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Russia manufactures a lot of big stuff. What they don't do well, is manufacture household consumer goods.
In all of the sanctions and huffpuffing, there were always specific exclusions for rocket engines. We buy all of our rocket engines from them.
Well, they did score a lot of space "firsts", after all, and the ISS is still being served by Soyuz craft. Those fuckers were servicing Salyut, ffs.
And yeah, I remember when Ladas first started to come over here. What a joke. I was offered one for five bucks.