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A couple of pictures from my family album. My late father was a chemist in a rubber factory. In the first picture he is doing some microscope work in a lab 1934. The second picture was taken a few years later 1940 during the Finland-Russia Winter war after Soviet bombers attacked the factory. Most of the factory was destroyed including the lab with the microscope. My father told he just managed to go to lab in a fire and saved just a brand new chart recorder they recently ordered from USA. However, in a just two weeks they were able to restart some of their production.

Well, Russia has some reputation for starting wars with neighbor countries:

1900 China
1911 Persia
1917 Ukraine
1939 Finland
1939 Poland
1940 Baltic states
1940 Rumania
1941 Iran
1979 Afghanistan
2014 Ukraine
2022 Ukraine

I listed wars started by the Russians only. The so called substitute wars in Countries like Korea, Vietnam or the Middle East are not listed.

In addition to that Soviet military forces beat down any resistance against the soviet system in Eastern and Central Europe from 1945 - 1948 and again in East Germany 1953, Hungary 1956, Czech Republic 1967. In all those events military power was used and a significant number of people were killed.

Leitzcycler...what a great picture of your late father
Out of curiosity, I tried processing it in the demo-version of 'Topaz sharpen-AI' - It did a goodish job on the glassware.

Alexander, it is good know that you are not actually in a Gulag !

Photo 1, I like. Photo 2, I don't but I think having them both is so good.

Alexsnder. also : The Russo-Turkish wars between 1676 and 1878, the first Crimean war, there were 12, count em, 12 wars, with the Ukraine dead center in the bulk of them. My grandparents got out in 1910 only to be persecuted in Canada, as potential commie sympathizers. That's sympathizers not synthesizers.

The photos are a great memory, especially the first one! Often one has old family photos taken at special occasions but rarely from the work place of the ancestors. And in this case even with a scientific an microscopical context! Your father was quite a thin guy like people often were in these physically more demanding times.

Some old photos were quite detailed as the negavice sizes were large. I remember cardboard boxes full of glass negatives in the attic of my grand mother, herself an amateur photographer. I should have made sure to keep them when the house was cleared.

Great photos Leitzcycler-hey apochronaut,sorry to hear what your grandparents had to endure -the USSR did in fact build synthesizers in the 80’s-I wonder what Russian synth pop sounds like…
So below is a photo of an actual commie synthesizer…

Glad your parents made it through those times.leitzcycler...that first photo is such rich family history...the second image such common reality of bombing.My dad and his older brother were 8th Army Airforce in WWII.

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Wed Mar 30, 2022 7:08 am

A couple of pictures from my family album. My late father was a chemist in a rubber factory. In the first picture he is doing some microscope work in a lab 1934. The second picture was taken a few years later 1940 during the Finland-Russia Winter war after Soviet bombers attacked the factory. Most of the factory was destroyed including the lab with the microscope. My father told he just managed to go to lab in a fire and saved just a brand new chart recorder they recently ordered from USA. However, in a just two weeks they were able to restart some of their production.

great photos

nice photos