Trafika Europe 3 - Latvian Sojourn

I already know – now, later, after reading all those books, all those declassified documents. I, as they say, bless the right hand of the creators of those uranium-graphite reactors, with all of their thoughtlessness. Scientists' greatness is not measured by some abstract perfection – on the contrary, it is measured by their talent to make a predicted mistake. To hide it in a system of complicated formulas and terminology so as to remain invisible to small-minded Party leaders.

My brothers, may it be strong as ore, that blessed right hand of yours – with the valiant Reactor Four you lit up a star! *

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* Parody of the poem “Northern Lights” by the proletarian poet Hristo Smirnenski (1898-1923).

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