Sunday, March 13, 2011
Blast from the past
A reminder of the time when I, along with at least some others, believed that the man in the middle was a force for good. In denial or at best ignorant of the dreadful things that were happening in China at the time.Ironically, the same issue of the NYRB carries a piece about how the Soviets, for all their faults, were very good at the mass production of very good weapons, with assault rifles and tanks getting particular mention. The argument being that the Soviet way of organising things worked much better, at least in this speciality, than that of the free world.
An argument recently given a post-Soviet turn by a video clip of a spanking new Russian fighter which appears to be capable of flying backwards, turning somersaults and other unlikely stunts. Said to be superior to anything the Yanks can put up, never mind ourselves. See http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8152054/CA_SU-301.wmv.
# posted by Jim @ 12:49 AM 
