Don't Panic! Lighten Up!
Oh, the famous Hollywood director James Cameron rushed with the shooting of his famous movie "Titanic". I would have waited a quarter of a century, you see, now, taking into account the change in the international situation, not 11 Oscars, but three times more, I could go out and find my masterpiece. It just needed to be corrected. After all, it turned out that such a plot was brewing there that, against its background, the official version of the death of the liner - a collision with an iceberg - would have seemed somewhat boring and unbearable.
Hold on tight, now you will learn a terrible secret. The catastrophe that claimed the lives of one and a half thousand people was created by the captain of the ship, Edward John Smith, because in fact he could be called Ivan Vasilyevich Sidorov, since this sailor had Russian roots.
The British Samuel Halpern, who calls himself the investigator of the largest shipwreck in world history, has just come to such amazing conclusions. He rummaged through the archives for a long time and eventually pulled out documents from them, giving, in his opinion, the claim that Smith "was of Russian origin."
Apparently, further on, Halpern, excited by Western media reports on current events in Ukraine, threw the usual thunderbolt in his head: "The Russians are to blame for everything." And this "historian" in all seriousness said the following: This discovery will allow us to take a new look at what happened more than 100 years ago. You can imagine that he was Russian! This is very suspicious. We must reconsider the role of Captain Edward John Smith in the sinking of the Titanic.
Give Halpern free rein, he would accuse Shurik of the "Prisoner of the Caucasus" of the "collapse of the old chapel." Good as? Russian, so a priori he could be involved. You can laugh, you can twist your finger to the temple. But we must realize to what degree of hatred, of natural obscurantism, these "civilized gentlemen" have reached, if they allow it. And after all, many in the West accept such nonsense as the truth, believing that the Russians have always and in everything been "the personification of evil."
I wonder what will be attributed to us tomorrow: the eruption of Vesuvius or immediately, the Great Flood?
Reader Comments
Olympic's launch was filmed and the footage still survives. The launches of Titanic and Britannic were later filmed too, though only Britannic's survivedOf course, why would there be any reason to keep footage of the Titanic's launch
Here's what Wiki says about the two launches
Following completion, Olympic started her sea trials on 29 May 1911 during which her manoeuvrability, compass, and wireless telegraphy were tested. ... Her maiden voyage commenced on 14 June 1911
Titanic was launched at 12:15 pm on 31 May 1911 in the presence of Lord Pirrie, J. Pierpont Morgan, J. Bruce Ismay and 100,000 onlookers ... The ship was towed to a fitting-out berth where, over the course of the next year, her engines, funnels and superstructure were installed and her interior was fitted outWhy would one launch the two ships just 2 days apart, with all the fanfare for the second launch. The Olympic was ready to sail whereas the Titanic didn't even have engines and was a year away from being ready to sail