Certainly, as the article shows, there were some creative choices (as in the visible black smoke from the plant that didn't exist), but I completely disagree with the assertion that the series implies that the problem was unique to the Soviet system. The entire point of having a series about a disaster in a country that ceased to exist nearly thirty years ago is that there is a lot that is applicable to the secrecy and buck-passing going on by bureaucracies in any system -- whether Soviet, Western government, or corporate.
I agree with the article that this should not be seen as something that could only happen in a Soviet-style authoritarian bureaucracy, but it is unfortunate that its author chose to exaggerate to make this case. If TMI had gone on longer before being diagnosed, the result wold not have been Chernobyl-like, though it could have resembled Fukishima - is that not bad enough?
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