> This fictional story you describe was, as I'm sure you're aware, pretty
> close to reality in the USSR, and a few other former communist
> countries.....
>
> One of my relations, a recently discovered half-sister who lived in
> the beautiful medieval city of Lviv, Ukraine, obtained a state
> sponsored university engineering degree which was very specifically
> geared towards managing humongous shoe factories. After the Ukrainian
> revolution, hers was not the only such industry to fold and never
> again reopen.
I don't think I did know that, Natalia. I knew that politics could
trump science, e.g. Lysenko, but I didn't realize that engineering was
taught as, so to speak, a sub-discipline of operating existing
industrial {infra,mega}structure.
Given the Stalinist mind set, though, I guess it's not surprising.
--
Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
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