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>About the soviets: that was the central will. They shat themselves due to what ifs and they had to do something fast.

Yes, typical bureaucrat, especially Soviet, is a person who cares only about his own career and well-being. It results in situations when local problems are hidden from higher authority, and people who try to report it higher are punished in different ways. So, when catastrophe happened, most of people in chain of command were utterly unprepared and helpless, because doing serious things in that situation was too extreme for them.

Locals (firefighters and station personnel) did much as they could, but big administrative figures didn't know what to do. Although they can be partially excused because humanity didn't had accident like this before, so no one know that it is so serious. And in few days they started to understand. Compared to "Mayak" catastrophe in 1957, government reacted much more openly.

t. didn't watch that TV series but read about Chernobyl in literature.