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Women in the USSR were in space before American women could open a bank account (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago by [M] to c/latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They're exactly zero Soviet Astronauts.

They are called Cosmonauts.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Dangit! Cosmonaut kept popping up into my head but I couldn't be bothered to look up the difference.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Just to be double extra, Chinese astronauts are tiakonaughts.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    There are not doctors in Germany either. Not were there any academics in the whole of Russia.

    They're called arzt. or Doktor. That's not helpful, though.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    That's not a good analogy though. Cosmonaut isn't just a translated term of astronaut. It's different on purpose.

    Just a PhD is specifically different from MD, even though both are doctors.

    No their jobs aren't as different, but it's very much a definite prescriptive difference, one are people who went to space from the USSR/Russia, astronauts are American/European and Chinese spacefarers are taikonauts.

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