Quote from the book rocketspeople volume 2

[alex fraser]

Sounds like a Soviet skunk works....

"Perhaps they did the right thing. Small independent groups or small
laborato-ries not burdened by ties to the cumbersome structures of
production giants and a multitude of day-to-day headaches, not watched over
from above with constant control of deadlines, schedules, and all manner of
indices of socialist competition, were sometimes capable of creating
technical innovations within fantastically short periods of time. In so
doing, they were able to implement ideas that would have been rejected in a
large firm based on the principle “we can’t do this because it can never be
done.” In the best case they would say: “We can do this, but to do this we
need a government decree to build a special building, to obtain the right
to increase manpower, to install 30 more telephones with access to the
Moscow automatic tele-phone exchange, to obtain five more service vehicles
and a certificate of domicile quota for at least a hundred persons in
Moscow and Leningrad.”

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It's a small world, till you try to dig a hole in it.
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