Well, tell us how old
you are in that you believe the Russian Federation = The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics? 55? 60? 65?
75?
Because the the USSR, the country in which all the things you claim took place was dissolved in 1991 (coincidentally, is the same year Tim Berners-Lee invent the World Wide Web),
32 years ago, so it's pretty rich of you to post this when thanks to Berners Lee, most of your boomer Cold War hysterics can be refuted easily.
Case in point: Yuri Knorozov, the
Russian-Armenian who was born in the the Ukraine SSR, became a
Russian linguist at a Moscow institute. Out of curiosity he deciphered Mayan script, but he was
not stopped from going to Guatemala; indeed, I have to question why a Soviet academic would want to visit during the Guatemalan Civil War, in which thousands of Mayans (the people whose writing he was an expert on) were disappeared/executed for being suspected of being "communists". After the war he did go in 1991, while still living in the USSR, which your own sources confirm. That his work was rejected by the West for decades was due solely to ideological reasons
by the West, not because he withheld it. That's a condemnation of the West, not the USSR, let alone
Russia and
Russians. Even when his manuscript was finally published in the West, the publishers inserted phases praising the USSR, which he denied doing until his death.
http://knorosov.com/ (down atm but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Knorozov has the same info, as do the links in your post).
How long does a Ukie mobik live at the front?
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Not sustainable.