> He regularly goes on Fox and Twitter in an unending quest to own the libs
That's not an exaggeration, either. He literally says his entire life is about owning the libs. "Pathetic" doesn't even come close to describing this guy.
> But not in the same way as it does in a state where the ruling committee's lies are the laws.
What about when he forces limitations on what scientists can actually say?
You just watched a show that made it quite clear the dangers of when a ruling party silences it's scientists from being able to warn the public of dangers because it was politically advantageous to do so, and yet you see no relation to when the exact same thing happens to the US? Legasov, a scientist, wanted to warn the world about these reactors, but was silenced because the truth would be a risk to soviet interests. Doing anything about climate change is a risk to not just Russian, but GOP interests, and just this year we have trump forcing American scientists to be silent about it. You really see no similarities between these two?
Thanks for your interest, it's this one. It's only really available on Amazon (at least I'm only aware of it on there, it could be in other places).
Komsomolskaya Pravda, Russia's largest and most popular newspaper, said Chernobyl was "series to tarnish this country’s image as a nuclear power." That has nothing to do with the Moscow Times.
https://www.kp.ru/daily/26981/4041220/
Other quotes from Russian media:
"The creators probably think their audience is a bunch of illiterate, stupid, uninquiring idiots."
"the Americans wouldn’t be Americans without cramming the show with a complete bundle of all their favorite Russophobia."
“From a propaganda point of view, it’s a perfect film,"
"“‘And yet we have to humiliate the Russians,’ is how the creators of ‘Chernobyl’ think — to humiliate them with the truth or with something that imitates it, like this show.”
https://meduza.io/en/slides/illiterate-stupid-uninquiring-idiots
Chernobyl Notebook is the book that dedicates by far the most time to that night and is probably my personal favourite of them all, though it gets multiple little details wrong. You can download a scanned copy here (it's long out of print) but its also available as an ebook from Amazon.
I guess it would be remiss of me not to recommend my own book Chernobyl 01:23:40 which also spends a fair amount of time on what happened.
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American Philip Grossman also thought it was CIA and made a docu about it, not the first time this has been talked about. The large radar station near by and the discovery of plant that had a hidden basement with chemicals used in the production of nuclear material. I do not buy into the CIA theory but there is some odd stuff that was going on around there before explosion.
Accidently deleted my comment above. Just in case I put link to the first part of the transcript again:
Also I’ve a question.
The person who uploaded the film has begun to translate it from Swedish to English. He posts English subtitles in comments under the video, and I think they’re very good (although I didn’t check every line). He plans to attach them to the video. Considering this, is there point for me to make translation from Russian?
Sitnikov also took the decision to go and look autonomously, he wasn't forced at gunpoint as it is shown.
> I asked him why he went to the fourth reactor, even when it wasn’t his responsibility. And he said, “There was nobody who knew the reactor better than me, you see? If it weren’t for us, it would have been the end of Ukraine definitely, and maybe half of Europe, too… You need to understand this.”
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/06/04/the-pain-doesn-t-fade
It's 'Business Insider' guys, what else did you expect.
On the topic, it's been discussed here on r/ChernobylTV several times.
If you are interested thebest source in English would be this newspaper: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/08/27/new-russian-government-data-on-august-8-explosion-reveals-that-a-nuclear-reactor-was-definitely-involved
Non-existent? It does exist, it's alredy filmed. The CIA agent arc is not the main plot device, but it's definitely there.
https://meduza.io/feature/2019/06/16/serial-hbo-zamechatelnyy-no-ne-dotyagivaet-po-smyslam - here's the interview with the director. In Russian, but you can use Google translate.
https://www.facebook.com/grichan.i/posts/2690040127737932 - here's the costume designer post with pictures.
>And obviously you can't just buy radioactive material on the internet.
Oh, but you can! It's mostly one of those items that gathers joke reviews but supposedly does contain a radioactive sample and comes with a cpm rating to help you calibrate your counter.