Ulana Khomyuk wasn't a real personīut you knew that already. These are all the other bits which swerved from Chernobyl's generally rigorous and terrifying adherence to the truth. If you want the full rundown on why Mazin decided to make certain creative decisions you can listen to the very good companion podcast HBO put together, which we picked out as one of our top podcasts from last month. If you want first-hand stories from the disaster, pick up Svetlana Alexeivitch's peerless collection of oral testimonies from survivors and witnesses Chernobyl Prayer, also known as Voices From Chernobyl. It sort of missed the point.Ĭhernobyl is a historical drama, albeit a very finely researched and crafted one. It quickly turned into an almighty barney about whether anyone would have used those exact faceted glasses to drink vodka out of at 4.30pm on a Tuesday afternoon in July when the wind was blowing south-east.
Over on Reddit, for instance, a thread by a user who said that they grew up in the Soviet Union at the time sought to call out details which didn't ring true. The internet being what it is, there's been a lot of discussion on that score.
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