First, this is not a documentary. Second, whoever wrote that article is delusional and never been to late soviet union. There was a "ban" on alcohol, which didn't prevent anyone from getting vodka and drinking it, so this is a false argument.

Regarding naked miners - well, author should read about miners protests in soviet union just couple years after Chernobyl - miners were "naked" already because government didn't pay money for the hard and imporyant work they did. Besides that nobody knows names of those 400 miners, how many of them dies because of radiation, etc, because the work they were asked to do ended up not needed after all. Besides that, in some written memoirs in russian there are stories about miners working without much clothes on, because of work conditions and speed they had to operate on. So please treat is as an artistic exaggeration to bring more attention to what those brave but underappreciated men did.

Young minister in dandy suit - any apparatchik on that level in USSR was heavily disconnected from reality disregard how much time he spent in his industry. Everyone were wearing german suits and japanese wristwatches imported or bought in «Berezka» shops. Age, well... This "exaggeration" is just as an illustration of it, nothing more.

Armed soldiers - NPPs were and are strategic militarized enterprises, everything related to it - rescuers, firefighters, security had "militarized" prefix attached to its name, what would they wear with them to "protect from enemies"?Pepper spray?