Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union

The film director Donsky, yeah, the propagandists Mitten and Mintz, but also by prominent people who could easily refuse to participate in the spectacle, and in signing the declaration, without significant repercussions for themselves.

Among the latter were Bialik, the members of Academy, Frumkin and Kasirsky, the internationally renowned musicians Flyer and Zack, the act- the actors Plissa, uh, uh, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba.

Yep.

But sign it, but, but sign it they did.

The largest of these were the yearly Solidarity Sundays, demonstrations and rallies in New York which were attended by up to 250,000 people.

These ran from 1974 to 1987, end quote.

A three-day meeting of 18 Nobel laureates in supporting of the corresponding member of Academy, Levitch, took place in Oxford.

Another 650 academics from across the world gave their support, and Levitch was allowed to emigrate.

Automatic stations are an important feature of the Soviet space program.

More about the role of these stations in probing the solar planet is revealed by researcher Valentin Vasiliev of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

All of the mysteries of space, the researchers said.

And automatic interplanetary stations are highly instrumental in the probing efforts.

One particularly cutting image showed Uncle Sam riding a rocket-powered airplane directly into a brick wall labeled "Sound Barrier," his top hat flying off as he crashed in a cloud of stars and stripes.

The Soviet Academy of Sciences issued an official statement declaring that, "The sound barrier represents an absolute limit imposed by nature on the velocity of atmospheric flight.

Any attempt to exceed this limit will result in the immediate destruction of both aircraft and pilot." These taunts stung American pride more than any military defeat.

Here was the nation that had developed the atomic bomb, that had produced the most advanced aircraft of World War II, that had demonstrated technological supremacy on every battlefield from Normandy to the Pacific, being mocked by Soviet propagandists for chasing an impossible dream.

The Academies of Sciences, especially the Soviet Academy of Science, uh, was the site of basic research, the most prestigious in the thinking of, uh, Soviet leaders and Soviet scientists.

The Soviet Academy of Sciences is the, uh, inheritor of the Russian Academy of Sciences that was founded in 1725 under Peter the Great, and it cons- it continues its existence as the Russian Academy of Sciences today.

Ukraine was the first Union Republic to have its own Academy of Sciences, founded, as I mentioned, in 1918, and several other nations created them in the late '20s.

But, uh, many of the Central Asian republics, uh, to be sure, uh, also were given the, uh, approval of the Kremlin to have their own National Academy of Sciences, which would be more prestigious as a home of basic research.

Uh, Ukraine and Russia were the strongest in both basic science and in applied science because of their size and traditions of all of the former Soviet republics.

And finally, you have the university educational system, which fed both applied science in the industrial sector and basic science among the best students in the Academy of Science, uh, in the academies of sciences.

But Moscow's Moscow-based Soviet Academy of Sciences, which became the Russian Academy of Sciences, commanded a great deal of, uh, the, the lion's share of resources during the Soviet period.

Ukraine had a great tradition of, uh, basic research as well in low-temperature physics, in nuclear physics.

In this and in other ways, the origin of the long-range deception strategy of perestroika was successfully concealed.

Under the guidance of the party apparatus, special research studies were initiated and carried out from September 1957 onwards by the Soviet Academy of Sciences in preparation for the strategy.

The party apparatus and its think tanks, the Higher Party School and the Academy of Social Sciences, employed the results of this research in seeking scientific and theoretical solutions to the primary domestic problems associated with the strategy.

It was these think tanks which developed the scenarios for Soviet reforms and trained Soviet and bloc party leaders such as Dubcek in the spirit and demands of the strategy.

An especially important element in the present Soviet drive to inject their strategic influence into the United States is the recent creation of the International Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity, set up during Sakharov's visit to the United States.

Sakharov, a leading Soviet agent of influence, is its head.

Other members include Velikov, president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and the economist Tatyana Zaslavskaya, who is credited with the reintroduction of the term perestroika.

The foundation is a joint Soviet-American venture for collaboration in research on the environment, pollution, human rights, arms control, and economic development, all of which are relevant to the Soviet strategy of convergence.

I was on the rewrite desk and a story, a short three paragraph story, came in from our correspondent in Moscow.

And it was three paragraphs about the Soviet Academy of Sciences had had a meeting to discuss something that was unclear in the three paragraphs.

It couldn't have been a more innocuous news item.

And I was putting it into the typewriter.