https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210114-covid-19-how-effective-is-a-single-vaccine-dose
Sputnik V
The Sputnik V vaccine is named after the world's first artificial satellite, the iconic Soviet-era "Sputnik 1", which was launched into low Earth orbit in October 1957 – it burned up three months later when its batteries died. Its namesake was developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia.
Any time Russia or the USSR are mentioned there needs to be some added slight in the text.
Is this meant to hint something about the vaccine? Or just about Russian manufacturing.
like it is fun because it is a mix of anti russian sentiment from right now and the anti soviet stuff from like decades ago americans just can't deal with russians like they just hate them so much
What Americans can't take is countries resisting US supremacy. Americans liked Russians during the Jeltsin regime when the Russian economy was being decided by political commissars from the US. But under Putin Russia became more independent from the evil empire so now they're back on the red scare anti-Russian racism.
Russians and Russians alone are the reason half the country voted for Trump twice. And I'll never forgive the Russians for that.
I've never trusted Russians, and I never will. I could never forgive them for the death of my boy. It seems to me our mission to escort the Chancellor of the Russian High Council to a peace summit is problematic at best. Spock says this could be an historic occasion, and I'd like to believe him, but how on earth can history get past people like me?