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- BabyWookie, on 10/12/2007, -9/+35Well, it is easy to imagine things when you "don't know much about history". After Stalin's death, the Soviet Union never had any famines and everyone was well taken care of, as far as the basics. It wasn't some kind of a sub-saharan Africa in frozen tundra type of environment. We had ***** choices when it came to consumer products and luxuries, but everyone was pretty much guaranteed a roof over their head, food, free education and medical care.
BTW, I've seen these pictures on Digg multiple times already. - lickmygiggle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18I'm sorry, I know (for some stupid reason) everyone hates it when people call out dupes, but this one was on the front page a little over a month ago...thats where I draw the line. It got over 800 diggs.
http://digg.com/world_news/Abandoned_Russian_Planes
go digg that one if you havent seen this story yet...please. - hbweb500, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9"stay HYPHY up in the bay, ya digg?"
No, I don't. - inarguable, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6 If you think these images are impressive, check out the US decommissioned B-52 fleet at Davis Monthan in Tucson. They call it the 'Bone Yard'.
http://www.virtualtucsonmagazine.com/vtmsections/valleypages/airplanegrave.html - BabyWookie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@nhaas:
What are you trying to say? That the Soviet Union was an authoritarian state with little tolerance for dissent? I think everyone realizes that. Yes, the Soviet Union had a major housing problem as well. That is what happens when you rapidly industrialize and urbanize a huge agrarian society and then have the Nazies practically erase thousands of cities. Unfortunately, a lot of people did have to live in "komunalkas" (shared housing), but it happened less and less as time went by after WW2. During Stalin's rule, there were horrible famines and other terrible things, but I lived there after "The Thaw" and there were no homeless people on the streets and no big-bellied dystrophic children begging for scraps. That is all I am saying. - elness, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Wow, those Backfire bombers are really hacked up... Pity, they should be in a museum somewhere as Cold War exhibits...
- nhaas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6 BabyWookie as long as you went with the flow - did not speak out - lots of things like that. Family from russia. Sorry not everyone got food. multifamilies in small houses. hmm they treated you right - alright!
- wonkavsn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That hasn't been funny for a long time.
- tgunner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'll take a Tu-95 off your hands if you don't mind, I've always respected that graceful monster with it's counter-rotating propellers. Or maybe an An-12 cargo plane to be used as a house... that'd be amazing!
- ChiChiCuervo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3no. that's because we keep our aeronautic boneyards in the desert where there's no weather and no one around to ***** with them.
- chemmM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I actually lived in Russia for the first 7 years of my life and had a little dacha (weekend house) in a little village where there were dissassembled planes, tractors, and trucks lying around just a 20 minute walk away. That was some fun stuff to explore with my buddies, nothing like that here in America -_-
- tomj88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have to agree with you... every other article appears to be a dupe now :(
- steveTr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3hmmm funny how i dugg this about a month ago........
- Javlington, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One would swear some of those were spacecraft!
- Langford, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1When I saw the headline I thought to myself "I would love to give an old plane a good home", but gee whiz, those planes have really been gutted. I wonder if there is enough parts to get any of them going.
- PolarPyro, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4from the original stories comments:
aphonik on 12/24/06
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In Soviet Russia, planes abandon YOU - dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thousands of abandoned American planes:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=32.159483,-110.837889&spn=0.025686,0.040169&t=k&om=1 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I see those nose sections and think what nice interior sets you could construct with them for a sci-fi movie. Weld body sections together to make some really industrial looking space stations.
Me likey. - hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2At first I was trying to parse that as "Cadavers ripped off from medical schools found in abandoned Russian planes"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Those Concorde-like looking things looked almost complete... there must have been something you can do with them
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mig-21s are a good, cheap Soviet military plane deal. They're widely exported and it's easy to get parts for them. They even show up on eBay once in a while.
- pagit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Kinda of reminds me of a Russian style Indian reservation except it's planes instead of cars in the front yard in various states of disreapir.
Where is the MiG-31 Firefox that Clint Eastwood stole? - otheruser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i love this site.
- arjie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe you didn't notice that failed joke twice already among the comments.
- michaelpe2051, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1at davis monthan they take care to recycle the old planes and to gut and dispose of the old planes with little or no consequence to the environment but, i can't help but wonder about the ageing soviet era planes and how much effect they will have on the environment. it looks like these planes just ended up in somebodies field to sit and rot. oh well! what do i know?
- easy4lif, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this is probably nothing more then what we do with our old war planes here in the states. they tear apart the planes to salvage parts for planes that are still part of the Russian fleet that's still in service to their country.
- scotticus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4USA FTW
- chemmM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm pretty sure they're free, Alot of the parts that me and my friends would mess with my father would end up using it for something useful. Russia is the land of the free in many ways. ^_^
- poppamidnight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1if i had the money...Id buy these...
I mean im suprised the celebs dont go for stuff like this...
How cool would it be if you could restore an old mig and fly that thing around for fun...
As to why travolta only like flying quantas passenger planes baffels the mind - toonarmy88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Pity.... left to rot, when they could be used for good use ;)
- Cowboy5995, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Alright I am going to Russia to find a abandoned Mig and stealing to go strafe Tom Cruises mansion whos coming with me?
About a month ago I remember seeing a special about the Tom Cat fighter plane's decommissioning and I guess when ever they put theses planes in these grave yards they are more or less being mothballed in case they are needed for service again. - nhaas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1of course you know that some of those planes were old. same thing hapens all over the world - old = scrape metal!!!
- ooMissioNoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1in soviet Russia, planes take apart you!
- ShitHappens, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2http://www.duggmirror.com
- FriGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0old news
- clackerd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1they don't look too abandoned, there are three dudes hanging around, and a cameraman. buried for LIES IN THE HEADLINE. LIES!
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2[quote]Those Concorde-like looking things looked almost complete... there must have been something you can do with them[/quote]
They're Tu-22's. Russia operates quite a few of them along with Tu-160s and Tu-95s. I guess the ones in the photos are being used for spare parts?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0JYdx0VnkYg
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nhj8ITvp-pw
This is an even better carrier killer (Su-34), in case Bush decides to show up uninvited with USS Ronald Reagan:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZMkSUDLm5Do - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4DUPETACULAR
- grubwort, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0That's because the Americans keep all their planes flightworthy ready to fight... those Russian planes.
- huckdunsany, on 10/12/2007, -18/+13Really some amazing pics. I don't know much about Soviet history, but it's easy to imagine how many people went hungry and cold to fund those weapons.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2will it blend?
- Bilbobaggins, on 10/12/2007, -10/+0In Soviet Russia, plane dismantle you!
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