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Comment by nephrite | Hacker News Reader

It's not a Russian trait, it's a common bureaucratic trait, and Soviet Union was bureaucratized over any sane limits.

One of signatures of Henry Spencer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer ) looks like this:

    -- 
    Americans proved to be more bureaucratic           |       Henry Spencer
    than I ever thought.  --Valery Ryumin, RKK Energia |   henry@zoo.toronto.edu

https://yarchive.net/space/rocket/fuels/hydrogen.html

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