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I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists... I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawnmower.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Albert Einstein

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"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Yeah well, about Mikhael Kalashnikow. He build the famous AK47 for Stalins UdSSR. NKWD, Gulags, etc. were active since many years by that time, organized state-terrorism against anyone opposed to the glorious soviet system and their leader ... in other words, his words sound quite hypocryte. But when you consider your system belong to the good ... you probably close your eyes to everything else.

But I go along with Einstein. The more technogy is avaiable to the masses, the more powerful a single persons becomes. There might come a time soon, when anyone could just tinker a atomic bomb together in his garage ... we seriously need to change our way of thinking, till that happens.

Given that the alternative the USSR had to Stalin was Hitler it was a pretty good deal all things considered.

You might want to do some research on that one. Hitler might be considered an amateur compared to Stalin.

In terms of total power? Maybe.. Hitler was not the ultimate Dictator like he seem to many today, but in terms of genocide? Not really. Even if the famine in the Ukraine, you are probably referring to, was a planned event and not just missmanagement and ignorance, it still would be no organized genocide to wipe out a whole race.

You might want to study a bit of history again: the UdSSR existed long before Hitler came to power

Why do you abbreviate USSR that way? The first I assumed was a typo, the second makes it look intentional.

I do not see how that tracks from either the English translation, the original Russian name for the country: "Сою́з Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик", or the transliteration: "Soyúz Sovétskikh Sotsialistícheskikh Respúblik".

Because UdSSR is apparently the german Acronym. I did not think of that before..

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