Even though I was still in elementary school, I remember when the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl happened. It was before the fall of the Berlin Wall and at a time when Americans were deeply distrustful of the Soviets.
I was anxious to watch HBO’s new miniseries, “Chernobyl,” to see how this historical drama would play out. But a couple episodes into the miniseries, and I’ve found myself comparing the Soviet Union of the 1980s to the United States of today.