It is all fiction. From the reactor core, to the KGB guy closing down the town, the female whisperer network. It's like a series of bad Soviet jokes.
It's literal capitalist, anti-socialist propaganda. They used some names, and events to create a completely fictional show that shows 'socialism' and 'communism' as this laughably oppressive system.
Some really ridiculous stuff, like the selection of the three technicians to go down, the 400 ruble /year stipend when in the previous scene they were like "they'll die in a week". lol
Literally everything in the show is wrong. It's bad.
Oliver Barnes
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Asher Turner
It's real. There are people who actually live there despite radioactivity..
Watched the first episode, it's completely anti-Soviet. The whole thing starts in grey buildings in the dark, instead of showing the admittedly cool looking town of Prypriat, everybody is an incompetent asshole who tries to shift blame to someone else, and when one guy midly suggests a catastrophe happened he gets shot down by a comic book villian gerontocrat with a walking stick (!) wo tells them to serve the state and have faith in the state, don't allow people to leave and tell them that they should put their minds to their labour when they ask uncomfortable questions. Basically portraying socialism as when you worship the state as a god in some Orwellian dystopia.
I know it was the Gorbachev era, but it's completely hyperbolic.
Nathaniel Jackson
I thought that was based though. Also, I don’t see how the blame shifting is inherently anti-soviet. People will interpret it as such, but it’s also universal that people in organizations will shift the blame onto someone else to avoid responsibility. People under capitalism do this all the time. I took the dylatov’s spergout to be an individual loss of nerves at the very start as a normal human response. What was supposed to be a routine day within a split second acclerated into a 13/10 problem that he just couldn’t or wasn’t willing to countenance because the responsibility was too great. Also his denial has a comic aspect to it, which is why /tv/ made a meme out of him immediately (“3.6 roentgens” “you’re delusional, go to infirmary”)
Jose Clark
It was a parody of Soviet identity, nobody in the USSR preached the divinity of the state or that people can't ask questions but must be put to labour while earning frenetic applause. Yet it isn't portrayed the same way in movies that play in capitalism, in movies about catastophies in capitalism it's always some crazy individual screwing things up while here it's portrayed by collective incompetence born out of political hierarchies.
Ayden Torres
Claim not supported by your article. Where is the comparison to wind, solar, or other forms of renewable power?
