Something that I was thinking about re #HBOChernobyl : having pretty much read everything published on the subject (and a lot that hasn't – it happened months before I was born and left me very curious about why systems fail), there's an interesting point. Thread.

So, the Western perspective is that 'it was a disaster', a multifactorial tragedy of bad ideas, bad reactor design, bad response and bad management overall. And that's actually all completely true.

Where Russian/Ukrainian commenters do one better: they are willing to point out that the Soviet system's failures were not 'another cause', they were 'THE cause', the underlying cause of almost all that went wrong 33 years ago.