The end of the space era of the USSR

This photo was taken in the courtyard of the Institute for Space Research, where our company rents a certain number of premises. They do not give a good life. Lunokhod is in a container in the inner courtyard closed from prying eyes. There are 30 such containers there, and who knows what lies in the rest.
Generally sad to go there to work. When you see in the corridor a well-fed healthy man with a twinkle in his eyes, a non-Moscow tan in the middle of winter, in clothes from GANT, who actively articulates and holds Nokia Scirocco to his ear, this is one of the tenants. When you see an old man, barely waddling along long corridors, in patched-over-dressed clothes and with sad eyes, this is an employee of the institute.

Where is all the money for science, which allocates Medvedev and Putin? Why are there no young employees with fanatical glitter in their eyes, rushing with disheveled hair and papers in their hands, full of great discoveries, along the same corridors?
And the old men are leaving. Once or twice a month, a photo with a black ribbon and a poor obituary on A4 appears in the lobby near the elevator. Source of
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A small digression.

During the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Artek pioneer camp in 2000, a capsule was opened with a message from the pioneers of the 1960s to the Artekites in 2000. The message was signed by 1,200 Artek members from all republics of the Soviet Union, then it was packed into a capsule and sealed in a metal rocket, which had been stored on Kostrovaya Square for “Artek” for 40 years. On the solemn lineup, the rocket was sawed and a “letter to the future” was extracted from there. The pioneers of the 1960s assumed that in 2000 all the peoples of the earth live in peace, people fly to the moon, and Artek already has its own launch site. During the reading of the message, the veterans of Artek, who were present on the line, shed tears ... Source .

Forgive us

Children of the past, hopelessness of the present, oblivion of the future - forgive us.

We have brought your dreams and, instead of building spaceships, built real estate, inflating a bubble of added value to inconceivable sizes.

Instead of creating a cold fusion reactor, we pumped out irreplaceable natural resources, selling them to potential enemies to competitors.

We mutilated the excellent education system by introducing the pro-Western Unified State Examination in the domestic manner - in a ruthless and ruthless way.

But the worst is not the point. The worst thing is that we and our children will not be able to leave the letter of the future. What will we leave there?

- I want to be a top manager?
- I want to work in Gazprom?
- I want to be a gangster policeman , I'm sorry I'm confused.

There is no goal. This is the worst thing ...