Maybe a little OT....
A long night on Aeroflot between Leningrad (then) and Tashkent, on one of SU's amazing 4-engine dual counter-rotating turboprop TU-114s. Delicious snack for you to enjoy in Proletariat class. (Real) PVC sack with contents: Hard cooked egg (and I mean hard.) One piece black bread or slate shingle, hard to discriminate in the dark. One paper thimble filled with reddish sweet substance (for bread.) One entire cucumber. Comrades, Cucumber Collective No. 18 has fulfilled their production quota. You will now enjoy cucumber.
2 AM stop in Kubyshev (now again Samara), all pax off. Use terminal loo. TP is chopped up copies of today's (yesterday's) Pravda.
Only time I ever found Pravda's editorial page useful.