USSR and etc
Reckon we got propogandised re Ruski stuff during the cold war.
poorly made, cheap junk etc... But easy to repair ? and rugged for the conditions in the east.
That the wall fell, glasnost and all that, gave the west a bit of a let off, if it had ever come to a real stoush.imho.
Remember WW2...the Russians did most of the fighting and quickly put aircraft on a par and better than the schmick Kraut stuff.
Nowdays the diff between "east and "west" is fading, techo speaking.