= Сообщение: 11028 из 12492 ===================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Dmitry Protasoff 2:5001/100.1 15 Nov 21 14:49:00 Кому : Ward Dossche 15 Nov 21 14:49:00 Тема : The richest people on this planet FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:5001/100.1+6192558e На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:292/854+0f1a1f38 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP866 ================================== Ответ: area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:292/854+140b152f ============================================================================== Hello, Ward!
Monday November 15 2021 11:21, you wrote to me:
WD> My grandmother's brother was killed Apr.8th 1915 and went missing in WD> action. 60 years later she was still talking about him as if he had WD> walked out of the door yesterday. It mattered to her, I saw her tears WD> ... so it matters to me.
But it doesn't matter for new generation. WW1 is a thing of the distant past. Do you care about people killed by roman legions 2000 years ago?
WD> And I think it should matter to all reading the ridiculous epitaphs on WD> graves that they died heroically for the fatherland ... heck, none WD> wanted to die ... let's not make the same mistakes again.
No one wanted to die in Belgium because it was neutral and had enough fun with Congo, but I am not sure that Congo was also called fatherland back then :)
DP>> In soviet schools we were never taught when exactly WW1 ended DP>> (although we've lost ~1,3m people in it) but we've managed to send DP>> 1st man into space without that knowledge ;)
WD> Did Russia lose 1.3 million people in the war solely or was that WD> related to the revolution?
Russia was of the main players during the WW1 (actualy it started because we decided so), so yes, only during the war. Belgium was just a dwarf in game of giants, you've lost only 40000 soldiers, tiny number compared to the heavy battles on eastern front.
WD> Besides, you can also take credit for frying the first man in space WD> without that knowledge .... Komarov's Soyuz 1 capsule crashed into the WD> ground at 30-40 metres per second. His remains were an irregular lump WD> 30 centimetres in diameter and 80 centimetres long.
It was just an accident. As you know, rocket science is not a french fries cooking. Probably this is why there wasn't a single belgian guy in space until 90s - no need for cooks in space flights ;)
WD> BTW ... there are unconfirmed rumours Gagarin was not the first WD> Russian in space, but the first to make it back alive ...
It was called Ivan Ivanovich, famous mannequin. Not very alive but still exists in Washington's Space museum.
Best regards, dp.
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