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@Cancun771
8 ай бұрын
40% alcohol?!
@tamasmihaly1
8 ай бұрын
I love your channel, but you really should clarify "Fuck Russia" with "Fuck the Russian government... I've got no problems with the Russian people. The people never have any say in shit like this. You know that.
@John-yf8qh
8 ай бұрын
Hello there! You’ve already done a video on this very topic, old top. Why are we revisiting old ground? I ask as a curiosity rather than a grumble.
@Magikarp-4ever
8 ай бұрын
I do not understand the relationship with alcohol and the Russian people as a whole, could you do a full long explanation please! It would get many views from America ♥️
@TheWatz05
8 ай бұрын
@DavidStickneymaybe if you had to deal with another country oppressing your lifestyle and people until the fall of Soviet Union. Then constantly being screwed with since Putin once he took over. Then just randomly decides to de-nazify your country just to look better before an election.
@gimzod76
8 ай бұрын
Suddenly my grandad's tales of gifting soviet bomber crew's whiskey and getting a bottle of vodka in return takes on a new meaning.
@purpleldv966
8 ай бұрын
Yeah, he got ripped off! And God knows what toxic compounds and metals were in that "vodka"... :D
@volo870
8 ай бұрын
@@purpleldv966 Soviet aviators were very respectful to American counterparts. Love of flight is the same, regardless the borders. I doubt that they would present anything they would not be happy to consume themselves.
@alexturnbackthearmy1907
8 ай бұрын
@@purpleldv966 Nothing. Its a pure ethanol, literally nothing else.
@p.strobus7569
8 ай бұрын
@volo870 Given the quality of what they were happy to consume themselves, this is not as shining an endorsement as one may think.
@leovang3425
8 ай бұрын
@@volo870 Unless you really like everclear, it's a bad trade.
@whyjnot420
8 ай бұрын
I love the addition of the 'family archive' footage in these videos. It adds a personal touch that you don't see with many military focused channels. Also, the juxtaposition of old soviet things with upbeat narration always give me a smile.
@TurboHappyCar
8 ай бұрын
Yeah very cool. Not just showing stock footage and reading off wikipedia like some "Dark" video producers. 👍
@whyjnot420
8 ай бұрын
@@TurboHappyCar I forcibly ignore all those Dark channels. My god they are crap.
@davidg3944
8 ай бұрын
Agree in full. This channel is well presented and gives insights I can't find elsewhere. The "home movies" are a big part of that.
@Jonathan.D
4 ай бұрын
His pops was looking quite dapper is his gear. It reminds me of the photos I have of my dad and grandpa in their uniforms.
@veganmonter
8 ай бұрын
Picking a plane because of how much alcohol it typically holds, is another level of alcoholism I hope to never be at.
@eias3230
8 ай бұрын
it's galaxy brain mindset lol
@dickwellington8578
8 ай бұрын
That’s some high level functioning alcoholism right there. If only we all could be that lucky lol
@mowtow90
7 ай бұрын
Its not about alcoholism. In Soivet times alcohol had more value then the ruble. It was currency. Even up to mid 2000s a bottle of vodka or wiskey can get you a good care in a hospiral for example. This is what happens when the population is poor. Bartering and bribes takeover.
@Nyx_2142
3 ай бұрын
@@mowtow90 "Its not about alcoholism." Lol. Yes, it is. And it was currency they would drink. Cope.
@Angry.CMB.Elite.
3 ай бұрын
@@Nyx_2142Hell, you could compare it to an economy based on chocolate. While yes it’d be a currency, it’d be an edible currency and then get stomach issues because of it.
@AdmiralScheer28
8 ай бұрын
One of the stories I have to think about regarding soviet soldiers and alcohol is the one by Michael Schlosser. He was an East German citizen who wanted to flee to West Germany. He builds a homemade aircraft to fly over the inner German border for that purpose. But he had to test if the plane was even capable of flying. So, in 1983, we went to a Soviet military base north of Dresden on a Sunday because he knew most of the personnel there were off duty then. Well, he arrives there with his disassembled plane in his truck, and suddenly, seven red army soldiers come out of the woods and, of course, ask him what the fuck he is doing. But he brought something with him: two bottles of vodka. They instantly become more friendly after receiving this welcome gift. He gives them some made-up story about testing the plane for a TV show, and they help him assemble the plane. He did a short test and took off with the plane just two meters, but that was enough to know he could fly with it over the border. Meanwhile, the soldiers sat on the grass, drinking the vodka and congratulating him on the successful test. Finally, they disassembled the plane with Schlosser, said goodbye, and returned to their base. Ultimately, one of his colleagues reported him to Stasi, and he was arrested, but the soldiers never reported the incident. The story's moral is that if you do illegal things on a military base, always bring alcohol with you.
@oqo3310
8 ай бұрын
the fact that it ends up with the stasi coworker reporting him is how you know this is an authentic east german story
@andrewhammel8218
8 ай бұрын
It's "inter German border". Not "inner German". It was the border between the two Germanies that existed at the time (so it was 'inter German').
@brianfarley2388
4 ай бұрын
@@andrewhammel8218 oof, to be so sure you are right and yet be so very wrong. Why don't you go ahead and Google "Inner German Border." Here, I copy pasted some for ya: "The inner German border (German: innerdeutsche Grenze or deutsch-deutsche Grenze; initially also Zonengrenze) was the frontier between the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, West Germany) from 1949 to 1990. "
@lightningwingdragon973
8 ай бұрын
If the computer is cooled by alcohol mixture then couldn't you say that the autopilot is ALSO drunk?
@lordmontymord8701
8 ай бұрын
No, this would just be one of the ancestors of Futurama's Bender - and he has symptoms of alcohol consumption if he doesn't drink.
@buzzard3983
8 ай бұрын
Only in Russia my comrade.
@Vazgriz
8 ай бұрын
@@lordmontymord8701Otto what's wrong? You're stone cold sober!
@b3ntl33
3 ай бұрын
Fly home Boris, you're not drunk enough!
@largol33t12
Ай бұрын
Is the autopilot drunk? DA!
@ahseaton8353
8 ай бұрын
Soviet Aircraft had a chronic problem with icing. This was caused by a chronic problem with the ground crew diluting the alcohol deicing fluid
@krzysztofwaleska
8 ай бұрын
Good one 😂
@lairdcummings9092
8 ай бұрын
Pilots would also report encountering icing conditions and inform the ground that they were activating de-ice, but in reality, they were siphoning off the deice fluid when they return to base - the flip side of that same coin.
@AndyBonesSynthPro
8 ай бұрын
When I was a kid my parents' vodka had a similar chronic problem of freezing solid in the freezer.
@Shaker626
8 ай бұрын
In turn caused by chronic alcoholism
@sharonrigs7999
7 ай бұрын
@AndyBonesSynthPro Mine too! The rum and scotch were easier. I got good with food coloring in order to mask the diluted hue. Thankfully, my parents were alcoholics so bottles never lasted too long 😂
@jdreyes3745
8 ай бұрын
Not gonna lie, I immediately broke out into uncontrollable laughter when you mentioned how the MiG-29 which your father eventually picked was actually made by "Sukhoi" or dry with regards to its alcohol. I don't think I'll ever get away with mentioning the Flanker, Felon, and company without thinking of that translation anymore. (The Dry D-27 Flanker, the best fighter in the Soviet Union, everyone!) I still am blown away at the absolute wealth of first-hand experiences both you and your father had with regards to aviation in general, particularly at how your father flew highly-advanced fighter jets for a living. Like, come on; just receiving enough booze to fill up entire *bathtubs* and a jar collection filled on top of all that without paying several figures for it is virtually unheard of outside the Union! Definitely gonna look out for Comrade Kroupsky when he appears.
@090giver090
8 ай бұрын
> I don't think I'll ever get away with mentioning the Flanker, Felon, and company without thinking of that translation anymore. An actual declassified nomenclature of soviet military aircrafts: Dry, Demi-sec, and Brut 🤣
@TrolerWT
8 ай бұрын
I'm amazed that you have family pictures with no other than the one and only Viktor Pugachev, this channel never disappoints
@Pioneer_DE
8 ай бұрын
Who is that?
@TrolerWT
8 ай бұрын
@@Pioneer_DE Famous Soviet/Russian fighter pilot, created some maneouvers
@davidg3944
8 ай бұрын
@@TrolerWT There's at least one site on the web that claims it was a Syrian MiG-21 pilot that actually invented the Cobra Maneuver. No idea if the claim is accurate...
@TrolerWT
8 ай бұрын
@@davidg3944 Im not saying Pugachev created the cobra since the first cobra maneouver was created by swedish J35 pilots in order to counter the drag force
@legoeasycompany
8 ай бұрын
Man the Soviet Air Forces ability to make cocktails puts the US Navy's Torpedo Juice to shame. Then again if there was more equipment that had alcohol I'm sure the USN sailors would have done the same. Never doubt young men's ability to make drinks out of whatever is at hand if they're far from home I guess
@anzaca1
8 ай бұрын
Except the US Navy made the alcohol in the torpedoes poisonous. The US Navy has been 100% alcohol-free for decades.
@underpaidmook
8 ай бұрын
@@anzaca1Which was why they had ice cream barges in WW2 to compensate
@deletdis6173
8 ай бұрын
@anzaca1 OH we have alcohol. 😉
@themilkman5401
8 ай бұрын
To be fair, it's not the normal sailors the Navy has to worry about, but the Seabees. Those mfs stole 9 North Korean trains AND took all the beer from a local brewery during the Korean War. My own Daddy, a Seabee, managed to get his hands on a live 155mm round and used it as a doormat during his deployment to Afghanistan. Sadly, Chief had Army EOD come by and take it a week after my Daddy and his buddies "tactically acquired" the 155mm round. Nevertheless, they'll steal yo' shit.
@johnrickard8512
8 ай бұрын
@@anzaca1if they had tried to do that in the USSR I suspect they would have lost half their pilots every year.
@alexengine1640
22 күн бұрын
Thank you for the super high-quality videos about Soviet aviation! My father was one of the leading investigators of aviation accidents in the Soviet Air Force in the 60-70s. He witnessed this story in the 70s - a MiG-25 arrived, technicians began to drain the coolant (it was "massandra" with 50% alcohol and 50% water). At this time, the Air Force commander, general, with accompanying officers approached the plane. They saw that the canister was already full, the liquid began to pour past, and the technicians were trying to put some improvised container under it. The commander suddenly said: Well, I have a question! ... There was confusion in the ranks of the officers, some of them immediately moved closer to the general, ready to answer any question, but the other part moved away (you never know what the commander will ask!). - Will the personnel have enough sandwiches? - asked the commander ...
@MostlyPennyCat
8 ай бұрын
_My_ father was Royal Navy, _old school_ Royal Navy. He remembers being paid in alcohol each morning and the crew spending each day pretty shit-faced 😂 Rum and grog for breakfast. And it was used as currency too, with tots and it's sub divisions being traded for favours and other luxuries. (cigarettes, etc)
@MostlyPennyCat
8 ай бұрын
Decades after the practise ceased, I was about 10 to 12 years old at the time, my father and an old navy friend secured one of the bottles of the remaining Pusser's Rum, left over after "Black Tot Day", the last day of the Navy Tot. It tasted incredible, I'd never tasted anything that good before and I never will again (unless I buy one of the _very_ expensive remaining bottles) Indeed it was very moreish, I can see why they stopped.
@MostlyPennyCat
8 ай бұрын
Yep, looked it up, £800 a bottle.
@jonathanvandermark5950
8 ай бұрын
@@MostlyPennyCatI thought pusser rum was still making rum or is it a different formula now?
@MostlyPennyCat
8 ай бұрын
@@jonathanvandermark5950 There is a company that still makes it to the original recipe, yes. Doesn't taste like that original bottle I tried though. No idea why.
@dustinbrueggemann1875
8 ай бұрын
@@MostlyPennyCat Age. Old ship booze was bulk stored in live wood barrels, because that was just what they had available to store it in. Science now knows that booze stored for long times in live wood barrels gets fucking ***good***.
@adamfrazer5150
Ай бұрын
I regularly return to binge Paper Skies - I'm grateful for the personal, familial context to your content. You add such a deeper level of understanding to the elements surrounding the pilots, the airframes and the design process. 👍🍻
@vitkriklan2633
8 ай бұрын
My father had to serve his time in 1982 in the Czechoslovakian army as a doctor. When regular alcohol wasn't available the doctors were literaly prescribing "cough syrup". A solution of 40% alcohol with some phramaceutical herbal extracts which the unit pharmacy could mix. And when things got rough the unit pharmacy was always able to distil some technical alcohol. It still smelled of gasoline but was drinkable.
@deBiezel
3 ай бұрын
The best documentary ever!
@kevinbarry71
8 ай бұрын
I must say, I absolutely love the creativity involved in the names for these concoctions.
@charliemcmillan4561
Ай бұрын
the metal shavings must have added some good flavor
@DrJesterus
8 ай бұрын
Please make a video of how Tu-95 pilots in Bila Tzerkva were dumping fuel into sewage and how later people of nearby villages discovered the "miracle of burning water" from their wells :)
@santifresnel2320
3 ай бұрын
warsaw pact country: no alcohol before training missions or alarm duty. Other than that was a vodkafest. Especially for fallen comrades that went down in flight accidents, which in the 90's was common, in particular for mig21. It really was a cultish brotherhood, with good and bad.
@deletdis6173
8 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing your family footage, Mr. Skies.
@Va.Silver
14 күн бұрын
Great 👍
@eugeniusro
8 ай бұрын
My father told me a true story about two Romanian pilots who used to drink before flying. At the construction company where my father worked, there were also two "engineers" who were actually former military pilots, they were sent there after they had been disciplinary fired from the military aviation. What really happened. So the story took place in Romania in the 70s, and the pilots were MIG 21 pilots. They worked as military pilots at the air base in Brașov and always before flight training they drank about half a liter of vodka or brandy, then they got on the flight deck and took off . The drink caught them only when they were in flight and they "gained courage" and performed all the aerial acrobatic maneuvers stipulated by the regulations. One of the pilots told my dad that if he didn't drink he wouldn't be able to do the stunts in the training program because he didn't have enough courage. But one day they both made a big mistake, namely they competed with each other to dive and straighten the plane closer to the ground, the problem was that they did this above the greenhouse complex in Codlea near Brașov and after doing several drops like that due to the sonic bang and the noise created destroyed 4o hectares of greenhouses. After they landed they were immediately arrested, later they were kicked out of the army disciplinary and at the construction company where my father work they were sentenced disciplinary to work. I understood that due to the fact that they were very good pilots, Ceaușescu agreed to pardon them and they received this punishment at work because in Romania at that time if you caused damage to the state of more than 1 million lei (Romanian money equivalent 25 leu to 1$ at that time) you were sentenced to death, or 40 hectares of greenhouses were probably worth much more.
@JoeRogansForehead
8 ай бұрын
25$ is death. Lmao so literally any damage could justify a death penalty
@maximek5616
8 ай бұрын
@@JoeRogansForeheadHe said 1million lei is death . 1lei = 25 dollars so death would be at 25millions dollars.
@JoeRogansForehead
8 ай бұрын
@@maximek5616 whoops
@eugeniusro
8 ай бұрын
@@JoeRogansForehead No, I said that the capital punishment was given for a million lei damages and for the reference I gave the exchange rate 25 lei = 1$ I said backwards sorry, so 1 million lei was equivalent to 40000$
@ashrithrao06
8 ай бұрын
@@eugeniusroMan, you should edit it.
@josephnavin4451
Ай бұрын
Heavy drinking in the remote and bleak duty stations reminds me of being stationed in Fort Riley, Kansas. There was nothing to do but drink and get DUIs.
@suckersupreme4380
8 ай бұрын
I hope you don’t hesitate too much on the new channel, I adore hearing your explanations and opinions on history
@timokuusela5794
4 ай бұрын
And also from the recoil damping systems of tank guns...
@RobSchofield
8 ай бұрын
This has kept a big grin on my face all the way through! Brilliant story telling, and the image of a bathtub full of MiG coolant will stay with me forever 😆
@SPavlo
3 ай бұрын
Thanks for comforting me that the alcohol used on Soviet planes was really ethanol, and not methanol as I presumed. Not as if methanol wouldn't have been guzzled just as well, as shows the recent success of Boyaryshnik "bath salts" in Siberia, or as Vissotsky sang "if we hadn't moonshined from sawdust, we could have drunk three times more". There was at least one tragic incident related by French pilot P. Sauvage, from the WW2 Normandie-Niemen fighter unit. It involved brake fluid consumption by the Russian soldiers guarding their Yak planes. The French regiment had brought over its own doctor, and its own mechanics, complete with their toolkits and basic supplies. So the mechanics, caring for their pilots planes, overhauled the Yaks' hydraulics, replacing the alcohol with their own Messier fluid - a pure synthetic detergent similar to Lockheed brake liquid. Because of that, a Russian guard, trying to warm up in a boring winter night duty, drank that stuff, and died of poisoning after several days in agony. 😢
@mybestfriendlober
8 ай бұрын
I always need to watch these videos twice because one round is just appreciating how well made these videos are
@jjj8317
7 күн бұрын
Hopefully you can bring content for the new channel
@anzaca1
8 ай бұрын
Were those actually Paper Skies' family videos? If so, very cool.
@zeroelus
8 ай бұрын
There's other videos in this channel where he references that his dad was a pilot and shares family pictures, so I have no reason to doubt these pictures.
@zhongzhengtian9665
8 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@PaperSkiesAviation
8 ай бұрын
Thank you for support!
@domestosteron
8 ай бұрын
Love how Paper Skies shows him with Pugachev as if it's no big deal. :D
@sithikananayakkare3162
22 күн бұрын
wait a second, Victor Pugachev? that one was a unexpected cameo
@dmdrosselmeyer
8 ай бұрын
I've had the misfortune to drink straight backwoods moonshine on a few occasions (I was a very stubborn young man lol) and it makes my stomach turn every time I think of Soviet aviators drinking straight ethanol or ethanol and glycerine out of plastic cups🤢 I do not wanna know what that hangover was like...
@bartoszrybinski29
8 ай бұрын
Slavs are just built different when it comes to ethanol. I've read somewhere that genetically they have bigger quantities of liver enzyme responsible for dealing with alcohol. I've personally seen some of them drink lethal doses of alcohol in western standards, with no serious consequences apart from hangover
@charlesc.9012
8 ай бұрын
It is one of the main reasons why russian men have an average lifespan in the 50s, as if they are stuck in north Korea or the Kingdom of Wessex
@Tom_Cruise_Missile
8 ай бұрын
@@charlesc.9012Fr it's not like they don't suffer for it
@Sniperboy5551
8 ай бұрын
I’m sure they diluted it with water or juice or something, but that glycerin drink sounds disgusting
@morthiumcz1204
8 ай бұрын
@@bartoszrybinski29 Yea in town 10 mins away police stopped somoene trying to drive with like 7 or so promile
@cyphi474
4 ай бұрын
Yea. Friend of mine was serving around 21s and told me about how "leaky" those tanks were....
@SRFriso94
8 ай бұрын
Soldiers drinking alcohol meant for something else is definitely not a uniquely Russian problem, even the Nazis joined in on the fun. The V2 ran on ethanol, and the soldiers drinking the fuel was a problem the Germans never managed to solve.
@naamadossantossilva4736
8 ай бұрын
But the deadliest incident with contaminated V2 ethanol happened with the russians.
@user-xu2pi6vx7o
8 ай бұрын
@@naamadossantossilva4736Now THAT'S a story we need to hear.
@DavidRamirez-lq2co
8 ай бұрын
Didn"t they solved it with denaturalized alcohol?
@lordmontymord8701
8 ай бұрын
Hey at least one time alcohol abuse lead to a positive outcome: Less fuel for the V2s. Then again the V2 was a pretty useless weapon anyway, but that's a different story ...
@Praktical_
8 ай бұрын
@@lordmontymord8701in terms of hitting a specific target instead of an entire city then yeah the V1 and the V2 were trash (compared to modern standards anyway) but as a weapon of terror and random mass destruction, the V1&2 did the job quite well.
@NeverlandSystemAngel
8 ай бұрын
The MiG-29, imho, was an amazing fighter... that's a cool jet.
@elvengadordelahumanidad6988
8 ай бұрын
I truly love how all these videos fully teleports us to those times. Is really nice that you will start the new channel based on other topics related with the soviet daily life. Congratulations for the great video and best wishes for this new project.
@tedmich
4 ай бұрын
14:25 Amen Brother!
@mondodimotori
8 ай бұрын
14:25 that's always a good reminder. Now moving on trying these drinks myself...
@MrTheblackopsdude
8 ай бұрын
My dad was at Checkpoint Charlie from 1986-1987. He used to trade alcohol and cigarettes with the East Germans. From my understanding, by this time, the East Germans really didn’t care anymore. The American personal could go into East Germany during the day as long as they were in uniform and followed set rules. He said Soviet cigarettes were terrible and their vodka was often watered down. He kept some of the bottles.
@user-qd8yy9lc4g
8 ай бұрын
Beyond hand-made stuff that originally was there, Soviet cigarettes were divided into bad and not as bad, depending on who's making them. A joke my father told me: The director of 'Dukat' tobacco factory comes to director of 'Yava' tobacco factory and asks: "Why people want to buy your cigarettes?" "What do your cigarettes have?" "Well, we do the usual - we use ground bay leaf, stale coffee, factory dust and shredded old paper." "So, what we are doing, is that we take ground bay leaf, stale coffee, factory dust and shredded old paper, and throw a grasp of tobacco in there." "You're actually putting tobacco in there?"
@Shaker626
8 ай бұрын
@@user-qd8yy9lc4g I'm starting to get the feeling that that missing Kholkoz tobacco would somehow end up in hand-rolled cigarettes. Call it seizing the means of production.
@ryelor123
3 ай бұрын
You know your authoritaian government is about to fall when alcohol and cigarettes - the two things keeping people from overthrowing their oppressive government - are being watered down. In the book 1984 mentions such problems. People misunderstand who the book is geared towards and don't realize it was written to tell wannabe technocrats and authoritarians that their society will fail once they find out its easier alienate and punish honest reformers rather than make painful reforms.
@anan-vn2bn
7 ай бұрын
You should know the song by the Mondragón band with the title: "Little Fierce Riding Hood." They are going to have a lot of fun.
@hawlitakerful
8 ай бұрын
Those stories are always fascinating... Also the slogan at 14:26 should be repeated daily several times
@CorruptedSpider
3 ай бұрын
25:49 bro is deadass drinking a canister with the "POISON" label
@rolux4853
8 ай бұрын
An elderly polish guy I worked with many years who fled the eastern block through East Germany told me many stories about drinking airplane fluids while on military duty far out in Siberia and I always wondered if that stuff wasn’t pretty toxic. But now hearing that stuff is all just alcohol it all makes sense! Man that old guy was legendary, the stories about his youth and „going dancing“ always cracked me up like nothing else! Also the story how he fled through eastern Germany beneath a train (and basically getting caught on the last station before freedom, but still making it on foot, all while shouting political insults )deserves a hell lot of respect! He also had 5 daughters and always wished for a son but one day his with said enough is enough haha.
@mikoajmikoajczyk5505
8 ай бұрын
Dude must have some history. I wonder how he ended up in this Siberian base. Was he a citizen of the USSR?
@rolux4853
8 ай бұрын
@@mikoajmikoajczyk5505 he was a polish citizen. He told me he was there for a maneuver. According to his stories he was on a handful of maneuvers during his time in the military that were held with multiple Warsaw pact states. He has absolutely no political knowledge or interest (the only thing he says is that he hates „communism“ till death and would flee over and over again if necessary) so he couldn’t tell me anything about what they did there and which purpose those maneuvers had. He was a mechanic in a coal mine before joining the military so they put him in a maintenance position for vehicles and heavy equipment. That’s how he got access to all the fluids. He also stole quite a few parts to repair the old little tractor his father had to work on the little patch of land they had in their village. And of course fuel for the tractor, he said fuel was super regulated in those days and very hard to come buy as a regular low status citizen living in a small village.
@EskiZagra
3 ай бұрын
Vodka-powered airforce xD I have seen everything now! Supersonic booze carrier, twin-tail restaurant, landing gear etc xD
@zeroelus
8 ай бұрын
Your videos are wonderful and have a great mix of facts with humor but this time it was special with so much footage from your family. It's priceless!! Really appreciate you sharing them with us.
@nneeerrrd
8 ай бұрын
14:30 Bravo! 👏👏👏👍😆
@volo870
8 ай бұрын
The bathtub full of spirits was a common occurrence. But you kind of failed to imagine the reality of such storage of spirits: 1. The horrible eye-watering stench, that clung to skin and clothes; 2. Not only inability to take a shower (washing oneself is doable with a kettle and a washbowl), but also inability to wash clothes - soviet people had no washing machines and housewives washed clothes manually in a bathtub. 3. There were cases, when after a week or two of inconvenience, a wife would drain the bathtub to do the washing, and than risked being on the receiving end of a homicide by the enterprising husband! 150 liters of vodka was at least 2 months worth of salary! P.S. I always assumed that "шило" (piercing awl) was also named after Tu-22, as the plane had a shape of a tailor's awl and often jokingly called that way. P.P.S Glycerol should be easy to remove by distillation.
@Ansset0
8 ай бұрын
Puck Futin. I concur 😁
@Ob1sdarkside
8 ай бұрын
That's incredible! You've got to admire the ingenuity of the ground crews and pilots to craft cocktails
@mikoto7693
8 ай бұрын
As a civilian ground crew, I had no idea some of my far-flung Soviet counterparts had such a deep relationship and access to alcohol.
@Ob1sdarkside
8 ай бұрын
@@mikoto7693 it's quite amazing. When I heard about the hydraulic fluid drink, I thought they would kill themselves, no, just a nice cocktail
@mikoto7693
8 ай бұрын
@@Ob1sdarkside I have to admit, I thought the same. Either that or they’d go blind or have digestive issues! But I’ve got to admit that I still don’t understand how, once the issue of crew drinking the alcoholic deicer, hydraulic fluid or whatever was discovered by their superiors, they didn’t get the manufacturers to start including a highly toxic additive. Obviously they would have to slap on warning labels on the new batches and tell the ground crews and pilots that the new batches are now toxic but that would have effectively ended the practice of drinking the hydraulic fluid. At least that would be the case if the crews didn’t somehow discover a way to effectively remove the toxic additive. And frankly given that some of these men would have been aircraft mechanics and the general inventiveness of humanity when it comes to discovering ways to make drinkable alcohol, I wouldn’t have been surprised if they managed it. Several times. Until the manufacturers finally figured out how to stop the toxic additive being removed. Thankfully at the airport I work at, although I’m confident that there is a secret alcoholic somewhere in our ranks because that’s just human nature, most of us have a huge aversion to coming to work impaired. I mean it’s impossible to bring booze from home because we have to go through staff security every time we go airside. (It’s like passenger security except far quicker because we’re just going to work for the day and don’t bring luggage. Plus we know better than to put anything that won’t pass security into our bags. Even the pilots and flight attendants with their travel cases get through fast.) And although I suppose one could use his/her break or a lull in the shift to buy booze in the duty free area, we’re excluded from the duty free deal so booze would be hideously expensive and the staff would very quickly notice the same employee coming in almost every day to buy booze. Technical difficulties aside however… Most of us have a deep aversion to coming into work impaired is even if s/he successfully concealed their tipsy/drunken state from security and his/her colleagues, being impaired on the apron/ramp is very dangerous. Where personnel on foot can walk is very tightly controlled by painted lines of different colours on the ground. Remembering all the colours, hatch mark zones and double/single lines might be difficult if impaired. And walking into the wrong areas at the wrong times can pretty easily lead to injuries or unaliving yourself. Especially if you’re not fully paying attention to your surroundings. Trip over chocks, get hit by vehicles that can reverse but can’t see fully behind them, (almost happened right in front of me once, thankfully I saw the flash of a high vis vest and signalled the driver to stop) get run over by stepping into the equivalent of a road, get jetblasted off your feet or the worst case scenario, ingested into the jet engine of an A320 or even a 787. If there’s one piece of advice that I give to any newbie is. “Stay alert all the time while on the apron/ramp. Listen and look before you move.” It’s pretty obvious really but a drunk person could easily get it wrong. Heck, most of us tell the supervisor and rest of the team if they’ve taken any medication that might affect them such as codiene. Then the rest of us keep an extra eye on that person or they get assigned some or the “less risky” tasks. Consequently, I find the Soviet ground crew approach to be… interesting. Lol.
@ryanplanes
8 ай бұрын
I'd pay for a mig 25 video, the engines themselves are worth a video
@i_kazik_i8835
8 ай бұрын
It was funny to watch, as my father also was a pilot (colonel) of USSR Air defence force. Flew Yak-28P, Su-15 and Mig-25 (mentioned in the video). He told me the story that personel who drank alcohol drained from radar systems of the aircraft (i don't remember if it was Su or MiG aircraft he was talking about) later had IMPOTENSE problems.
@ARI-ks1vj
8 ай бұрын
12:12 pretty sure that's a sabre?
@MarcPagan
8 ай бұрын
Russian aviation reminds me of a classic Ronald Reagan joke that he heard from Russia/USSR. "There's only four things wrong with Soviet agriculture: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall."
@user-qd8yy9lc4g
8 ай бұрын
For your record, the joke is absolutely real, though I heard it about DDR. A joke I know is "sordidly for kolhoz, a winter has suddenly started"
@undeadd666
8 ай бұрын
@@user-qd8yy9lc4g haha. This joke is still a thing, but now about city services. You know, each winter it snows, surprisingly, and they are never prepared for it.
@nneeerrrd
8 ай бұрын
😂👍
@LycanWitch
2 ай бұрын
pretty crazy how long they used ethyl alcohol for cooling, when other nations created and used specific purpose synthetic fluid cooling solutions made from fluorocarbons and polyalphaolefin (PAO), etc..
@hafor2846
6 күн бұрын
It's cheaper. You need alcohol anyway, so just use the stuff that's already around.
@Tollp4ch
8 ай бұрын
14:25 cought me off guard:D nice message
@danielnider6685
7 ай бұрын
I could have sworn that in this video there was a thing for a new paper skies channel
@volo870
8 ай бұрын
To add "spice" to the photo at 4:46, the letters on the jerrycan spell "poison". 😆
@timholder6825
7 ай бұрын
When I was in the British Army there was a well known, but falling into disuse by then, practice of pouring Brasso (brass polish) through half a loaf of bread as a filter and drinking the clear liquid that came out of the other end. Almost pure alcohol.
@andrewkelley9405
8 ай бұрын
you know you're a paper skies fan when he mentioned the tupulev and you immediately remember the booze carrier episode before he brought it up.
@alastairward2774
8 ай бұрын
Those words went straight through my head as soon as I saw the thumbnail.
@Jon.A.Scholt
8 ай бұрын
I was afraid this was just a reupload! Paper Skies is such a great channel.
@user-xu2pi6vx7o
8 ай бұрын
The moment I read the title, I thought this was an addendum episode to that.
@shmulyitzkowitz6479
8 ай бұрын
I’ve known this for years
@lolo932
8 ай бұрын
Here in Croatia we always had a myth about Russians drinking anti-freeze fluid when they ran out of Vodka. Thank you for confirming it! Although a more appropriate term would be "Soviet", since I'm sure everyone indulged in it
@alexturnbackthearmy1907
8 ай бұрын
Of course. Do you think comrades from another republic were missing out from fun?
@evgeniydragondog
8 ай бұрын
anti freeze drinking is not a myth in russia. this is reality.
@cyberfutur5000
8 ай бұрын
Tbf, if I'd be forced to live under moscows rule I'd be drinking anything that stops me being conscious.
@bebra3896
8 ай бұрын
be sure its not myth. they can drink alcohol for bath cleanings
@dustinbrueggemann1875
8 ай бұрын
Fun fact: American commercial anti-freeze is usually made with ethylene glycol, and the antidote to ethylene glycol poisoning is actually ethyl alcohol. If you try to drink anti-freeze in America, the fucking DOCTORS will tell you to drink real booze.
@82726jsjsufhejsjshshdjso
8 ай бұрын
Love your family films. What a treat
@IronSink
6 ай бұрын
2months already passed Withdrawal comsumes me from the inside
@Woodie-xq1ew
4 ай бұрын
“Accidentally miss the tank and fill several flasks” it happens to the best of us 😂
@JYF921
8 ай бұрын
Can you make a video about Buran and Energia?
@scarecrow108productions7
8 ай бұрын
I think Mustard got that one covered.
@argus151
7 ай бұрын
Oh yes I am from Slovakia and I work in aviation, and here is very famous drink Yakutsk Brandy, its alcohol from L-410, mixed with šumák (šumák is powder with flavour orange, citrus etc. for non alcoholic instatn lemonade something like a TANG :D)
@bjornkeizers
8 ай бұрын
I love the family footage; that's a very... joyful affair indeed :D It's also a really interesting topic; whenever I mention it to people they always think I'm joking about stereotypes. I personally think this would happen in most other countries as well, as soldiers tend to be really bored and drinking is one of the few things you can do in that situation.
@kaminsod4077
8 ай бұрын
Indeed, soldiers have been finding new ways to get shitfaced for as long as we've had both war and booze.
@largol33t12
Ай бұрын
8:00 - "This liquid was poured into the aircraft's landing gear braking system before each flight using a simple hose and nozzle." Trust me, this made it VERY easy for them take a few sips and pass the hose around! 😂🤣 I seriously believe the procurement department had a headache trying to keep up with the supply of this "tasty brake fluid"!
@Jedi.Toby.M
8 ай бұрын
If I remember correctly, a supersonic vodka bottle was something I truly enjoyed learning about...obviously I'd argue the soviet auto pilot was just less drunk...since the soviet who put it together was "less drunk" than the senior air crew. ...But that's just my take Another excellent upload mate! Cheers!
@Nosferatu2331
7 ай бұрын
I used to drink alcohol, from Mig 31, it's the best alcohol i've ever drink.
@Codehead3
8 ай бұрын
Thanks for producing these videos! Please continue!
Another enjoyable and informative video. Thanks. I did read about some non Russian Soviet military supply drivers who got drunk drinking the antifreeze used in their trucks. Some of them actually got their eyesight back.
@alexturnbackthearmy1907
8 ай бұрын
Alcohol lovers when methanol walks in:
@davydovua
8 ай бұрын
Dude, the last sentence is dark. LMAO.
@bigblue6917
8 ай бұрын
@@davydovua It may be dark but it is true. Several of them did go blind.
@user-pg3hs1wb6j
8 ай бұрын
Название "ликёр Шасси" в фильме отчасти пародирует французский ягодный ликёр Crème de cassis. Правда, он из смородины, а в фильме по-моему использовали малиновый сироп )
@carnacthemagnificent2498
8 ай бұрын
This adds credence to a story my old man told me about Soviets drinking the hydraulic fluids so much that the Air Force decided to swap out a more poisonous mix but they drank it anyway, leaving their crews poisoned and their aircraft grounded for a while, forcing the return of booze to the planes. Sounded sort of fanciful to me at the time but then 30 years later I see this...
@grahamstrouse1165
3 ай бұрын
Not drinking before a flight-That does sound like a good tradition…
@peterking8586
7 ай бұрын
In the British Army we heard rumors of Soviet troops drinking coolants, which we thought were just urban myths, but it seems it was real.
@borissvidler9640
8 ай бұрын
Hands down - best video, best channel, family archive melts my heart
@theflyingfinn8223
8 ай бұрын
You'd think that with all the decades of existing, the Soviet Air Force would've learned to not use ethanol in any plane fluids.
@lostalone9320
8 ай бұрын
The problem was a bit deeper than that - Alcohol was a big deal in Soviet culture. Not just as a beverage, but as a currency. The aviators weren't just getting the perk of some free booze, it was a literal social currency that added to their status.
@sergiykyivua
8 ай бұрын
If you replace ethanol with something having similar proprieties but toxic, you will inevitably have fatalities.
@szkarat9814
8 ай бұрын
they would still find a way; soviet soldiers in afghanistan made alcohol from boot polish and toothpaste. personally, i can't say i'd have liked to try it.
@jdreyes3745
8 ай бұрын
@@sergiykyivuaMany people often think Methanol (often used in car antifreezes iirc) is just Ethanol...until they get stuff like permanent blindness. Had the Soviets used that, a "Revolt of the Aviators" would have inevitably followed.
@daniel_dumile
8 ай бұрын
making it fatal is a common tactic used in rubbing alcohol today. The danger is the point. Deterrence
@janwitkowsky8787
8 ай бұрын
Glad to see happy videos of Paper Skies family.
@dgdnite1
8 ай бұрын
As a veteran and an Airman I can say that alcohol was a crutch almost all of us used to get through stress, grief, and fear. Sadly too many of us lost the fight with it. I can’t wait for your new channel! My prikrasny zhena is from Komsomolsk-on-Amur. I love learning about the Soviet Union.
@2serveand2protect
2 ай бұрын
PS. Ha!ha!ha!ha! 😂 This is excellent material! Each time I come here and watch it back again, still have a good laugh! 🙂...BUT!...( to be HONEST! )...it's probably better that your Dad chose the "Fulcrum" over the Mig-25! It might have been "Suchoi" (or "Suchy" in Polish ..."dry"! ) - but still! - I think it was a far better plane or at least far more ...for lack of a better word - "enjoyable" to fly around! Hope your Father had a lot of fun flying it! :) All the Best, Bracie!
@janekalbinsky
8 ай бұрын
Looking forward to the new channel. Your perspective is greatly appreciated! Also, my girlfriend confirms the stories of the Supersonic Booze Carrier, which her father served on...
@sasin2715
5 күн бұрын
now i wonder how many pilots poisoned themselves with liquids which really shouldn't leave their aircraft
@The_ZeroLine
8 ай бұрын
Did Viktor Pugachev listen to the now exiled Pugacheva? BTW, a required touchdown speed of 350kmh is crazy!
@nvrlky
25 күн бұрын
Still waiting for you to use that second channel
@PaperSkiesAviation
25 күн бұрын
Sorry for the delay; life got a bit hectic. I’ve just finished the first script, and the video will be about 34 minutes long. I’m aiming to have it ready to upload in the next two weeks.
@TheDoonst
8 ай бұрын
Про многое из сказанного отец намекал, но подробно не рассказывал. Жаль, что на этот канал я набрёл уже после его смерти (ковид). Он был военным лётчиком и можно было бы обсудить в деталях. Такова жизнь. Зато показанные кадры возвращают в прошлое - закрытый военный городок, аэродром, все знакомые - военные семьи.
@a030055
8 ай бұрын
That's is life 😢 I would love to know my grandparents' story escaping China. But they are either dead or have dementia now
@AntThinker
8 ай бұрын
Wojak.jpg. Тоже временами представляю, как с дедушкой можно было бы обсудить те или иные темы с Ютуба. Чувство ухода тех поколений вызывает тоску, уже и сам больше не спросишь и не послушаешь, да и в обществе контексты той эпохи превращаются из общепонятных в исторические, малоинтересные. "Мне сказали, в порядке исключения для поощрения" - чего?.. И умом понимаешь, что это не плохо, что так всегда было, - и сам бы не захотел разбирать шутки каких-нибудь наполеоновских времён, - но... воспоминания временами нападают :) А с другой стороны - если копать и копать прошлое, тоже... дисбаланс. Нового интересного тоже очень много, надо жить своё. Такова жизнь indeed.
@BrandonWernette
Ай бұрын
I know I’m late, but I didn’t subscribe until you mentioned the second channel and as a fellow Soviet American I subscribed solely for the purpose of leaving the following comment: Make that second channel. The fangs are all friends among one another 🤙🏼
@Sgt.MarkRoe
6 ай бұрын
Another outstanding episode from Paper Skies, and one which touched me personally. During the late 1970's to mid-80's I was an Intelligence Analyst in the U.S.A.F. and as such had a very high security clearance (Top Secret SCI, SI or "codeword") and I worked Soviet Air Defense Forces (IA-PVO) for my entire career. I was stationed at Misawa AB, Japan with the 6920th ESG from 1981-1982. We were the unit that collected the intel during the terrible tragic shoot-down of Korean Airlines flight 007. Although I was not on duty when it happened, I did have access to all the raw data and reports from that night, and, years later, would read the final, very highly classified report issued by the NSA on that event. That was a long time ago, long enough for much of it to be declassified. I don't know if it's been a long enough time to joke about it, but when I heard the narrator describe the SU-15 interceptor as the "...infamous Boeing Killer" I literally laughed my ass off. Heck, I'm still laughing. Well done. Well done, indeed. Thank you.
@leadingauctions8440
8 ай бұрын
I subscribed to the second channel.
@marcusott2973
8 ай бұрын
Much awaited, much appreciated looking forward to excellent insights as always from you.
@fluke196c
8 ай бұрын
I'm so glad I found your channel
@__ASAAA
8 ай бұрын
I read a book about Victor Belienko's life and when he got sent to Asia to fly Mig-25s he said that is was even common for them to fake flight hours to get alcohol and they would dump tons of fuel into the ground and even put it on pilots log books so that they could keep the alcohol. It was pretty shitty for him but he dident drink much and he ended up just running after his wife left him with his son. He was basically just to honest to survive in the USSR and the only reason he made it was because of sheer performance or respect that prevented superiors from punishing him too severely when he would point out the very obvious bullshittery that was going on.
@fukudzin
8 ай бұрын
Даёшь второй канал!
@MostlyPennyCat
8 ай бұрын
No doubt the ground crew ordered extra shylo stocks too. For emergencies.
8 ай бұрын
14:32 Indeed :)
@rxt1366
8 ай бұрын
Your history videos are so freaking good! Already subscribed to your 2nd channel. =)
@magnumxlpi
3 ай бұрын
My ex's dad lived in east Germany and told me about how he worked in a shop but they never had anything to work on so they would drink the ethanol used for cleaning
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