The episode opens with Karen cooking breakfast, and she starts with putting eggs in a frying pan. A bit later, she adds raw bacon. Just a couple minutes later, she serves the breakfast to Ed, and somehow the bacon is done with the eggs being over easy. There is no way bacon would cook that fast without it absolutely burning the eggs to a crisp.
The news announcer says that the Duma approved the projected joint mission. The legislative body of the USSR was called the Supreme Soviet. However, this is an "alternate history" so it's entirely possible the name would have been different in this reality.