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Larger than a 747.
Ivan Blagin,
Ace Soviet Union fighter pilot,Flew escort for the Gorky,and was the first aviator to become a dirty word.
The Gorky sported a movie theater,newspaper office,16 line telephone exchange,darkroom,laundry,pharmacy,and cafe.
The Gorky was often escorted by single engine aircraft to compare it’s huge size.
On May 18,1935,Ivan was flying escort..he decided to loop his plane around the Maxim Gorky and miscalculated the distance and slammed into one of it’s wings,causing both planes to break apart several thousand feet above the ground.Blagin and all 43 people aboard the Gorky died.Soviet officials were so furious they coined a new word-blaginism-
which means “selfish exhibitionism and lack of proper Socialist discipline”
Ivan Blagin,
Ace Soviet Union fighter pilot,Flew escort for the Gorky,and was the first aviator to become a dirty word.
The Gorky sported a movie theater,newspaper office,16 line telephone exchange,darkroom,laundry,pharmacy,and cafe.
The Gorky was often escorted by single engine aircraft to compare it’s huge size.
On May 18,1935,Ivan was flying escort..he decided to loop his plane around the Maxim Gorky and miscalculated the distance and slammed into one of it’s wings,causing both planes to break apart several thousand feet above the ground.Blagin and all 43 people aboard the Gorky died.Soviet officials were so furious they coined a new word-blaginism-
which means “selfish exhibitionism and lack of proper Socialist discipline”
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