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Re:Photos from inside a Typhoon class submarine by bserge on Saturday October 31, 2020 @12:13PM (#24952625)
Could be, I'm pretty sure we had the exact same phone in the 90's.

The USSR was pretty good at copying western tech and calling it their own. And they'd mass produce the shit out of everything, for the military, for civilians, everyone would get the same thing.

Re:Photos from inside a Typhoon class submarine by tpmx on Saturday October 31, 2020 @04:52PM (#24955100)
In retrospect it's kinda sad/funny that our "mortal enemy" at the time were using a clone of our landline phones.

This was the same era when Sweden spent an insane amount of the national economy (like 5%) to develop and build a very large number of Draken and Viggen aircraft in order to defend Sweden in case the Soviets decided to invade.

Do you recognize this ring sound?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If7x1qj-cYE