“The overall message is that this accident was caused not by nuclear power, faulty design or incompetence but rather by the endless lies of socialism. “
That message was wrapped in a heavy blanket of lies about the danger of nuclear power and radiation.
Unfortunately Chernobyl’s creator/writer Craig Mazin is a progressive, a climate change alarmist, pro-abortion, anti-Christian. You name it..Mazin also happens to be Senator Ted Cruz’s freshman roommate at Princeton...They didn’t get along on a personal level, though that is understandable. Pretty nifty how successful they both got though.
Anyway: Mazin believes the show is as much a cautionary tale on TRUMP (or about religious and capitalistic institutions) — as it is about the Soviet power structure. And again it’s the Soviet power structure and execution of ideals he critiques, not the inherent evil of socialism itself.
Bernie Sanders tries to put things this way as he defends ‘democratic socialism’ as distinct from Stalinism or something like that.
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I did not see that at all. In fact the show clearly ponts out how the West (usa) does not build reactors in this way. The west uses containment buildings etc. Its pointed out the soviets dont do this because its cheaper. Again the writer makes it clear the danger is socialisms inability to build nuclear reactors in a safe manner like can be done in the capitalist west.
what examples can you cite where this series was an indictment on nuclear power as practiced in the west? I did not see any.