969 'One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind' -- cut five years off his prediction. Vision, commitment, and ruthless determination pushed a young boy who helped out with hydroplanes as a teenager in Odessa, a port city on Black Sea. Korolev designed his first glider at 17 while a student at an Odessa Technical School.He became a pilot and moved to Moscow to take up a professional life as an aviation engineer. In 1929, infatuated by Tsiolkovsky's writings about space exploration, Sergei Pavlovich decided to devote himself to rocketry. He joined the Moscow branch of the "Group for Study of Cosmic Travel" (GIRD) and became the protégé of Fridrikh Arturovich Tsander (1887-1933), the man who developed the Soviet Union's first liquid-propelled rocket engine.


Korolev and his comrades made important progress towards breaking gravity's hold in the 1930's, including the flight of 'Model 212' which the 'Chief Designer' considered a miniature version of a future man carrier. But, Korolev's own high flying trajectory was cut short by a near-fatal trip to Stalin's frozen hell.


See:
http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/moon/inv/moon_inv_ins.htm

[Svyatoslav]

Is this what pygmy peoples do: Claim the achievements of Jews -- the oh-so reviled -- as their own?

[Nestor]

Wow I'm amazed that a Neanderthal like you can read and write.