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Why Did People Not Know About Vichterle?
Why do people not know this story? Cause it is a lovely story, and he is a really interesting character. Perhaps many reasons for this, but i think the most important nowadays is that when we have sort of created or written the cald war history after 19 89, we knew who were the victories of that war. And then it has been really difficult for us to understand that the level of education and science was not that low in many parts of the formal soviet block. So i think it's kind of the called for sterio types are part of the reason why heis not that famous. Another thing might be that the as the americans bought the technology, they didn
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