Jack Linthicum ) wrote:
: John Penta wrote in message . ..
: On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:44:48 +0000 (UTC),
: (Eric Chomko) wrote:
:
:
: Pardon me for jumping in...
:
: My father was working at the Pentagon on the Moscow-Washington "Hotline".
: And I saw with my own eyes from Russia ASCII art congradulating us for the
: first moon landing.
:
: So at least those technicians on duty at the Hotline in Moscow believed we
: did it.
:
: Boy I wish I was able to keep one of those hardcopy tranmissions, but it
: all went back to the Pentagon the next day.
:
: Eric
:
: I wish they'd declassify and distribute that.:-/
:
: I wonder how ASCII art looked off a teletype. I know you can do some
: pretty...Impressive things with PC ASCII.

: Spin Control: Pravda of Moscow, the Soviet Union, manages to keep the
: moonwalk story at the bottom of the page while the top headline says,
: "Collectivism is the Feature of the New World People," whatever that
: means

: did anyone save their copy of Pravda for July 20, 1969?

: This is what you get by searching for "July 20, 1969" in Pravda's
: files. Remember the Russian saying "There is no Truth (Pravda) in
: Pravda and no News (Isvestia) in Izvestia.

: http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=9994
: America's Moon Expedition a Fake? - 05/15/2003 18:05

: Even people ignorant of space technologies understand that then-level
: of technological and electronic development wouldn't allow to perform
: complicated space maneuvers

: Forty years ago, American President John Kennedy urged the people to

What I find interesting and somewhat off topic but related to JFK, is that
the current accepted belief about JFK's assassination is the same
officially in Russia is the same officially as it is in the US. Namely,
that JFK was killed by a lone nut name Lee Harvey Oswald.

Eric

: get united about the Moon landing idea: the USA wanted to win the
: space competition of the 1960s at any price to maintain the image of a
: superpower. This was a dispute on superiority of two social systems:
: the flourishing (as it seemed at that time) socialism and the
: "decaying" capitalism. The USSR experienced problems of its post-war
: period, what is more, the Soviet country had to suffer great spending
: in the arms race in order to be ready for a probable war against any
: of the former allies from the anti-Hitler coalition. Nevertheless, the
: USSR always managed to be ahead of rich America. It was the Soviet
: Union that first sent an artificial Earth satellite which meant
: undoubted advantage of the Soviet missile production. Already at that
: time it was clear that level of missile technologies would become the
: criterion of military superiority in the nearest future.

: more