Chernobyl | Official Trailer for the HBO Miniseries (HBO's got another one)

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Regular_P said:
Their courage is top notch but a lot of them just follow orders too and were afraid to go against their superiors. Like they said on the podcast, if something like that happened here, the cleanup and evacuation would be a lot messier. It could be argued that people in the control room would have told Dyatlov to go fukk himself instead of blowing the reactor.

Americans are confrontational; a lot of other countries aren't. I read some articles about plane crashes and that was a reason Asian airlines would have crashes: second in command pilots wouldn't be vocal enough when impending doom was coming because their culture was to be submissive to authority in basically all situations.
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I was actually surprised at how much the 25 year old guys actually pushed back against Dyatlov to his face. They weren't just blindly following his orders.

When they finally DID push the AZ-5 button, I got they feeling they knew they were going against what Dyatlov wanted them to do, but by then they had had enough.

The impression I'm getting from the series is that you could get away with a lot more back talk to authority in the 80's Soviet Union than you could in some place like North Korea today. The KGB on the show wasn't going after people for disrespect, they were going after people for spreading information that people in authority didn't want known.
 
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Egomaniacal1 said:
The official death toll at 31?!?! Ridiculous...Russians some stubbornly ignorant sumbytches :mjlol:
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I did some reading and apparently the only time Putin ever acknowledges it is every 5 years. So 20th, 25th, 30th anniversary, etc. Apparently all those heroes have been massively forgotten about and the incident is such an embarrassment that they sort of act like it didn't happen. I don't think they're very happy about the show. It's crazy because from what I read, the efforts and sacrifices made to clean up Chernobyl were almost as important for Europe as the Allies defeating Hitler in World War II.
 
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Conz said:
i know basically nothing about Putin yet still find him to be one of the most fascinating people in the world. i feel like even reading about him puts me in danger. there are rumors that he is the richest man alive, it's just undisclosed b/c ya know, corruption and shyt
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Likewise. I'm heavy into Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu/submission grappling and I used to always think it was cool that he is a legit Judo black belt that looks pretty good from what I've seen.

This was before I found out more about him. When I did find out more he became more of a scary figure. I think there's a pretty supported theory that he helped coordinate some apartment bombings in 1999 in order to come to power. Interesting read stuff if you haven't read: Russian apartment bombings - Wikipedia
 
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These journalist are such hacks. There is a podcast explaining all the changes made from the real life events. I saw some alt right bytching about the female scientist or other journalist complaining about anything. It's explained in the podcast.
 
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TheDarceKnight said:
I did some reading and apparently the only time Putin ever acknowledges it is every 5 years. So 20th, 25th, 30th anniversary, etc. Apparently all those heroes have been massively forgotten about and the incident is such an embarrassment that they sort of act like it didn't happen. I don't think they're very happy about the show. It's crazy because from what I read, the efforts and sacrifices made to clean up Chernobyl were almost as important for Europe as the Allies defeating Hitler in World War II.
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They are also making a docu drama of an American spy being behind Chernobyl... Lmao.
 
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Conz said:
between this and to a slightly lesser degree When They See Us, every docuseries based off actual events is gonna have to step their shyt up bigtime going forward.

also, as much as i want to watch more, this is the perfect length of a tv "season." The Brits have always had it right. 5-8 episodes is plenty. no filler. no worries about bullshyt sindication. now that we live in a streaming world I really hope we stop with the 12-20+ episode seasons, even for half hour comedies.
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:francis: Tell this to the Flash showrunners
 
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You just had to know there would be a backlash:
Why HBO's "Chernobyl" Gets Nuclear So Wrong

I actually think nuclear power is something that we're going to have to figure out in the future if we don't want to end up under water, but this guy seems to have a borderline crazy LOVE of both nuclear power AND nuclear weapons, e.g.

nuclear deterrence played a key role in averting the genocidal bloodshed of a third world war and if a world full of nuclear weapons is a dangerous place, so in a different way is a world without the terrible discipline enforced by nuclear weapons.
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He's legit trying to argue that Chernobyl only gave terminal cancer to just 50 - 160 people.
 
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