Comments by "Biały" (@Bialy_1) on "Where Did RFID Come From?" video.

Worse timing? Heh, you have very similar lack of knowledge about USSR as the guy that put that Big Seal in his office and was recorded for 7 years by KGB(who knows how many people paid with life for this mistake). This is on Russian wikipedia article about this guy: In 1967, the music critic Harold Schonberg, who was at a conservatory, recognized the man he met there as the Theremin. This news was published in The New York Times, and the publication of the "bourgeois press" caused outrage in the USSR. Theremin's studio was closed, "all his instruments were chopped up with an ax and thrown away", he was thrown out of the conservatory (according to other sources, he retired). He was able to earn millions in the USA using his own talent and hands... such an insult the communists will never forget!
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@AnthonyCarroll-ue3uv Neutrality Act of 1937? Invasion of Czechoslovakia? He was a soviet citizen and Soviet spy and was also earning millions of dollars in USA from his work... On Russian wikipedia the reason is very clear: "In 1938, Theremin was summoned to Moscow".
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He worked in USA as a spy, he also was able to earn millions on his own and ofc KGB did not liked it and sumoned him to USSR to then charge him with fake accusations and lock for many years... The best part is in his bio on Russian wikipedia: In 1967, the music critic Harold Schonberg, who was at a conservatory, recognized the man he met there as the Theremin. This news was published in The New York Times, and the publication of the "bourgeois press" caused outrage in the USSR. Theremin's studio was closed, "all his instruments were chopped up with an ax and thrown away", he was thrown out of the conservatory (according to other sources, he retired). Communists do not like a lot when you can be rich and famous with your own work and talent but most importantly without any help from the communist party...
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There were people like Stalin that before USSR became a thing his job was a bank robber... and you can ofc blame them for doing what they did but they know nothing else. And then you have Théremin, guy with a talent, education and every oportunity to do something good for humanity... and he is going back to USSR after all the horrors committed by the Bolsheviks, and he couldn't not have seen it all and not know what happened to several million Russians before he went to this world tour that he ended in USA... and yet he came back and produced undetectable eavesdropping methods that destroyed the lives of many thousands of people(most likely the most talented, inteligent and most moral people in USSR) ... And what? It's not his fault?! In 1991, he joined soviet communist party, which surprised people because at that time everyone knew that this criminal system was falling and no one was going to invest more time and effort in it and to join the party, he graduated from the Institute of Marxism-Leninism...
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@doujinflip So in your head if you want to use some well known and popular device you need to purchase the device? That idea sound so alike some state official type of reasoning and main reason why state companies are so time and money inneficient... On top of it considering that the seal was pretending to be only wood you could just use metal detector on it as that also is using radio waves and antena and other metal components should return proper signal back to the metal detector.
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@ralanham76 You can have protocol even if something did not became a thing yet... like some underground nuclear bunker build for you just in case...
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