Hello, yes, me again ^^
I'd like to thank all the kind helpers, I have learned so many things thanks to my previous post. Stay awesome, LD community.
I hit another snag in my story, but I'm afraid this one will be a lot harder to answer.
I'm still giving it a try, tho.
So. In canon, the Russian man working for the KGB in the early 1960s has a
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There was, as far as I know, three main channel of KGB enrollment process: (1) entering KGB high military school past school graduation (2) enrollment after (compulsory) military service or transferring from military officers (people who served with attached to KGB Border Guards had better chances) (3) enrollment of young people just graduated from universities. For young agent after first variant of carrier track having such visible tattoo would be completly impossible - he would be disqualified even before admission. Military people from (2) carrier track could probably had military based tattoo (classic ДМБ tattoo); former university student possibly could have tattoo like that on photo for some personal reasons. Of cource, any agent could get any kind of tattoo as part of cover legend.
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On a different note, you could look into him having had his military service abroad. My history teacher (admittedly younger) had his in DDR. I don't really know anything but this could give you some ideas?
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Hummer's ancestors who were Jewish, that's why the name, flee from Russia just before the revolution. So he basically has his family name written in Cyrillic alphabet. Хаммер - Hammer
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THANK you EVER SO MUCH for your contribution.
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