There is an old Soviet-Russian anecdote: Brezhnev invites a group of cosmonauts. - Comrades! The Americans have landed on the Moon. We have conferred and decid

There is an old Soviet-Russian anecdote: Brezhnev invites a group of cosmonauts. - Comrades! The Americans have landed on the Moon. We have conferred and decided that you would fly to the Sun! - But we'd burn down there, Leonid Il'ich! - Don't worry! The Party has thought it all through. You will fly at night!