 CHAR: Al shows his bare feet to Peggy and demands she explain his  absent socks, to which Peggy replies, "Well, if we were in Russia,  Id say Chernobyl." Chernobyl is not in Russia, but in Ukraine. At  the time of production (1990) one of the fifteen Soviet Socialist  Republics, SSRs, that constituted the Soviet Union (Union of Soviet  Socialist Republics, USSR). Contrary to popular belief, the terms  Russia and Soviet Union cannot be used interchangeably.