Posted on 06/06/2019 8:57:54 AM PDT by Cecily
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union, once said that Chernobyl was ‘perhaps the real cause’ of the state’s collapse.
The attempted cover-up of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the endless lies and obfuscation, and the risk to the lives of millions laid bare the failings of the communist regime as never before.
It proved to the Soviet people that the time had come for radical change and that Gorbachev’s policy of glasnost — openness — was the only option.
At the very least, the explosion in Reactor 4 on the night of April 26, 1986, hastened the end of the ‘Evil Empire’.
The blast emitted more than 400 times the amount of radiation into the atmosphere than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
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Rush has been watching it and he said it was very well done, especially in the dark portrayal of the USSR as it truly was.......
how many episodes are there, and is it complete now?
I might binge this thing
5. It was very good.
I’ve only seen excerpts on Youtube, but it appears fantastically done. Great cinematography, great acting, phenomenal creepy music. The last episode is apparently the highest-rated TV show ever on IMDB right now and I can understand why. And while some liberties were taken (compositing a bunch of scientists into one female character) it’s generally historically very accurate. Especially in its portrayal of the USSR’s corruption and total lack of interest in the well-being of its citizens.
}:-)4
ping for later consumption
Riveting. Inciteful about soviet government
5 60-90 min episodes. Very well done. Watch twice. The best was last episode of the show trial, but what it showed was how arrogance, hierarchical mgt structure that put huge pressure on people, possible promotions, incompetent supervisor, inexperienced technicians, procedure book with steps crossed off, safety systems disabled and an undocumented redacted flaw in the control rod system resulted on one great big bang
As the man said. “Because it was cheaper”
I just binge watched a 6 part Nat Geo miniseries titled "Hot Zone" which I thought was very good. It dealt with a potential Ebola outbreak here in the U.S.
It wasn't your typical apocalyptic movie but rather an agency of the military tasked with containing it before it spreads.
I watched it. It was excellent. Only five episodes but I thought it well represented what living in the USSR was like. Or at lest what I’ve been told it was like by some of it’s former citizens.
I just finished it and it was a very well done series.
They Felt the Bern!
Socialists care more about one’s political beliefs than technical competence.
It also showed true heroism and the selflessness of some of the people who volunteered to do the jobs that they knew were going to eventually kill them.
This was especially true of the three men that went into the basement under the reactor to drain the water out. All three knew it was a death sentence. They did it anyway because they would save millions.
The same can be said of the coal miners that dug under the reactor. It was a death sentence.
No “everyone to get from street?” (I know, that was “emergency, emergency”).
Excellent show. Horrifying portrayal of life in a totalitarian leftist paradise.
When first started watching thought “At least there’s no way the perverts at HBO can work naked people into this topic”
Was wrong.
It’s worth noting that two of those three brave men are still alive today. This was revealed in the closing credits.
‘Chernobyl’ is terrific drama, and its main lesson (that systems based on lies eventually crash and burn) is one for the ages.
But we should be wary of adopting the characters’ portrayed assumptions as truth.
The trial episode was the best episode, even if only for the succinct and easily understandable explanations offered by Tie Guy, Science Girl and Legasov of what happened. Vey clever writing.
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