S.I. Fishgal published about 200 books, patents and engineering magazines' papers under his name and made a hundred patents as a nigger - absolutely no insult intended to African brunettes and brunets. That was the Soviet term for the authors (mostly “persons of the Jewish nationality” as the media put it) writing or inventing under their bosses’ or payers’ names. Yet, he who was born to crawl cannot fly, as a certain Maxim Gorky said. Fishgal was an American, British, Canadian and even Finnish nigger too. As one can see, he was also an engi-nigger - again, no insult for the African friends. It was the Soviet engineers' pet name reflecting their status in the egalitarian society.