Chernobyl - The Lost Tapes (trailer within article) new HBO Documentary

[IcyPeas]

Footage Shows How Daily Life Didn’t Change After Chernobyl—and the Cover-Up’s Toxic Aftermath
A new documentary shows how the disaster transformed—and endangered—those who lived near the nuclear plant

Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes, a new documentary premiering on HBO Max on June 22, uses never-before-seen footage to show how the meltdown harmed the lives of nearby residents for decades to come—and extent to which the Soviet Union suppressed the truth about the disaster’s severity.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-footage-shows-how-daily-life-didnt-change-after-chernobyl-cover-up-toxic-aftermath-180980208/

[LuckyLib]

1. Fascinating. Makes you realize the length the USSR and

now Russia will go to cover up the truth. There is still no clear toll of number of people who died.

[Hekate]

3. Meet the New Russia, same as the Old Russia. Sorry to have to inform you, but the USSR lives on...

No matter you may have heard to the contrary. Suggest you look up the fate of Navalny and anyone else who dares to dispute Putin’s version of reality. Ordinary folks who took to the streets to oppose the invasion of Ukraine were threatened with10 years in prison.

[FSogol]

4. Exactly. Putin is trying to get the band back together. n/t

[Hekate]

5. Boy, is he ever -- and the playbook is Stalin, from the looks of things in Ukraine