The Ilyushin Il-2 is a ground-attack aircraft produced by the Soviet Union in large numbers during the Second World War. The Il-2 was never given an official name and 'shturmovik' is the generic Russian word meaning ground attack aircraft. The word also appears in Western sources as Stormovik and Sturmovik, neither of which give correct pronunciation in English.
During the war, 36,183 units of the Il-2 were produced, and in combination with its successor, the Ilyushin Il-10, a total of 42,330 were built, making it the single most produced military aircraft design in aviation history, as well as one of the most produced piloted aircraft in history along with the American postwar civilian Cessna 172 and the Soviet Union's own then-contemporary Polikarpov Po-2 Kukuruznik multipurpose biplane.
To Il-2 pilots, the aircraft was simply the diminutive "Ilyusha". To the soldiers on the ground, it was the "Hunchback", the "Flying Tank" or the "Flying Infantryman". Its postwar NATO reporting name was "Bark". The Il-2 aircraft played a crucial role on the Eastern Front. When factories fell behind on deliveries, Joseph Stalin told the factory managers that the Il-2s were "as essential to the Red Army as air and bread."
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"...the real content of the proletarian demand for equality is the demand for the abolition of classes. Any demand for equality which goes beyond that, of necessity passes into absurdity.",
- Friedrich Engels, Anti-Dühring
We'll get equality of opportunity (not a thing when class hierarchy exists) and a robust communal safety net which will naturally lead to a rough approximation of equality of outcome, since the abolition of class hierarchy will allow proletarians to own their own labor entirely, and the fruits of it generally even out, generally in that there will naturally be inconsistencies based in labor time/effort exchange.
The modern understanding of equality of outcome is, unironically, literally :1984:. It's a scare word. It's the whole "you will be oppressed because you are not equal enough and your toothbrush will be seized and redistributed if it's not in the net equality range". When people say "Marx argued for equality of outcome" they mean marx argued he's gonna redistribute your toothbrush and turn you into a 1984 with no freedom thoughts. it's a dogwhistle and still an inaccurate one at that.
I’d argue the modern definition of equality of outcome is a roundabout equivalent of the abolition of classes for ignorant liberals. Like, I’m completely aligned with Engels’ quote here and against Duhring’s mystical bullshit. I just think we have a miscommunication on what the coloquial modern definition of equality of outcome is and that, according to my perhaps misguided definition of it in the modern context, it has little to do with Duhring’s heroic materialism and moralist philosophy.
yeah of course, it's just definitely fighting words for even uninformed libs (why i said it's ideology mainly) and a more easily loseable buzzword than communism so i've adopted the language to accomodate for it, since equality of opportunity inevitably leads to a close equality of outcome. speaking as someone who's had to do one to one radicalizations previously :shrug-outta-hecks: