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* AmericaSavesTheDay: Discussed. When they brainstorm possible solutions for the "Masha" roof, Shcherbina brings up the Americans as a last resort for help. Tarakanov doubts if they had the means and reminds Shcherbina that the Soviet government would never stoop to asking their arch-enemy.
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* AmericaSavesTheDay: Discussed. When they brainstorm possible solutions for the "Masha" roof, Shcherbina brings up the Americans as a last resort for help. Tarakanov doubts if they had the means and reminds Shcherbina says that the Soviet government would never stoop only be feasible: 1) if the Americans had that kind of technology (which he doubts), 2) if the Central Committee would lower themselves to asking their arch-enemy.arch-enemies for help; and 3) assuming they did, if the Americans would lower themselves by giving such help. Each of those is a very big "if", and all three of them together amounts to a virtual impossibility.
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* DoubleMeaning: When the liquidator returns from his ninety seconds on the roof and discovers the rip in his boot, the man supervising the project tells, him, "Comrade Soldier, [[BrutalHonesty you're done]]," indicating both that he has completed his task and that he has likely received a fatal does of radiation.
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* DoubleMeaning: When the liquidator returns from his ninety seconds on the roof and discovers the rip in his boot, the man supervising the project tells, him, "Comrade Soldier, [[BrutalHonesty you're done]]," indicating both that he has completed his task and that he has likely received a fatal does dose of radiation.
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* GenocideSurvivor: The elderly Ukrainian woman lists the Holodomor, [[TheFamine a man-made famine]] in which millions of Ukrainians were starved to death by the Soviet government, among the horrors she has endured in her life. This reflects how little the Soviet government cares about the wellbeing of its average citizens, which is one of the show's major themes.
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* GenocideSurvivor: The elderly Ukrainian woman lists the Holodomor, UsefulNotes/TheHolodomor, [[TheFamine a man-made famine]] in which millions of Ukrainians were starved to death by the Soviet government, among the horrors she has endured in her life. This reflects how little the Soviet government cares about the wellbeing of its average citizens, which is one of the show's major themes.
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* SeenItAll: The old woman milking her cow sees this as her reason for not wanting to leave: she's endured the revolution, famine, and the Second World War. None of those things, not even the murder of her relatives, could get her to leave her home. So she won't leave because of radiation.
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* SeenItAll: The old woman milking her cow sees this as her reason for not wanting to leave: she's endured [[UsefulNotes/RussianRevolution the revolution, famine, revolution]], [[UsefulNotes/TheHolodomor famine]], and the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Second World War.War]]. None of those things, not even the murder of her relatives, could get her to leave her home. So she won't leave because of radiation.
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* FrontlineGeneral: General Tarakanov stays as close to the roof as he can so that he can give the liquidators their briefing.
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* FrontlineGeneral: General Tarakanov stays as close to the roof as he can so that he can give the liquidators their briefing. After each clean-up detail is completed, Tarakanov thanks each soldier individually and shakes his hand, not giving a damn if any of them might be contaminated.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: None of the animals killed are shot on screen.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: None of the animals killed are shot on screen. Subverted in the first dog that Pavel shoots, which is shown with its entrails hanging out after he failed to make his first shot fatal.
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* ItGetsEasier: Bacho tells Pavel that there's no shame in feeling sick after his first kill - it happened to Bacho in Afghanistan.
-->'''Bacho''': I thought, well, that's it, Bacho. You put a bullet in someone. You're not you anymore. You'll never be you again. But then you wake up the next morning and you're still you. And you realize: that was you all along. You just didn't know.
-->'''Bacho''': I thought, well, that's it, Bacho. You put a bullet in someone. You're not you anymore. You'll never be you again. But then you wake up the next morning and you're still you. And you realize: that was you all along. You just didn't know.
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* SparingThemTheDirtyWork: Seeing the mother dog with her puppies, Bacho curses under his breath, then tells Pavel to go outside while Bacho does what has to be done.
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-->'''Bacho''': My first time, Afghanistan. We were moving through a house and... suddenly a man was there and I shot him in the stomach. Yeah, that's a real war story. There are never any good stories like in movies - they're shit.
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-->'''Overseer''': Comrade Soldier... '''you're done'''.
