[tdiff]

It is silly how the show depicted Dyatlov as an arrogant sargeant behaving like a bully in American series about mid school kids.

This alone sets the tone of a TV show that needs to have clear goodies and baddies, and obviously life is never that simple.

[man8alexd]

There is a real interview with Dyatlov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8__v9EswN4

[watwut]

I have seen real world adults behave that way. Including multiple managers. The real world Dyatlov being verbally abusive is something the show has taken from the real world.

And before someone goes on about cultural difference, there are several high profile examples of American leaders/directors/business men acting in openly abusive ways.

[man8alexd]

"Verbal abuse" isn't a concept that existed in the Soviet Union. Giving or receiving instructions with as many "suka blyat" inserted between each word as possible wasn't abnormal.

[watwut]

It was concept that existed in the Soviet Union. And yes, people complained about those, got rid of them first thing whenever they could and retaliated when they could.

Soviet Union people knew the concept of "non-asshole boss" and could distinguish it from "asshole boss". They would use those terms. Where they could vote for boss (and yes they could vote for boss in some institutions) they would avoid voting for assholes (unless they expected them to be assholes to external people).

This concept existed also in literature, movies, music and general entertainment. It shown up there and the "good boss" always won (else it could be constructed as a critique of the system). Asshole boss was typically foreign ennemy in disguise.

[man8alexd]

Internet at its best - explaining how it was in the USSR to a former soviet citizen.

[tdiff]

If you check what people were telling about him (at least here: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%BE..., sorry for Russian), you will find what the opinions were very different. Yet in the series it all boiled down to a very primitive character.

[cucumber3732842]

>, there are several high profile examples of American leaders/directors/business men acting in openly abusive ways.

What an out of touch statement.

Have you ever worked in a restaurant or on a construction site?

Nothing the ruling class or their useful idiot cronies does publicly even approaches what's not considered abuse in those contexts.

[watwut]

I actually worked in a restaurant, two different restaurants to be clear. I liked that job actually. Both were good place, but pay was not all that great.

Nothing even approached the high profile behavior I have in mind.

Your restaurant or construction site just sucked, plainly.

[nephihaha]

Most modern television tends towards caricatures and melodrama.

[kwar13]

I am not sure what your comment is getting at. Bullying is only American?