Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "Why the Soviet Computer Failed" video.

@Uneedhelp91 Actually, they came rather close, but Korolev died mid-development, and the project died with him
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@timewave02012 That's not going to stop them. Even some close friends are convinced that I am a mongol/finn/turk... orc seems to be the new one, among very nationalistic ones
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@helljumper912 Not inaccurate to say that it was originally a Khazar Khaganate before being captured by the Rus, there is also some truth to say that the 'folk wisdom' is that Kiev was named after Kiy. But the etymology of the name was originally Kyh-jev / Кꙑевъ, closer to Kiev than ...Keev. Original meaning is unknown.
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@richpryor9650 "Okay, first of all, you don't know what you're talking about" Did someone realize they were in over their head with rhetoric, and try to save face by editing their comment? Alexei Leonov was selected to be part of the eventual manned Soviet lunar landing, so no, it wasn't just a rover. You're wrong. If you're talking about the design, then sure, the N1's successive models would have been used. That's not much of a point, like saying that IBM was building its very first computer for personal use. I am referring to the first physical iteration that Korolev was personally working on, before his death... as I already said.
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@richpryor9650 You're the one who replied to me, with a stupid "nuh uh!" no less Also you're flat wrong, they planned to go to the moon, wanna just admit your mistake and move on? Or keep finding ways to call names?
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@davidw.2791 yes, something like that
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@richpryor9650 ..What? The N1 was intended for the moon, not mars. Are you joking? Also, it wasn't too complex, but poorly planned. Not in stages, but all at once. Not to mention, the US took most of the nazi rocket scientists and used their knowledge to get there, the achievement was not America's but Werner von Braun's
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@tahwsisiht I suppose, but this ultimately also comes down to translatability as well. 'Keev' is simply never going to be pronounced correctly in English, it lacks the distinction between и and ї. Kyiv is not the original spelling either, but a transliteration. Ireland could just as easily demand that it be called Eire, but it doesn't, because 1) it's purely symbolic and not practical and 2) it complicates existing norms For a better example, Poland does not ask people to use 'Varshava' instead of Warsaw. It benefits from using a name that is more easily pronounceable by non-Slavic people. I think Kiev, composing 2 vowels, is the same.
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@tahwsisiht It might not take anything for you as a single person. But, this will affect transliterations and translations of official documents in English (do we retro-actively re-publish everything with a single word change?), retooling tourist guides and materials, maps, atlases, websites, everything that even mentions the city by name. And I find it strange that you think someone's ability to see valid reasons not to change the name everywhere, comes from a place of disrespect.
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