I remember the Chernobyl disaster. We read all about it in the newspapers and followed the events on the telly ... at least, as much as the Soviets would tell us. This miniseries brings all the horrors in vivid detail. It uus very well done.

I won't repeat all the things that make this miniseries so good. But I will mention that the very few posters that gave Chernobyl 1 star - what? about 12 out of 1,419? - clutched pearls and clucked in disapproval at the alleged "anti-soviet" propaganda. I'm not kidding. Read those posts.

Said posters' reaction to the (much deserved) criticism of soviet authorities' behavior during the nuclear disaster is exactly the same as said authorities' reaction to the catastrophe: complete and total denial. Just like the soviets in the series scream denial "instructions" to a poor plant worker, burnt to a bloody pulp by radiation, in order to protect the soviet government, so do these posters screech "Anti-soviet propaganda! ... Jewish propaganda! ... Laughable ideology! (and theirs isn't?) ... Lies!" etc., presumably with the same futile intention to defend the indefensible.

Well, you can't deny that, whatever their faults, the soviets had the brainwash thingy down to a science. It still lingers, like the radiation caused by the Chernobyl explosion.