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You can believe that if the Russians make a film about the segregation of blacks in America, you too will be mad and say that Americans have never been so evil and stupid (and it will be true partly).

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Do you imply that I should be also mad at the depiction of heroic Soviet firefighters in Chernobyl? I think, to the contrary, they are like the most brave and heroic Soviet characters I've ever seen in a western movie.

My point is that the West was able to make a more humane and relatable movie about USSR than what all modern Russian propaganda tried and failed to do. This series is shattering the "us vs them" mentality the Russian media tries to instill.

Film is fine. I say that someone else's view of your problems always not fair in some sense. This is the reason why the film annoys many Russians. My two uncles worked at Chernoble. One died after. The second one said us without a doubt that he would also go to the active zone if ordered. No soldiers with guns took part in it or ever existed. My aunt lived at Pripyat and she was pregnant. She lived in our flat in Minsk temporary after evacuation. She's daugther fine today because of the timely evacuation of the city. Ect..

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