Thirty three years ago, after an explosion at a nearby power plant, the city of Pripyat in (what is now) Ukraine was evacuated.As part of the preparation for the new HBO series “Chernobyl,” writer Craig Mazin visited the abandoned city, just one step in the process of trying to ensure that the five-episode show captured the full scope of the now-infamous disaster.“Our guides, essentially, were two guys that were teenagers at the time [of the explosion].
You get a real sense of it,” Mazin told IndieWire.
“The story we’re telling is a Soviet story.
It’s a story of the Soviet system, which was terrible.
And it is a story of the Soviet citizenry who were the subject of awful visitations by Czars and revolutions and Nazis and Stalin and forced famine, and then Chernobyl.
So I wanted to honor that by telling it from the point of view of them.
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