• MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sadly, most of the skilled workers needed for this project were pressed into military service, and got blown up in Ukraine.

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      1 year ago

      Or sent to prison for collaborating, like that scientist who worked on commercial hypersonic airplanes.

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        1 year ago

        Or just packed their shit and ran away as far as they could. A lot of great IT professionals I know started leaving Russia after 2014. After 2022 literally everyone I know left Russia. Putin has fucked Russia real hard…