I won't watch until the program is available in other formats than HBO but I would guess an HBO production would also include gays and minorities somewhere in the script. As the "good guys", of course.
They had chunks of radioactive moderator and fuel blowed out on the roof of the plant. They tried to push the debris back through the hole but didnt have the equipment that would work. They then required Red army personnel to go run out and grab a piece of the debris and grow it back into the plant through the roof hole. The folks that performed this are gone. It happened, its a fact and to hell with Putin. The helicopters pilots that put materials into the plant through the hole in the roof are dead too.
HBO worked assiduously to promote the tired old “heroic ordinary Russian” trope.
I would guess an HBO production would also include gays and minorities