Yes, my wife grew up in Kiev Ukraine. She had breast cancer as result of being 16 years old when this happened ~60 miles away from her home. The good news is she is cancer free.
The guy who said, "Then I'll do it myself," was a veteran of the Battle of Stalingrad, and was awarded the highest Soviet medal, Hero of the Soviet Union. A stupendous badass. After Stalingrad, nothing would ever scare you again... the worst that could happen is that you would die, and you've already seen worse.
The Soviets at that time were deep in the Cold War with US and NATO. A disaster of this magnitude, the USSR perceived, would be thought to be a weakness in their abilities. Also to allow outside countries that had the ability to actually help was believed to open the door to deeper investigations and spying of the Soviet war machine. This was covered up as a matter to save face and not be seen as weak. Also the lady scientist is the films personification of combining many scientists who aided Legosov into one person.
This is why I was concerned when Russia invaded Ukraine. Russian soldiers took over Chernobyl. A lot of people couldn’t understand the concern. And a lot of your questions will be answered in the last episode (like Band of Brothers)
Some of them got the above norm dose. They were told to create trenches in the Red Forest. The ground is radioactive, they were stationed there for multiple days
The officials were primarily concerned with not being blamed and not being seen contradicting bosses of higher rank. Hence the line in episode 1: every lie incurs a debt to the truth. All the butt covering and ass kissing made the disaster even worse.
Something to keep in mind about the people at the power plant, they were not really lying in their reports, they were just operating under the reality that the Soviet State had given them. The USSR said that RBMK reactors were safe, and that it was not physically possible for one to explode...so the men in charge like Bryukhanov and Fomin and even Dyatlov were in a kind of denial, not really lying. The State told them that the reactor could not explode, and they had all been taught that the State is never wrong, so they could not conceive of an explosion happening.✌
Great reaction as usual! I’m from Sweden and I remember when one of our power plants as they mentioned in this episode discovered the radiation (we are by the way 733 miles from Chernobyl). It was really scary before it was discovered that it came from Chernobyl. At first we thought it came from the plant that detected the radiation. They evacuated the whole plant testing all the workers for radiation. But they discovered that there was no radiation inside the plant only outside. That’s how they started to find out that it came from Chernobyl.
A good friend and colleague of mine at UCLA had been a doctor in Minsk when this happened. He died young of a very rare form of thyroid cancer that is associated with people exposed to the radiation from Chernobyl. He was a very smart and kind person and an excellent scientist. He left behind a wife and child. He is not counted as a victim of Chernobyl, but he undoubtedly is. Ukraine was affected even worse.
19:25, when those three dudes stood up I couldn’t help but tear up. It’s at moments like this that the human race can come together and do extraordinary things. Like you said they went into that water to save future generations of people all over Europe, Asia and the world.
Yes and what kills me doubly is that in such situations the best people die. All of the very best people. They will not be back. The ones who tried to cover it up remain
Hello again , our nuclear power plants in Sweden sent a becquerel warning and the goverment banned all newly manufactured food products from being sold , as meat ,milk , cereals , cheese etc.. farmers were helped with emergency slaughter and everything in the forest and land was forbidden to be used or picked as mushrooms , berries and fruit. But it was an invisible odorless danger for us who lived in cities around the east coast in Sweden and many did not take it seriously. I don't remember how long it took before the danger was over , but we swedes love to wander in nature , pick berries and everything else the forest has to offer so many were tormented by that.
You have to understand the mentality of the Soviet Union , where everything is perfect, accidents are not possible, we have the best of everything. So they try to keep the incident quiet. The announcement is saying there is an ""Unsatisfactory level of radiation detected so a temporary evacuation is necessary. Everyone will return in a short time. Bring your documents, medicine and small amount clothing."" Girl your clips are TOO SHORT. Like the hearing with the Soviet Central Committee, ALL OF IT should have been shown not a few seconds. This is one of the most import scenes of the entire series..... Smoking was a popular thing back then thats why everyone smokes. Well it is scary. Power plants are necessary. just think of life without electricity. Of course there always possible problems with anything. Life is not perfect. Ok girl Im waitng for the next episode. If you want an example of another Yotuber watch Epiosde 1 and 2 of"" DASHA RUSSIA channel" She does what I think is a good reaction to the series.
13:19 When Valery Legasov said “Yes, we are, and we’ll be dead in five years.” He was right, he would die roughly two years later, albeit from self-harm; not radiation, if he hadn’t kill himself, he would have likely still died not too long after, as he had developed radiation sickness by that point, and his health had deteriorated quite dramatically. Boris Shcherbina, the older person would die roughly four years later, though it is not known if he died from radiation-related illnesses since he wrote a decree preventing Soviet doctors from citing radiation as a cause of death, and thus his death was labeled as being “unspecified”.
12:47, a lot of brave people willingly sacrificed their lives to reduce the destruction of Chernobyl. A lot of those helicopter pilots later died from radiation poisoning because they had to fly right over the fire.
A bit late to the party and you've probably decided on a comedy series to watch already, but The Good Place would be the perfect tonic for this. It's a sitcom about someone who does and goes to "the good place".
The Soviet system was anyone who spoke out against the government or soviet system was either executed or sent to the gulag prison system in Siberia. That’s why everyone is afraid of saying the wrong thing or stepping out of line.
They were saying "attention, attention". When there was some kind of emergency, the loudspeaker trucks told people to turn on the radio or TV. Last episode, when Dyatlov said that the blue beam was the Cherenkov effect, he was lying through his teeth. The Cherenokv affect happens when the core is under water. Formin, at a minimum, would have known. Ukranians have commented that all the visuals are spot on--the cars, clothes, wall color, party pins... The cat got white food because they fed cats chicken, not canned food. A Ukranian reaction: "It's too bad whe have to have a foreign country tell us who are heroes are."
Generally speaking this episode is factual. The helicopter crash happened six months later. A few things like that. I loved how much I hated Boris at first but by the end I seriously respected the man. REMEMBER THE NAMES OF THE MEN WHO WENT INTO THAT REACTOR!!! NEVER FORGET THEM!!!! This in in the 1980s. Everyone smoked.
19:20, say what you will about the Soviet government. But her people were brave as heck. Whenever I see these three stools stand up I get misty. They risked their lives so that millions of people in that region and around the world would live.
I don’t live near a plant but the national laboratory that works with fission is just down the street. I don’t know how dangerous that is? They have been in the news lately because of the stuff they have been doing.
I was born 1 year after this happened. After Hiroshima this is the worst thing that had happened in the world until Fukushima. Three Mile Island was very close. The fallout covered almost North eastern europe, North west of Ukraine. RBMK Nuclear Reacters are not operational anymore, those that are there are just to keep the nuclear core stable with a moderate amount of use as these things take 10-100 million to a billion years to turn to bio degrade (turn to dust). But the story that is shown here is about ignorance and the understanding they had not knowing all the while that a slow Hiroshima has already started. Power plants are important, even the nuclear ones (Although they are something else as you see here!), provided they are built properly through automated systems with extreme levels of regulation. Nuclear Fuel is planetary fuel, one that burns the sun for many lifetimes, not something to play catch with. Thats the lesson of Chernobyl. Many hero's were sacrificed unnecessarily during this time, they built the foundations of the plants that power our homes and our work places properly. But paid a hefty price. That line, "We are dealing with something that has never happened on this planet before"..... I watched this series with a heavy heart. The same core is still there today active but mellow with a sarcophagus over it holding the radioactivity at bay in Ukraine.
In this episode, there were a few things the makers of the show got wrong. For one thing, the character who said that they should close off the city in the first episode and is evacuated in this one, did not exist...he was added for dramatic purposes. Also, the helicopter crash did not happen so soon after the explosion...it really happened months later in October, 1986, and had nothing to do with radiation. As I mentioned in my comment to episode 1, once you are done with the series, the History vs Hollywood article on the show is a must read.
Sadlly this doesn't just happen from power plants. Right now..as i type my family is in danger. I'm from east palestine ohio. There was a train careful a very dangerous chemical that caught fire and is now in the air. fish are dying..animals are dying and the goverment is telling us the water is safe. odd parrales huh. I now live 18 hours away while my parents are still there and all i can do is watch the stories and the news and worry and be scared.
This was an accident that could have so easily been avoided. And in reality, Dyatlov was not a bad guy. He has been unjustly vilified in this series. But you need a bad guy to run a show.
Yes, my wife grew up in Kiev Ukraine. She had breast cancer as result of being 16 years old when this happened ~60 miles away from her home. The good news is she is cancer free.
God bless her 🙏🏾❤️ I’m glad she’s ok! Thanks for sharing and checking out my video.
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The guy who said, "Then I'll do it myself," was a veteran of the Battle of Stalingrad, and was awarded the highest Soviet medal, Hero of the Soviet Union. A stupendous badass.
After Stalingrad, nothing would ever scare you again... the worst that could happen is that you would die, and you've already seen worse.
Like one of the characters said in Platoon: "make it through this, and every day for the rest of your life is GRAVY"
The Soviets at that time were deep in the Cold War with US and NATO. A disaster of this magnitude, the USSR perceived, would be thought to be a weakness in their abilities. Also to allow outside countries that had the ability to actually help was believed to open the door to deeper investigations and spying of the Soviet war machine. This was covered up as a matter to save face and not be seen as weak.
Also the lady scientist is the films personification of combining many scientists who aided Legosov into one person.
Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching 🙏🏾❤️
This series is terrifying. Came so close to rendering a quarter of the planet uninhabitable.
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This is why I was concerned when Russia invaded Ukraine. Russian soldiers took over Chernobyl. A lot of people couldn’t understand the concern. And a lot of your questions will be answered in the last episode (like Band of Brothers)
Some of them got the above norm dose. They were told to create trenches in the Red Forest. The ground is radioactive, they were stationed there for multiple days
As a Ukrainian, I'd like my occupants dead, but imagine the stupidity of the command chain
The officials were primarily concerned with not being blamed and not being seen contradicting bosses of higher rank. Hence the line in episode 1: every lie incurs a debt to the truth. All the butt covering and ass kissing made the disaster even worse.
Something to keep in mind about the people at the power plant, they were not really lying in their reports, they were just operating under the reality that the Soviet State had given them. The USSR said that RBMK reactors were safe, and that it was not physically possible for one to explode...so the men in charge like Bryukhanov and Fomin and even Dyatlov were in a kind of denial, not really lying. The State told them that the reactor could not explode, and they had all been taught that the State is never wrong, so they could not conceive of an explosion happening.✌
Thank you ❤️
Great reaction as usual! I’m from Sweden and I remember when one of our power plants as they mentioned in this episode discovered the radiation (we are by the way 733 miles from Chernobyl). It was really scary before it was discovered that it came from Chernobyl. At first we thought it came from the plant that detected the radiation. They evacuated the whole plant testing all the workers for radiation. But they discovered that there was no radiation inside the plant only outside. That’s how they started to find out that it came from Chernobyl.
Thanks for checking out another video and omg God Bless you 🙏🏾 I’m glad you’re ok ❤️
A good friend and colleague of mine at UCLA had been a doctor in Minsk when this happened. He died young of a very rare form of thyroid cancer that is associated with people exposed to the radiation from Chernobyl. He was a very smart and kind person and an excellent scientist. He left behind a wife and child. He is not counted as a victim of Chernobyl, but he undoubtedly is. Ukraine was affected even worse.
19:25, when those three dudes stood up I couldn’t help but tear up. It’s at moments like this that the human race can come together and do extraordinary things.
Like you said they went into that water to save future generations of people all over Europe, Asia and the world.
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Yes and what kills me doubly is that in such situations the best people die. All of the very best people. They will not be back. The ones who tried to cover it up remain
I am appreciating your reactions to this. Thank you.
Hello again , our nuclear power plants in Sweden sent a becquerel warning and the goverment banned all newly manufactured food products from being sold , as meat ,milk , cereals , cheese etc..
farmers were helped with emergency slaughter and everything in the forest and land was forbidden to be used or picked as mushrooms , berries and fruit.
But it was an invisible odorless danger for us who lived in cities around the east coast in Sweden and many did not take it seriously.
I don't remember how long it took before the danger was over , but we swedes love to wander in nature , pick berries and everything else the forest has to offer so many were tormented by that.
You have to understand the mentality of the Soviet Union , where everything is perfect, accidents are not possible, we have the best of everything. So they try to keep the incident quiet. The announcement is saying there is an ""Unsatisfactory level of radiation detected so a temporary evacuation is necessary. Everyone will return in a short time. Bring your documents, medicine and small amount clothing."" Girl your clips are TOO SHORT. Like the hearing with the Soviet Central Committee, ALL OF IT should have been shown not a few seconds. This is one of the most import scenes of the entire series.....
Smoking was a popular thing back then thats why everyone smokes. Well it is scary. Power plants are necessary. just think of life without electricity. Of course there always possible problems with anything. Life is not perfect. Ok girl Im waitng for the next episode. If you want an example of another Yotuber watch Epiosde 1 and 2 of"" DASHA RUSSIA channel" She does what I think is a good reaction to the series.
13:19 When Valery Legasov said “Yes, we are, and we’ll be dead in five years.” He was right, he would die roughly two years later, albeit from self-harm; not radiation, if he hadn’t kill himself, he would have likely still died not too long after, as he had developed radiation sickness by that point, and his health had deteriorated quite dramatically. Boris Shcherbina, the older person would die roughly four years later, though it is not known if he died from radiation-related illnesses since he wrote a decree preventing Soviet doctors from citing radiation as a cause of death, and thus his death was labeled as being “unspecified”.
12:47, a lot of brave people willingly sacrificed their lives to reduce the destruction of Chernobyl. A lot of those helicopter pilots later died from radiation poisoning because they had to fly right over the fire.
I like your reactions 😀👍
A bit late to the party and you've probably decided on a comedy series to watch already, but The Good Place would be the perfect tonic for this. It's a sitcom about someone who does and goes to "the good place".
The Soviet system was anyone who spoke out against the government or soviet system was either executed or sent to the gulag prison system in Siberia. That’s why everyone is afraid of saying the wrong thing or stepping out of line.
They were saying "attention, attention". When there was some kind of emergency, the loudspeaker trucks told people to turn on the radio or TV. Last episode, when Dyatlov said that the blue beam was the Cherenkov effect, he was lying through his teeth. The Cherenokv affect happens when the core is under water. Formin, at a minimum, would have known. Ukranians have commented that all the visuals are spot on--the cars, clothes, wall color, party pins... The cat got white food because they fed cats chicken, not canned food. A Ukranian reaction: "It's too bad whe have to have a foreign country tell us who are heroes are."
Generally speaking this episode is factual. The helicopter crash happened six months later. A few things like that.
I loved how much I hated Boris at first but by the end I seriously respected the man.
REMEMBER THE NAMES OF THE MEN WHO WENT INTO THAT REACTOR!!! NEVER FORGET THEM!!!!
This in in the 1980s. Everyone smoked.
19:20, say what you will about the Soviet government. But her people were brave as heck. Whenever I see these three stools stand up I get misty. They risked their lives so that millions of people in that region and around the world would live.
I believe the helicopter crew was never recovered either
Do you really know so little about nuclear power ? May I ask if you have looked into things since watching the series ?
I don’t live near a plant but the national laboratory that works with fission is just down the street. I don’t know how dangerous that is? They have been in the news lately because of the stuff they have been doing.
😩😩😩 OMG praying for safety for EVERYONE who lives near it 🙏🏾
Oak Ridge or Idaho? I have been involved with both labs.
I was born 1 year after this happened. After Hiroshima this is the worst thing that had happened in the world until Fukushima. Three Mile Island was very close. The fallout covered almost North eastern europe, North west of Ukraine. RBMK Nuclear Reacters are not operational anymore, those that are there are just to keep the nuclear core stable with a moderate amount of use as these things take 10-100 million to a billion years to turn to bio degrade (turn to dust). But the story that is shown here is about ignorance and the understanding they had not knowing all the while that a slow Hiroshima has already started.
Power plants are important, even the nuclear ones (Although they are something else as you see here!), provided they are built properly through automated systems with extreme levels of regulation. Nuclear Fuel is planetary fuel, one that burns the sun for many lifetimes, not something to play catch with. Thats the lesson of Chernobyl. Many hero's were sacrificed unnecessarily during this time, they built the foundations of the plants that power our homes and our work places properly. But paid a hefty price.
That line, "We are dealing with something that has never happened on this planet before"..... I watched this series with a heavy heart. The same core is still there today active but mellow with a sarcophagus over it holding the radioactivity at bay in Ukraine.
In this episode, there were a few things the makers of the show got wrong. For one thing, the character who said that they should close off the city in the first episode and is evacuated in this one, did not exist...he was added for dramatic purposes. Also, the helicopter crash did not happen so soon after the explosion...it really happened months later in October, 1986, and had nothing to do with radiation. As I mentioned in my comment to episode 1, once you are done with the series, the History vs Hollywood article on the show is a must read.
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It's not exaggerated. Some people are uncomfortable with it. It's more accurate than most news reports.
Sadlly this doesn't just happen from power plants. Right now..as i type my family is in danger. I'm from east palestine ohio. There was a train careful a very dangerous chemical that caught fire and is now in the air. fish are dying..animals are dying and the goverment is telling us the water is safe. odd parrales huh. I now live 18 hours away while my parents are still there and all i can do is watch the stories and the news and worry and be scared.
ngl watching someone with rather, let's call it, insufficient education watch this show is pretty entertaining
This was an accident that could have so easily been avoided. And in reality, Dyatlov was not a bad guy. He has been unjustly vilified in this series. But you need a bad guy to run a show.
Good Comedy series "Silicon Valley".
Thank you ☺️
We're all born ignorant. As long as we keep learning, it's all good.
Amen 🙏🏾 thanks for watching