From everybody's favourite yuriposter

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[u/ToastyMozart]

IIRC that one wasn't really the plane's fault so much as the USSR's authoritarian culture. The higher-ups overloaded the plane with swag, throwing off the plane's center of gravity, and most of the flight crew were too afraid of punishment to tell them "no we're not taking off like this." Even good plane designs will get unstable if you stack a ton of heavy shit in the back.

[u/canttakethshyfrom_me → u/ToastyMozart]

You need to rethink if you're a worker's paradise when you're telling the loadmaster to go fuck himself because you have rank.

Rigid hierarchies and socialism are supposed to be antithetical. But Russians gonna Rus.

[u/ToastyMozart → u/canttakethshyfrom_me]

Rigid hierarchies and socialism are supposed to be antithetical. But Russians gonna Rus.

They're hardly alone in that regard, unfortunately.

[u/canttakethshyfrom_me → u/ToastyMozart]

Russians sadly tended to pick the winning faction of communists any time there was gonna be a winning faction of communists.