East Minus West Equals Zero
East Minus West Equals Zero: Russia's Debt to the Western World 862-1962 and import of technology and, in contemporary times, industrial espionage.
The author claims that not a single contribution of science, arts, technology and other aspect of Western civilization has its origin in Russia and that every alleged cultural and scientific achievement of Russia from its late medieval inception to the Space Race has been a copy of prior Western achievements. The book was well received by critics in its era. The book's publication followed short after the erection of the Berlin Wall, which exacerbated the Cold War animosities among the then West German public.
