This was... I lack words. I'm from Bulgaria, a soviet satellite for more than 40 years. I remember being in high school when this disaster occurred and I remember that there was nothing in the news, no information at all. More over, they took us - every single school in my town Varna - out in the open, picnic in the woods. That happened in the first days of May, when the radioactive cloud had already reached us. We had a great time... Skipping one boring day at school and enjoying the nature. What kind of people would do that?.. Again, I lack words.
I never knew things went south so quickly and so badly. I cried on every episode, and now there are tears in my eyes as I'm writing this review. More than 750 000 people suffered this human stupidity, sacrificing their lives and health for us all. We never knew their names, we never knew their heroism, we never got to know the gigantic amount of work these people did, knowing that they risk their own lives. Thank you, HBO, for bringing it to the public. This miniseries totally washed out the shame of GoT.
I'm a suspicious person who never believes what they're told. I always need a confirmation. So, I went searching for a confirmation. I read Legasov's audio tapes (you also could do that if you speak Russian), I listened to Dyatlov's confession, I watched the real footage from Chernobyl. All of these could be found on YouTube. In every detail the series were accurate. And this ruined me. I was hoping to find propaganda details, something to suppress my fear... No. This was the ugly, brutal truth. Reality could be more scary than the scariest nightmare a human imagination could produce.
I was sorry I couldn't rate GoT's last season 0/10. Now I'm sorry I can't rate Chernobyl 20/10
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