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From: Julius Bernotas <gaussianblue@tilde.pink>
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Subject: Re: Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Arrested in France
Date: 27 Aug 2024 17:13:14 GMT
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Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> writes:

>Julius Bernotas:

>> IIRC Telegram's founder originally fled Russia and went to
>> Israel.

>Fled?! He simply emigrated, and remains a Russian citizen,
>and it is in that quality that the Russisan government
>interceded for him in France.

>> The Russian authorities had difficulties tracking down
>> people who were writing things that were against the
>> official line of the regime on Telegram.

>Yes, including criminals, spies, and terrorists.

>> The Russian authorities even slowed down the speed of
>> internet connections to Telegram's servers inside Russia
>> on February 2022 and in the 6 following months. I wonder
>> if the internet speed for connections to Telegram's
>> servers is still artificially being slowed down.

>I don't experiece any slowdowns now, but YouTube is
>practically blocked here, alghough it can be accessed via
>VPNs or special software like GoodbyeDPI .

>> I'm trying to figure out whether I understand you
>> correctly. Are you saying that Telegram is an official
>> means of communication for the Russian military on the
>> Ukrainian front?

>No, it is not "official."  The joke was a sad sarcasm: too
>near the truth.

>> [...]
>> And are you saying that Telegram is not a means of
>> communication used by Russian military officials on the
>> Ukrainian front?

>It is.

>> To transmit orders for example.

>Maybe even for that, but certainly for horisontal
>coordination where other means are unavailable.

>Communications in the Russian army is a /bloody/ mess (as
>many other things).  It is higly dependent on the help of
>volunteers from all over Russia, who adopt various civil DMR
>radios, order, upgrade, develop custom firmware, and
>reprogram all the necessary hardware, from retranslators and
>power generators to individual portable radios and
>batteries, and adopt them for tanks, APCs, and develop
>integration.  Even the basic wired communication is not
>always avaiable, so that volunteers scavenge old military
>field telephones and buy cable by the kilometer, because it
>is an expendable.

>The majority of high-quality (season- and terrain-tailored)
>camouflage nets are also supplied by volunteers, via the
>"People's net" project with workshops across the coutry
>exising on small personal donations.  And all the while the
>Russian propaganda has been bragging that the Russian army
>is well suppplied, and attacking the volunteers for
>"discrediding the military."

>Did you know, for exapmple, that in the storm of Lisichansk,
>communication was provided via a bunch of portable radios
>(one per channel) and one retranslator-capable radio hanging
>from a 12-meter Chinese kite, something like this:

>  https://avatars.dzeninfra.ru/get-zen_brief/7713650/pub_63760c421e944f5c890f23ef_63760c421e944f5c890f23f0/scale_2400

Back in 2019, year of the anniversary of the Apollo
landing I remember watching the series Chasing the Moon [1]
by Robert Stone. The documentary also handles the space race between
the USA and the Soviet Union. It roughly says this:
Khrushchew is working as the secretary general. His main
goal is to ensure that the population of the Soviet Union is
fed and that the other basic needs of the population are met.
A space race with the USA that is going to cost a significant part
of the Soviet Union's budget is not coming at the right time.
That's the least you could say about it.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_the_Moon_(TV_series)