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Last week mighty Pravda (which claims 2,000,000 copies daily) gave three of its 24 columns to a claim that the principle of conservation of matter,* attributed by Westerners to Lavoisier (1775), was really discovered by an 18th Century Russian poet-scientist-philosopher named Mikhail Lomonosov. This week the Russians claimed again that a Russian flew the first power-driven heavier-than-air machine 21 years before the Wright brothers got around to their 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. In recent years, official Communist publications have claimed that the incandescent lamp, the radio, the steam engine, penicillin...
...trade union paper Trud took a tuck in the tail of his kite. Said Trud, in effect: Ben was just wasting his time in that thunderstorm, back in 1752. He could have saved himself trouble and danger* by dropping a postcard to St. Petersburg where Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov had proved, a year before, that lightning is electricity...
...Artisans at the famous Lomonosov Porcelain Works in Leningrad carried Soviet iconography to new heights with an eight-foot vase glorifying Stalin...