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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7366338/
https://www.hbo.com/chernobyl
https://www.sky.com/watch/chernobyl
A miniseries told around the Soviet Chernobyl disaster.
A tense, decently-paced look at how communist lies spell disaster, and how communism once again cost tens of thousands and almost tens of millions of lives.
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s01e1 – 2019-05-06 – 1:23:45 ∞
Spoiler
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1:00 —
- Anatoly Dyatlov
- Moscow – April 26 1988
- 2:00 — Sigh, this narration is after the fact? I hate this perspective!
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6:30 — Pripyat – Ukrainian SSR
- Two years and one minute earlier.
- 11:30 — Tar
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26:00 — Iodine, for Potassium iodide
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38:45 — Mikhail Gorbachev
- I’m not going to research the other names..
s01e2 – 2019-05-13 – Please Remain Calm ∞
Spoiler
- 1:00 — Minsk
- 26:00 — I presume they can’t go to the roof to take a sample of the concrete/graphite.
- 27:00 — They can get readings from where they are.. that gives them some information at least.
- 30:00 — Boron
- 32:30 — You’re damned straight commies would send pilots directly over it, knowingly to their death.
- 34:30 — Use a trebuchet.
- 42:00 — I recognize that old man-extra. He’s a fine actor.
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57:00 — Why give them a sensor? It’ll just freak them out.
- Also, I thought their families were threatened or the like, as that’s the communist way of having people “volunteer”. If this is true, and I suspected this about this show, then this show is pro-communist revisionism.
s01e3 – 2019-05-20 – Open Wide, O Earth ∞
Spoiler
- 1:00 — Their mechanically powered flashlights are really effective, for being so power-hungry.
- 3:30 — They should be greeted by hoses.
- 31:00 — Well maybe fans and also the masks..
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47:45 —
s01e4 – 2019-05-27 – The Happiness of All Mankind ∞
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s01e5 – 2019-06-03 – Vichnaya Pamyat ∞
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2:15 — 12 hours before the explosion..
- What. What? I hate this sort of time travel perspective.
- 54:00 — Discount Mickey Mouse
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