Working on poem about the 'Russian Woodpecker', a 'sharp, repetitive tapping noise' that disrupted communications signals worldwide between 1976-1989. It came from huge antenna arrays located near Chernobyl & in eastern Siberia ...
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Well, aside from the fact that that's the name it is known by, should I call him the 'Ukrainian Woodpecker' in your opinion?
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I call it "Duga". Russia loves to appropriate the achievements of other soviet republics, and it annoys me. My grandfather worked at many of these facilities and was a liquidator of the Chernobyl disaster. And it's a little offensive when everyone calls it Russian.
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Again ... I am completely with you in this, but radio operators nicknamed the signal the 'Russian woodpecker' and nicknames are rarely precise or politically correct
Btw it would be correct to write: "Chornobyl (Ukraine) & in eastern Siberia (Russia)", but not like abstract places somewhere within the single space of "Russia."
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I'm not!
Obviously, it was Moscow's decision to build it up. It was protected by NIIDAR (Moscow) and build by SpecStroy. So i can't think, how else one can call it, rather that Russian!?
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Obviously, almost all decisions in USSR was in Moscow, even the recipe for Kiev cake was approved in Moscow. Duga designed by Moscow НИИДАР, but first experremental duga was build in Nikolaev and many parts were built at the Dnepropetrovsk plant, so i consider him soviet.
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