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Kind of unrelated but when you mentioned Soviet shoe factories, this scene from HBO's Chernobyl takes on a whole new dimension: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
by snake_plissken 6y ago
Kind of unrelated but when you mentioned Soviet shoe factories, this scene from HBO's Chernobyl takes on a whole new dimension:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idb_qsAAe1c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idb_qsAAe1c
"I'm a nuclear physicist. Before you were deputy secretary, you worked in a shoe factory."
"Yes, I worked in a shoe factory. And now I'm in charge. To the workers of the world."
- baryphonic 6y agoWhen writing my post, I remembered the miner's joke from the series: > What's as big as a house, burns 20 liters of fuel an hour, puts out a huge amount of smoke and noise, and cuts an apple into three pieces? > A Soviet machine for cutting apples into four pieces.