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Comment by tryauuum

19 hours ago

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

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kergonath  15 hours ago

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  14 hours ago

    not in the USSR at the time of the events.

varjag  18 hours ago

Yes in reality that guy was a machinist.

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