Chernobyl Show vs Reality - Footage Comparison
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CORRECTION: The visualization of the phone call (seen at 0:27) is was created by Andriy Pryymachenko, it is not actual footage from Chernobyl.
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A comparison of scenes from the HBO Mini Series Chernobyl with real documentary footage shot in 1986 from the documentary "Chernobyl 1986.04.26 P.S."
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Those soviet cameras had better quality than some smart phones nowdays
I think u got UFO sightings Phone which are Always Blurr ,Hazy, inconclusive all time.
The KGB wanted that HD really bad so they could spy on people properly
On the roof the radiation was so high they couldn't use robot so i dont know how did they recorded it, the film from helicopter that flew near reactor was really poor quality because of radiation.
@Rahat Ukraine was part of the USSR then, kiddo.
They mostly used Japanese cameras for those shootings.
Those miners, divers, firefighters etc. are real life heroes...
Yeah suprisingly all three of the divers survived, two of them are still alive today. 100 miners out of 400 died. And i believe most firefighters died. But without the divers millions would of died.
@@321RrelyT for those who lost their lives, the rest of us are grateful forever
They were the most selfless persons on earth. All of them.
And first of all, the firefighters who were there in the first minutes and received tremendous and deadly amounts of radiations, but didn't realize that until hours later. Like Valery Ignatchenko.
God bless you all and RIP.
@@Feroxing12
Christ, you Americans have such crazy stereotypes of us.
The government never represent the people, please understand that.
And also the one who reported the evacuation anf the drivers of thr bus bec they save pripyat if it wasnt for them the population would be 46.3k decrease
My uncle is one of those people who was cleaning the roof. He told that they werent told how dangerous it was. Now he is one of few people from that crew that are still alive.
Hug your uncle for beeing a hero.
Your uncle and all the other Liquidators are true heroes.
Damn bro same with my grandpa.
@@GB-kj3fr what he means is, thanks to is uncle and the people in that place, we all alive and well.
GOD bless your uncle.
Man I had no idea there’s actual footage of that helicopter falling apart. This whole series is so haunting
but if you fact check, the helicopter did not fall due to radiation. it got caught on a chain
@@vikachu19 I do believe you. But what was the chain from and for what purpose?
@@jeffreywaugh926 It was the cable from the yellow crane, not a chain
@@jeffreywaugh926 It was a construction crane that was used to create a concrete sarcophagus around the power unit. The helicopter was delivering a decontaminating solution and got caught on a crane cable with a propeller.
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@@vikachu19 same thing is portrayed in the show, pay close attention
That sound of radiation meter through out the Series is enough to equal 100 thriller suspense horror movies
I felt the same
Yepm
Especially when those 3 (Ananenko, Bezpalov & Baranov) went to the basement to get access for the pumps. The clicking of dosimeter gave me sever anxiety.
It is +30 outside and I am getting chills every time I think of it.
Aldrin Cruz As an operator at a chemical plant, watching them go into open the valves made me anxious as hell. The equivalent to their dosimeters clicking is my LEL meter beeping. And it is a haunting noise after hearing it for just a short time.
everybody gangsta till the control rods start jumping up and down
FBI I saw that and was kinda scared tbh.
What does it mean when that happens?
@@oscaramador4200 it means graphite is about to be spread across the rooftops of the building :)
@@fbi7267 There is NO graphite, you're mistaken NO GRAPHITE HOW DARE YOU
@@amyzuch you're delusional, get to the infirmary
My grandfather was one of the people cleaning the rooftop of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor...
He was allowed to go up there for only one minute and never come back since the radiation was so high...
After that he spent about a month helping in the civilian areas. Edit: *He was a builder in his daily life, so perhaps he was helping filling places with cement or stuff like that. That's at least what his daughter (my mother) tells me...*
He passed away few years ago without ever telling me this story, I learned it through USSR documents I found thanking him for his contribution...
Damn, I'm sad you weren't able to hear the story from him.
@@wizardspam1 so much happens in a mans life and sometimes youd rather keep some things quiet.
@@zino1182 ok tough guy
How old was he when he died?
@@zino1182 I agree to you.
Great show. I lived in Kiev when Chernobyl happened. Kiev is about 100 kilometers (62 miles) away. I was only 13 at the time. They didn't tell us about Chernobyl on April 26th. On May 1st there was a parade in Kiev and still we had no idea. Then finally they decided to let us know but they downplayed the whole thing and people were not aware about how dangerous it was. God knows how much radiation we got. We moved to US in 1990. My mother had a thyroid cancer but she is still alive. I was watching this show knowing that my whole family was only 62 miles away from this hell. The interesting fact was that we found out about Chernobyl from my mother's sister who lives in US. She called my mother and told her about the disaster.
What a surreal experience it must be to watch this show, given your proximity. Also, I am stunned that she found out about the disaster happening at your doorstep (relatively speaking) _not_ through local means, but through a phone call from somebody thousands upon thousands of miles away. That leaves me in awe.
@@johnnyvivic8730 I was only 13 at the time and I was happy that all my school exams were canceled (so stupid of me). We had some distant relatives in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg now), and my parents took me and my older sister there. We stayed in Leningrad for 3 months and then had to return to Kiev, because our schools were about to start.
@@ilya126 That's a great story. At least you were able to get further away from the carnage for a little while.
Один хрен облако полетело в Белоруссию
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It’s freaky to think that picking up just a tiny stone of graphite for even a second, you’d be dead within a week.
There was no graphite.. he's clearly delusional.. take him to the infirmary.
More than freaky it’s almost incomprehensible
That's probably not true. It depends on a lot. Only 31 people died from chernobyl, so the mini series really exaggerates things.
Cyrus wrong! 31 people was the number the Soviet Union gave but the true number was much higher! The Soviet Union only officially recognised 31 deaths probably because they didn’t want the world to know how truly devastating the disaster was, but the true number is way higher than 31. Plus the thousands of people who died from the illnesses caused by radiation soon after Chernobyl was evacuated
And that death would be the worst possible way to go
4:28 they got actors who looked exactly like the real people. Dedication at its finest.
Ikr
Borisov Schehrbina looks a lot different than skarsgard
Yup
Moreover, the control room is accurate to the last switch and bulb.
Holy fuck, I didn't even realise. It's like I'm watching from a different angle.
From what I've heard, one thing HBO portrayed incorrectly was the sheer incompetence of Soviet medics, while in reality all of them were trained to deal with radiation poisoning. There were special radiology brigades in local hospitals.
My biggest problem with the series is that while critisising government lies they tell the oficial soviet version, that blames the disaster on incompetence of Bukhyanov, Fomin and Dyatlov, while the most witnesses I heard and read say that this simply wasn't the truth. Another problem is that many unreal myths made it into the series although they are completly made up: bridge of death, suicide squad etc.
@Azur a I was in Chernobyl last month, and the tour guide said the Bridge of Death was made up and never happened
@@mar117117 some say bridge of death is real, some say it's not, and we'll never really know coz the Soviet govt never kept its record of death toll or any uniform records, plus what I didn't really like is the character assassination of dyatlov at some point, granted he was shown an arsehole during the whole series but it won't ever be revealed who did what at that might
@@mar117117 the bridge of death is real in that people did gather there to look at the radiation, except the people who gathered there didn't die.
HBO portrayed lots of things wrong and also since its western media ofc there will take a jab at the USSR's competence which is total and utter BS. They got the atmosphere, the people's looks great but the story is dramatized crap.
Dyatlov in no way ever acted like he was portrayed in the show nor the others. They knew what was happening from the start and all that dialogue and arguments are dont for dramatic effect. The party didnt act like that, neither its leadership.
They did everything by the book. Considering this was the first disaster of that kind, many people didnt even know how to act. So that crap about the USSR trying to hide it and that 3.6 not bad not good is total fabrication.
I've been to the Ukraine in the 90's, working as an service engineer of CT scanners in hospitals.
What struck me the most of this series was the way the hospitals looked on the inside, it was just the way I remembered: the pale green walls, the curtains, the altogether sorry state of it all.
Also the buildings, the cars. Really well done.
The glasses of the people!
The problem is, what they looked in the 90's, it was the look of the facility that was not properly maintained for years. Give a credit to the fact they had it all new out of the box in the 80's, but built nothing new ever since (the end of 80's).
the catastrophe didn't take place in 90s, dumm
It'd be pretty awesome I think 8f some of those cars could be driven again!
The 90s are post Soviets time. They were supposed to live better once they were separate apparently, didn't happen sadly . Since then the formula - when in doubt blame Russia has flourished to monstrous proportions 🙂
The scene with the three volunteers going into the reactor basement, wading through the water with just the sound of the dosimeters going off the scale, with no dialogue, just sheer panic, is one of the most humbling, aniexty inducing and inspiring scenes I have seen. I felt so many emotions I needed a day or two just to process it. Masterful film making.
In real life, their lights failed halfway through and had to do the job and get out _in utter darkness._ Absolute heroes.
This reminds me the Russia of that time so strong
@@fulldisclosureiamamonster2786 can you imagine the fear biting at your heels during something like that? Its an anxiety rven fighting a war can't touch. The enemy, the evil isn't human, isnt visible and cannot be fought, cannot be defended against. Buf you. Must. Keep. Going.
In reality, there were no divers. They entered the reactor, up to their knees in water, closed the taps, and calmly left. One of them died 20 years later. The other two are still in good health.
Hollywood is a dream factory.. "The dream of the mind-it gives birth to monsters.."
@@Shurikova666 In the and of last episode HBO said that thay not die. Their mission was more safe that expected.
after watching this miniseries I think cleaning any room now looks easy.
It would be way more fun in a hazmat suit though.
after watching this miniseries I think my room is contaminated with cesium and will be very difficult to clean.
Truly the best comment.
I immediatly invested 7€ in a pack of Potassium Iodine pills.
Pretty sure they'll be in short supply if something should happen
Especially, What can you do in 90 seconds?
Hi, I was there. I was a kid at the time.
This series has been amazing. It was pirated and spread across Russia almost immediately and has been key to survivors getting together and forming community.
Story telling really is key to connection.
Thanks for this, man. It made me cry a little.
> pirated and spread across russia
no way
Interesting is this show not allowed in Russia?
@@Getooooofed Russia doesn't have a great economy, but I also doubt HBO is in Russia.
It turned out that its economy is way greater than everyone expected. Anyway, what does the economy have to do with this?@@blufudgecrispyrice8528
@@Getooooofedit’s allowed. He mean we pirate every movie we see it’s legal here now.
Seeing how mundane that roof clearing was at the start is truly terrifying. It scares me that radiation is invisible so you could be walking to a death sentence and not even know it.
And like they said in another episode, it's still a "maybe". All the protective gear and limiting exposure time will probably save you from deadly radiation poisoning, but after you're done there's this nagging question of how much your risk of cancer or other radiation-induced conditions has gone up, and you won't know until if and when you get diagnosed with it later. It's like surviving a gunshot wound, but the bullet stays in your body and years later, maybe, it abruptly shifts and punctures your heart or lung. Pure uncertainty.
I was surprised to see the real footage of the helicopter falling apart in the air. I though they did that to make the series more dramatic and interesting
The helicopter hit a cable and the rotors broke apart
Nope. It's a documented event. I believe the occupants of the helicopter are also listed under Chernobyl's 'indirect' casualties IRL.
Except it happened months later IRL
Actually, the helicopter crash occurred several months later when a helicopter struck a crane's cables. It was unrelated to the nuclear disaster.
@@ribitt06 the accident happened 6 months later, and not by radiation but by a stun crane
I wasn't expecting the actual footage to look this good tbh. And I sure as hell didn't we'd get to see the shovelling on the roof for example.
The Chernobyl disaster happened only 30 years ago. Cameras had already advanced quite a bit up to that point.
@@daveman90000 But i don't think a roof full of graphite is an ideal place to record it.
@@sayyiddaffam6822 radiation can affect footage in very specific ways. You can often see white dots appearing in and out of the image randomly. It can also affect the coloring of the image. But it doesn't appear to affect the actual quality overall beyond that.
daveman90000 Yeah, but the camera’s were soviet, so they were perfect in every single way. Jk.
@@Taevas___ Cameras were Japanese. Good joke though :)
This is one of the beste mini series ever created. Period.
It will take a lifetime to create an other one.
This is one of the most lying series
@@vladimirmorkoffkin why... Because it doesn't suit Russian propaganda.
@@aryasingh4746 look at his name, I think you are right
@@aryasingh4746 No, because its fully idiotic on every level.
This show was one of the most visceral experiences I have ever had on TV. I can easily say that it is the best TV show ever been made. The realism in the shots, the acting, the pace. Absolutely amazing.
Everything was top notch, appart from the script, truly one of the most idiotic scripts ever written.
@@mskidi why? apart from urban legends and some dramatic exaggeration I can't really think of major flaws with the script
@@mskidi There were a few parts clearly written to appeal to western audiences and get them to understand better what was happening, but other than that I thought the script was great. Why didn't you think so?
@@yesb3677 Oh, for a very great number of reasons, which I sadly lack the patience, or the capacity in terms of using the english language to put down in complete detail. As briefly as I can put it though, for which purpose I'm going to leave out the glaring historical innacuracies, it put forth the absolutely farcical, downright absurd notion that the communists were so retarded they would rather risk a nuclear apocalypse by purposely hiding the particular characteristics and limitation of the equipment by the very engineers that were designated to run the factory for fear the West might know they were using materials of lower quality. They even had the KGB, ripping off pages from very special scientific publications, I suppose through the function of their nuclear physicists branch...Furthermore, it presented the soviet people and government officials as being in constant philosophical mood about the deficiencies of the regime as if they werent born and raised in it and therefore already completely accustomed to it. They manufactured ridiculous characters, like the female saint from Belarus who just about put everybody in their place both in terms of scientific assesment of the situation and of ethics and some stoic miners and their no nonsense leader, in what can only assume was inspired by Gimli and his dwarves brotherin, who ''you cant lie to because they work in the dark (what? WHAT?). They had stalinist methods of the 30s projected into the '80s. Basically it was Hollywood scriptwritting 101. They even copied the basic skeleton of the plot with the dynamic between the government official and the scientist from the 90s flick Citizen X with Donald Sutherland and Stephen Rea
@@mskidi no.
This mini-series is a haunting masterpiece that deserves mention among HBO's greatest shows.
What shows? This is ten times better than Game of thrones
It can easily be named the best.
@@RoxyCherryRozy The Wire, The Sopranos, first season of True Detective, and many others. I'm not sure if I'd put it ahead of The Wire or The Sopranos but it's certainly worth to be named among them.
@@RoxyCherryRozy Both great shows. Game of Thrones first four seasons were masterpieces, I would have gave the show a 10 if it weren't for a disappointing ending mayby a 9.5 now. That being said Chernobyl is a 10, it's a masterpiece.
It is a great comeback after the horrid mess that was Game of Thrones season 8.
and full of inaccuracies
Velary Lagasov - Man who literally saved millions but was completely removed from history untill HBO - Chernobyle series came.
Until shortly after his suicide, his tapes were found and by then, the word has already gotten out to the point that you couldn't censor it.
Actually he said it himself, many other people could have done what he did. He was just the one that got the call.
boris jelzin gave him the award "hero of russia" in 1996
Not millions, billions.
How exactly did he save millions? By running an investigation?
it's my country , it's my pain, it's my unhealed wound. I was 6 when it happened, but I remember everything. I was live in Kiev and was on May 27 at the children's playground with my friend. It was beautiful warm morning. I remember the green juicy grass and the smell of cherry blossoms.
Ouch 😔
but this happened on 26 april how come ur saying 27 may and claiming that you lived there???
maybe he mean, that the authorities, didnt tell the people, until it was too late and the evacuation starts on the 27th
@@arturosalazarsandoval no by then people definitely knew lol
@@dovalayn not sure about that. Everyday people back then didn't even know what radiation was and if they did, they thought it wouldn't be so extremely dangerous. Plus, you must remember that the Soviets tried to keep this accident a secret. People were told that the situation was fine, even once it got out.
Scarier than any horror film, because it was true horror.
Rip all the people who died in Chernobyl and the people who where there to clean up the mess
многие еще живы мудака кусок, и вполне здоровы.
@@innyroze, ага, расскажи это тому деду, который лежал в больнице с моим мужем и которому диагностировали рак желудка, и тысячам других, погибших от лучевой болезни сразу или от рака впоследствии. Ликвидаторы до сих пор умирают из-за последствий. Мудак.
69th like :D
Like 9/11. So many people sick/dead from 9/11 cleanup
Only 2 died maybe
I cannot believe there is a real footage of the helicopter's disintegration. Such an awful sight, yet amazing.
Serious Lee the real life thing wasn’t actually a disintegration, in reality-the helicopter just got caught on one of the building cables hanging near there and crashed
Vasily Kovalenko It was a crane cable that the helicopter blades hit
@@augustinebosire652 you're right
That's somehow worse
PixelPopcornMSP it literally just hits the crane cable, you can watch the real footage and see it happen, the helicopter doesnt go out of control or anything it just didnt see the cable
The roof scene was so intense, perfectly depicted the real thing
After watching the series I asked my mom if she remembers something from that time. She was at time a sort of intern nurse in a hospital in our country Finland. In a maternity ward they were dealing with birth defects and suspected defects caused by the accident.
"Don't let them suffer."
"I did everything right."
"In one week, you'll be begging for that bullet."
"In five years, we'll be dead."
That's what this show had, an amazing script, stunning phrases.
Not terrible, not great
'Tomorrow morning you will be begging for that bullet'
Not in one week.
'In one week we will be dead'
I watched the Chernobyl documentary, think it's called zero hour, shortly after watching the series. It's really sad those 2 control operators said little more than they "did everything right" in their last few days of life. They were truly bewildered on what went wrong and yet clearly had a profound sense of guilt. As they slowly died in some of the most horrific ways imaginable.
The time frame was very condensed. The show would have us believe they died within a week from radiation burns but they actually lived for more than 2 weeks.
If there was ever a strong case for human euthanasia... that would be it.
Gotta tell you. A lot of these dialogues would have been cringing and overacting induced in the hands of inferior actors. BUT THESE CAST, these freaking cast.. deserve every awards.
"Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid". Man is that line amazing
it's funny because the last act was a pure fiction, because nobody tried to shut Legasov
@@mind-blowing_tumbleweed Shut up and enjoy the series.
@@mind-blowing_tumbleweed Why did he commit suicide then?
@@adarshagrawal4557 legasov killing himself is a western lie, like the moon landing or finland
Well, not always. Sometimes the lie is about something radically inconsequential that will be forgotten about in a week's time and never brought up again. Or, it will be told to someone who will never have the chance to bring it up again. The importance of the lie (or rather, the lack thereof) and the insignificance of the person to whom you are speaking are the two most important factors.
Respect for the real cameraman who risked his life just to capture this tragedy.
Absolute respect for everyone who did all they could to work through the Chernobyl tragedy.
Critics -- “GOT and Breaking bad are all time best series “
Chernobyl -- Hold my Graphite !
😂😂😂😂
What graphite? Take him to the infirmary,he's delusional!
Keep Breaking Bad (still is the best series - not a mini series) out of this
Chrenobyl summed up - Not great, not terrible
Chernobyl is just informative in the best way it ain't a series as big and good as Breaking Bad
Radiation:will kill you in seconds
Cameraman filming places with deadly radiation levels: hold my vodka
You joke about it but its true , they did supply them with good vodka rations
@@MrTarmonbarry that certainly helped didn't it?
@@weryoni5655 Sorry , what do you mean??
@@weryoni5655 It's a myth, goverment did everything to not allow drunk people
to work, also, vodka don't help clearing body from radiation, it's only make you drunk and not feeling pain, caused by radiation troubles in your body.
one man who was director I think did not live to see film. Died in a year. The cameraman lived to oldage and got cancer.
I visited Chernobyl a couple of years before this show came out, and distinctly remember stumbling upon an overturned bus in the scrap yard with all the liquidation vehicles etc. This thing was smashed to pieces but stood out for some reason. I have pictures of it. Then when the show aired it turned out to be the exact bus the miners were brought in on, right down to the numberplate iirc. Unbelievable attention to detail.
I live in China, I was watching this show January/February 2020 when Covid was out of control. The similarities (government cover up, not knowing what was going on and what would happen) were scary.
be careful. Your government is recording every move you make. Or howis in US of A: Everything you say can be used against you
They don't have TH-cam in China.
The reason they showed a flashforward of Legasov hanging himself at the beginning of the show, was so it doesn't become shock value by the end and distract the viewer from the overall experience. That's simply brilliant directing.
What?!
@@ryanopolous5643 It's not foreshadowing when you know exactly where a narrative's leading to.
@@ryanopolous5643 do you know what for shadowing is?
4:28 HBO went to the past and brought the real people
Yeah I was astonished by the sheer similarity of the actors. Absolutely amazing, and then they even can act well... oof
@@strykerrrukerr5491 expect the woman who was with the boris and legaslov is not real, she is fiction.
@@asoru5573 It was mentioned that she represented all the scientists who worked with Legasov
Now that's attention to details
@@strykerrrukerr5491 Actually there are a record that some minera really went naked but not all of miners.
So many of my Polish family have died because of Cancer and Thyroid issues due to Chernobyl. This is why this show is hard for me to watch. But man it seriously is the best mini series there has ever been. The attention to detail is just insane. Gave me goosebumps the entire watch time.
Where are u from? I'm from Poland
Как определил, что из-за Чернобыля?
@@CorRubrum Probably their age when the cancer developed. The age group it appeared in would show a spike in the number of Thyroid issues in the generation compared to the numbers before and after the incident.
Те саме. Моя тітка захворіла на зоб через кілька років, інша знайома померла від раку, оскільки мила вікна через кілька днів після аварії, хоча ми знаходимося за 450 км від Чорнобиля.
Теж були мурашки по тілу під час перегляду серіалу. Чудово передана атмосфера загрози, невидимої вбивці…
Only Ukraine and Belarus had a significant increase of cancer and thyroid issues linked to Chernobyl.
Poland DOES NOT.
Stop lying.
i love the parallel shots with the historical footage because it adds context to the videos, and you know how the characters got there
Ey, my grandpa was there on that roof cleaning all that radiation...he is sadly dead now.
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@Leonard Botezatu google what f means
@@matustrojan172 yea i agree with you dude.
Made me laugh when i saw all the F's in the chat, in my funeral at least..id rather have people come up to my grave and just place an F in the soil lol
I'm completely fine with F being said, ik its more of a meme thing to type it out...but honestly F is better than just saying sorry for your loss, at least this makes me laugh.
The two emotional parts in HBO’s Chernobyl series was the scene where they buried the firefighters in pure cement and in another scene where they were shooting the dogs, even puppies because of the animals having radiation exposure.
@el Trese Of course the dogs being shot was one of the most emotional points of the show, it's not fragile at all - it's very human. It was so emotional that they cut several scenes of various irradiated animals dying from the final show.
@el Trese it’s called EMPATHY. When a NORMAL person sees helpless animals being slaughtered, because of a horrible human misuse of nature, they feel emotionally devastated. Radioactivity is part of the natural world, it’s us humans that totally screwed it up.
If you watched again the scene closely, the puppies in the building have resorted to cannibalism.
The cats and dogs got a quick clean death unlike the humans , some of whom suffered for the rest of their lives . Dont get me wrong , i like all animals , just in a way they were lucky.
Yeh that was tough to watch, when he tells the young lad to leave & then you hear the shots for each dog 😞
0:47 "how lies can lead to disaster"
I guess the next HBO series title will be.... Wuhan
I k r😳
There is no Soviet Union but there still is communist China, So - no Wuhan series.
or Wall street
@@geokrilov China is only communist by name since a long time.
Capitalism is everywhere in this country.
@@hypnoz7871 that's because for you, communist is just an economic sysytem when is not. Communist is about bureaucracy, government system, politics and parties. And i think, China are still not left all of those
This series was a masterpiece from start to finish. Even though I knew alot about the accident before watching this it was absolutely terrifying to hear the untold stories of the firemen, doctors and basicly everyone who did what they could to make sure this didn't have even more catastrophic consequences.
In Soviet Russia, we make mini series about HBO
This comment is too underrated.
@@yujie.ho123 *overrated
In mini series, HBO make mini series about Soviet Russia
@@indayteray8647 Chernobyl isn't soviet russia, but soviet Ukraine.
@@korn798
And the latter was tidied up by the whole USSR, and not just Ukraine, where is the logic?
5:30 - "If we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. What can we do then?" - Sums up the current state of all media and politicians.
Yeah, sure............ you really want to see your country burn. I guess you American? Yeah, what else ;)
@John Smith More like the world is divided by the people suffering Dunning Kruger syndrome and those who don't suffer from it and actually know reality and understand it.
Defintiely not all media and not all politicians. This mindset helps the worst offenders.
"Half a truth is often a great lie"
Oh, it's not a hint at all. And does not apply to bloggers and film studios.
@@gettygermany German politicians also lie. It's human nature to lie. I bet you lied and will lie
Watched dozens of reports about the catastrophe. The series was really good and the way it was produced gave a very realistic impression of everything that happened back then
Craig Mazin did such an amazing job with Chernobyl and now The Last of Us is turning out to be an equally impressive success. His attention to small details is great but even more outstanding is that, when he does alter and adapt stories, all of the changes seem meaningful. One of the few people I've seen really nail dramatic embellishment while never pushing it too far beyond believability.
Chernobyl was one of the best shows I've ever seen, but as a fan of the game I've been quite disappointed
@@jj-if6it I never played the game, so I can only judge it as a series. I thought it was sublime. The focus on relationships and character development is top notch, and I watch a lot of shows there are few that compare in the emotional investment, and the building of tension. I thought the last episode felt rushed but the network made them compress 10 episodes into 9 so I won't blame them. I preferred the focus on the emotional lives of the characters so I didn't care that there were so few actual zombies. I also loved the fact that there was so many details that I didn't catch the first watch that tied into the plot later.
@@ophelia.artaud it's interesting because even though it's a game (so obviously CGI), I felt that the character development and acting was even better than in the show. I felt it was more emotional. The animation was done through motion capture of the actors playing the characters, so still read the small details in their faces. I highly recommend playing it if you get a chance. One of the few games I've played/watched multiple times!
@@jj-if6it I definitely want to!
You are dealing with something that has never ocurred in this planet before.
Mayak 30 years earlier. Another lie...
Roasted Chicken Radiation has happened on Earth before plenty of times with humans and without.
@@keepyourshoesathedoor nit like this...
@@keepyourshoesathedoor Oh please.
@@keepyourshoesathedoor not like this
Wait who was holding the cameras on the roof?
*WHO WAS HOLDING CAMERAS ON THE ROOF*
some guy who was tasked to record the footage of those cursed 90 seconds for a guide. thank God his hands didn't shake while recording
He is also a hero cause if it wasnt for him it will not know the chernobyl story
Igor Fedorovich Kostin (27 December 1936 - 9 June 2015)
youre welcome
@@haisulful8245 well at least hif life doesn't seem to have been shortened by this. 79 years
Gamer du Québec ouin t’as raison 79 c’est pas pire meme pour qqun qui a pas envie dans la radiation
great video.
that series really sticks with you...
what a horrendous situation.
This series was a lifetime favorite of mine. I think watching this has convinced me to at least watch the first two episodes again.
4:28 that scene...so accurate man..
As a Russian, I can admit that this Chernobyl series is excellent in terms of visual quality and perform such important attention to minor details as an exact numbers on cars or correct signboards, e.t.c... I even found the clock from the Gorbachev's table to be the same as ones of my great-grandmother. Althought I gave it well-deserved 10 points on IMDB, nothing is pure perfect, so I'd advice ones who got hooked by this accident to explore more materials, soviet videos and footage. The book 'Voices from Chernobyl' deserves your attention as well. The series plot by itself is well-matched to actual events but has some flaws which I'd consider to be significant. Whatch and enjoy then, but don't take everything as a pure facts.
Well said. Radiation itself - and the actual impact of the disaster - is poorly represented by the series.
Yes ofcourse because if they show it. Everyome is gonna be scared of radiation
@@T4nkcommander Not only radiation, but the use of nuclear energy also. It seems to me the main task was to point the finger into soviet/russian goverment. But, any goverment would do the same. Remeber Fukushima? They acted the same "Only small radiation, nothing to see there".
The book Chernobyl Prayer is another worth reading
@@alo1692 then this is a problem and the world must know
I love how the camera keeps zooming in and out every scene in reality, it gives me vibe of some old sitcoms
Just discovered you channel man, and its my fav thing on the internet
one thing I was sad that didn't make it into the series was the fact that liquidators took counters from newer recruits so they wouldn't go to the roof to basically die, that meant that one veteran soldier could've gone to the roof multiple times, exposed over and over again to very dangerous levels of radiation. While the scene in the roof is dramatic, I think there could've been room for this as well.
This series was incredible. Rest in Peace to all the victims of this horrible disaster.
What do you mean? Do you mean that veteran guys were taking the place of younger guys and exposing themselves more often as a result? Or do you mean something else?
The liquidators were on the roof from a few seconds to a minute and a half. As soon as they accumulated a certain dose of radiation, they left the roof and were sent away from the station. During the clearing of the roof, more than three thousand people visited it. Yes, it was not safe, but there was no talk of any suicide either. If the veterans really took the counters from the recruits so that they did not go to the roof, then they framed themselves.
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@@jeffreywaugh926 Yeah, that's exactly it, the same thing happened at Fukushima, when old men heard that it was young soldiers with no kids doing all of the tidying up they volunteered to swap places with them so that the younger soldiers wouldn't end up sterile.
Great video! I’m now officially obsessed with the Chernobyl disaster
We all are
I'm not alone :-P
Sainsburys dad Me 2😂
th-cam.com/video/JUXITHnENWg/w-d-xo.html real video
*A FEW major and small things the TV series was wrong about (seven points):*
1. the USSR in terms of governing at the time was nothing like it was depicted in the TV series
2. no one was threatening to kill anyone
3. ministers did not come to miners with AK-armed guards
4. people in the government and scientists had great respect for each other, a completely opposite picture to the smear the TV show does to those people and their memory
5. the minister was an engineer himself and he has never needed an explanation on how the reactor works (even more: every child in the USSR knew that as it was an obligatory part of education in physics course)
6. and the real cause of "hiding the information" was to prevent panic to evacuate 300 000 people from the area. As a result, Chernobyl has caused like orders of magnitude victims than e.g. Fukushima, Katrina and many other disasters where panic has actually prevented successful evacuation and caused from significant part to even the majority of all victims
7. almost no one was drinking vodka in real life equivalents of the scenes where the TV show depicted it.
This was an exceptional video. Thank you for making it.
Damn you couldve slapt this into the series and I would never have thought that it would be the real footage.
1:25 OH MY GOD. 😱
6:53 omg
Yep, it was a real event that occured.
@@aickavon yes, but it took place half a year after the Chernobyl disaster
@@user-qn3xu5ee3t why were the helicopters even there after half a year ??
@@Patato12341 they spawned half a year late
I remember always laughing at jokes about Chernobyl, looking for movies and games based on this place. Now after watching the miniseries I've finally realized how horrible it was and how many lessons I need to take in my life.
You can make a joke about anything. Sure, some jokes can be tasteless, but any subject can be laughed at if done right.
Bowser as long as the joke is funny its okay
@@lordfloppa5863 depending on whom is hearing it
Cod 4 modern war fare,and warface has the Chernobyl map on it too
@@t3ppeez049 That's the first time I got interested in it, because I was only 5 when it came out.
Those who were at the frontline to contain the fuel are real heroes of mankind. Those men's knew that they are definitely going to die, still they contributed for cleaning operation. #Respect for those #UnsungHeroes
That series was excellent. Probably the first time it should have more episodes.
Also, when I watch something that has a historical value, I very often search to confront it to reality. That documentary was informative. Thanks.
The series was far from excellent in regards to its script. It was an extremely dumb script
People , Hbo mini series and reality were different.
Dyatlov : You're delusional ,take him to thr infirmary.
Tushar Tripathi please don't tell me people think the miniseries is a documentary
Lol
@@Papersheepp No but it definitely showed the mainstream how serious of an issue this was
I love this series. But there are actually some big things that are very inaccurate.
For example:
When they where gathering coal mine workers for Chernobyl, there was never an armed army escort, in some way forcing them, and they really asked for volunteers. And their minister, that is portrayed as some sort of inexperienced, privileged party member, who needs an Army escort... He actually came from the mines, he was one of them once and was very respected among the workers.
Non stop drinking Soviet soldiers, that are wondering around some sort of filthy tent camp is not accurate too. It was the time of "sochoy zakon" drinking was prohibited. And the tent camp was there only for a short time period, they quickly build proper barracks for the soldiers.
Also the interiors of those hospitals look very damaged and poorly maintained. But it was not the case until the 90s came. Especially in Pripyat, a town that was new and was constructed not long ago, at the time of the events.
CheeseyCHV I believe that the idea was to get across the theme of the soviet governments inaction
Did you just say they didnt drink? U must be out of your mind
@@WhoMeee what, are you surprised? Not that I am actually originally from Kiew, a city that is about 2 h from Chernobyl. And my family was directly influenced by those events.
Of course there will always be people who will still drink and gamble, even if it is against the law. But it has nothing to do with the amount of drinking, they are portraying in the series.
@@leontrotsky9268 I think you are right.
I just wanted to mention those things, because Soviets are always portrayed like non stop drinkers, who drink Vodka all day long and also shoot everyone, who will disobey orders.
@@leontrotsky9268
The idea was to demonize the Soviet Union, as always.
The side by side comparisons are chilling.
Brilliant. Thank you so much for this.
Wow. That helicopter shot. Thank you for this Thomas.
The real helicopter crashed 3 weeks later. They changed the timeline a bit. But i think in this case it's ok to get the right pictures. It doesn't change the overall context...
@@__Pathfinder__The crash was in october. They were dropping glue substance on the plant rooftop. The substance was ought to dry out so the soldiers would cut and remove it.
@@whoiamtheonlyone Yes, the crane wasn't there in April. It was half a year later. The glue substance bound the radioactive graphite-dust. The crashed helicopter didn't throw sand on the open reactor as in the series, other did. They changed it a bit. But ok otherwise they couldn' t show the crash... This scene kind of remembers the crew, which died on their dangerous mission.
@Brandon Denning We have to get rid of nuclear power... the radioactive waste will stay for hundreds of years. Irresponsible towards our children... and you forgot about Fukushima. The tsunami wave killed the hole power and emergency power. The reactors didn't have any cooling water inside and the cors melt... just like in chernobyl. Only the course was different. When something happens it can lead to a desaster. Thats the main point! It needs only one fatal accident...
You had one big accident in the USA, too: Three Mile Island 1979
@@__Pathfinder__ Don't speak as if you know what you are talking about. Nuclear is the only viable energy solution until Fusion can be sorted and "it's only 20 years away".
I don't believe that Fast Breeding Light Water reactors are our future but there is plenty of walk away safe Nuclear technologies like MSR/LFTR that absolutely
can sustain us safety till Fusion is a real reality. The waste byproducts of current reactor tech is hot for thousands of years not hundreds. But with MSR's where
you can process for extended periods of time and extract more energy from the fuel, then when you do pull out the used fuel it is hot for a few hundred years
and the sheer amounts of fuel go from hundreds of thousands of pounds down to very little. We can deal with a few hundred years, that's a human generational
scale, thousands or tens of thousands of years is not.
Chernobyl and 3 Mile were caused by Humans. Fukushima was very unfortunate and exposed a flaw in the design of a very redundant system. Both Fukushima
and Diaichi were successfully shut down, the only heat was decay heat. The Tsunami knocked out all Terrestrial Power and the Generators. Sadly the valves that
controlled the Convection Redundant Cooling were electrically operated and could not be opened. If those valves would have had a manual over-ride then Fukushima
would have never happened.
I was in Chornobyl on May 26, 1986. My mother worked in Chernobyl for 1.5 years, got a disability. Died at 53 years of life. The film is absolutely authentic.
The worst part is that you got effected as well. It may not come right now or even 5 years, but eventually the negative effects will come sadly. It all happened because of the plants shitty and rushed building, multiple covers ups about the problem, and a deputy engineered who had a power trip who thought doing it his way was better.
@@redmustangredmustang Not every single person develops disease from radiation. Or at least not life threatening disease. The tremendous dick who called all the shots in the control room in the show actually lived into his 80s. Despite having acute radiation sickness. Despite being exposed to significant amounts of radiation throughout much of his life.
Enough that his son died from leukemia from 2nd hand exposure well before this incident.
Some of his coworkers believe that event is in large part what made him such a dick.
And many animals survived in the area. Truthfully there's no way to tell the exact dose a person will get and how it will effect their body. Even direct burns don't necessarily mean certain death... though it does mean extremely prolonged agony and life long disease.
My sincere condolences to you regarding your mother. I remember when it happened when I was a child. I feel horrible for those involved.
@@kellysophia1981 Thanks for the sympathy. Mother underestimated the danger, treated her work with humor. It was such a psychological form protection - black humor.
@@ihorpetrenko1027 I understand that. Are you still in Ukraine today or elsewhere? I'll be over there soon actually. Going to teach English for a bit after I finish my degree in History to be a teacher.
Amazing work!
So many moments when watching the side by side comparison where I wasnt sure which was which. Impressive.
I, as the liquidator of the accident at the nuclear power plant, want to say about the series. In general, the series liked, but there is a lie ...
1. We almost did not drink vodka. Before work drank 50 grams for courage. Not more. In the evening, they drank red wine half a bottle per person to remove radionuclides. But we drank mineral water in thousands of boxes. And it was her who should have been shown, and not vodka.
2. The scene when the minister came to agitate the miners is shit. Never in the USSR did ministers go in support of machine gunners, machine gunners never pointed weapons at people. Cranberry.
3. “I’ll throw you out of the helicopter if you don’t tell me how the reactor works” is also a lie.
4. As soon as they measured the radio, they immediately began to take out the inhabitants, but they did not tolerate it until the last due to secrecy.
But in general, the series is good
You couldn't know about the points except 1.
I doubt you did. But if you actually did, thank you.
Also Fetus does not absorb radiation . And irradiated people once decontaminated are not radioactive. Also radiation wasnt that deadly.
@@Cortesevasive It is about the amount of radiation one absorbs. So if you absorb too much radiation you will get acute radiation poisoning and die a slow horrible death like they explained in the show. And when you do get acute radiation poisoning may God have mercy on you.
YOU DONT KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN THE USSR!!
NOBODY KNOWS!
Because this is not in the news! it's not in the newspaper... it's not on the radio!
You only know WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO KNOW!
That's how the system works!
You don't know what happens in the prisons! Nobody knows! Nobody knows who's pointing guns and who's not!
I could drink 100ml of vodka IF I WANTED!!! Nobody stops you!
You don't know what each of the THOUSANDS OF WORKERS DID! It's not possible to know!
You know what you did... and what you saw...
But this doesn't mean someone else saw something different!
You didn't see the helicopter crash! Does this mean it didn't happen??? How do you know it's true if you didn't see it?
How do you know the minister didn't carry a gun??? You didn't see it! He could've carried anything he wants... he could've carried vodka in his pocket if he wanted....
That's the problem with the USSR mindset...
"You didn't see it - so it didn't happen!"
That's how Dyatlov thought too!
That's why this whole mess happened!
I swear I learned more about this event in 6 episodes than I ever had in my years of schooling
Ikr how an nuclear power plant works 😂. Now you can apply for job 👍
@tl6gc tl6gc yes I remember when I was taught about the Chernobyl disaster in kindergarten
There's 5 episodes.
@@theivory1 there are*.
Maybe HBO should make shows on all history lessons that are in syllabus
4:51 You vs The guy she tells you not to worry about
I wish I could go back to a time where I never saw this series to enjoy it all over again. I love re-watching the entire series, but there's something about that first time.
I just watched it last night and I have to tell you, hands down.......this is the best mini series I have EVER SEEN !
I'm 50 years old.
Please tell Jan I hope her kidney stones pass.
band of brothers and the pacific take the cake for me, great nonetheless
@@buckwang5039 only band of brothers... the pacific is not that good
agreed
In Belarus, on medical records there is a line “participant in the liquidation of the Chernobyl accident”. And there is still some radiation in Belarus
@Carlo Noccioli Shiey and his gang wandered through the red forest and found some hot spots measuring 2650 microsieverts!
Some is a bit of an understatement since part of the exclusion zone is in Belarus...
@@UltimateEnd0 26.50 micros actually. Still not something you'd want to be exposed to for prolonged periods but safe temporarily. They also spoke of places within the red forest with readings reported to be 10,000 (100.00) or more.
@@pi3.145 Okay, good. When I first heard it, I thought Shiey meant millisieverts, and I nearly spit out my drink. I read a report taken in Feb. 2017 on the hottest spot found in Fukushima. It measured 530 sieverts or ~57000 roentgen an hour! Wow!
@@UltimateEnd0 Yes, I understood it that way too but I checked through the video for dosimeter readings and when I realized that they had been referring to readings of .30 micros as "thirty" I was relieved. Also I did a lot of googling. I've started planning a trip into Pripyat (the non legal way), probably in 2021 and readings of straight up 2600 would have certainly made me rethink the idea.
Absolutely sensational series and well done to everyone that took part .I found the animal killing a little difficult but I am sure none were really harmed lol .
It's such a relief to see that reality wasn't tinted teal like the film. I remember 1986 quite vividly and don't recall everything being teal/orange.
Holy hell... I couldn't tell which footage was which at times.
Yes! Really
HBO created a masterpiece.
Kudos to all involved. Really, to all of them.
Either way ideas genuine on the right
I visited Chernobyl powerplant as well as Pripyat in 2014. I felt chills while watching this mini series. It is a masterpiece. Thank you HBO
How big was the plant when you were close by it?
Life-size.
@@nocalsteve correct answer
ironic that a show with a message about how lies are bad relied on lies about the dangers posed by Chernobyl to make things more dramatic.
Thanks for the video
My aunts husband was one of the first liquidators at Chernobyl right after the explosion. He was an engineer, that work on decontamination and constructing and building the water barriers with dams and water filtration systems so the contaminated ground waters and water from plants cooling ponds and channels didn't seep into Pripyat river and later into a Dnepr river.
In 1990 my aunt gave birth to her daughter, my cousin. She was born with leukemia and died in 1996. In 2001 my aunt's husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. At the time me and my parents were already living in US, so he was coming to America to get his treatment. Unfortunately he died in 2008 in automobile accident. My aunt now lives in US as well.
Thousand of Chernovyl Kids were taking to Cuba for medical treatment and detox , a town called Tarara , east of Havana . They miss that part on this series . The children come from areas downwind from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in 1986, and to their families Cuba offers both a refuge and a hope for better health.
Known as Tarara, the seaside camp outside Havana is one of the last vestiges of Communist solidarity with the former Soviet Union. It had been used as a summer camp for Cuban schoolchildren, but it was devoted to children affected by the Chernobyl explosion after a Soviet call for international assistance after the accident
This is a valuable piece of information. My gratitude
I can add a fact. Cuba was an only country that helped Soviet Union those days.
True. My mother was the one who had been organizing those treatment trips for kids for several years.
I did NOT know that.
@@olgabednarz8116 Wow.
Great job mate 👏🏻
I honestly would love more docu-drama series like that. I've watched Chernobyl twice now and its just mind blowingly well made. I think It would be awesome it we can teach more people about history like that.
4:28 That is just disturbingly accurate ..!
One inaccuracy that jumped at me right away: when Shcherbina threatened to throw Legasov out of the helicopter on their way to the powerplant. 1 - it’s not 1930s anymore, you just don’t do that to a prominent scientist and a member of the Academy of Sciences. Didn’t feel authentic. 2 - it didn’t even seem necessary for the scene, it didn’t add anything.
But the overall attention to details is ludicrous. To the point of manic obsession. Even the number plates on the cars that drive around Pripyat are accurate - they belong to Kiev oblast. Who in their right mind would even bother with this for the series that’s aired primarily in the USA. Hats off to the people behind the miniseries
I think it represented Boris as 'a party man' only caring about politics and his own career and the brutal leadership in the Soviet union. This juxtaposed with Boris later on where Boris was coughing blood, realising he had wasted his life on things unimportant. Only Legasov reminded him of his importants and what he had indeed achieved. It showed Boris's change to a humble man.
It was still popular in places where these details are noticable. For example in Russia it was hugely popular on local streaming services like Amediateka and gained a lot of attraction in the country, in which there are a lot of direct witnesses of that tragedy who would value those little nuances.
@@gavinmay6949 HOW DARE YOU CALL HIM BORIS
Very realistic aesthetically. Just dislike the inaccurate propaganda hit on the Soviet Union making everyone in power out to be a supervillain. Was not the case.
Well...this series is a drama at its core, right? So I think it was a choice for stirring a bit of character tension.
This was brilliant, gonna watch it again soon!
Great show. Well done. Very accurate.
while watching the series, it was hard to remember that it all happened, like the chopper scene, and the 90 seconds, its nearly impossible to believe it happened, but it did, and that is what makes real-life-based series brilliant
The serie is directly inspired from this excellent book : Voices from Chernobyl. It gathers the stories of survivors whose life where dramatically changed for ever after the explosion. We get different point of views, from farmers living near the central, to military involved in the liquidation, but also physicist, politicians, doctors, and so on... I strongly recommand to read it, if willing to better understand the numerous consequences of Chernobyl on the soviet people (and above all Belarusian). :en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voices_from_Chernobyl
i haven't seen the series, but i read this book! what really struck me about it was the sense that in addition to the physical disaster and irradiation, there was a kind of disease of misinformation, not just from government sources but from rumor and superstition. survivors and heroes became pariahs, the poison became a trick to get the old ladies off of their land. everyone had a drastically different perspective. some people just missed when they had healthcare. great read.
Damn. Never saw this vids.. Lived through it. thx for sharing it.
I just started watching the HBO series and was wondering if there was any real footage to compare it to. It’s surprising how closely it is made to the real events.
the reality is, that surviving liquidators today receive a pension of 72$
Some of them are even forgotten, therefore, they don’t get shit... especially when ussr fell apart, ppl in former ussr republic’s stopped receiving any assistance! I’m from Moldova, and I knew a guy who was cleaning up this mess with thousands of other ppl, sadly he passed away in his late 50s
Just want to wrap my head around that amount better - that is $72 USD? Or Hryvnia? I'm guessing from what I've read it is Hryvnia which is just insane that they give them so little. A few stats I dug up online to put it into perspective: avg monthly income in Kiev = 2,333 UAH (roughly $82 USD). So the amount they are given; 72 UAH is barely anything ($2.53 USD). They certainly deserve more than that for what they did. Correct me if it is in USD because even though that is nearly the monthly avg income it is still far less than what they should get for all they have done.
@@vincernio maybe you just need to learn what the dollar sign looks like
@@bossss777 Maybe you need to consider that was thought of already Bobah Empty Life. You know he could be in a country that uses a keyboard that only has $ and not any other currency symbol on it. It isn't uncommon for people in America to use $ to denote another currency followed by the abbreviation for it, and I've seen people use the euro symbol to denote other currency as well with the name or abbreviation of it.
The fuck is that?
When I saw real footage after tv show my eyes were wet with tears. And I am grown man.
I am glad that they made such a great miniseries, long overdue and brings this to attention. The info was there to people to see, I had known about it yrs ago so no real surprises for me in mini series. If you cry so what you are male, I hate men that hide emotions. glad to hear you are normal human being with emotions
Lies
gaiozi1 man up then smh
Probably the best and most important series you could ever watch!
I was shocked how they acted then.
I've seen a lot of TV-series and quite a bit of info on the Chernobyl explosion, but this short series is more like a direct on-camera documentary with exceptional portrayals by all actors and actresses involved. Excellent TV-drama.