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As someone who was alive and nearly a legal adult at this time, I can say that the Bhopal disaster was widely reported on by mainstream media. It's not all that well-remembered today, but neither would Chernobyl be if not for that miniseries and the memes it generated. It's less the result of capitalist propaganda and more the result of our innate apathy towards what happens to brown people halfway around the world.
What? Chernobyl was widely known between 1986 and 2019. The whole world isn't memes, bro.
Alive for neither; one of those is taught in US history classes, the other is not. The miniseries gave it a resurgence for sure, but even before that "Chernobyl" has been a proper noun on the list of key words to associate with the Cold War.
What do you think the Chernobyl series was exactly, and why do you think it was made?
A Marxist-Leninist hitpiece on Gorbachev's revisionism, obviously
The british accents are a metaphor for party degradation due to destalinization
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There is a miniseries about Bhopal on Netflix. It’s done in a similar fashion to the Chernobyl one.
Idk how accurate it was though, but they did not portray union carbide positively