You couldn't be more wrong.
It is a return to the ideals of Lenin and Stalin.
Oh, please.
I came here to test the modified anchor clamps,
not discuss geopolitics.
I already tested the clamps.
They work fine.
If only your opinion were enough for Star City.
Let's go!
You don't have Gorbachev and his cronies to protect you anymore.
New times, Svetlana Zakharova.
Oh, yes.
Will Korzhenko save us the same way Stalin did?
Shooting dissidents in the forest
and dumping their bodies in pits?
Stalin won the Great Patriotic War.
The blood of an entire generation won that war.
Not Stalin.
Listen, the West walked all over Mother Russia!
Korzhenko will return us to the days when
the world lived in fear of our might.
You are delusional, Vasily.
And you are a traitor.
Spitting on your own culture
spreading your legs in front of the West.
Go to hell.
Go yourself.
This is complete bullshit!
Exhale or your lungs will burst!
...and may never regain consciousness.
I have spoken to President Korzhenko
and he demands that there be repercussions.
Good day, everyone.
There is much to discuss.
Let's begin.
First order of business.
The Americans have chosen to disregard
the terms of the Mars Treaty
and are refusing to send Cosmonaut Zakharova back
to face justice for her aggression against the nephew
of a highly respected member of the new politburo.
We must resist this egregious act.
Our response is in progress.
They will face consequences for this course of action.
Director...
it may be wise to reconsider this position.
If we hope to reactivate the asteroid program
Zakharova should remain at her post.
Are you suggesting that Zakharova
did not, in fact, attack Vasily Galkin?
No, I am--
If you were stabbed in the back, Comrade Babanin,
would you hand the dagger back to your assailant?
No, of course not.
I did not think so.
We must find out if we can once again trust the Americans.
To this end,
there will be no reactivation of the asteroid program
until we know what went wrong with the Kronos mission.
A tragedy that took the life of our beloved Comrade Kuznetsov.
Comrade Semenov, you have the preliminary draft of
the XF Kronos asteroid capture accident investigation ready for us?
Yes.
Comrade Volkova, would you mind handing them out for me, please?
Immediately, Comrade.
Please give one to Margaret Reynolds as well.
I want her to review the findings.
My apologies, we only made enough for--
You can give her Babanin's copy.
Comrade Semenov, please continue.
The American design was flawed.
The problem was caused by an underdamped harmonic oscillation,
induced by the spacecraft altitude control system.
Altitude control thruster firings on Ranger-1 excited...
Come in to my office.
Have a seat, Comrade Semenov.
We were just going over the accident report
issued by your department.
Is there some problem?
Director, I--
You're a good engineer.
You knew about this, didn't you?
But you didn't include it in the report.
Why?
It was a units error made early in fabrication.
NASA sent the torque test specifications
in pound-feet, but we work in Newton-meters.
And someone screwed up the conversion.
The bolts passed and we flew them.
Only after the accident did we...
...discover the error.
Who screwed up the conversion?
My team performed the calculations
and therefore I am responsible.
Finally...
some accountability.
Come, Kirill.
"Remote in my darkened exile, the days dragged by so slowly.
Without grace. Without inspiration.
Without life. Without tears. Without love.
Then my spirit woke and you... you appeared again.
Like a transient vision. Like pure beauty's spirit."
Are you okay?
The KGB took him.
Took who?
My mentor, Kirill Semenov.
No...
No, that's not...
He was fired. She wouldn't--
Of course she would.
She is one of them.
Two men came to his office
and they took him away, in front of everyone.
No one did a thing.
Cowards, all of them.
Even me.
Good afternoon, everyone.
I have good news.
The Americans have folded.
Thanks to our efforts,
Cosmonaut Zakharova will stand trial for her crimes against the state.
Great job, thank you.
Now we have another busy day, so let's begin.
First item on the agenda...