Watched this on TV with my hubby.
We were so riveted, that we binged watched the entire show, programme by programme, in one evening.
We never usually do that!
At the end of the show, I couldn’t put into words how I was felling.
Trying to remember, and thinking back, I vaguely recall the Chernobyl disaster happening at the time. I remember not being overly concerned about my health, or any kind of impact it could have on me in its aftermath. I was a native born Brit - living in the UK and not much else bothered me at the time. Trying to survive as one of the many millions of people left unemployed at the time, was more stressful and worrying that something happening somewhere in Russia!
Today. I am a (legal) U.S. Citizen living with my hubby in America and have been for many years
This show shocked me more TODAY, (after all these years), I remember how everything was hushed up and minimised and downplayed in the media and on the news. The British Government were in damage control so the British public didn’t start to panic. We were told that nothing radioactive could ever travel to the U.K. And that the people in the U.K were not at risk! Looking back now, I’m
not shocked by the attitudes of utter arrogance by some of the (characters) involved. I remember this level of disinformation and bloody lies being told to everyone in the U.K so it was not exclusively “a Russian attitude”.
And It was, after all, the nasty 1980’s!
The indifference by “Yuppies” and the discrimination in society who only focused on the money they were making and the attitudes of “Greed is Good”, encouraged the “what’s in it for me?” mindset. This was everywhere. Not just in USSR!
For those who weren’t even born at the time, it’s not fair to give out half truths and misinformation of real facts.
Even though the show is still breath taking in it’s portrayal of the events of what happen in Chernobyl (before, during and after), to encourage people start the debate of what actually happened, is much more important. If some of the facts have been embellished by a “license” to inflate or change the story line, it doesn’t change the fact this man made disaster really happened. Moreover, why it happened.
On an up note,
I had to purchase this show, as it’s one of those rare programmes that is a;
must see, must buy, masterpiece.
My hubby and me are impressed with the acting, the entire production of the show, and the director’s insight into why they filmed the show the way they did, what storylines were used, and how each storyline is as relevant to today, as it was then.
The dialogue after each program gives more back ground information to the previous (programs) events in such a way, that I was left feeling this was the first time I had known fully of this frightening disaster that happened in Chernobyl.
All these years later, and I now feel I have the right (and the permission) to talk openly about everything that happened.
Without fear and/or without being silenced.
Whether you agree with the storyline or not.
It’s still a deeply moving, shocking and heartbreaking story to be told.
Watching this show left me feeling like a “witness” to a tragedy that YES, could (and Should) have been avoided at ALL COSTS! The level of fear in the men who were working with the mindless pigheaded bastard, that ignored ALL warnings that led to this disaster happening, is a crime in itself.
The overwhelming impact of the people who suffered, died and all the families left without their loved ones, and not much (if any) support (or adequate and appropriate after care), is the lasting impression that broke my heart the most.
This is a must see show.
See it.
And never forget it!
Learn from it.
And make sure it never happen’s again!
Thank You.
