The fact that an American, not a Russian, TV channel tells us about our own heroes is a source of shame that the pro-Kremlin media apparently cannot live down. And this is the real reason they find fault with HBO’s “Chernobyl” series.
Posted on 06/04/2019 3:46:09 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
It seems every major Russian media outlet had to chime in about the “Chernobyl” TV series by HBO. Although the foreign program airs only online to paying viewers, the show has become something of a national sensation in Russia where the pro-Kremlin media have launched a mini-crusade against it.
Komsomolskaya Pravda (KP), Russia’s most popular newspaper, raised suspicions that competitors of state-atomic center Rosatom were using the series to tarnish this country’s image as a nuclear power.
Argumenty i Fakty...dismissed the show as “a caricature and not the truth.”
“The only things missing are the bears and accordions!” quipped Stanislav Natanzon, lead anchor of Rossia 24, one of the country’s main news channels.
In his show, the anchor pointed out...that the HBO series was wrong to suggest that the Soviet authorities were afraid to admit their mistakes and that this reluctance led to terrible consequences.
Ultra pro-Soviet columnist Anatoly Vasserman offered what is probably the most candid of all the reviews leveled against the show: “If Anglo-Saxons film something about Russians,” he said, “it definitely will not correspond to the truth.”
It is an ordinary case of jealous resentment: “Only we have the right to talk about our history,” they say, “so don’t butt in.” However, the reception given “Chernobyl” says more about the critics than it does about the series.
Thanks to the HBO series, many of my peers now have a different view of the Chernobyl accident...only the first episode in this series is devoted to the Chernobyl reactor explosion.
All the subsequent episodes focus on the harrowing and self-sacrificing struggle that the Soviet people waged against the consequences of the explosion. It was these people who saved Europe — at the cost of their own lives and health.
Russia, however, does not honor these individuals as heroes...
(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...
The fact that an American, not a Russian, TV channel tells us about our own heroes is a source of shame that the pro-Kremlin media apparently cannot live down. And this is the real reason they find fault with HBO’s “Chernobyl” series.
Was wrong.
Yeah, I needed eye bleach after
the full frontal of the miner foreman.
Been watching it. Recorded the last episode last night, and will watch it tonight. I remember when the disaster happened, but never really read anything about it. The show got me more interested, and so I bought the book “Midnight in Chernobyl” by Adam Higginbotham. The next chapter I’ll be reading is “Friday, April 25th, 11:53 p.m., Unit Control Room Number Four.” Up until I started reading this book, I had no idea about all the nuclear accidents Russia had experienced prior to Chernobyl...none of which they ever reported. The book is excellently sourced, and I highly recommend it, as well as the series.
LOL. Did they really manage to work nudity into a story about Chernobyl? HBO never quits.
I won't watch until the program is available in other formats than HBO but I would guess an HBO production would also include gays and minorities somewhere in the script. As the "good guys", of course.
In context, the episode added to the surreal air of the disaster. This made the heroism of the miners and many others stand out even more.
They had chunks of radioactive moderator and fuel blowed out on the roof of the plant. They tried to push the debris back through the hole but didn’t have the equipment that would work. They then required Red army personnel to go run out and grab a piece of the debris and grow it back into the plant through the roof hole. The folks that performed this are gone. It happened, it’s a fact and to hell with Putin. The helicopters pilots that put materials into the plant through the hole in the roof are dead too.
HBO must have the know how to avoid filming genitalia
I know her from somewhere.
I agree. I think it worked in the story but full frontal wasn’t necessary. But regarding the snowflakes here, people have been naked for years. Greek statues, anyone?
HBO worked assiduously to promote the tired old “heroic ordinary Russian” trope.
Coerced or not to wade through nuclear waste to drain the water under the pad or digging the tunnel to place all available nitrogen in the USSR under the pad to cool the uranium, they were heroic. I can appreciate the people and loathe the communists and bureaucracy. The “bio-robots” as they were called were not Red Army. They were men and boys from the surrounding villages “recruited” to spend 90 second shifts clearing the core from the roof. More than 3 minutes exposure was certain death.
900 rubles and all the vodka they could drink. An amazing story and it should chill the enthusiasm for our socialist democrats.
I surmise that it was meant to show both the truth of the event and to convey how desperate the circumstances were.
I would guess an HBO production would also include gays and minorities
The ultimate screw up of the great Soviet apparatus. I think it was the straw that broke the camel’s back for them. You saw all the signs of a corrupt and bloated political system in that series. Lie, lies and more lies. Sounds like democrats.
The ancient Greeks were perverts.
It was a fascinating show and I am very surprised that it was as true to history as it was. One of the best pictures ever painted of what happens when an elite control a nation. Even the dark tones and dreary community was realistic of the Soviet Union.
The truth is always second to the needs of the state....
No, they were not.
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