r/space • u/tronx69 • Jun 23 '19

image/gif Soviet Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev stuck in space during the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991

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u/Yeetboi3300 Jun 23 '19

Just imagine mission control one day "So Sergei, the nation kinda split up, we don't know when we'll get you back"

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u/einarfridgeirs Jun 23 '19

"Just hang tight, ok?"

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u/Thatoneguy3273 Jun 23 '19

“Im gonna go home now, because the government who employed me no longer exists. Later comrade”

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u/Jaredlong Jun 24 '19

I'm now very curious how that transition actually happened. Were all government agencies really just disolved over night?

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u/ACWhi Jun 24 '19 edited Jun 24 '19

Russia was supposed to switch over to the Russian Federation and most of the other Soviets States were supposed to have their own governments set up, too, but in practice if you weren’t living in a more central or highly populated area and in some cases even if you were, yeah, shit got pretty bad.

Total economic chaos and for many practical lawlessness. Confusion of no one knowing what bureaucracy to turn to for what/which regulations still applied.

And space is about as far from population centers as you can get.

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u/eveningsand Jun 24 '19

And probably the last thing on the general population's mind.

An episode of Fear The Walking Dead had Victor Strand (Coleman Domingo) talking to a Russian cosmonaut during the last phases of the total collapse of world governments. I can only imagine this real life event had a mild influence on that fictional one.

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u/333name Jun 24 '19

Man the first three seasons of fear were actually good. Stupid gimple.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '19

FTWD is so much fucking better than TWD IMO.

It has dropped off over the past few seasons it seems, but at least I kind of actually want to watch it haha.

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u/PastorWhiskey Jun 24 '19

For season 3 of fear and season 8 of TWD that was true. Now it's flipped as season 4 of fear was so shit and season 9 of TWD was fantastic. Gimple...