When the USSR broke apart and the Berlin Wall came down, West Germany was flooded with surplus radio and lab equipment from the East, much of it new or rarely used, all built like the proverbial battleship. Not latest state of the art but well made and rock-solid. No comparison to the cheap stuff that came from East Asia, at the time.
I was looking for a 2 channel scope and drove to the surplus store of Helmut Singer in Aachen to have a look at what was on offer. A new Russian scope, 2 channel, 50 megs? No prob. He waved to one of his employees to grab the pallet truck and get one from the warehouse. That guy returned with an enormous wooden crate, about 3 x 3 x 3 feet, called one his colleagues to bring two crowbars and 5 minutes later the scope was heaved on to the workbench and hooked up to the mains.
Long story short, I might have tolerated the noise of the fan, obviously made by Tupolev, but what really put me off was the picture tube, supposedly by Crayola. :-)
Shortly afterwards I got myself a re-worked Philips PM3219 50 MHz analog storage scope that just recently has been replaced by a Rigol digital scope.
Having said this, I still own a number of measuring and communications equipment from the USSR and East Germany and all of that works fine to this day.
Ralf