[Paal Gulli]

It was a reactor designed with to too slim a margin of safety (because they preferred to risk the lives of their citizenry rather than use a costlier, safer design) and then mismanaged. Period. Full stop.

The truest thing in the entire series was the typical Soviet joke:

What's as big as a house, burns 20 liters of fuel every hour, puts out a shitload of smoke and noise, and cuts an apple into three pieces?

A Soviet machine made to cut apples into four pieces.

[Celtic Conservative]

“Safety Margin” is a nebulous concept for Russians. Look at their subs and spaceships.

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[Captain Peter Blood]

Read some W.W. II history on what Stalin did to make his troops do what they did. Brutal is not even the word. Many millions were sued for cannon fodder and the troops had no choice but to go forward and die or die from behind.