"So I didn't even make it back and it's already renamed to Sfera."
  • logicbomb@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1051·
    1 year ago

    This is part of the reason why you don’t want to put a person with a fragile ego in charge of a major country.

    • Melt@lemm.eeEnglish
      151·
      1 year ago

      That is what happens after all the people who dared to correct their superior get sent to gulag, or fell from the balcony, or committed suicide

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      This issue long predates Putin’s time in office.

      For something kind of recent, see Chernobyl

  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    871·
    1 year ago

    “At first it was called Ehfir,” Putin said. “And at one of my public speeches I was talking and said it was Sfera. I arrived at the Kremlin, and the former Roscosmos head greeted me and said, ‘Vladimirovich, you said it was project Sfera, Sfera you said. That’s what it is, project Sfera.’”

    Rogozin, who was listening to these remarks, acted immediately—presumably to save his boss from embarrassment. After Rogozin said the constellation was named Sphere, Putin recalled that he asked how’s that? Rogozin replied that it had already been renamed Sfera and not to worry.

    Laughing, Putin added, “So I didn’t even make it back and it’s already renamed to Sfera. So I said, well, OK then.”

    That’s almost cute.

    • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      It should be noted in both cases, it wasn’t the leader who demanded a change, but the subordinate who did it to save face on their behalf.

      I guess noses can be the same shade of brown, regardless of nationality.

  • WhitePaintIsEvil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    1 year ago

    That’s so stalinesque it’s fucking hilarious. Gonna get a sequel to “the death of stalin” at some point if we keep getting stories like this.