Yes, I think this is one of those points where Big Differences pop out and glare at us with their malicious eyes.
First of all - well, this is pretty obvious, but I just want to remind you that my opinion is not always the same as that of majority of russian population. Second, I don't really know why, but somehow I always felt the existence of that distinction, and this chapter only have confirmed it, painted it beautifully with colors and sounds and emotions. So I commented specifically on the Trinity Test, not on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and stuff that comes after that.
Let me put it simple - I don't like technological accomplishment that takes a form of a huge destructive explosion. I like mobile phones and electric cars, I like new medicines, I like machines that explore in space, but I don't like tremendously big explosions, made by human or not. They contain a sense of danger. But I won't deny that one of the feelings that makes me dislike the whole 'lol superpower' thing is an envy. I'm so contradicted sometimes. 8)
because you guys must have a really intense set of associations with Trinity and Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the whole four year stretch before First Lightning, yeah? Yes, and mostly with Hiroshima. Like, for example, till the end of 80s all kids learned russian song about Sadako; my friend once sang it for me and I don't want to ever hear it again. My other friend told me that they (government->school administrations->teachers) even made 8-years-old children watch 'Hadashi No Gen'. Yes, that anime, uncensored. 8 years old kids. In 80s. So... uh, well... I hope you get the picture. *sulks*
first day of the Atomic Age, oh fuck, come oooon Soviet atomic project Oh fuck, indeed.
By the way, does it have a cool name? Like the Manhattan Project? I can't even find a number designation for it or anything, everything I read just calls it the 'Soviet atomic bomb project.' I sometimes wish the Soviet Union had placed more of a priority on giving things cool names. These are atomic bombs. All that stuff was bleak and serious here. Why would they want to give it names? Names are for cuter things like Sputnik and Laika, at the time when we could smile just hearing these words, you know?
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Yes, I think this is one of those points where Big Differences pop out and glare at us with their malicious eyes.
First of all - well, this is pretty obvious, but I just want to remind you that my opinion is not always the same as that of majority of russian population. Second, I don't really know why, but somehow I always felt the existence of that distinction, and this chapter only have confirmed it, painted it beautifully with colors and sounds and emotions. So I commented specifically on the Trinity Test, not on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and stuff that comes after that.
Let me put it simple - I don't like technological accomplishment that takes a form of a huge destructive explosion. I like mobile phones and electric cars, I like new medicines, I like machines that explore in space, but I don't like tremendously big explosions, made by human or not. They contain a sense of danger. But I won't deny that one of the feelings that makes me dislike the whole 'lol superpower' thing is an envy. I'm so contradicted sometimes. 8)
because you guys must have a really intense set of associations with Trinity and Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the whole four year stretch before First Lightning, yeah?
Yes, and mostly with Hiroshima. Like, for example, till the end of 80s all kids learned russian song about Sadako; my friend once sang it for me and I don't want to ever hear it again. My other friend told me that they (government->school administrations->teachers) even made 8-years-old children watch 'Hadashi No Gen'. Yes, that anime, uncensored. 8 years old kids. In 80s. So... uh, well... I hope you get the picture. *sulks*
first day of the Atomic Age, oh fuck, come oooon Soviet atomic project
Oh fuck, indeed.
By the way, does it have a cool name? Like the Manhattan Project? I can't even find a number designation for it or anything, everything I read just calls it the 'Soviet atomic bomb project.' I sometimes wish the Soviet Union had placed more of a priority on giving things cool names.
These are atomic bombs. All that stuff was bleak and serious here. Why would they want to give it names? Names are for cuter things like Sputnik and Laika, at the time when we could smile just hearing these words, you know?