Boris Shcherbina: Do you remember that morning when I first called you? How unconcerned I was? I don’t believe much that comes out of the Kremlin, but they told me they were putting me in charge of the cleanup. When they said it wasn’t serious, I believed them. Do you know why?
Valery Legasov: Because they put you in charge.
Boris Shcherbina: I’m an inconsequential man, Valery. That’s all I’ve ever been. I hoped that one day I would matter but I didn’t. I just stood next to people who did.
Valery Legasov: There are other scientists like me. Any one of them could have done what I did. But you… everything we asked for, everything we needed; men, material, lunar rovers. Who else could have done these things? They heard me, but they listened to you. Of all the ministers and all the deputies. Entire congregation of obedient fools, they mistakenly sent the one good man. For God’s sakes Boris, you were the one who mattered the most.

Stellan Skarsgård and Jared Harris in the critically acclaimed five part miniseries Chernobyl (2019). Widely considered to be one of the greatest series ever made (including winning an Emmy and Bafta for its respective category), it tells of the catastrophic nuclear explosion in Soviet Russia in 1986.