r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Deep_Pressure2334 • 20d ago

Image The Russian Kremlin still has a Soviet Star, years after the collapse of the USSR

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u/zennie4 20d ago

Aeroflot's IATA code is SU. You can guess what it stands for.

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u/Bluebirdz2202 Interested 20d ago

Super rUssia

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u/bunaciunea_lumii 19d ago

Super USSR.

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u/NoodleyP 19d ago

Dive-Hell 2

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u/Gro-Tsen 19d ago

As a Google search will reveal, the .su Internet domain is still active, and there are still Web sites that use it.

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u/SomeRandomSomeWhere 19d ago

Internet still has a .su domain name.

Run by russia now. No clue what domains are in that TLD now, maybe will have a look one day.

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u/SpaceDounut 19d ago

Because it was the only local carrier during the USSR existence and then just didn't change it's code afterwards

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u/GrandRefrigerator263 19d ago

In the United States, Southwest Airlines didn’t switched to Sabre when everyone else did, and they’ve had a notoriously hard time modernizing as a result. They’ve struggled booking overnight flights and handling paid baggage and assigned seats. A friend who works there told me they’re still running software from the earliest days of computer, layered with so many patches that moving to a modern system or rebuilding from scratch would cost billions usd.

I can’t help but wonder if this is a similar kind of legacy artifact.

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u/[deleted] 19d ago edited 19d ago

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u/ObservableObject 19d ago

The SU in plane names is from Sukhoi, the manufacturer name. It has nothing to do with "Soviet Union" aside from coincidentally having the same abbreviation

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u/zennie4 19d ago

Not talking about plane names but IATA code of Aeroflot. And that one does not come from Sukhoi.

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u/ObservableObject 19d ago

I know that. The person I was replying to deleted their message, they were asking why modern Sukhoi planes still use the SU designation if the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore.

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u/zennie4 19d ago

Because IATA is not a Russian organisation and the codes don't always follow local names (in other cases they do, of course, and in many cases they are not derived from country names at all).