Also "Always mount a scratch monkey"

https://edp.org/monkey.htm

I thought the monkeys in this story were going to be users. Well. They are, but you know what I mean.

“Upon discovering this, Sergei immediately filed immigration papers with any country that would listen.” — an appropriate level of faith that the system can be trusted correct itself, I think.

The tricky part at the time was not being admitted in any country but getting out of USSR.

I wonder if anybody ever fact checked this story. I expected to see something related to Mayak plant disaster upon reading Sverdlovsk.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster