Russia is set to air a TV series based on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that implicates the United States as playing a role in theworst nuclear accident in history.
Currently in post-production, the series by the Russian company NTV tells the story of the 1986 explosion that ripped through reactor Number 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the then Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
The explosion led to a huge radioactive leak, which permanently affected areas in places across three quarters of Europe. Thirty workers and firemen were killed in the immediate aftermath of the explosion and rescue operations. Most of them died of severe radiation-related illnesses.
The plot revolves around a CIA agent dispatched to Pripyat — the town inhabited by Chernobyl workers — to gather intelligence on the nuclear power plant.
The series will follow KGB officers in their attempts to hunt the espionage operation.
Director Aleksey Muradov said that his version, filmed in Belarus, will show “what really happened back then.”
“There is a theory that the Americans had infiltrated the Chernobyl nuclear power plant,” he said. “Many historians do not deny that on the day of the explosion an agent of the enemy’s intelligence services was present at the station.
This is while a five-part “Chernobyl” series produced by American premium cable and satellite television network HBO has recently triggered worldwide debate as some experts have challenged its credibility.
Russia’s most popular newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda (KP), has dismissed the show as “a caricature and not the truth.”
“If Anglo-Saxons film something about Russians, it definitely will not correspond to the truth,” said Russian journalist Anatoly Vasserman.
Russian newspaper The Moscow Times, also wrote this week that the HBO production was biased against the Soviet Union and provided a “caricature”’ of the nation.
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/06/08/597988/Russia-Chernobyl-HBO-US-CIA
I’d more likely believe the movie “The Chernobyl Diaries” than I would anything “factual” put out by HBO. Kinda like the NFL–it’s all “entertainment” not sports (that is, the ridiculous amount of rigging, especially for Patriots owner Robert “Chabad Lubavitch” Kraft). HBO wouldn’t post the truth if it hit ’em in the face.
“… theworst nuclear accident in history.”
Bullpucky.
Fukushima is Chernobyl on steroids.
“Thirty workers and firemen were killed in the immediate aftermath of the explosion and rescue operations. Most of them died of severe radiation-related illnesses.”
But according to Dr. Russell Blaylock, the Russians gave all the teens/preteens in the area massive doses of alpha lipoic acid, which reduced all their radiation levels to normal, and even below normal in some cases.
I watched it. It clearly states that they took liberties with it.
What makes me wonder is why russia would care how the.Soviet union looks and besides it was in Ukraine. Not even part of russia anymore.
What ever. It was a tv show.
Look at hell on wheels. Thomas.durant was a real person. But its not an actual account of his life. The marked up whore was not a whore and the real ones name was not eva. Its olive oatman. ANYWays. What do you expect from tv?