Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "When the Soviet Navy Lost 16 Admirals in a Single Accident: The Tu-104 Crash at Pushkin" video.

  1. The book, "Animal Farm" by George Orwell (Eric Blair) was inspired by his experience of being involved with the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side, in which the military forces of the Soviet Union were heavily involved in. Possibly, Blair talked to Soviet citizens he met while serving in Spain about the Soviet Union (Blair was an ambulance driver as well as a journalist). Blair later wrote the book "Animal Farm" inspired by the Bolshevik revolution there in 1917. He got it quite spot on, although his work was fiction. Definitely not for children.
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  2. Seems a supreme stupidity to put so many high ranking naval officers on the same flight. Why was that done? They had a conference that got them on the same chartered plane? I bet it was a bad week for the Kremlin.
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