But what have they done to deserve the truth?
More or less this is how we get thinga like Chernobyl, when the entire chain is lying because the cost of tellong the truth is too high and there is no incentive to do so.
Still, after the accident some of the engineers went for a literal suicide mission to open some ventil to make it all less catastrophic. And unlike the poor construction workers, who died, too, they knew what they were doing.
I doubt they did it just for the postmortal fame. Some people have actually moral standards and can stand by it, even if it means disadvantages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...
Entries like "received fatal dose of radiation during attempt to manually lower the control rods as he looked directly to the open reactor core."
— Mark Twain in Eruption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHrVlyU3suk&t=132s
Edit: Everyone at the time probably thought that they were being sent to their deaths so they were staggeringly brave - but that's not how things turned out.
I am talking about actual voluntary suicide missions in chernobyl, like Lelechenko, Aleksandr Grigoryevich:
"in order to spare his younger colleagues from radiation exposure, he went through radioactive water and debris three times to switch off the electrolyzers and the feed of hydrogen to the generators, then tried to supply voltage to the feedwater pumps. "
And he and others did pretty much die right away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...