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🇦🇷 El Ejército Argentino 🇦🇷

Ilustración con amor y respeto para el año 1982.

Illustration with love and respect for 1982.

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The Spy Master: From Warsaw in West to Tokyo in East

Affiliation of N.M.Durova as a Spy Master in Spy Mission Series novel:

/Tokyo Spy Mission 1970 /Warsaw Spy Mission 1978 on Commaful

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Locations in Spy Mission: Chornobyl Missile Base

Equipment: Ballistic missiles, Duga radar Allegiance: Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces (- 1991) 🇺🇦 Rocket Forces and Artillery of Ukraine (1991 -) Officer: N.M.Durova Active: unknown - circa 1996 Novel: Warsaw Spy Mission 1978 (https://commaful.com/play/jw2019/warsaw-spy-mission-1978-epii-call-of-polesia/)

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M49/M69 Uniforms of Soviet Armed Forces

Strategic Rocket Forces (РВСН) Army - Ground Forces (Советская армия)

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Re-upload the New Year Art of Year 2022

for Gaming Channel Historical J.W.

Painted for my YouTube gaming channel (https://www.youtube.com/@historicalj.w.6153) during November-December 2021. Left character with the M92F in hand is Mary Dixon, my earliest protagonist with a feature of 🇬🇧 (she retired because of unpopularity on my YouTube contents)

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Sons of Liberty in 21st Century 🇺🇦🇺🇸

Historical Illustration: 2000's Ukrainian immigrant NYers

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Kalevite Kange Rahvas -IT Tales from Soviet Estonia- Chapter 1 "C language" (novel)

Kalevite Kange Rahvas -IT tales from Soviet Estonia-

Chapter 1 ”C Language”

Tallinn State Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia 1975

The computer room’s toasty and black displays of BESM supercomputers lit in orange. A lady with brown hair in white coat wrote on the black board: “printf("Hello, World!")”

The campus of State Institute of Cybernetics is located in front of Akadeemia Road in Tallinn, as a part of Tallinn State University. This laboratory prioritizes research in Information Technology for development of computer networks and Artificial Intelligence under the supervision of the state-level Academy of Sciences.

It is recognized, in Estonia, and in the whole Soviet territory of Occupier, as the center of Information Technology. This country Estonia, formally called “Eesti NSV” (Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic), is the IT hub of Eastern Bloc for heated technology competition during this Cold War with Western world… At least, the Central Government tells us in this way.

“Halloo, wonderful Krõõt! News for you.” The professor came. “Sorry, I’m busy coding…” I complained, then the professor sighed with a big gesture. “As you know, Our motherland is chosen to hold the next Olympiad. Isn’t it good news?” “Of course I understood. But it’s in Russia, not in my motherland though.” I’ve heard the 1980 Olympiad will be held in Moscow. Central TV was crazy to report this so many times as if I felt the special programs were aired every day last year. “Hey, hear me out. It’s to be held in YOUR city of Tallinn… it’s the victory of people!” I’m bored with such flattery. “Return 0;” I'm especially bored by those HIGH-LEVELs following the template of state propaganda.

“By the way, are you so free to write strange code on the board, comrade?” The boss dispatched from Leningrad asked me, it’s normal for such a guy working as a professor of Tallinn State University. I stopped “coding” then wrote and showed him the alphabet “C”… “Haha, you’re trying to joke with me about the Cyrillic alphabet Es? What does it stand for?” The guy is still laughing. “This C language is a new invention in Ameerika… I expected that our professor already knew it in depth.” “Why do we always NEED to know every Western invention? Pascal, ALGOL, BASIC, FORTLAN, PL/I and LISP… they already gave us too much!” He continued complaining: “Krõõt, we’re not students nor testers for Western technology… Do our business!” “Yeah, I remember whatta report to my boss. Will you come this way?”

Of course, the progress is needed in space projects. I left the black board and computers and accompanied by the professor, to the office room.

On the corridor to the office room, there are displays about technological events such as projects of space exploration and national-level networks.

“As you know, our project not only needs hardware seen here, but also software. The report I gathered will tell us obviously…” I pointed at a device, which is made in Estonia; The space station Salyut is equipped with a shining night clouds observer device called Mikron, so we see panels about space science placed here. “Krõõt, what do you mean by taking me to the office?” “I have documents to show you.”

As soon as we arrived at the office, I took documents clipped to one piece from a cabinet. “Time to do our business, just in a minute…” The code name Mars is written on the top. Literally it’s about the flight to Mars: no need to hide it because everyone knows we sent a dozen of spacecraft to the Red Planet. “Look at these new pages, professor.” I showed him a bundle of documents whose page color is different from the older one already changed to faded khaki. “K-G-B?” He scanned the details of new papers received. “Yes, my friend in KGB gave me this document. According to this, the American space agency is accelerating the programming in Space development by unification of codes…” I showed him a sample code written in C language. “This is the textbook used for their higher education. Already taught there.” After he read those tutorials said: “Well, so you study that strange code on black board?” He pointed at the outside of the office door, in the direction of the computer room. Looked like he’s guessing what I meant, so I nodded and replied. “Yes, it’s the key to State of the Art !”

“Sorry for bothering my comrade. Please go on to study C…” Finally, this professor nodded and walked to the office door. “Ask your friend to bring more codes here and you read, davai!”

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Two Armed Forces, Two Siblings

Both of Ukraine and Russia gained independent from USSR in 1991, the troops of Soviet armed forces are split into those who pledged allegiance to the Soviet (in short, it's the predecessor of Russian Armed Forces) and others pledged allegiance to the nations (Armed Forces of Ukraine is one of them). Kyiv was one of major military districts at that time.

Viktor Chechevatov, a Russian lieutenant general of Soviet Army refused to accept oath of allegiance to Ukrainian people in 1992, soon after the refusal he's removed from command of Kyiv Military District. He requested to be transferred to Russia as a commander of Russian Ground Forces.

Whereas in December 1991 Ukraine already formally established the Armed Forces of Ukraine by the Laws of Ukraine on 6 December 1991 regarding the creation of the Armed Forces though the formation was inherited from Soviet Armed Forces in Ukraine.

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Senatus Populusque: Historical Fantasy Novel Storyline

<Storyline>

In 2001, a decade after the end of the Cold War, Mykhailo Durov studied in Poland with a popular archeologist Katarzyna Domińczyka in Warsaw University. One day, an Estonian entrepreneur Krõõt Viitol visited Warsaw University with her new product Psyke Glasses, when they tried to use it they dived into “a strange world” not designed by Krõõt. It was a battle between the Greek Pharanx and the Roman Legion.

<Background> (The story is linked to "Warsaw Spy Mission")

In 1970's, United States and Soviet Union engaged in fierce competition. Mykhailo's mother and his uncle served Soviet military, by contrast Krõõt researched of information technology in Academy of Sciences. After 1991, Krõõt built a venture company called Psyke Eesti AS in Tallinn to provide IP-based videotelephony and VR services. Katarzyna was a history student studying in Warsaw, but she fled to United States with the help of Mykhailo's mother, after investigated for unauthorized fieldwork.

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Greek cuisine and Wine cocktail automaton

Before the christian era, Ancient Greek cuisine put bread - made with imported crop from Egypt - and wine as main dishes in daily life. Olive was precious and deemed as cash crop.

An automaton, or a robot called Automatic servant of Philon was assembled to serve and mix wine with water as they're accustomed in. The wine was served as a sort of cocktail then. (Thus wine is rather called as κρασί "blending" than οίνος "wine; οἶνος as the ancient spelling" in Greek)

Greek scholars researched robotics in Alexandria, Rhodes, Sicily and Byzantium. The machine artifact known as Antikythera mechanism (the earliest analogue computer) is famous for its precision and functionality to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance, said to be assembled in Rhodes or Sicily.

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The next world will be dropped 2000 years back

After writing my novel series "Tokyo Spy Mission 1970" and "Warsaw Spy Mission 1978", I'm totally bored of modernity. So the next world will be Sword'n'Sorcery fantasy with historical elements.

"Senatus Populusque" means Senate and People in Latin language, and it's also the name of Roman Republic.

Mithridatic Wars (88-64 BC) were fought between Roman Republic and Pontic-Armenian Alliance as the final phase of Roman conquest.

I found the Republic was full of slavery and colonization so I'll study how Roman provinces of Greece and Black Sea at that time resisted and fought for freedom.

Past Works:

/ToSM Delo.1 “A Mysterious Merchant on Air Base” - Tokyo - https://commaful.com/play/jw2019/tokyo-spy-mission-1970-1/

/ToSM Delo.2 “The World Exposition” - Osaka -  https://commaful.com/play/jw2019/tokyo-spy-mission-1970-2/

/ToSM Delo.3 “Two Kings Never Stand“ - Guangzhou - https://commaful.com/play/jw2019/tokyo-spy-mission-1970-3-two-kings-never-stand/

/WaSM Ep.I “The Ruin“ - Warsaw - https://commaful.com/play/jw2019/warsaw-spy-mission-1978-epi-the-ruin/

/WaSM Ep.II “Call of Polesia“ - Prypiat - https://commaful.com/play/jw2019/warsaw-spy-mission-1978-epii-call-of-polesia/

See also a comic:

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Heritage of Kyiv, Radianska Ukraina

Soviet-era Ukraine's beauty.

Українська Радянська Соціалістична Республіка

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Fictional Soviet Poster: A new general secretary came to power in CPSU

Parody of Leonid Ilych's poster.

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🇻🇳 Sincere condolences to Viet Nam

And General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng who passed on these days.

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MiG-23 "Flogger" (МиГ-23)

MiG-23: A Versatile Soviet Fighter

The MiG-23 was a Soviet-built fighter aircraft designed to replace the widely used MiG-21. It was a significant advancement in its time, featuring several innovative technologies.

Production and Variants

Over 5,000 MiG-23s were produced in various variants, with the MiG-23MS being the most widely exported version.

(Description by Comrade Gemini)

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My works about Soviet from 1960s to 1980s

Just for the use of aesthetics and academics only.

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The Cheeki Breeki Childhood

T-62 tank, R-36 rocket and Khrushchev.