Jared Harris Reveals He Was Surprised At Russia’s Negative Response To ‘Chernobyl’

Jared Harris explains that he was surprised Russia had a negative reaction to ‘Chernobyl’ since it happened under a different regime.

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[stargazer]

Actually it's only political outrage. Regular russian viewers gave it 9, 1/10 on russian equivalent of IMDB and mostly welcomed response.

[zcbvxjx]

I'm from Belarus, which was affected a lot by that catastrophe, and I think the series are absolutely amazing, and I'm not surprised that Russian media and Kremlin disliked "Chernobyl", that's all because the series show that soviet government in not a flattering light, and that the Soviet Union wasn't so great power. Russian government today still doesn't admit the truth about that system.

[spaceinvader]

Could listen to this man speaking all day

[maiushy]

Smart man. He's a terrific actor too.

[pallabichoudhury]

I love his voice. Can listen to him speak all day.. ❤️

[Dnevnik]

Our people liked it. Our propogandists disliked. Not great, not terrible.

[BackFromSpace]

The Russian audience by and large loved the show. A couple of brown-nosing state channels decided to try and poke holes in it to impress their overlords or something, and made utter fools out of themselves.
Like, plastic windows and some chronological inconsistencies make that whole show a big CIA propaganda, apparently.
And the biggest irony here is that domestically-produced movies and shows promoted by these same channels paint Soviet history in much, much worse light.
Rules for thee, but not for me.

[ТрубачевДанил]

By the way, in our russian national tv channel were set forth serious pretensions about historically inappropriate plastic balconies represented in the show, that's funny)

[LayllasLocker]

It showed the sacrifice of the PEOPLE! No wonder the government wouldn't like it.

[robinhood]

Pretty sure a fair few ministers serving today are the same ones from the soviet era. Or children of those ministers, plenty of "party men" still around.

[Hibernicus]

It's not hard to figure out: the Soviet Union was a superpower. Whatever else was wrong with it (and there was plenty), the U.S.S.R. was a _superpower._ And the Russian Federation no longer is. It so dearly wants to be, but it no longer is. Putin is trying to rehabilitate the image of Stalin, monster though Stalin was, because the Soviet era -- more specifically the triumphant, post-WWII era, when the conquering Red Army seemed to have the world at its feet, and Soviet rockets sent the first men into space -- was when Russia was a world power. He's trying to recapture Russian glory. So when a show comes along and points out that the Soviet system was actually a nightmare, an untenable mess, always living on borrowed time because the whole system was a house of cards built on lies and self-deception, doomed to fail -- which it did, in less than a century -- that cuts the legs right out from under this great, national epic Putin and his government are trying to promote.

[skystryker]

1:05 "The Russian government right now is a democracy." This comment did not age well.

[darthdaenerys]

Because i’ve finished watching Chernobyl now i’m here on youtube 5hours and counting on chernobyl videos

[annycat]

That is why the Russian Federation is not Russia

[louisbaker]

The *state* media don’t like the show. Basically nobody but the government care

[ct]

I like the subtle inference there. Of course, as we all know, Putin was psychologically traumatized by the collapse of the Soviet Union and desperately wants to see a rebirth of the old communist dictatorship. While Russia itself kind of pretends to be moving on and pretends to be a democracy, we all know that the Kremlin is basically just doing what it's always done, the systems and failures of the Soviet regime are still there and still failing as they always have, they just put a veneer of "democracy" over it to keep people quiet. The oligarchy hasn't changed since the "good old days" and if anything the corruption is even bigger now than it was then, because they have access to global markets and we've basically don't nothing for the past 20 years to try to keep Russia in check.

[JustSomeCanadianGuy]

You think when HBO arranged this interview they knew it'd be with Tom Green?

[Yevgeniy-UA]

I was not surprised at all. The rejection of the series by the Russian authorities is due to the fact that it criticizes the Soviet system of government, and Putin's Russia considers itself the heir to this system

[tonyodonnell]

well if the british queen and the royal family can take offence at netflix for the dramatization of the crown why then could Russia not take offence of the dramatization of the incompetence of the soviet's in the lead up to and dealing with Chernobyl, which was a brilliant show by the way.

[NuclearDragonTwitch]

....There is nothing sane about Russia...Madness...