Critics suspicious of Russian consolidation plan
There are those in Russia who ask if the state’s plan to create a Unified Aircraft Corporation is a 21st century repeat of Stalin’s failed collectivization

There are those in Russia who ask if the state’s plan to create a Unified Aircraft Corporation is a 21st century repeat of Stalin’s failed collectivization experiment of the late 1920s. “In the same way that you cannot throw a bunch of farms together at gunpoint and expect them to become record-breaking producers, it is not clear if anything positive will come out of this plan to force all of us into one large aerospace concern,” said a Russian aerospace industry official, speaking to Aviation International News on condition of anonymity. “If a camel is a horse designed by committee then this could end up as an aviation industrial camel.”