Lots of moments of people looking into the camera and going "how could communism do this?" which is cringe, but otherwise it's a fantastic story of human drama and how bad shit can get. Funny, I read this morning that Gorby is now dead, weird timing.

  • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Somewhere there is a post by the daughter one of the nuclear scientists involved (I think the guy who is the main character in the story) who said that most of it was bullshit, especially the presentation of the qualifications and living conditions of those involved in the initial shutdown efforts, that the record has exonerated everyone involved, and that missteps that were taken were eventually punished, but most of those missteps were due to miscommunication around the severity of the accident, not blatant coverup (aside from international reporting, which was initially covered up).

    • AmericaDelendeEst [any]
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      2 years ago

      It got posted on here over a year ago, I think she posted it on Facebook or the Russian equivalent. It was inga legasova, Valery Legasov's daughter

      Of course google only yields short quotes that make the USSR look bad but I think the whole thing was in Russian and someone on here translated it