Saratov’s governor thinks his region has the ‘brains’ and refrigerator skills to manufacture the next iPhone

Valery Radayev, the governor of Saratov, has some big ideas for SEPO, the Saratov Electrounit Production Corporation. You might know SEPO for its indestructible refrigerators, which it’s been pumping out since 1939, when it was founded in the Soviet Union to show the world’s capitalist pigdogs that communism could produce consumer comforts, too. SEPO also made a name for itself manufacturing aircraft engines and automobile components.

Today, Governor Radayev says it’s high time that SEPO take its talent for making long-lasting refrigerators (which he claims can function for 35 years, on average, compared to European brands that break “after 7-8 years”) and use it to manufacture Apple’s next iPhone.