Chernobyl on HBO
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I know that this has been mentioned in a few threads but I'm not sure if it has had one of its own. Apologies if so.
I've been watching this and it is truly riveting. The portrayal of life in the USSR in that era is incredibly accurate (I say this as someone who has spent a lot of time studying life in the Soviet era) and that is backed up by some commentary that I came across. This is from someone who grew up in the Soviet Union and that time...
https://twitter.com/SlavaMalamud/status/1132029943297265664
And the horror that the people who had to deal with the consequences of the accident is mind numbing. Watching people die slow deaths while their skin becomes transparent puts a perspective on complaining about every day issues, as does the fact that many of these folks knew what would happen to them when they went in to do what had to be done to prevent a complete melt down of the reactor.
Jim Geraghty has a good review....
"Almost everyone in the Soviet system comes across as callous, shrugging off the painful deaths of good men and women as simply a requirement of ensuring the state’s good reputation. Mikhail Gorbachev appears in a few scenes, alternating between deer-in-the-headlights terror and grumpy irritability that he has to deal with it all. Chernobyl is that rare docudrama that is simultaneously a horror movie, and it’s way more terrifying than most offerings in the horror genre because it’s all true (or as accurate as the brilliant creator-writer Craig Mazin could determine, given contrasting historical accounts). The radiation is one of the monsters bedeviling the characters on screen. The other monster is the Soviet bureaucracy, full of blind denial, insane priorities, moral cowardice, and a depraved indifference to human life. And according to those who lived through the era, the attention to detail in portraying mid-1980s Soviet life is amazing.
But it’s worth keeping in mind that shameless dishonesty in order to avoid embarrassment is a human trait, not just a Socialist one. In almost any governmental system on earth, those running the system can blur their sense of their personal interest and the national interest."
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/conservatives-ought-to-w...
If you haven't watched this yet do so, it is an incredible story and done extremely well.
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meanwhile, they are burying
meanwhile, they are burying nuclear waste 5 miles from me in concrete casks on a fault line adjacent to the ocean. what could go wrong?
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>>> full of blind denial,
>>> full of blind denial, insane priorities, moral cowardice, and a depraved indifference to human life.
Reads like a good discription of the Republican Party in 2019
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the previews are intiguing
the previews are intriguing but looks more depressing than I need in my life.
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>>>>> they are burying
>>>>> they are burying nuclear waste 5 miles from me in concrete casks on a fault line adjacent to the ocean. what could go wrong?
Ask the Japanese. They have experience with siting nuclear facilities in earthquake prone areas near the ocean.
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"Reads like a good
"Reads like a good discription of the Republican Party in 2019"
As good an example of your ignorance about the Soviet Union as you could possibly have provided.
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Great show!
Great show!
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I could not get through the
I could not get through the first episode.
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>>>"Reads like a good
>>>>As good an example of your ignorance about the Soviet Union as you could possibly have provided.
It’s just a good description, and has nothing to do with the Soviet Union. Republicans aren’t totalitarians - they are just leaning hard into authoritarianism.
Full of blind denial – Climate Change – Check
Insane priorities – More Prison Time For A Women That Has An Abortion Than The Person Who Raped Her – Check
Moral cowardice – Reasonable Congressional Oversight of the Executive, Except Under Trump – Check
A depraved indifference to human life – Six Dead Children In Custody At The Border - Check
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Poor Thom. Can't review a
Poor Thom. Can't review a flick without punching himself in the junk.