Do remember that HBO Chernobyl is fiction, there was no shoe guy publicly drinking vodka irl

kergonath an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It is perfectly plausible that someone from a shoe factory would end up in that guy’s position. He would just have been running the factory, not making shoes.

	▲	nullorempty 29 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		not in the USSR at the time of the events.

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varjag 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes in reality that guy was a machinist.