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Attempting to Fulfill the Plan MNKh Edition

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plotvitalnpc said:
Edit: also here's imagines of all the candidates
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Thanks, how much work was it to hunt these down?

Wow Dementieva also looks like an evil school teacher in a 90s movie, was that the fashion for women in 1970s USSR?

CrabMonarchy said:
Here's a slightly better quality image of Zaikov where he doesn't look completely lost lol:
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Train Guy looks much better here. He looks happy to pose for the camera, unlike most of plotvitalnpc's photos that look like they got ambushed by a cameraman after getting home drunk.

EDIT: What IS supposed to be the metal gear reference behind the Zubov-Sokolov plan?
 
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General_Urist said:
Thanks, how much work was it to hunt these down?

Wow Dementieva also looks like an evil school teacher in a 90s movie, was that the fashion for women in 1970s USSR?


Train Guy looks much better here. He looks happy, unlike most of plotvitalnpc's photos that look like they got ambushed by a cameraman after getting home drunk.

EDIT: What IS supposed to be the metal gear reference behind the Zubov-Sokolov plan?
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I didn't hunt down any of these images, lol, they were compiled in discord and nobody crossposted them so I took the job unto myself. I believe the evil schoolteacher look was just like, one of the few acceptable looks for a woman in soviet politics at the time - the image of professional femininity that's not trying to be pretty.

And Sokolov is the name of the scientist who got forced to build the Shagohad in MGS3.
 
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General_Urist said:
Thanks, how much work was it to hunt these down?
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Didn't take too much work, since this time most of the candidates' Russian wikipedia pages came with images, with the exception of Khristorodnov and Litvintsev where I had to do a little more digging. Typically I just put the names through Google Translate into Russian and then go searching on Yandex for sources, which tends to turn up results pretty quickly most of the time. You can find most of the images in the links attached to my previous infopost on the candidates:
CrabMonarchy said:
Infrastructure Ministerial Candidates:
Additional Notes:
  • Stepan Ivanovich Chistoplysov previously appeared as an option for MNKh deputy in Turn 78 (1968), where he was described as having an education and experience in agriculture, in contrast to the more recent mention of him majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in mathematical economics and working on canals. This may appear odd, except that according to the Perm State Archive he had degrees in both mining engineering and agronomy OTL and worked in both fields, so I guess he's just that kind of person lol. Word of Blackstar confirms that TTL he did the mechanical engineering major and mathematical economics minor instead of studying mining engineering but still got the agronomy degree as per OTL [1], so....yeah.
  • In general, it is worth remembering that by now many people's careers have been wildly derailed from OTL e.g. Balakirev working in oil instead of materials science or Ivan Naumenko (our current Minister of Finance) studying economics instead of literature and linguistics, so don't take the OTL lives of the candidates as 100% accurate to their TTL situations.
[1] See below:
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[X]Plan One More Girlboss
-[X]Listen to the Housing Commission
-[X]Prioritize Knowledge Transfer
-[X]Lev Nikolaevich Zaikov
-[X]Raisa Fedorovna Dementieva
 
Sokolov is probably the only person on the list who has both substantial rural and urban infrastructure experience, because he did all of his major successful rural infrastructure and canal work as extensions of his work in planning and developing for a city according to his in-quest bio. He's also a funny technology adopter and highly published academic.

Chistoplysov, meanwhile, is a ball of degrees with extensive expertise in working in the far north on all manner of rural and technical concerns.

There's a real argument to be made that a chistoplysov led, sokolov-deputied department would be...not great at urban areas, but not actually bad at them either, while being incredible outside of them. It'd also be an insanely photogenic department.

But Zubov/Sokolov or Chistoplysov/Dementieva departments are undoubtedly more efficient at our main focus. And, well, for anyone who's afraid of transformation of nature brainworms...we're already locked into transforming nature whether we want to or not, so we may as well appoint someone who knows how to do it right.
 
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