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To: Fiji Hill

That’s crazy to fly on a Soviet plane.


39 posted on 07/05/2024 5:05:54 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

I flew from East Berlin to Moscow on Interflug, the East German airline, and flew back from Leningrad on Aeroflot. Both used Il-18’s, and both were just as Spartan. The dinner on the flight to Moscow consisted of cold beef and bread served on a metal tray, kind of like those found in high school cafeterias. But on the return trip, breakfast consisted of hard boiled eggs with caviar, which I thought was a treat.

I found out later that the reason that conditions on Soviet airliners were so spartan was so that they could be quickly converted to military use if necessary.


42 posted on 07/05/2024 5:23:57 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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