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Super interesting, but I don't understand the very last comment "We too have mustaches," referring to the controllers who caused the problem. Is he defending t

Super interesting, but I don't understand the very last comment "We too have mustaches," referring to the controllers who caused the problem. Is he defending them, saying they were experienced? Seems there's more to be said.

benj111 7y ago
I understood it to be a manliness thing. 'we too can do risky things too', that kind of thing. I'm not Russian though.
- manuka 7y ago
  It's from a soviet cartoon. There is a cat and a dog. THey live in a vilige and sometimes they fight. SO the meaning is: "You have mustaches and so do I! I'm no worse than you."
  - ordu 7y ago
    This phrase is older than cartoons, it can be found in works of Tolstoy.
wruza 7y ago
I cannot find this phrase in the referenced book (googled pdf). Usually it means “we can think/act on our own, please don’t teach us”, but can depend on context, like “we have our reasons”. What it means in the article, I don’t understand. /native speaker
dmitriid 7y ago
It’s the Russian phrase “Мы сами с усами” usually used in the context of “we weren’t born yesterday” and “they tried to trick is/tell us what to do, but we’ve know how to do it ourselves”.