I think people also just know it’s bunk. Even Russians who are anti-Soviet are pretty ‘meh’ on it. It’s not that they necessarily think the Soviets were good; just that that’s not what they were like. It’d be like if they depicted Teddy Roosevelt as a bumbling coward who wouldn’t hurt a fly.
It’s not just Russians who think so, either; Ukrainians also think it’s bad, and Western experts on Chernobyl, the BBC, the New York Times, and even Christian Science Monitor have pointed out big mistakes. In the words of one reviewer for CSM: “Everybody [in Russia and Ukraine] seems to agree that the miniseries goes overboard with its characters, depicting Soviet officials and plant management as too evil and conniving”.
But as one Russian writer for the Moscow News said: “Some lapses were probably too costly to avoid even when the filmmakers knew about them, like modern plastic windows in Soviet buildings. But there’s plenty more. Chernobyl is too far from Moscow to reach by helicopter … Nor, of course, could Deputy Prime Minister Boris Shcherbina even imagine threatening to throw Valery Legasov, an esteemed member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, off a helicopter.” And I’d agree - science positions were not taken lightly in the Soviet Union and wielded considerable political clout, often on par with the military.
Death of Stalin . . . may be funny, but again it’s pretty far from history. It’s fine to enjoy it as just entertainment, of course.
And lolololol about DnD.