Petro Hapochka

Petro Hapochka (b. 1905) was the chairman of kohlkohz 127 outside of Kiev. He'd served in the Red Army during World War II, losing a left foot in 1943 to a German landmine.

In April, 1951, after World War III was only a few months old, a farmer on the kohlkoz, Ihor Shevchenko, presented a slab of pork ribs to Hapochka. He also asked Hapochka if he'd heard when Kiev, which had been destroyed by an American atomic bomb the month before. Hapochka didn't know.