[ivan_gammel]

Well, if a worker who spent 40 years in a hot zone of a steel mill is establishment, I wonder what other unorthodox definitions do you have.

He was repressed because of his ethnic origins, taken to labor army from a peasant family on 17th birthday. Is this establishment too?

I‘m seriously impressed by how some people jump to conclusions sometimes.

[estaset]

What it has to do with him becoming a part of establishment at the end?

[ivan_gammel]

He was not part of “nomenklatura” at any point of his life and retired from his work only after the fall of SU. He has never been even a party member.