hello every one,
one must remember the era when those soviet aircraft were designed & built: we were still in the middle of the "cold war" & all civil aircraft were supposed to be able to be converted at short notice into military/bomber aircraft, were maneuvrability was more important than stability, hence the anedral to offset the inherent stability feature of a swept wing.
nothing to do with stability/maneuvrability, but many soviet aircraft had glassy noses for the bomber/navigator crewmember.
turning soviet pilots into "arnold schwarzenegger" type individuals, was probably never a consideration for the antonov & iljoeshin design bureaus.