Yeah, the winds blew in our direction. Shortly after, my family moved to Minsk, Later on, I had military training in radiation protection in post-Chernobyl Bel

Yeah, the winds blew in our direction. Shortly after, my family moved to Minsk, Later on, I had military training in radiation protection in post-Chernobyl Belarus, read the transcripts of Legasov's tapes and IAEA reports on Chernobyl. Chernobyl shadowed my life, but things turned out to be mostly OK. Back to the mini-series, even the faithful repoduction of the epoch is sometimes dumb. Notice the crystal clock on Gorbatchev's table. I had one like that at home, but I am pretty sure that clock would not sit on Gorbatchev's table. It's something people had at home, not in institutions. The sequence of events is roughly similar to what actually happened, but content is unnecessarily worse than the reality. For instance, the three divers that went through radiactive waters survied, one died many years later of a heart attack, one is retired and the third one is a director at the Energy and Coal Mining Ministry of Ukraine.