Ruosti = Men who row.
I remember the Rurik dynasty was originally invited to rule, as none of the locals could get their shi+ together.
That is pretty the sum of what I remember of that part of Russian history from over three decades ago.
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Pretty good summary actually 
and since you mentioned the origins of ruotsi I had to look it up:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ruotsi
Something learned today …
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So basically what happens in Russia and Ukraïne today has been caused by the Swedes?
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Oh, you don’t have to go back to the Vikings, the Russians and the Swedes have been duking it out in Ukraine far more recently…
Battle of Poltava - Wikipedia
Cheers,
M
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The latest time we were at war (nation to nation) was in 1808 when Russia took Finland.
Swedish soldiers also went to Finland in WW II to help Finland against the USSR.
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Not just soldiers…
Cheers,
M
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Just watched “Cold War Killers” with Terance Stamp. The plot concerns a Pembroke found in a lake. One of the stars goes to an English hobby shop and asks for a Pembroke kit. The clerk whips one out and says it from “Airmax”. I couldn’t ID the box, but the movie came out in 1986, long before the Special Hobby kit.
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The logo on that box is very reminscent of an old kit maker but I just can’t place it.
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That’s it! I sure but enough of them as a kid.
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I knew someone had to be out there!
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The truly grim “Threads”, the 1984 film about a nuclear strike on Sheffield (not that everywhere else was left out).
Nicholas Lane as Michael Kemp making what I think is a Phantom, with some dramatic irony as a real one is seen flying overhead during the build up to the attack. Worth watching if you can stomach seeing people with their faces on fire, and bartering for dead rats.
The real Phantom (I think that’s what it is) -
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Yep, an FGR.2. Looks like a 19 Squadron aircraft.
Watched it about 20 years ago when I was at Wolverhampton University, think it was the course on the Cold War. Grim viewing. Remember the back story of NATO and Warsaw Pact involvement in some war the Middle East was interesting.
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Soviet incursion into Iran, US ultimatum ignored, massive B52 bombing raid, Soviets fired a battlefield tactical nuke destroying most of the US aircraft in the ME… before long we’re hiding under the upturned sofa with a door on top.
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Thanks. I couldn’t remember the details. That would make for a good story itself.
Of course, for me the one iconic image from Threads is ruined by the late Rik Mayall! I wonder if Rik and Ade were referring to Threads when they did that gag?
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One of my favourite of their scenes- the look on his face as he goes down the stairs! Interesting seeing that image from ‘Threads’- could very well have been their inspiration.
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Yep, one of the long nosed versions but not the German one as it has Sparrows. The kid gets it first, he’s outside with his pigeons when the big firework goes off; they missed a trick not showing his Phantom melting from the thermal pulse…
It is a pretty memorable film but the recent repeat on TV showed it’s age, we know a lot more now about what the real arrangements were. It’s a pity in the present that all the once-secret resources available then (properly equipped bunkers rather than the improvised ones in the movie, nuke resistant comms, etc.) have been decommissioned/trashed/looted since.
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