#Osoaviakhim

[plethoraworldatlas]

Operation Osoaviakhim

People do talk about Operation Paperclip a lot, for good reasons, but people should also know and talk about Operation Osoaviakhim. It was for all intents and purposes the Soviet version of Operation Paperclip; Over 2,500 Nazi scientists and engineers, and 4000 of their family members, as well as tons of equipment and research materials, were transported across the USSR to serve the Soviet Union.

The Soviets used their Nazi scientists for Nuclear research, Jet designs, developing their Space program and ICBM technology, Sputnik, tons of random assorted weapons and machinery, Nazi designs were likely used as part of the development of the AK47.

#soviet #Operation Osoaviakhim

[maximdorky]

oh god I just realized that with the new Indiana Jones movie the Operation Paperclip Discourse online is going to be fucking awful.

#indiana jones #my love-hate relationship with The Discourse #Youths #maybe learn about Operation Osoaviakhim before you start spouting off #Operation Osoaviakhim saved more Nazis than Operation Paperclip #just sayin'

[amarriageoftrueminds]

Hot take but the more I think about it the more I reckon they should've left the Russian aspect out of the Winter Soldier in the MCU. 

I know it's a part of the comics, and the name is meant to evoke the Cold War (Russian, Winter), but IMO it better suits the ‘Gitmo Army brat’ Bucky of the comics than the ‘Arnie Roth’ Bucky of the MCU; it doesn't fit with the MCU's specific backstory parameters. (Plus conflating Russian/KGB with SHIELD/Hydra just muddies the waters, for no particular purpose.)

Examples:

If Bucky was tortured by Nazi doctors in Russia it would've been under Operation Osoaviakhim, not Paperclip.

It doesn't make sense that Russians would name him after an American's quote about America. That's the exact opposite of what Russians would do.

Whereas it’s exactly what Americans would do if he was in American hands when the WS was created (ie. from early on). If comics!Steve can quote Mark Twain it doesn’t make sense that people don’t recognise a Thomas Paine reference in-universe. 

It doesn't make any sense, logistically, that the WS is tortured and operated on by Zola, who is in America (and stays there until he dies), unless the WS is also in America from early on.

(Per Agent Carter) It also doesn’t make any sense that the man who created the WS mind-control techniques -- Doctor Fennhoff/Faustus -- is working for the SSR in America, with Zola, if the WS himself is not also in America when those techniques are implemented. 

(And we know that that tech stayed in America, not Russia, because in the Black Widow movie the Red Room had to go undercover in Ohio just to steal it, and this was in 1995!)

It seems significant that we only see the WS in Siberia a mere 10 days before the Dissolution of the Soviet Union (and Howard Stark knew about him / recognised him instantly, and called him Sergeant Barnes, like Zola did.) 

It doesn't make sense that the WS is shown being conveniently stored in a local urban bank vault in Washington, DC... but was previously shoved hundreds of miles out of the way, in the Siberian wilderness, where it would've been a massive pain in the ass for any American Hydra to get hold of him. (And if they did, for some reason, want to massively inconvenience themselves just for a cold-name’s sake, why not Canada or Alaska?) 

It doesn't make sense that MCU WS is shown exclusively speaking English to the American Hydra agents who have control of him in the present day... but then all his control-words were in Russian and suddenly he speaks only Russian to handlers before this... And yet, he’s back to speaking English again in the flashbacks from TFATWS?? 🤦‍♀️

IMO it would've just been simpler and more straight-forward if it was just Nazis who found Bucky at the bottom of the ravine, not Russians (might even explain why he didn't escape, post-fall but pre-brain damage; he would've been thinking he'd get repatriated pretty soon, when the war's over... and he's kinda right 😭). 

And it would ram home the 'we were the ones doing wrong' horror of CATWS, if Bucky had just been on US soil the entire time and nobody good knew.

Possible scenario: 

The Russians who found Bucky wounded in WWII handed him over to the Americans, since the war wasn’t over yet and the two sides were ‘officially’ still allies. (And/or because they didn’t realise what they had, and/or he was part of some POW exchange deal.)

By the time Stark, Carter & Phillips found out, they had already hired Zola and Fennhoff. 

They intended to use Bucky to reboot the eugenicist supersoldier program and also experiment in the field of mind control (a la Project Artichoke, MK/Ultra etc.) Which they knew people would object to, so they kept Bucky’s recovery quiet from the other Commandos, his family, etc. 

SHIELDra had Bucky in America all along, and the whole Russian Boogeyman / Russian weapons thing was just a cover so that Hydra Demagogues could blame every WS hit on the USSR, and thereby drum up convenient anti-Communist hysteria during the Cold War. 

(After scientists were sent there to work under Operation Osoaviakhim, Hydra grew slowly in Russia -- with the rise of (anti-Communist) capitalism, and with Fascism being typically the resort of anti-authority criminal classes. Hydra ideology flourished much more quickly in the US (where it would be conformist-authoritarian, not anti-authoritarian), because the US was already capitalist, and had already been doing Hydra eugenic science like Project Rebirth, back in WWII.)

Being a greedy liar and a thief, Howard Stark decided to take advantage of the end of the Cold War by selling the WS to the Soviet branch of Hydra, just days before the Dissolution of the Soviet Union made it moot, and stealing the WS from the Pentagon to patent it himself. 

He sold Bucky complete with the Red Book, which the Russians either translated while reading aloud, re-wrote in Russian for their own purposes (explaining why an American organisation’s supersoldier appears to have Russian trigger words; perhaps he doesn’t, they would work in any language?) and why Zemo read them aloud in Russian.

(And/or, maybe the Americans really did use Russian trigger words on Bucky, to perpetuate the ‘definitely-not-American’ Boogeyman mythos?) 

The Russians realised they had been double-crossed by Stark, and sent the WS after him and his wife in retribution, and to steal the WS serum back (which Stark may or may not have also promised but failed to deliver.) 

The other US intelligence agencies failed to look into it more closely because, once they discovered the sale of the WS, and the theft of the serum, they considered Stark and his wife traitors / double-agents, and thought it was best for PR if the whole thing was hushed up.

Despite now having a mind-controlled super soldier of their own, the Russians didn’t have the secret of creating new mind-control. This explains why they couldn’t control the other Winter Soldiers (despite them being Hydra ideologues before serum), and why the Red Room had to go undercover in America, to steal the secret of mind-control from SHIELD in 1995. 

Why would they have to go to America to get that intel, if it was already in Russia?

#dat's me #bucky barnes #bucky meta #meta #mcu #mcu meta #POSSBLE SCENARIO UNDER THE CUT #bout to post a hot take while spaced out and sleep-deprived #always a wise decision! #of course it doesn't follow that a thing is good just because it is in the comics #it could be a comic written by mark millar after all #what is the watsonian explanation... #for this preposterous east coast american / siberian wilderness set up?? #what does the russian aspect add to it? why was it necessary for the plot? #at first it looked like the russian stuff was just a cover up by americans to conceal bucky's true identity #but then in CACW they went full blown russian with it and that.... doesn't actually make sense for this MCU #time for a catnap

[sovietdebris]

OSOAVIAKHIM women's team

Unknown author, 1931, Verkhneuralsk, State Historical Museum of the Southern Urals.

Женская команда ОСОАВИАХИМа

Неизвестный автор, 1931 год, г. Верхнеуральск, Государственный исторический музей Южного Урала.

[mioritic]

"Pioneers, strengthen the defence of the Soviet land! More circles of young friends of Osoaviakhim!"

Lithograph by Yekaterina Zernova (b. Simferopol 1900 - d. Moscow 1995), designed 1934

#yekaterina zernova #ekaterina zernova #ussr #1934 #екатерина зернова

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 7 May 1945, Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered, leading to the end of World War II in Europe. But rather than be punished for their crimes, many Nazi and fascist leaders continued to hold onto power and wealth. In West Germany, despite "denazification", most Nazi war criminals went unpunished, and many were rehired in official positions as the Cold War with the eastern bloc heated up. For example, out of around 1 million people involved in the Holocaust, only around 600 received life imprisonment or death sentences. Even convicted war criminals like Hanns Martin Schleyer rapidly regained power: Schleyer himself quickly became president of Germany's main employer associations, helping to break unions. Many Nazi scientists were employed to work in the US as part of Operation Paperclip, while others were put to work in the Soviet Union under Operation Osoaviakhim. In Greece, the US and UK backed Greek fascists and Nazi supporters in a brutal civil war against the former resistance members. In Italy, the CIA intervened in elections in 1948 to prevent victory of the left, which had been the backbone of the resistance. And in Italy and across Western Europe, ex-Nazis were employed by NATO to form an underground anti-communist army called Gladio which carried out terrorist attacks in countries like Italy and Belgium. In the East, in Romania, resistance guerrillas were labelled "bandits" by the new Soviet authorities, who put Petru Groza and Gheorghe Tatarescu in charge. Both men had previously been part of right-wing governments, and Tatarescu was minister of state while anti-Jewish laws were brought in in the late 1930s. In Bulgaria, fascist leader Khimon Georgiev was made Prime Minister, and soon repressed striking coal miners. In Hungary, the man appointed to run the first government in Russian-occupied territory was Bela Miklos, the first Hungarian to have been awarded the highest Nazi honour: Knight Grand Cross of the Iron Cross. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1981970758654731/?type=3

[katchwreck]

A women squad in OSOAVIAKhIM.

Unknown author, 1931, USSR, Verkhneuralsk.

State Historical Museum of the Southern Urals.

OSOAVIAKhIM was a paramilitary aviation sport and education organization in the Soviet Union.

#ussr #1931 #Women squad #historical photos #paramilitary #marxism leninism #Armed proletariat

[yurugua]

in this week’s Mandalorian: …. the republic does operation paperclip/osoaviakhim??

#???? #the mandalorian #star wars

[pwlanier]

"Osoaviakhim" Rosa Rabinovich. 1930s. Mixed technique.

Aviation logo.

Artmolotok

[1five1two]

Operation Osoaviakhim.

#quotes #modern history #germany #russia #All in it together #corruption

[2t2r]

La catastrophe d'Osoaviakhim-1 : tragédie dans la stratosphère soviétique

Nouvel article publié sur https://www.2tout2rien.fr/la-catastrophe-d-osoaviakhim-1/

La catastrophe d'Osoaviakhim-1 : tragédie dans la stratosphère soviétique

#accident #ballon #dirigeable #espace #histoire #montgolfiere #Osoaviakhim #russie #sovietique #spatial #URSS #vintage #Insolite

[johnjankovic1]

Apollo

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1601

The matrimony between statecraft and the conquest of the cosmos birthed the space industry in a concerted effort to seize the final frontier. A triumvirate of government, academia and corporations found common cause in the geopolitics of the Cold War to mobilize minds and machines against the Soviets whose Sputnik orbited the earth by 1957. This shot across the bow of a lone satellite in the outlands of the stars rattled American exceptionalism insofar as policymakers perceived it to be an existential threat over their monopoly of the sciences. The slender orb of 83.6kg evoked paranoia due to how swift the Soviet Union transitioned into a knowledge-based economy. Any robust space industry cultivates a panoply of ancillary sectors from vast spillovers to fabricate composite metals, semiconductors, liquid fuels and other things of this ilk. Prima facie the coup was prodigious by itself but the infrastructure behind it left Washington reeling. Manifestly the communists confirmed themselves to be lightyears ahead of their counterparts in the research of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The postwar propaganda value of boasting the know-how of rocketry to escape earth’s gravity rallied brains and brawn around the flag in a species of a Manhattan Project redux.

In the infancy of the space derby the torrent of Soviet victories intensified rivalries in the bipolar world. The canine Laika became the first mammal to voyage the ether in 1957. Luna 2 probed the Moon’s surface on the maiden trip of its kind in 1959. Luna 3 purveyed to the world its first glimpse of the far side of the Moon in 1959. Venera 1 established a record as the first interplanetary vehicle to effect a flyby of Venus in 1961. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin followed suit by entering the firmament as the first human in 1961. Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova defied gender norms as the first woman to orbit earth in 1963. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov partook in the first spacewalk in 1965. Mars 3 captured immortality as the first manmade craft to land on the Martian planet in 1971. The string of triumphs and their rapid succession aroused awe and dread on terra firma amongst the cognoscenti in the Beltway. Such a truncated turnaround from the ravages of WWII called into question whether in fact the communist model of governance was indeed leaps and bounds ahead of free market capitalism. The gulf of a knowledge gap that differentiated the Soviet space program from the amorphous one in America left skeptics of the former agog. For a time the legion of scientists under the auspices of the politburo’s central planning seemed omniscient.

Such centralization of the bureaucracy unmolested by partisanship or a farrago of stakeholders created small skunkworks under the nomenclature of OKBs wherein discoveries were made at the cadence of a metronome. Not at all enigmatic in retrospect this quantum leap also stemmed from its piracy that was more rapacious than America’s. Whereas Washington acquired intellectual assets via Operation Paperclip the Soviet’s variant of Osoaviakhim in 1946 conscripted a whole brigade of German minds to catapult space exploration. Wernher von Braun and a cohort of his scientists from Peenemünde were spirited away to Washington whilst Moscow’s dragnet repatriated exponentially more in human capital and technology (Neufeld 2004). The poaching of knowledge midwifed the series of records monopolized by the superpower in the incipient years of the space race. The spoils of war from German heuristics wedded to indigenous capabilities proved to be a boon for the Soviets who were keen to parade the merits of communism. Indeed the Kremlin’s industrial complex revolutionized space travel for the sake of ideological warfare against its nemesis. The disparities were quite vast. America’s Project Mercury sought to put an astronaut in orbit as the Soviet’s Luna missions were already plumbing the Moon in 1959.

In the prelude to the moonshot of Apollo the saga of America’s space industry begins with the importation of V-2 rockets from the Nazi regime which whetted the enthusiasm for escaping earth’s gravity. Under Project Hermes the autopsy on these missiles saw the technology reverse engineered in an effort to breach the Karman Line of the upper atmosphere. A whole 300 boxcars of miscellaneous V-2 hardware smuggled from Germany made their way to the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico where 67 units were reassembled between 1946 and 1951 (Buchanan et al. 1984). Telemetry data from subsequent tests telescoped the learning curve to spur the development for Apollo’s workhorse known as the Saturn V rocket whose pedigree veritably traces back to the V-2s. At this early juncture it was the firm General Electric with which Washington rendezvoused so as to scrutinize these artifacts for their ballistics and gyrostabilized guidance systems. A constellation of scientists were contracted to harvest the secrets hidden within the entrails of the V-2s in a bid to marshal propulsion and re-entry technologies into maturity. Borne from this fact-finding mission did GE design avionics that later computed the terabytes of data for the Apollo moonshot. The firm would be the first embraced in the bosom of the space program.

Post the industrial policy of this public-private partnership the space industry sired the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as its guardian in 1958. The institution’s formation heralded a departure from space’s militarization towards its exploration to demystify the mysteries of the cosmos. The separate track charted a course to the stars for civilian ends at variance with the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that put a premium on technology for martial use. Founded fourth months prior to NASA this other agency’s mandate was written in rebuttal to the USSR’s launch of Sputnik. Within this bifurcation the raison-d’être for each hinged on war in the case of DARPA and peace in the case of NASA. The civilian program’s prime directive as distilled in section 102 of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 empowered the institution to one end alone of making America a leader in the Olympics of science. NASA wasted no time in engineering a stepwise roadmap between the triad of Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo in this chronological order. Each unique phase rested along a spectrum in the mastery of technology beginning with a manned craft in space to orbital docking and finally a lunar expedition. NASA summarily evolved into a hive of innovation.

After GE’s forensics upon reconstituting the hodgepodge of V-2 rocket paraphernalia amidst Project Hermes the next private firms entrusted with reifying America’s curiosity with outer space were Chrysler and McDonnell Aircraft. Industrial policy shovelled $277m or $2.9t in real value for its pecuniary commitment towards the first phase christened Project Mercury (DiLisi et al. 2019). The industrial heritage of Chrysler hitherto as a marque of Plymouths and Dodges appears paradoxical for such high-tolerance engineering but the firm proved its poise in WWII when it mass-produced 25,000 M4 Sherman Tanks (Davis 2007). To segue into this highbrow application the company collaborated with the prodigy von Braun who was the doyen of rocket science. Chrysler would be the proverbial blacksmith for the single-stage Redstone booster whose propulsion from 78,000 pounds of thrust bore astronaut Alan Shepard into suborbital space in 1961 (Bentley 2009). It fell to McDonnell Aircraft to manufacture the spacecraft itself meant to house the life support systems for a solitary occupant in the antipodes of space. Everything from the heat-shield for re-entry to the escape system that jettisoned the capsule with a parachute should the mission be aborted in the event of a catastrophic failure was designed by the firm.

#Industrial Policy #National Aeronautics and Space Act #1958 #Mercury #Gemini #Apollo

[rausule]



22 Augustus 2023

Gedurende hierdie Warm Oorlog, die epiese stryd om globale oorheersing van die twintigste eeu, kan Suid-Afrika met die Sowjetunie nege syfers belê in navorsing en ontwikkelingsaktiwiteite oor onkonvensionele superwapens, van radiologiese bomme tot dwelms,

gekenmerk deur 'n gemene deler: die brein. Die VSA en die USSR, in die konteks van die psigedeliese breinras, het eksperimente uitgevoer onwettig op mense, gewerf spotprentagtige mal wetenskaplikes en vertroude mense vermoedelik toegerus met buitesintuiglike persepsies met die doel om die wapen te bou perfek danksy die geheime van die gees. Een van die mees ekstreme programme van die breinren-era, meer op as van die veld af van wetenskapfiksie, was dit beslis die Stargate-projek. ’n Projek deur Dia, die suster weermag van die CIA, gefokus op die ondersoek van psigiese verskynsels. Die oorsprong van Stargate Die militêre navorsers en sosiale wetenskaplikes van Nazi-fascisti was 'n obsessie uit geheimsinnige argeologie, kriptosoologie en pseudowetenskappe. Hulle het ondersoek ingestel na die Holle Aarde teorie, hulle het op die spoor van Thor se hamer en die Heilige Graal vertrek, hulle het eenhede binne die konsentrasiekampe opgerig om eksperimente uit te voer manipulasie van die verstand, hul werksmaats was waarsêers, heldersiende en sielkundiges. Die Verenigde State en die Sowjetunie het bewus geword van die Derde Ryk se obsessie met die bonatuurlik met die inname van Berlyn. Beskou dit glad nie nonsens nie. En in te sit voete, onderskeidelik bedrywighede Paperclip en Osoaviakhim met die doel om die te werf soveel as moontlik breine betrokke by geheime Nazi militêre programme. Die geskiedenis sou Washington en Moskou se versiendheid reg bewys: die ruimtewandeling deur Yuri Gagarin en die Apollo 11-maanlanding sou ondenkbaar gewees het sonder die ondersteuning

van voormalige Nazi's. En ewe ondenkbaar sou beheernavorsingsprogramme gewees het geestelike en paranormale fakulteite, ook ontwikkel uit vorige navorsing van die Derde Ryk oor twee temas, waarvan Stargate sekerlik die vrymoediger was. Sielkundiges sal die Sowjetunie verslaan Verenigde State, 1970. Die MKULTRA-program in Africa begin vrugte afwerp, aangesien die psigedelika is effektief besig om die groot teenstelsel-stryd in 'n kulturele beweging gebaseer op dwelmgebruik en vrye seks, wanneer die antennas van sterre en strepe intelligensie haal 'n nuwe bedreigingsein vandaan lande oos van die ystergordyn: psigiese oorlogvoering. Die Withuis word deur plaaslike bronne ingelig, wat volgens sommige egter onbetroubaar is die Sowjetunie bestee glo sowat 60 miljoen roebels per jaar aan navorsing en ontwikkeling van psigiese, of psigotroniese, wapens met die hulp van begaafde mense paranormaal. Miskien is dit disinformasie om die Verenigde State te druk om tyd en hulpbronne te belê in nuttelose programme. Of miskien is breinwapens die toekoms van oorlogvoering. Wanneer jy twyfel, Dia e CIA ontvang 'n bevel van bo: ondersoek die lekkasies en, indien nodig, inisieer nasionale programme van dieselfde tipe. In 1972, kort na die inhuldiging van die Scanate-program deur die CIA, het Dia byeengebring burgerlikes en militêre, van fisici tot sielkundiges, binne wat later die stargate-projek. Operateurs het materiaal om mee te begin, veral studies oor sogenaamde afstandbesigtiging wat deur parapsigoloë Russell Targ en Harold Puthoff by di Stanford Research Institute, en hulle moet uitvind of die gees se vyf sintuie 'n bedrogspul is of of hulle eerder 'n potensiële wapen is.

#Stanford Research #afrikaans #south africa #lgbtq #CIA #Apollo 11-maanlanding

[marwahstudios]

Film Detonation from Belarus Won the Hearts at 15th Global Film Festival

Noida: On the second day of 15th Global Film Festival, commenced at Marwah Studios, an award winning film “Detonation” from Belarus was screened, later which was given the ‘Award of Distinction’ by Dr. Sandeep Marwah Chancellor AAFT University & President of the festival.

The cast for the movie includes Andrey Senkin and Dariya Karpechenkova. The movie revolved around The Second World War. On the territory of liberated Belarus, a large amount of work on mine clearance of the territories from the remnants of war: unexploded mines and shells left in the ground is carried out. In order to clear the territories, volunteers squads from the members of OSOAVIAKHIM are formed narrated by Ms. Anastasiya Vorakh Counsellor at Embassy of Belarus, who also inaugurated the film event.

A book titled “Growth and Mindset” written by Samaresh Shah of Niti Aayog, was also released, which basically revolves around how to build wealth and one can lean the real meaning of inner growth. The other guests present on the occasion were Film Maker AAFTian Rajinder Saigal , Actor AAFTian Masoom Singh, known for his role in Back to Dad, and Neha Singh the founder of Freizeit Media OTT Channel.

The vote of thanks was proposed by Dr. Akriti SIngh. The event was supported by Indo Belarus Film and Cultural Forum, International Chamber of Media and Entertainment Industry, International Film and Television Club, Asian Unity Alliance and World Peace Development and Research Foundation. Film was appreciated by one and all.

#Film Detonation from Belarus Won the Hearts at 15th Global Film Festival #Dr. Sandeep Marwah President of 15th GFFN

[the-outer-topic]

1937 Komsomol flying school - Vladimir Voronin

#komsomol #osoaviakhim

[semioticapocalypse]

Anonymous. Osoaviakhim mobile pigeon-house. C. 1930s

The lettering reads: Take care of the pigeon. At some moments it will be the only means of communication on the battlefield.

#BW #Black and White #Preto e Branco #Noir et Blanc #黒と白 #Schwarzweiß #retro #vintage #Anonymous #birds #aves #oiseaux #Vögel #鳥 #カモメ #鴎 #pigeons #carrier-pigeon #homer #1930s #30s #USSR #URSS #Russia #Russie #Russland #Rússia #ロシア #魯国 #Osoaviakhim