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Assuming you mean the actual Soviet Union, Chernobyl was incredibly well-done.
Where can I watch that?
Edit: found it, spank you very much. :)
Edit3: why did they kill the dogs? Radioactive?
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Yeah that's why they had to put down the dogs
my guess is they didn't want them to leave the area, moving to towns still populated by people and spread radioactivity there. no clue, though.
Sad.
Wholeheartedly second Chernobyl. It's an amazing show.
It shows the party dynamics of the decision making process for disaster response and the infighting that results really well. Not too much everyday life stuff but there is a bit.
Itβs was well done but deeply disingenuous about the effects of radiation in places. I loved the show, but for anybody else watching, itβs worth realising that itβs very exaggerated in places.
Off the top of my head, for those that are curious:
However, the utter incompetence of the USSR is very accurate.
The danger wasn't that it would cause a nuclear explosion, it was that it would melt its way into a large reservoir of water underneath the reactor, instantly turning it all into steam, causing a massive explosion that would fling radioactive material over a much wider area
I don't know if there was a risk of that happening in reality, but that's how it was portrayed and explained in the show