Comments on: The ANT-20 “Maxim Gorky” in Flight http://dictatorshipoftheair.com/2007/01/04/the-ant-20-maxim-gorky-in-flight/ Russia History Culture Technology (and, of course, Aviation) Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:20:10 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: El Guapo http://dictatorshipoftheair.com/2007/01/04/the-ant-20-maxim-gorky-in-flight/comment-page-1/#comment-40387 El Guapo Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:02:44 +0000 http://dictatorshipoftheair.com/2007/01/04/the-ant-20-maxim-gorky-in-flight/#comment-40387 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”

]]> By: Dictatorship of the Air » The Russian Air Force Museum at Monino (pt. 3) http://dictatorshipoftheair.com/2007/01/04/the-ant-20-maxim-gorky-in-flight/comment-page-1/#comment-10827 Dictatorship of the Air » The Russian Air Force Museum at Monino (pt. 3) Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:40:53 +0000 http://dictatorshipoftheair.com/2007/01/04/the-ant-20-maxim-gorky-in-flight/#comment-10827 [...] The Soviet Union’s premier airplane designer during the 1920s and 1930s, Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev was responsible for many of the USSR’s earliest aviation successes. In addition to constructing the country’s first all-metal combat airplane (ANT-3), Tupolev lead the design and construction of such milestone aircraft as the ANT-20 “Maxim Gorky” and ANT-25 (the first airplane to make a trans-Polar crossing). [...] [...] The Soviet Union’s premier airplane designer during the 1920s and 1930s, Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev was responsible for many of the USSR’s earliest aviation successes. In addition to constructing the country’s first all-metal combat airplane (ANT-3), Tupolev lead the design and construction of such milestone aircraft as the ANT-20 “Maxim Gorky” and ANT-25 (the first airplane to make a trans-Polar crossing). [...]

]]> By: John Ross http://dictatorshipoftheair.com/2007/01/04/the-ant-20-maxim-gorky-in-flight/comment-page-1/#comment-529 John Ross Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:09:29 +0000 http://dictatorshipoftheair.com/2007/01/04/the-ant-20-maxim-gorky-in-flight/#comment-529 Thanks for this helpful website. I was looking for gigantic aircraft and the Maxim Gorky came to mind. It really is in a league with the Spruce Goose and maybe the ANT-225 Mirya. Your comment about the internet was right on target--the ever-growing repository of almost anything you wish to explore--and the most amazing is the search engines--which make it giant leap for the world. Thanks again for your website--well done. Thanks for this helpful website. I was looking for gigantic aircraft and the Maxim Gorky came to mind. It really is in a league with the Spruce Goose and maybe the ANT-225 Mirya. Your comment about the internet was right on target–the ever-growing repository of almost anything you wish to explore–and the most amazing is the search engines–which make it giant leap for the world.

Thanks again for your website–well done.

]]> By: Investigations of a Dog » The 46th History Carnival http://dictatorshipoftheair.com/2007/01/04/the-ant-20-maxim-gorky-in-flight/comment-page-1/#comment-417 Investigations of a Dog » The 46th History Carnival Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:19:37 +0000 http://dictatorshipoftheair.com/2007/01/04/the-ant-20-maxim-gorky-in-flight/#comment-417 [...] We all know that Japanese Americans were interned because of Pearl Harbor, don’t we? Like a true historian I have to point out that it wasn’t as simple as that. The Bizarre Jokester at Amazingly Bizarre sheds some light on an obscure but crucial link in the chain of events: a Japanese pilot’s single-handed invasion of the tiny island of Niihau. On the other side of the world Russia’s German population was suffering at the hands of Stalin. Otto Pohl at Otto’s Random Thoughts tells us how they were deported to Siberia, then deported again to a worse bit of Siberia. At Dictatorship of the Air, Scott Palmer finds YouTube footage of the gigantic ANT-20 aeroplane, quite literally a Stalinist propaganda machine. It should be a big leap of the imagination from Stalinist propaganda to the classic Frank Capra/Jimmy Stewart film It’s A Wonderful Life, but apparently not for the FBI. According to Wise Bread, they investigated the film and its supposedly subversive message, looking for evidence of communist infiltration of Hollywood. [...] [...] We all know that Japanese Americans were interned because of Pearl Harbor, don’t we? Like a true historian I have to point out that it wasn’t as simple as that. The Bizarre Jokester at Amazingly Bizarre sheds some light on an obscure but crucial link in the chain of events: a Japanese pilot’s single-handed invasion of the tiny island of Niihau. On the other side of the world Russia’s German population was suffering at the hands of Stalin. Otto Pohl at Otto’s Random Thoughts tells us how they were deported to Siberia, then deported again to a worse bit of Siberia. At Dictatorship of the Air, Scott Palmer finds YouTube footage of the gigantic ANT-20 aeroplane, quite literally a Stalinist propaganda machine. It should be a big leap of the imagination from Stalinist propaganda to the classic Frank Capra/Jimmy Stewart film It’s A Wonderful Life, but apparently not for the FBI. According to Wise Bread, they investigated the film and its supposedly subversive message, looking for evidence of communist infiltration of Hollywood. [...]

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