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The HBO mini-series Chernobyl is very
intense. It is not just an expose of what has actually happened with the
nuclear reactor in the former Soviet Union in 1986, but an indictment of the reckless
communist rule that has brought to disaster many nations and their wonderful
people who allowed themselves to be bullied into the false promises of
collectivism and communism, the land of free milk and honey, of impossible equity
and equality.
The proletariat suffered greatly at the hands of activists
and apparatchiks with a low-grade education, useful idiots who helped implement
totalitarian communism, deprivation, and mass starvation. The Marxists,
Bolsheviks, Leninists, Stalinists, and Maoists had engineered and were
complicit in the death of 100 million people.
In episode 2, a nuclear physicist is trying to explain to the
communist secretary in charge of the city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, that he needs to evacuate the town and
he responds that there is no danger, the exposure is equal to one x-ray, a
bold, fat, and deliberate lie to the public who was kept in the dark during the
most essential time when they should have evacuated the residents of the town
located three miles from the nuclear reactor which melted down, scattering
radioactive graphite everywhere and blowing radioactive fumes and particles
into the atmosphere, raining down on unsuspected locals. The wind carried
radioactivity all over Germany, Nordic countries, and even to northern Romania.
Frustrated, the physicist tells him, I am sorry Comrade so and so
but before you were a local party secretary, you worked in a shoe factory.
His answer, delivered with a distasteful smirk born of ignorance
and self-importance, was, yes, but I am in charge here now, not you.
This is typical of the irresponsible comrades who ran the
communist countries, all the Soviet satellites - low on education and
intoxicated on power, not caring about the dangers that they put millions of
people in every day with their Marxist-based crushing rule and ill-informed
decisions.
A faithful Russian reader, wondered if the HBO series
mentioned that the tragedy was in fact, bound to happen. According to Slava, “Years
before the festive inauguration of the Chernobyl’s nuclear station, quite a few
inspectors were warning that the construction was done below any standards,
thanks to nearly all the contracts being gifted to the corrupt relatives or
friends of local party bosses. The general opinion of those brave and honest
experts was that, due to constant substitution of good building materials with
cheap trash, the future catastrophe would be simply inevitable. Naturally,
their written reports were at once gagged and hidden by the communist leadership
– you just couldn’t criticize the Party’s projects, especially the top-secret
atomic ones. The dreadful truth was declassified in the late nineties.”
In a similar vein, the current young and old American socialists are
running our country from Congress openly. Radical socialist Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez comes to mind, a former bartender, with no political or economic knowledge
of what it takes to run the largest economy on the planet, now makes
fundamental decisions for the future of our country, for our people, via the
Green New Deal, not just for 330 million of Americans today, but for
generations to come.
P.S. I watched episode three last night and was brought to tears. It was not only the sacrifice innocent Russians had made willingly and unwillingly to save their fellow Russians and the horrible deaths so many suffered.
It was also the reminder of my past life under the exact communist society, the drab surroundings, the police state everywhere, the lack of rights and self-determination, the bribery of medical personnel to do their jobs, and the sense of hopelessness that I personally had experienced in Romania; it all flooded back with gut-wrenching sobs.
I was never in Chernobyl, thank God, but I felt a sense of kinship with the suffering of fellow communist proletariat subjects who languished and died at the hands of useful idiot apparatchiks. They constantly watched, harassed, and arrested citizens with the all-mighty Security Police branch of oppression called KGB, just for asking questions to get to the truth.
