[ih] SpaceX Starlink in Ukraine and RELCOM during the Soviet coup attempt

Johan Helsingius julf at Julf.com
Wed Mar 16 12:24:23 PDT 2022


> Reminds me of the role of RELCOM during the Soviet coup attempt of 1991:
> https://cis471.blogspot.com/2011/01/before-twitter-revolutions-there-was.html

We were running the other end of their link, in Helsinki. We did
have some interesting discussions with the people in the US in
order to get a go-ahead on that link.

It wasn't just USENET. There is that famous IRC log at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/communications/logs/report-ussr-gorbatchev

	Julf




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