A Story of Chernobyl Plant Liquidator That Wasn’t Included in the HBO Series
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มิ.ย. 2019
- HBO’s Chernobyl became the most successful series according to the IMDb portal ratings. The authors spent several years creating it. They spoke with eyewitnesses and perhaps for the first time showed exactly how the plant workers acted immediately after the reactor exploded. Even for Ukrainians who seemed to have heard and seen enough stories about Chernobyl, the series became a surprise. In particular, it turned out that two of the three liquidators-divers - Bespalov and Ananenko (Baranov died) - survived. They live on Kyiv’s left bank where they received apartments after evacuation. Liudmyla Ignatenko, the wife of a fireman, is also alive.
The above-mentioned heroes are not the only ones in Chernobyl’s history. Hromadske journalists went to Pripyat with one of the liquidators, Oleksiy Breus. It was he who last pressed a button on the control panel of the fourth block.
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Horrible audio, subtitles would have been better
@NOT an alien He's right, can't hear a word the narrator says because they mumble sometimes and the music gets too loud.
It's easily heard, if not turn on cc ...
Difference between constructive criticism and things being HORRIBLE :**(
Not really translating Russian into English is like this
How it must feel for him to come back to Chernobyl after everything he has experienced, we can only imagine. Thank you for uploading this.
Creepy how auto captions gets the music in the beginning as "laughter"
Wtf why
@@anna.318 what is it that you seek ?
Real devil
The translator needs to slow down. I would actually have been fine with subtitles.
I agree, the translator speaks fast, but I'm sure this is due to the liquidator on screen speaking fast too. Use the CC (closed caption) feature to read the translation as well.
And monotone, no expression
Yeah also the volume is too closely matched. Impossible to hear anything. Subtitles would've been better.
YESSSSS 😂 I thought I was the ONLY ONE like shit get it together man
And without the yoga class soundtrack
I would have enjoyed hearing more. To bad the mixing was so bad.
Very interesting story and video, but the mushmouth translator speaks way too fast and the Russian audio mix is far too loud.
The audio is not russkie. It is Ukrainian.
@@jeromesmith358 its the same thing
@@falcy2889 No it is not
It is difficult to understand even when slowed to 0.75x.
@@jeromesmith358 Basicly the same languages. Just the different dialects.
What a genuine perspective. Remarkable, thank you for this!
The term Liquidators covers a large spectrum of people as far as the Chernobyl story is told, from firemen to women tasked with removing food from Pripyat apartments to stop the spread of disease.
But he sounds more like an operator, perhaps he did participate in the clean up, but it doesn't sound like it.
If HBO had included all of the people involved in the Chernobyl story, the series would have been about 10 years long!
Operator Breus
I visited Chernobyl back in 2017, I wanted to visit the controllers apartments but it wasn't possible, it's really chilling to see both Toptunovs apartment as well as hearing this man talk about his experience.
This video deserves far more views.
To visit the controller apartments is possible. Any whim for your money
@@jeromesmith358 really? I'd be surprised if they did because when I went we weren't actually allowed inside the apartment because since , I think, 2012 they were declared structurally unsafe, so the companies don't allow people to go inside the buildings, though our guide was like "do you want to go in anyway?" We got to explore a block as well as get some pretty cool pictures from its roof!
@@thyrampantpigeon visit their cite and see price if you are talking about control panels
@@jeromesmith358 Interesting, I'll look into it, thanks Jerome!
Fascinating first person account, thanks for sharing. However, the "doubling" of native speaker and English translation marred this piece. Please remix and publish with the Russian talker's audio suppressed or greatly attenuated. I tried to use the TH-cam CC tool but it was confused by the mixing of two people speaking at the same time.
Tbh I rather want a version of original audio with subtitles only, without the translation/dubbing. Dubbing is always horrible and kills the whole vibe. And this translator just mumbles and talks way too fast.
@@chrish4nsen Ruined for me, too.
I'd rather hear the Russian and have subtitles.
play at 0.75x, if u wanna hear translator (on steroids)
Such an strong man. Thanks for the video!
I want to watch this but I can't. That translater is speaking far too fast and mumbling.
Very interesting- thank you for posting.
I have a great interest in Chernobyl and what happened there, unfortunately the audio in this film is totally useless.
@Kristie C I'm multilingual and the volume level of the narrator and the interviewee are too similar, making everything hard to listen to and understand.
So far, 3 comments about horrible audio.. I can hear it perfectly fine..
Maybe not best mixing but wonder if you guys have any hearing impairments??
BTW just turn on subtitles if audio is subpar to your standards
I understand the catastrophic design flaw, but the real cause of the accident was the bureaucrats rush to amp up the power when it should have been shut down and amped up slowly.
It’s important to note the design flaws so that they’re not repeated. But it’s equally important to note the flaws in the government inspectors attitudes. So arrogant to override the advice of the plants’ employees to WAIT. This attitude can cause disasters regardless of design in any potentially volatile system.
And no, I’m not an expert, just a potential victim who prefers to rely on experts with politics interfering.
The fact is that the reactor was meant to be designed not to be blown away even if they wanted to destroy it, no matter how much rushing or not! However, it wasn't built that way for whatever stupid reason of a terrorist, decadent and corrupt communist government (as said in the series, they wanted to reduce the costs of construction and spare some money). The PP personnel didn't know about that built in malfunction so they reached for the button AZ-5, thinking of preventing the catastrophe. Completely logical move that turned out to be fatal (but not by their fault). Of course, if they knew about the malfunction, do you think they would be so stupid to act arrogant? Come on! The only true culprit for the disaster was that fucking regime of the USSR and it's way of functioning.
It looks like everything has been looted. Furniture, wiring curtains- everything. Someone took all this irradiated stuff off some where
the kgb forbided him to talk about the unsafe emergency stop button. This is additional evidences that they knew that RBMK reactors were unsafe.
5:25 Radiation Euphoria!
What a mess. I remember thinking how it felt like the end of the world when I first heard about a nuclear reactor exploding in Russia. Though I live thousands of miles away from the site, it felt like it was happening to me. Same with Fukushima.
I too, felt the same way. I was 24 years old. Studying in the university and then all the news, everywhere made me have butterflies in my stomach. Also thinking the world would come to an end. Never though something this big could have happened. Many lives were lost. Definitely companies should have and look for different alternatives in energy production.
Midnightkitty,
That is because it was happening to you. It happened to all of us who were alive in 1986 and, people who were born in 1986 and, people who were born in the following years - for many years to come. Ditto the Fukushima catastrophe.
We all inhabit the same planet. Radiation is active for many, many years. There is no escaping it. That is why there is still restricted access to the Chernobyl reactor site itself. That is why Geiger counters go crazy there.
As the polar caps continue to melt at unprecedented rates, some really naughty things nature had deposited within them, will be released back into our ecosystems. G-d help us.
I was 16, living in the South of Scotland. When the news finally hit and the impact of the "radiation cloud" was being monitored, I remember well there was a stop to consuming local dairy produce etc., as fallout was being detected here. Being South of Scotland too, right on the Solway coast, brought home the potential impact of the nuclear "pile" on our doorstep, Sellafield.
Translator was hard to understand.
Select ".75 playback speed".
@@pR1mal. It's just too bad dictation and it's not loud enough compared to the original audio. Never understood preference of overdubbind compared to subtitles.
@Kristie C the sound mix wasn't great.
Yeah the engineers that designed that reactor should have been made aware that they were going to try to run this test that resulted in this, I feel sure that they would have instructed them to not try to run this test at the end of the fuel cycle life with graphite tipped control rods you're going to blow up that reactor! And that's exactly what happened too, the test was a catastrophic failure!
Personally, I think the world started to change after Chernobyl, it just started to become more insane.....
Everybody get your playback speed 0.75x
Interesting video. Breus? That's a german name. Is he of german origin?
Double talking makes me feel like i'm getting schizophrenia :[) LoL
What double talking?
agt155 the mans voice being almost as loud as the translators. It’s a very interesting video, but terrible audio. Should have just used subtitles. Translator talks way to fast ass well as at the same time as the man.
Nigon Kouk,
In that case, you have completely misunderstood the nature of schizophrenia. Disordered thinking is the main feature of schizophrenia. You are referring to split/multiple personality disorder which is an entirely different matter.
Translater talking to bloody fast
Can't hear everything...never even finished it
I want to go to his room and restore it (plumbing too)
Till this day I hear people say. Ya it was bad but it’s under control.
I don’t think people really understand what happened and how much worse it could have been.
And ever now it’s not as safe as people think it is.
The amount of work needed to be done is substantial.
I wish people knew how many really died. Sick. Deformed. Etc and they did these thing not only because it was a order but they knew if they didn’t it could have affected the world.
Those reactors should of never been used.
Most are very very safe.
May god rest with the souls of the people who gave the world a chance
A city frozen in time. Interesting how the Russian government would not send money to contain and clean up this area when the new cap was put on. The rest of the world had to pay for it.
Wtf are you talking about? Soviet did a massive cleaning effort after the explosion. Was it perfect? No. Did every trace if radiation go away? Of course not, that would be an impossible task.. But to say that the soviets did nothing goes to show your ignorance on the matter.
Should of used subtitles
I don't recall Toptunov having children, why is there a toy car in his apartement?
Maybe someone else put it there. Or... He possibly had children.
Same appartement as Leonid Toptunov, God have his soul.
Audio isnt horrible at all..
People are too needy, expect too much these days, even when free
Great story! I'm always fascinated to hear the experiences of the people who lived through this environmental nightmare. And he's sporting a Washington Nationals hat! My hometown baseball team!
Reminds me of transcendence brill film
Hmm the title is a bit misleading, he wouldn't have been a liquidator, he would be one of the white shirts running around the control room in episode 2.
Le Di Chang Dude the liquidators crew contain the groups of people who shot the contaminated animals, threw the graphite pieces from the roof and as well the first responders to accident - it means firefighters, and the after-accident shift of the CNPP wich was already at this point doing things to stabilize and improve the situation
A Nats fan in the Ukraine? ~tic
I want that hat now!
Fucking bandwagon jumper
0:15 seconds and i want to cry
why ?
There was life and now theres nothing. also that music is very emotional and im gloomy person
@@maryrathenau
You are way too gloomy , life is just a cosmic parody, a enthropyc circus .
@Peter Grahame *GREEN movement is the new Communism it is alive and well and only a fool believes it went away now the Demucrat party is the new replacement*
Ok but did he taste metal?
Is it of any importance of you, whether he tasted metal or not? Many men worked there, voluntary or as a conscript. in fact, my father in law worked there. He stayed longer to keep younger guys from having to go in there. Most of his friends died not too long after.He died 3 years ago, long term effects of tht damned radiation. it started ith bones breaking spontaniously. He lived his last year in a hospital, heartproblems, shrinkng of the brain and lots of pain. He was a very strong big guy, almost 2 meters tall He never spoke too much about his experience, but it was horrible. This disaster is still claiming deaths until this day. He got a document with how many rads he got, during soviet times, he got a pension. After the collapse of soviet union, all that went through the drain.We paid for his operation on his femur that broke spontaniously, because private clinics are the best and he couldn't afford it. This how these heroes were treated after they saved the world. To me he will Always be a hero. He gave it all, as so many others did
@@lex1945 Honestly, I was just being glib because actually Chernobyl is horrifying and how can you even sum up what a nightmare it would be in any sentence. Radiation sickness is my worst fear. Being there, tasting metal, throwing up. I cant imagine anything scarier than that.
nowadays, chances of getting radiation sickness, while visiting pripyat is close to 0%. Or you would have to sit a few hours next to the elephants foot inside the core, and they would never let you doing that My wife was 12 when it happened, she lived in kiev at the time, and all children were re-located to the black sea on summercamp. everything was cleaned, there are still some parts that are more contaminated, but as long if you don't stay too long, nothing really can happen All tours to chernobyl are guided, the risk visiting there is pretty low. With radiation it is all about halftime. I visited ukraine a few years afer the disaster, and i myself am ot glowing in the dark. visited it again a few years ago, and i still dont have 4 arms end 3 legs.
@@lex1945 may his soul rest in peace and God bless him for his service!
@@lex1945 furthermore the " I could taste metal " is a SERIOUS MISNOMER.
They could ONLY taste metal AFTER lead was dropped on the raw reactor core. The heat would melt the lead and that is the so-called 'metal taste.' The guy being interviewed has previously said that the radiation that they tasted, had a bitter almost citrus taste. That citrus taste dripped down the back of their throats and made them nauseous and many then began vomiting.
Worst translation track, too fast too quiet... jeez
Stop all the / talkin on the video
Guys,I slowed down the speedy of the audio, ( you can do it,click on the 3 points up on the right ), and you can enjoy this video!
No, we want a video without the horrible dubbing, but with original audio and subtitles only. This horrible mixing and dubbing does this poor man no justice, it ruins everything.
then and now everything is false promises lies and cheap things. people deserves better.
Audio and english translation is fine, not sure what all the complaints are about.
tipptop9 TH-cam comments section is catnip for whiners.
No, we want a video without the horrible dubbing, but with original audio and subtitles only. This horrible mixing and dubbing does this poor man no justice, it ruins everything.
Audio is awful
Soviet eva buildings 100% reinforced concrete lol
Can’t imagine the horror and fear they must have felt. But it was just a job they had to do. It was a horrible catastrophe born of a system that disregarded human life and only valued the state. These men did what they had to do and were told to do, but it required immense personal courage on their parts. The catastrophe was caused in large part due to the failed corrupt bureaucratic yes man Soviet system which disregarded independent input and thought and only valued the bottom line at the cost of safety measures and caution.
Crappy video, can't make out what the translator is saying.
marcomalo02
Not great, not terrible
@@chukwow5738 Very terrible.
I thought the translator was fine
No. The horrible mixing and dubbing does this poor man no justice, it ruins everything.
The translator is terrible.
For y’all complaining about him going to fast, play at 0.75, basically normal speed
No, we want a video without the horrible dubbing, but with original audio and subtitles only. This horrible mixing and dubbing does this poor man no justice, it ruins everything.
@@chrish4nsen RIght. I don't want the head of Hromadske on a pole, but we don't need excuses from you other commenters, either. Por dios making a video is not nuclear physics (even if it's sort of about nuclear physics). As for turning on subtitles, the Google auto-gen stuff helps some, but really only marginally.
@@ronaldgarrison8478 Stfu, nobody asked u. I make professional translations & subs for a living, so stop telling me to turn auto-subs on 🤡
Video 101: when you narrate the video, turn down the original audio so you can hear the narrator. WTF.
I don't think he was a liquidator.... should have asked about his health and overall wellness.....he looks very good....bless him
You know not all liquidators died?
The translator is delusional get him out of here.
Imagine spending night and day studying one of the most complicated subject in physics known to man and having to take the bus to your workplace, that's communism for you.
Whats wrong with it?
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