Was there anything useful in the Soviet Union (USSR) that could be used today?

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Iain wrote: "More than a third of millennials polled approve of communism

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/for......"

Waiting on the follow-up article: "More than a third of millennials polled haven't a clue about the dangers of communism"

[Qais]

Not at all because I live in the middle east and the global elite tries to impose communisme to keep us from awaking up

[James, Group Founder]

Global Development: Tiny Belarus is a throwback to the Soviet Union — and the center of a booming tech economy https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/...

Reporting from Minsk, Belarus — It’s a long way from Silicon Valley to Minsk.
Communist-era statues and murals dot the capital of tiny Belarus, which has clung to Soviet traditions for more than two decades since the collapse of the U.S.S.R. President Alexander Lukashenko rules this forested nation of 10 million with an iron fist and a determined political mantra: “There will be no reforms.”

Belarus still relies on state-run manufacturers and Soviet-era collective farms. The European Union prefers not to buy food from those farms because one-fifth of Belarus was contaminated by fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine.

Video games, however, are another matter, as are mobile phone apps and software products. All these are being produced in a drab industrial park on the northeastern outskirts of Minsk, an unlikely but booming high-tech hub.

Hi-Tech Park is a pillar of the Belarusian information technology sector, which has shown formidable growth in recent years, with some 250 start-ups and outsourcing companies that employ tens of thousands. Lukashenko’s government promotes it further with tax breaks, visa-free entry for Westerners — and claims that products developed here are used by a billion people in almost 200 nations.

[Joel]

Hello — I’m new to this group. We all know that the USSR led the world in the “space race” for some years. And probably most of us have read or heard that Soviet scientists (perhaps a smallish number?) were for a while doing serious parapsychological research into telepathy, PK, and remote viewing. I’ve always wondered what other scientific breakthroughs may have been accomplished in the Eastern Bloc during the Soviet years, things that the West may have either ignored — or actively suppressed news about. Anyone have any info to share about this topic?

[James, Group Founder]

Hi Joel - if you look in the FRINGE SCIENCE folder in this group, you'll see various threads with info on that
... Like remote viewing, telepathy, intuition research, etc

[Joel]

Thanks for the reply, James. Yes, I'm sure I might find some of the topics you've mentioned, discussed in Fringe Science, interesting. But I might have been unclear in wording my question. I've also wondered about possible Soviet achievements in science generally — for example, in biology, chemistry, medicine, info-tech, electric-energy production, archaeological methods, whatever.

[Joel]

Perhaps the USSR has become an uninteresting, passé topic? We tend to live with the impression of an enormous social experiment involving two or three generations, characterized by ag collectivization, rapid industrial and military development, police state, Gulags, key WWII involvement, enforced social conformity, and world-class symphonic music and ballet. A suitable general impression, I suppose.

I do appreciate James’s reply. But I’m trying to learn if the USSR’s scientists were unable to contribute significantly to human knowledge (aside from what emerged from the early space ventures and some psychic research) or whether it's rather that no one here feels moved to post about the subject,