[Romanov]

"Tell us Gary how the Russians came to control the natural gas industry when it was started in Ukraine back in the 20's?"


That's right Gary, and tell us how the Ukrainians invented fire, electricity, the radio, television, and the Rubric's Cube.

[spanalot]

"That's right Gary, and tell us how the Ukrainians invented fire, electricity, the radio, television, and the Rubric's Cube."

Ah yes - another Straw Dog. How entertaining.

But here is the truth about the the origin of the "Russian' gas industry ) and why all the pipelines run thru Ukraine.

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"the Soviet gas industry was born in Western Ukraine in the 1920s, and the country built the infrastructure of the industry. Most of the technical universities and research centers for the gas industry were based in Ukraine, and a good chunk of the engineers and workers that developed the giant Siberian fields in the 60s were Ukrainian. "