Posted on 06/07/2019 7:33:50 AM PDT by Krosan
Furious at the breakout success of the HBO series Chernobyl, Russia is planning to make its own series portraying the nuclear disaster as the work of an American CIA operative.
Russian television broadcaster NTV announced that it had commissioned the series, and principal photography has already begun in Belarus under director Alexei Muradov.
In response to the HBO series' depiction of Soviet bureaucrats bungling the response both during and after the 1986 nuclear accident in the Ukrainian SSR, the Russian version plans to tell the tale of a heroic KGB agent trying to thwart a supposed CIA sabotage plot.
'One theory holds that Americans had infiltrated the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and many historians do not deny that, on the day of the explosion, an agent of the enemy's intelligence services was present at the station,' Muradov explained to the Moscow Times.
The Chernobyl disaster occurred during a failed safety test of the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and there is no credible evidence to suggest that the accident was part of a CIA plot.
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Well, I did say Multi Billionaire.
I could always hire an entire Crew with H1-B Visas to save on Operational Costs.
CNN will take this as fact, and since it happened in 1986, they’ll blame Reagan.
Yep, Reagan’s increased military spending forced the Soviets to cut safety budgets for their nuclear plants. It’s so obvious now.
....”Russia is like Mexico...always blames the US”.....
Rather like the US always blames Russia.”
You should go to Russia and live there awhile.
Russia actually was out of US radar for a good while following the Cold War sans a few lingering stereotypical tropes in films and things. This upset Russians even more. Better to be talked about, even in a bad light (especially when perceived as powerful) than not talked about at all and seen as irrelevant.
Russians tend to be natural-born contrarians.
They would certainly get more left coast believers if they did just that. They could probably even get loads of funding if they declared that as an intention up front.
I just watched an episode of Abandoned on the SCI channel a couple of hours ago (Sat. 6/8).
It was about a huge radar array in Russia that was only 7 miles from Chernoble. It was 500 ft. high and over a half mile long, designed to bounce waves to the Earth’s isophere and back. ...It was nicknamed the Woodpecker because its usage caused a tapping sound on all communication and computer devises.
Computers at that time required people to decipher the meaning of what they were seeing. ...It was proposed that the constant tapping from the radar array actually interrupted the data being monitored by the Chernoble computers that led to the explosion.
Ooops
devises = devices
Living in Russia or not wouldn’t make a difference in how some view Russia, even for those who have lived there or do so now. Political opinions are what they are.
Facts are facts.
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