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Soviet-era high-quality STEM education

The last batch of such manufacturing apprentices went through in the mid-eighties. They're just about all gone from the workplace.

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Tell that to the US aerospace industry which is full of Russian and Soviet trained engineers (who are not in their 90s).

I would guess the nit being picked was "Soviet era" rather than whether there are Russian engineers trained since then.

Soviet trained engineers; last batch was in the eighties, so the youngest of them are now in their fifties and the majority of them are retired or dead.

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