PolandIsAStateOfMind 18 points 20 hours ago

Lmao even wiki calls on this "perfect" narrative:

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manuallybreathing 23 points 19 hours ago

Shchadov was portrayed in the HBO mini series Chernobyl by Michael Colgan,[9] but the drama lowered his age and depth of experience in the coal industry for dramatic and narrative purposes.[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Shchadov

better to just copy the text, comrade :^)

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techognito 6 points 18 hours ago

But an image contains a 1000 words /s

or just 35 in this instance

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Unpigged -6 points 18 hours ago

Ugh no he wasn't? Schadov was born in a peasant family in Irkutsk Region and up until 1944 (when he was 17) he was working around/on collective farm. In 1944 he entered a college, finished in 1948 at the age of 21 and was assigned as a mechanic to a mine.

So no, he didn't mine coal since he was a teenager.

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geneva_convenience 8 points 18 hours ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Shchadov

Shchadov began his career at 15, working in a mine in Cheremkhovo as a site manager.[3] Then, he became the chief engineer and head of a mine.

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Unpigged 4 points 18 hours ago

That's incorrect translation.

В сентябре 1944 года приехал в Черемхово и поступил там на электромеханическое отделение горного техникума.

He only arrived in Chremkhovo when he was 17.

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TranscendentalEmpire 3 points 16 hours ago

I looked through a couple different sources and a lot of them seem to conflict with each other. There are some that claim he came from a peasant family, when it seems his father was instead a chairman of a kolkhoz, which would be a fairly influential local leader who would work directly with the central party.

There are sources that claim he began his career as a site manager, mechanic, or electrical technician at the age of 15 or 17. He has sources claiming that he graduated in 47, 48, and 53 from two different technical colleges and then getting a degree in economics in 65.

It really is hard to parse out exactly what is what especially since a lot of the different bibliographies have broken original sources or are just missing.

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geneva_convenience 3 points 16 hours ago

I don't think the translation is incorrect. If you want to doubt something you can only doubt the original source being incorrect

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Unpigged -2 points 16 hours ago

That's a different source which also doesn't say that he worked in mines. It literally just says "started working at 15'. And it overlooks his college period where he was educated to do that work later.

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