#HBO #Chernobyl draws heavily on Svetlana Alexievich's #oralhistory book Voices from Chernobyl.

That's exactly why oral #history matters: it preserves how events are experienced, not just how they're later reduced to "what happened". #Testimony keeps the human truth in the record.

#Publichistory #MemoryStudies #Historiography #SvetlanaAlexievich #Storytelling #Voicesfromchernobyl @histodons #histodons