Last April, Vladimir Putin visited the campus of Bauman Moscow state technical university, set on the banks of the Yauza River in the east of the city and home to some of the country’s brightest scientific minds.

He toured the campus, met undergraduates and boasted about Moscow’s ambitious plans for space missions to the moon and Mars. “You have everything it takes to be competitive,” Putin told the students.

What the Kremlin readout of Putin’s visit did not mention was a secret faculty inside the university, known simply as Department 4, or “Special Training”.

  • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    16 days ago

    If youre a communist and youre backing Russia, youre doing it wrong.

    Now if you’re a soviet apologist on the other hand…

    There is also the evidence that this Russian interference is directly impacting how US is being run. Does that not factor into your value judgment?

    No one can, in good conscience, say that the US isnt having a significant negative impact on world stability… but obviously it’s not happening in a vacuum.

      • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        16 days ago

        Where in my comment did I back Russia?

        You’re right, you didn’t explicitly back them.

        It doesn’t have to be run by the Russian government to be affected by it. This article is about election meddling, not deep state conspiracy stuff. Do you deny that meddling? That it has had a serious impact on the US and a wide array of other countries?

        Intentional destabilization while not mucking about with actually controlling it is often times even worse, especially when it comes to as influential country as the US.

        That doesn’t mean they have no culpability… but as I said, it’s not a vacuum. There’s always more than one factor, and ignoring any in favor of only one is intentional ignorance of the worst kind.