An unlikable, authoritarian, and criminally negligent man who willfully turns a blind eye to reality - this is how Anatoly Dyatlov, deputy chief engineer at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, appears in the recent HBO mini-series Chernobyl. He swears, yells, humiliates junior staff and strikingly neglects every safety procedure, which eventually leads to the explosion of the nuclear reactor - costing God knows how many lives.
He's one of the most hated characters on the show, but was Dyatlov as horrible a person as he's portrayed? What was his background and what happened to him after he was sentenced to prison?
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