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Originally Posted by spetsnazos
Hey I'm not stopping you from watching Cold War propaganda turned up to 10. I'm just here to put a bit of common sense down on the table.
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It's not cold war propoganda and you aren't showing any common sense. Yes, everyone in the western world knew within hours that there was a nuclear accident of some type at Chernobyl. They did not know the extent for months (at the very least). Do you think that the West Germans would have represented that the Joker would be able to manage the radiation on the roof of the plant if they knew the quantum of the radiation? It was severely understated by the Soviets. The entire Joker episode is well documented fact. It was only in 1990 that the Soviets admitted that robots could not do the rooftop cleanup and that "bio-robots" were required. The "bio-robots" are100% factual and documented.
As for the animals, documented fact that teams were sent to eradicate irradiated animal populations. What's portrayed on screen (from the hardened Afghan vets to the "puppies") comes straight from Voice of Chernobyl but aligns with other documented sources. Yes, Pavol appears to be a composite character, but consistent with historical accounts.
Yes, there is some hyperbole in using the highest level of potential consequences to make dramatic point (eg. if the core melted through the slab, the size of the destruction was a possibility and not the likely result, but it was not fiction) and the timelines have been altered a bit to make the series work as a dramatic narrative, but the facts are the facts and this is a deeply honest retelling of the story.