ralfs filips very brave man 100% 👍🏻 from me to all of them and former military 15 years I my self would have question if I wanted to be there but they fucked up a lot the government that is communist bull shit lies cost a lot of life’s
The fact that you can just be in the presence of something for a few seconds and it’s an incurable death sentence is absolutely terrifying. These people were and are amazing.
@@brianchaffin4779 And even more terrifying is that fact that if you did see it then it meant there was so much radiation. You're only going to see if ionizing the air if there is a lot of radiation.
I like to remind people of this everytime someobody talks about godzilla and his blue spines and back like its a cool thing.....reality of it is more haunting then cool unfortunately
My grandfather was one of those man on the roof, he took the graphite with his own hands. died in 2014 at the age of 74. God bless those heroes ❤️. Вечная память
They saved the whole planet from a thousand years of hellish disease. And now the same bastards that caused this disaster want to build nuclear reactors all over the world because of "global warming". The criminals of humanity have risen to the leadership of every country. God save us all.
@@davejones5640 lemme guess...morons because they knew they'd surely die. When you're older you might understand needs of many outweighing needs of the few
@Wubba Wubba i know it's tough but ignore wankers like Captain Sarcasm, these little piss ants only exist in life just to provoke arguments online which they thrive on, dont react and dont reply as this only gives the tossers the satisfaction
Man, seeing the real footage makes you appreciate the lengths HBO went to portray things as accurately as possible, down to the smallest details. Conversely, seeing the HBO series makes you appreciate even more the bravery and heroism shown here.
My wife is Ukrainian. Her brother (my brother-in-law) is on the list mentioned toward the end of the video. He lives with us here in the United States because he is disabled. A few years ago, he had to have his thyroid removed due to his previous radiation exposure. The doctors did an excellent job. He has to take hormone replacement medication for the rest of his life, but his prognosis is good. Interestingly, one of the doctors assisting in his surgery was Russian. She had so much previous experience doing this type of surgery on former liquidators that her talents were called on to assist. Wonderful doctors and nursing staff. They took very good care of him.
@@ethanstang9941 Very well. Thanks for asking. He will obviously need care for the rest of his life, but otherwise he is living a good life. We're lucky that he was able to come here for care under a humanitarian visa.
Yup...and not too much overdramatic disaster movie stuff. They act naturally with a sprinkle of dramatic suspense like Ignatenko screaming, 90 second rooftop cleaner, and the flaslight scene.
A few days after the disaster it rained in Yorkshire England. I took a Geiger counter outside and pointed it to rain puddles, the radiation was well above the norm. Though the instrument was only looking at very low levels of radiation it peaked off scale. Just think what could have been if these poor people were not there. We owe them so much, RIP.
i call bullshit xD people on the internet say whatever dumb shit they wanna say nowadays. hey, im the kid of elon musk, my net worth is 123 million and i went to the moon secretly 3 times on spacex rockets!
As an American, I look to these people as the heroes they are and were. I don't care what history our nations have... Bravery and selflessness transcends politicial ideals and borders. These people were heroes and they should always be recognized as such.
People of that era: just point the way and I will do anything you say because you cannot be wrong People of today: let me know the full facts so I know what I am getting into, what the hazards are, how the risks are managed and how we can deal with this safer and better.
@@DavidOwen1978 People of that era: yes, I'm going to take the vaccine, because I feel sympathic to the people who have died and those who have survived with sometimes horrific sequelae. I trust the experts who have been doing scientific research for most of their lives and I want to contribute to the greater good of all people. People of today: I might take the vaccine someday but first I will do my own "research" (to know what I'm getting into, what the hazards are, how the risks are managed and how we can deal with this safer and better). I will do this on my spare time and my sources are youtube and other social media, because I don't trust the experts that have been doing scientific research for a living, for most of their lives and I really don't care how this affects other people.
Having been there 4 times myself, its a place that holds a magnetic appeal and makes you feel compelled to go back. Standing in a deserted Pripyat town where it is so quiet especially in winter and just taking it in is a very powerful feeling. I also took the private tour into the reactor building and past the remains of Reactor 4 and into its original control room, then you get to walk into Reactor Hall 3 and walk across the shield on top of the reactor. The feeling of power is immense even though all reactors are decommissioned and the fuel removed. There are still areas in the corridors you need to move fast and only spend a limited time. I was last there 4 months before the war started and have been back since with special permission into what is now a totally closed zone. It was even better being one of only 8 people in Pripyat in winter, no other tourists, was so quiet and still and every visit reminds you this should never happen again and that if there is a nuclear war, that is the end for most of us.
Not even a close comparison. These guys are either all dead or suffer a slow death throughout the rest of their life. Its downplaying the liquidators suffering immenesly to ckmpare it with 911 first responders
Nothing but the utmost respect and admiration for those who bravely and willingly put their life on the line so that others can be saved. Their service to humanity cannot be overstated. Thank you all👏👏👏
@@JanKowalski-bf8rq i live in Greece and people in my age(20 years old) here don't know about this historical accident at all. Also in school we never heard such a story.... -_
We can not think or express that these people are heroes. That just gives them the tools to use this as a saving the world, instead of trying to contain a disaster.
Whether they were forced, volunteer or other these people deserve to not ever be forgotten. There sacrifice saved millions, and this old soldier from the cold war salutes you, Comrades.
Another great video. Touched on somethings that were left out of the mini series. I was born in 75 and didn’t realize at the time how devastating this moment in history really was. Now I can explain to my children how greed, pride, and the thought that we are the most intelligent generation almost destroyed a huge portion of the population in Russia and Europe. Thanks for all your hard work on the channel, it does not go unnoticed
I am red blooded American thru and thru and yet I place these liquidators on the same level as the veterans who participated in the allied landings in France in 1944. I pray for them and their souls and families.
I know that they didn't have a choice in the matter but true legends for the work they did that literally killed tons of them. Forever respect for these heros
That's wild that an exposed nuclear core is literally threatening the world but the plant workers still had to punch in everyday for normal work because there are still three functioning reactors. Those must have been some really dark days to be on the clock.
No politician or their children were here. Farmers n soldiers.. N neighbouring young lads... Machines were never used after two weeks but people worked till their last breath. Cannot imagine what was going through their minds. Just a horrible situation but a brave unforgettable sacrifice.
And those reactors - #1, #2 and #3 - are still in use to this day. An interesting fact about the new steel dome installed over reactor #4 in 2018: money for this was initially available in 2002 to Ukraine thanks to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, but EBRD clearly didn't realize how craven and greedy some Ukrainians can be. The money was wired to a numbered offshore account and completely disappeared. It took 15 years for them to be able to create a workable relationship with Ukrainian officials after this despite the fact that cracks in the original sarcophagus were known, growing each year and exposing more people to deadly radiation.
Wonderful video and an incredible tribute to these brave men (and women) who made the ultimate sacrifice. May these courageous souls never be forgotten.
this containment device built to smother ground zero over 30 years later, should be constructed beside every working nuclear power plant as standard, on rails in case of further accidents like this, no matter how many safety protocols are in place it all boils down to human error in the end, lets all remember those brave souls who knew they were going to die, to see the rest of the world safe, respect 🙏🙏
Fun fact: the eccentric character from the film Coraline, Mr. bobinsky, is a Chernobyl liquidator. You can tell from the medal he has worn on his singlet
The men who were tasked with cleaning up this mess are nothing less than heroes, their bravery knows no limits, they were facing a situation that had never happened in history, it has been said that they didn't know the dangers and were just following orders but I would argue that not knowing if you will be killed or become hideously ill is in itself terrifying and takes a special kind of valour to carry out your orders. The people of Europe should pay homage to these men who limited what could have been a disaster many times worse.
Real Heroes don't wear capes. They don't wear large, mechanical wings. They don't carry large swords. They don't have supersight.. flying powers.. ice powers.. or lazer eyes. REAL Heroes.. wear radiation suits. They wear Firefighter clothes. They carry shovels and hoses. They carry bravery and courage. Let's admit it.. the true heroes here are these men.
In 1988 I emigrated to you united states from Pripyat. My four my myfour brothers and I worked on the roof we were the very first and protocol was not established yet two of my brothers worked on the east and I worked in the middle with my brother shoving things collected by my other brothers towards the edge others would then take it from there and throw it over the side . Two of my brothers died on the roof and I shovedthem overthe edge. Doniv survived long enough to talk ton an old man who had worked there for many years he said we should Eat as much 8B pollen as much as I could. I eat kilos of be pollen the whole time I was there and for many months afterwards and that this B pollen would save me. I have immigrated to America in 1988 to Toronto California and kept in a small room in that very obscure place. Doctors would come and test to meI was very sick not expected to live But the bee pollen had worked magic and absorbed much of the radiation that was in my body and made it possible for me to live I became a part of a large study and no I am an American citizen
This was the unfortunate way such knowledge may have been discovered. May it never be needed again. Nuclear power can be safe, but only if the lessons of the disasters can be taken into account and given proper diligence and respect.
I pretty sure when you see white dots in the movies it's not because it's old those are atomic particles reacting with the film. It gets really bad whenever you see footage of inside the reactor.
The average firefighter-first responder at Chernobyl was exposed to the equivalent of 800,000 X-rays. Twice the maximum NASA will allow their astronauts to be exposed to over the course of their careers.
This video should be mandatory for every person on Earth to view. Yeah, the Soviets built very shoddy nuclear facilities. Did not have half the safeguards that U.S. reactors had at Three Mile island. The radiation that spread around the world registered on sensors finally forced the Soviet government to admit to an 'incident' at Chernobyl. So much for Soviet hubris that the real scope of this tragedy would not be revealed for years after reactor #4 exploded. Very likely that the costs of this event - human lives lost or sacrificed, material discarded, the permanent lockdown of an entire region, extraordinary damage to the ecology of an entire region of our planet and untold Billions (if not trillions) of currency spent to 'manage' the aftermath - led to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. Likewise the damage to society across the globe from Covid19 - the loss of life, the loss of liberties enforced by power hungry politicians and dictators in a 'scamdemic' wave of paranoia and costs in economic terms - will not be acknowledged for years.
@@harrisonkarn2078 no it is actually from the radiation. The white specks you see in old films and pictures is the actual radiation hitting the film. Its beautiful and deadly.
@@harrisonkarn2078 correct not in pripiyat but close to the reactor the white specs are from radiation. I missed the pripiyat part in the initial comment.
These guys deserve a international remembrance day, like all their names need to be shown on the tv st the date this catastrophe happened. If these heroes didn’t do what they did Europe would be dead and inhabitable with the reactor still spewing out the radiation to this day.
Of course these liquidators are heroes there’s no doubt about that, but they wouldn’t have had to put their lives in danger had it not been for scientists trying to act smarter than they really are
I agree with you. every April 26th I take a few minutes to respect the brave men who were willing to sacrifice their lives to save pretty much the world.
@@freewayross4736 America would never be able to, there would be too many people unwilling to do it and America doesn't have the same grasp on it's population that the soviets did in order to get people to clean it up.
Ok everyone, stop whooshing me. I got the reference, I was just trolling. I will even fix the joke. "THESE MEN HAD 2 SERIOUSLY BIG BALLS TO GET UP ON THAT ROOF..... NOW THEIR BALLS ARE LIKE PEAS.... GET IT, RADIATION.... My original post was you cant grow balls idiot. I was just trolling though.
Some of these liquidators continued to work well past their limits, knowing they would die a horrible death, but they did it anyway. It shows a certain type of courage and love for their fellow human
My grandpa served as a bus driver in the exclusion zone. He helped transport civilians out of Pripyat. He later died from cancer in 2002. Radiation no joke.
Agreed radiation is no joke and the fact that you can legally buy uranium here in America makes me sick and scared because you can turn uranium into plutonium
You say he was 50 you had to be 30 to 34 so 1986 to 2002 would not of made him 50 sorry guy busted. Those who where close to this age where volunteers considered sons of farmers. The rest was the army. An those who DID survive are well over 60 years of age back in 2006. Sooo.
well if I shoot someone in the chest and afterwards also heal him in the next couple of years so there is only a scar on him left, then yeah.... I saved a life... in theory right?
@@davidhollenshead4892 If they had known the actual danger they were exposed to many wouldn't have done it. Most of them thought it would be not much different than moping the floor of an elementary school.
@TheOtherWhiteBread0 They should have been told I won';t argue that at all....But, I don't think the truth would have made as much of a difference as you think. If they knew the dangers to themselves, and the dangers to the nation and world as a whole I am certain a great majority of them would have gone in anyway.
@@peniku8 They should have been told I agree. But, I Think you underestimate the willingness of people to expose themselves to great danger even certain death when a far worse catastrophe is possible if they do nothing. For every man who walked away one would have taken his place. There was no choice the situation had to be dealt with, people had to risk death, disease and horrific suffering or it would have spread to women and children across the country. even if they knew it was a death sentence people would have risen to the challenge.
@@davidhollenshead4892 if forced or not, those men are the real soldiers, giving their lives by fighting for the country and most of for the people who have to live there.
"...But all the machines failed, as the radiation corroded its circuitry, therefore forcing the the clean up crew to use man power..." let that sink in
"We didn't know it was the reactor. No one had told us." -Volodymyr Pravik, Chernobyl Power Station Firefighting Brigade June 1962-May 1986 May the souls of those brave Liquidators of Chernobyl who died containing the disaster rest in forever lasting peace.
Most of the fire fighters died for pointless reason - they could have controlled the peripheral fires & leave the site, but many went too close to the reactor to try putting the main graphite fire out. This was a completely pointless task and has no effect on the fire. If anything, it makes the contamination worse by immediately creating highly radioactive steam from the water sprayed.
philosophical inquirer how many firefighters in Russia at that time were that educated to know any better? None. Be respectful of their dedication to their job.
They should have told the fireman that the nuclear core exploded!! .. that the fuel was burning in the open-air!! .. that it was highly irradiated!! .. they should have told the fireman so that they could have protected themselves .. those were SOVIET firemen!! .. so you knew they were still going to show up!! .. they just would have been better prepared .. they deserved that much .. that part was so upsetting to me!!!😠😡👎🏽👎🏽
Mutherfuqbucket The firemen weren’t told about the radiation! .. of course they know what radiation is! .. They could have been more protected just like the liquidators were told!😡👎🏽👎🏽
The "volunteers" had absolutely no choice. The vast majority of them were taken from all over the western USSR. My mother-in-law who lived in Kazakhstan at the time clearly remembers military trucks arriving and taking away men from late teens up to middle-age to resolve the issue. A lot of them didn't return, and many of those who did died young after developing cancer. Those men are heroes.
@@svenvolwater5473 all dust went into the air and got blown away during the explosion. What was left was only solid pieces. Clearing those was a COMPLETE WASTE OF MEN and their health. Complete waste of time. Clearing up the mess for who? Who will visit the roof tops to appreciate the tidy swept roof? Just LEAVE it there, you can't move it to a "better place". This is the tragic truth of it, men's health was wasted for nothing, because of a stupid Communist regime that has to have its mess cleaned up for it to save it from embarrassment every time. It's just awful.
@@motherofallemails well maybe they wanted to clear those pieces to have less radiation, otherwise they also needed to make the sorcophogus over the roof. Also i think those pieces stil radiated a lot of radiation, that isnt handy while building a massive structure a few meters from it. But yea i dont know shit about radiation but what i do know is that the ussr wasnt always good at making good decisions......
@@svenvolwater5473 they were far from building a structure over it at the time, what they should have done was leave it alone, so that the most radioactive elements with the shortest half life have a chance to decay, and only do any clearing after a minimum of months if not years, as late as possible, but communism doesn't make smart decisions like that, it's a stupid regime led by stupid people making stupid and costly decisions that other people have to pay for, with their health.
@Ashton Engelbrecht Not just that, but all of Europe wouldn't be habitable until the radiation either broke down and wasn't deadly or was safe enough but still there
General Tarakanov is still alive at the age of 80+ but he takes many pills because of the radiation. He likes the HBO Chernobyl. Edit: I just received a reply notification tonight and did not expect to have 1.3k+ likes. Thank you for recognizing my comment.
Not too long after the Chernobyl disaster, Sergei Sikorsky, son of famous aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky, spoke to a group of American Air Force officers about being invited to the USSR to chat with a number of their helicopter pilots who had flown the boron missions. He related to us that when he asked them how they found the site at night without proper navigational aids or night vision gear, they responded that all they had to do was follow the blue glow. Pretty soon their aircraft were glowing too.
@⸚ You're correct, the helicopters weren't directly glowing, but the radioactive isotopes stuck to the metal, causing the oxygen near the helicopters to glow.
Hard pass. Typical Soviet mentality-create a problem, cover it up, lie to your own citizens and provide terrible equipment to the first responders. Chernobly should have never happened.
Yes indeed, although I love this TH-cam channel I find it insulting that so many idiots that had access to Wikipedia hadn't even bothered to read about the Chernobyl disaster. Then HBO make a drama about it and they think every minor detail in it is factually accurate or a new revelation. Most people don't deserve smartphones.
I'm sure the threat of the state destroying your life and your family's life for refusing to do your job was enough to keep you on task. Communism has its ways of motivating people, even if it means walking into certain death.
I appreciate the serious manner you address the issue with. This is not a subject that should be exploited for clicks/ratings, or to score cheap political/social points..The men involved deserve to be remembered and their efforts, and the cost of their efforts, known to the world.
William Byrd j agree completely. This video is a wonderful and respectful tribute to the brave souls who made the ultimate sacrifice. May their courage never be forgotten.
Yeah. Makes you wonder how bad it's effects on the rest of the world might have been had it just been abandoned and left to burn out by itself. On that note, we're all lucky it was safe enough to get it contained,even if it did cost many lives. We can never be sure that an incident will never happen that creates so much danger that nobody can get near enough to stop it..Then we're all done for. These places have no place in the current day and age and must be stopped, before something uncontainable happens
@@oldbluewitch3386 Are you sure? -Probably they weren’t told, that they probably die a horrible death within months. -Skin peeling off. How much could they know, without a TV, when nuclear was so secretive. Some nationalist call, bottles of vodka and empty promises and you could find some liquidators, probably even today. I really doubt officials were honest. If only the UdSSR could, Chernobyl would have stayed a secret. A town that never existed. In the end, they could just force them to liquidate or take away their apartments. But probably people didn’t know enough, about radiation. Beautiful blue tscherenkov radiation. Beautiful gray ash. Like snow. Most of the spectators watching the spectacle from a bridge died. The fireman didn’t know about radiation as well. The reactors were considered totally safe. As safe as the titanic was unsinkable.
My dad was there, got to be on the roof of the 4block several times, he is 67 now and pretty healthy(fingers crossed) I was very young but I remember that night when around 4am we got a knock on the door and he was given enough time to get his stuff. after being on a freight train for several days he arrived in Ukraine. I saw him again around December that year.
Yes, they were always staffed, but 3 was shutdown hours after the 86 explosion and 1 and 2 were shutdown 24 hours later. 3 was finally shut down in 2000 since running since late 1986 after the accident. 1 had a partial meltdown September 9, 1982 and was up again 8 months later. Reactor 2 had a turbogenerator fire in 1991 and never restarted for political reasons. In 2013 the pump that raises cooling water up to a pond at the plant was finally shut down. The pond will eventually evaporate. Chernobyl #5 and #6 were approaching completion, one of them was at 70% complete and was used to train the liquidators how to work with the nuclear fuel and graphite blocks. Numbers 1 and 3 literally meters from #4 cranked out power for Ukraine for decades. For all the safety issues, the RBMK-1000 did allow a lot of power generation.
And people still have to work there. Nuclear plant itself doesnt make power to the public, but it still needs constant maintenance and supervision. Same thing all around the world.
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Before Chernobyl, liquidation always meant to break something, to eliminate, to destroy. After the accident, the word received a new life and meaning. A liquidator became a person who rescued people and living things. A person who creates. They were proud of this, and put their souls into the work.
hahaha maybe in the simple language of english. but in french where this word originate it doesnt mean that at all. it only means to get rid of something. the original world "liquidateur" in french come from liquidazione from italian that mean to sell at low price.
I've lived in Russia my whole life and have heard the term "liquidation" thousands of times. It still has multiple meanings, but in most cases means eliminating/getting rid of something/somebody. I've never heard somebody refer to a person who creates or rescues people as "liquidator". Even when we talk about Chernobyl, a liquidator is understood as a person who helps to get rid of the radioactive materials.
I grew up in small town in Latvia and my neighbor was one of liquidators. He lost half of his leg.
So sad ): Definitely brave though
ralfs filips very brave man 100% 👍🏻 from me to all of them and former military 15 years I my self would have question if I wanted to be there but they fucked up a lot the government that is communist bull shit lies cost a lot of life’s
KISS HOOTERS because it's bullshit.
Im from lithuania and my grandpa managed to bribe the soldiers to avoid going to clean.
Good man
The fact that you can just be in the presence of something for a few seconds and it’s an incurable death sentence is absolutely terrifying. These people were and are amazing.
And the fact that you can't even see it either! I think that is the most terrifying part about it
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@@brianchaffin4779 And even more terrifying is that fact that if you did see it then it meant there was so much radiation. You're only going to see if ionizing the air if there is a lot of radiation.
I like to remind people of this everytime someobody talks about godzilla and his blue spines and back like its a cool thing.....reality of it is more haunting then cool unfortunately
So let's build more nuclear reactors!!!! Genius!
i shouldnt have watched this, now iv got to spend the rest of the day watching videos on Chernobyl.
jus rewatch the chernobyl show on hbo and you'll be satisfied :) its only like 12 hours
Watch Shiey in youtube and you can see him travel there to the city (trespassing)
It's been a week for me. all i watch on here are Chernobyl videos 😌
Your name is sucks LOL
Dont worry, i have been watching things about chernobyl for a few years now. I am still obsessed :/
My grandfather was one of those man on the roof, he took the graphite with his own hands.
died in 2014 at the age of 74. God bless those heroes ❤️. Вечная память
They saved the whole planet from a thousand years of hellish disease.
And now the same bastards that caused this disaster want to build nuclear reactors all over the world because of "global warming". The criminals of humanity have risen to the leadership of every country.
God save us all.
Your grandfather mustve had gigantic radio-balls
Ive seen 27 niggas say this, im convinced that some of yall are capin
It’s amazing he lived that long after that
Did he ever talk much about it?
Glory to the liquidators. Heroes, every single one of them.
Yup, fact.
Or morons.
@@davejones5640 lemme guess...morons because they knew they'd surely die. When you're older you might understand needs of many outweighing needs of the few
Heroes are people who don't get the tell their story or don't get to survive to see what happens
@Wubba Wubba i know it's tough but ignore wankers like Captain Sarcasm, these little piss ants only exist in life just to provoke arguments online which they thrive on, dont react and dont reply as this only gives the tossers the satisfaction
Man, seeing the real footage makes you appreciate the lengths HBO went to portray things as accurately as possible, down to the smallest details. Conversely, seeing the HBO series makes you appreciate even more the bravery and heroism shown here.
My wife is Ukrainian. Her brother (my brother-in-law) is on the list mentioned toward the end of the video. He lives with us here in the United States because he is disabled.
A few years ago, he had to have his thyroid removed due to his previous radiation exposure. The doctors did an excellent job. He has to take hormone replacement medication for the rest of his life, but his prognosis is good.
Interestingly, one of the doctors assisting in his surgery was Russian. She had so much previous experience doing this type of surgery on former liquidators that her talents were called on to assist. Wonderful doctors and nursing staff. They took very good care of him.
How is he doing?
@@ethanstang9941 Very well. Thanks for asking. He will obviously need care for the rest of his life, but otherwise he is living a good life. We're lucky that he was able to come here for care under a humanitarian visa.
@@erikjs He also has wonderful family members taking care of him. May he live a long, peaceful life.
Prayers for him good luck and tell him he’s a hero and send my respects 🙏🏽
God bless him. If he wasn't rewarded in this life hopefully in the next he will be
What makes the HBO series so scary is the attention to detail and the fact that (nearly) everything happened exactly the way it was shown.
Yup...and not too much overdramatic disaster movie stuff. They act naturally with a sprinkle of dramatic suspense like Ignatenko screaming, 90 second rooftop cleaner, and the flaslight scene.
Heli crash wasnt accurate but its ok
@@FreQ_97 it was. You can see it hit the cable, they just made it seem like it was cause of radiation
@@fergushamilton241 in HBO chernobyl series helicopter crashes by touching crane rope by propeller, it happened in real life too with helicopter
Sad but truth
A few days after the disaster it rained in Yorkshire England. I took a Geiger counter outside and pointed it to rain puddles, the radiation was well above the norm. Though the instrument was only looking at very low levels of radiation it peaked off scale. Just think what could have been if these poor people were not there. We owe them so much, RIP.
Madness
i call bullshit xD people on the internet say whatever dumb shit they wanna say nowadays. hey, im the kid of elon musk, my net worth is 123 million and i went to the moon secretly 3 times on spacex rockets!
As an American, I look to these people as the heroes they are and were. I don't care what history our nations have... Bravery and selflessness transcends politicial ideals and borders. These people were heroes and they should always be recognized as such.
The footage of the guys running out onto the roof to throw debris over the edge is one of the most haunting bits of footage I've seen.
People of that era: somebody had to do it.
People of today: can't somebody else do it?
People of that era: just point the way and I will do anything you say because you cannot be wrong
People of today: let me know the full facts so I know what I am getting into, what the hazards are, how the risks are managed and how we can deal with this safer and better.
@@DavidOwen1978
People of that era: yes, I'm going to take the vaccine, because I feel sympathic to the people who have died and those who have survived with sometimes horrific sequelae. I trust the experts who have been doing scientific research for most of their lives and I want to contribute to the greater good of all people.
People of today: I might take the vaccine someday but first I will do my own "research" (to know what I'm getting into, what the hazards are, how the risks are managed and how we can deal with this safer and better). I will do this on my spare time and my sources are youtube and other social media, because I don't trust the experts that have been doing scientific research for a living, for most of their lives and I really don't care how this affects other people.
500ton cap. Blown off. Jesus. Thats a lot of weight.
*HEAVY LIKE B I G B O O M*
shit went flying and landed upside down
How is that building not collapsing with the weight of such massiv balls 6:13
In an Interview with two of the miners they said, that they never worked naked. This was made up by HBO.
First Last right lol there not that stupid too put there full body at risk of radiation and what ever else is down there 🤣
To be honest, it probably didn't matter.
@@adamandannadaddy2151 eeehm.. that is exactly what they did..
You think a sweater protects them?
So all those video image of them not wearing mask and shirtless is hoax??
So, two miners spoke for all of the others? Huh.
The Liquidators are the reason why millions more did not die. Respect to the liquidators and their heroic efforts to save us all!
Why is it that we don't have a world holiday to celebrate the sacrifices of these people!
Good question! Well why don't you yourself just go ahead and start a brand new holiday!!
Having been there 4 times myself, its a place that holds a magnetic appeal and makes you feel compelled to go back. Standing in a deserted Pripyat town where it is so quiet especially in winter and just taking it in is a very powerful feeling. I also took the private tour into the reactor building and past the remains of Reactor 4 and into its original control room, then you get to walk into Reactor Hall 3 and walk across the shield on top of the reactor. The feeling of power is immense even though all reactors are decommissioned and the fuel removed. There are still areas in the corridors you need to move fast and only spend a limited time. I was last there 4 months before the war started and have been back since with special permission into what is now a totally closed zone. It was even better being one of only 8 people in Pripyat in winter, no other tourists, was so quiet and still and every visit reminds you this should never happen again and that if there is a nuclear war, that is the end for most of us.
The Liquidators plight appears very similar to the 911 firefighters & other first responders...
Thank you. That is a great analogy. Both are true heroes who sacrificed themselves for strangers.
@@gregorybowe9383 Exactly, the Liquidators knew the Risks and Volunteered Anyway...
except one knew the dangers and the others didn't
Not even a close comparison. These guys are either all dead or suffer a slow death throughout the rest of their life. Its downplaying the liquidators suffering immenesly to ckmpare it with 911 first responders
@Victor Korgoth Is still nothing compared with radiation. Also firefighters were doing their job, while many liquidators were forced
The fact that the man at the end said “somebody had to do it” says a lot....
No one can question the bravery of the liquidators. "Somebody had to do it" is much easier said than actually done.
Nothing but the utmost respect and admiration for those who bravely and willingly put their life on the line so that others can be saved. Their service to humanity cannot be overstated. Thank you all👏👏👏
This have to be a new chapter in school history book!
Not sure where you live, but it's well documented and know in Easten Europe. Nevertheless we were told nothing, when that happened
@@JanKowalski-bf8rq i live in Greece and people in my age(20 years old) here don't know about this historical accident at all.
Also in school we never heard such a story.... -_
We can not think or express that these people are heroes. That just gives them the tools to use this as a saving the world, instead of trying to contain a disaster.
Whether they were forced, volunteer or other these people deserve to not ever be forgotten. There sacrifice saved millions, and this old soldier from the cold war salutes you, Comrades.
Another great video. Touched on somethings that were left out of the mini series. I was born in 75 and didn’t realize at the time how devastating this moment in history really was. Now I can explain to my children how greed, pride, and the thought that we are the most intelligent generation almost destroyed a huge portion of the population in Russia and Europe. Thanks for all your hard work on the channel, it does not go unnoticed
Listen to Midnight in Chernobyl or buy the book. It tells the most complete story of Chernobyl including context. You will like it.
My father was a special forces volunteer, he got some side efects on his body due to the radiation but he says he did not regret it
I am red blooded American thru and thru and yet I place these liquidators on the same level as the veterans who participated in the allied landings in France in 1944. I pray for them and their souls and families.
I also put them on the same level as the allied veterans who fought before America decided to actually help
I think every country should have some kind of memorial for these people, they really were heros.
"Fascinating!"
-Scientist, 1998.
I know that they didn't have a choice in the matter but true legends for the work they did that literally killed tons of them. Forever respect for these heros
I actually know an old man from my village who went there to clean up as a volunteer. He no longer has any body hair. He is still alive and healthy.
Wow
Please let me know I Say Thank God for Men like Him!!
That's wild that an exposed nuclear core is literally threatening the world but the plant workers still had to punch in everyday for normal work because there are still three functioning reactors.
Those must have been some really dark days to be on the clock.
No politician or their children were here. Farmers n soldiers.. N neighbouring young lads... Machines were never used after two weeks but people worked till their last breath. Cannot imagine what was going through their minds. Just a horrible situation but a brave unforgettable sacrifice.
Wow, consistently impressing the shit outta me with the Docs!!! Keep up the fantastic work my dude!
Just hearing what some of them had to do makes my stomach churn.
And those reactors - #1, #2 and #3 - are still in use to this day. An interesting fact about the new steel dome installed over reactor #4 in 2018: money for this was initially available in 2002 to Ukraine thanks to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, but EBRD clearly didn't realize how craven and greedy some Ukrainians can be. The money was wired to a numbered offshore account and completely disappeared. It took 15 years for them to be able to create a workable relationship with Ukrainian officials after this despite the fact that cracks in the original sarcophagus were known, growing each year and exposing more people to deadly radiation.
Another very thoroughly researched and extraordinarily well-presented video. This channel was good to begin with, and it keeps getting better. :)
I spotted a liquidator medal at the Nuclear Museum in Albuquerque and instantly geeked out.
Wonderful video and an incredible tribute to these brave men (and women) who made the ultimate sacrifice. May these courageous souls never be forgotten.
дякую за вашу службу та жертви!
Love,
America
this containment device built to smother ground zero over 30 years later, should be constructed beside every working nuclear power plant as standard, on rails in case of further accidents like this, no matter how many safety protocols are in place it all boils down to human error in the end,
lets all remember those brave souls who knew they were going to die, to see the rest of the world safe, respect 🙏🙏
HBO haves a really good series on the chernobyl disaster
I didn't know most were volunteers. I thought they were paid very well. This is tragic. They are heros.
I am loving the Chernobyl videos dude. I love the disaster videos.
Just watched chernobyl the series and I'm terrified of radiation. The way they died was the most horrible thing iv seen on tv.
I have seen many docs on Chernobyl but none have hit home just how many lives were changed as this one
We need to be eternal grateful about these heroes, that sacrificed their lives to save ours
Fun fact: the eccentric character from the film Coraline, Mr. bobinsky, is a Chernobyl liquidator. You can tell from the medal he has worn on his singlet
The men who were tasked with cleaning up this mess are nothing less than heroes, their bravery knows no limits, they were facing a situation that had never happened in history, it has been said that they didn't know the dangers and were just following orders but I would argue that not knowing if you will be killed or become hideously ill is in itself terrifying and takes a special kind of valour to carry out your orders. The people of Europe should pay homage to these men who limited what could have been a disaster many times worse.
Real Heroes don't wear capes. They don't wear large, mechanical wings. They don't carry large swords. They don't have supersight.. flying powers.. ice powers.. or lazer eyes.
REAL Heroes.. wear radiation suits.
They wear Firefighter clothes.
They carry shovels and hoses.
They carry bravery and courage.
Let's admit it.. the true heroes here are these men.
The horrors those poor men and women faced, they saved us all.
In 1988 I emigrated to you united states from Pripyat. My four my myfour brothers and I worked on the roof we were the very first and protocol was not established yet two of my brothers worked on the east and I worked in the middle with my brother shoving things collected by my other brothers towards the edge others would then take it from there and throw it over the side . Two of my brothers died on the roof and I shovedthem overthe edge. Doniv survived long enough to talk ton an old man who had worked there for many years he said we should Eat as much 8B pollen as much as I could. I eat kilos of be pollen the whole time I was there and for many months afterwards and that this B pollen would save me. I have immigrated to America in 1988 to Toronto California and kept in a small room in that very obscure place. Doctors would come and test to meI was very sick not expected to live But the bee pollen had worked magic and absorbed much of the radiation that was in my body and made it possible for me to live I became a part of a large study and no I am an American citizen
Yup i was on the roof aswell with my poppa and momma
The graveyard of vehicles is scary
This was the unfortunate way such knowledge may have been discovered. May it never be needed again. Nuclear power can be safe, but only if the lessons of the disasters can be taken into account and given proper diligence and respect.
I just completed watching Chernobyl, I am amazed how accurate and detailed the series was, 👍👍👍✌
who is the guy shopped into the pic shown at 4:00 ?
I pretty sure when you see white dots in the movies it's not because it's old those are atomic particles reacting with the film. It gets really bad whenever you see footage of inside the reactor.
Your page is so fkin well edited and out together. I watch this stuff every night basically
just think if this never happened we would have never got the amazing STALKER series.....
The average firefighter-first responder at Chernobyl was exposed to the equivalent of 800,000 X-rays. Twice the maximum NASA will allow their astronauts to be exposed to over the course of their careers.
The average firefighter-first responder at Chornobyl also died horribly from ARS.
This video should be mandatory for every person on Earth to view. Yeah, the Soviets built very shoddy nuclear facilities. Did not have half the safeguards that U.S. reactors had at Three Mile island. The radiation that spread around the world registered on sensors finally forced the Soviet government to admit to an 'incident' at Chernobyl. So much for Soviet hubris that the real scope of this tragedy would not be revealed for years after reactor #4 exploded.
Very likely that the costs of this event - human lives lost or sacrificed, material discarded, the permanent lockdown of an entire region, extraordinary damage to the ecology of an entire region of our planet and untold Billions (if not trillions) of currency spent to 'manage' the aftermath - led to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. Likewise the damage to society across the globe from Covid19 - the loss of life, the loss of liberties enforced by power hungry politicians and dictators in a 'scamdemic' wave of paranoia and costs in economic terms - will not be acknowledged for years.
Feels like a real show production. Awesome work.
0:06 The cap was not 500 tons it was around 2000-2500 tonnes so your WAY off.
1000 ton
@@Sinaassnipper the cap on the RBMK reactor was roughtly 1500-2000 tonnes(I was a bit off) but according to all my research 1500-2000 seems right
You know it's bad when the films taken in Pripiyat show flashes of light due to the extremely high radiation hitting the film.
@@harrisonkarn2078 no it is actually from the radiation. The white specks you see in old films and pictures is the actual radiation hitting the film. Its beautiful and deadly.
@@harrisonkarn2078 correct not in pripiyat but close to the reactor the white specs are from radiation. I missed the pripiyat part in the initial comment.
@Michiel Tak is there somewhere I could read about that, it sounds pretty cool.
@@drchristmas359 There's an article on popular mechanics called "how-kodak-accidentally-discovered-radioactive-fallout"
@@VWBrah thanks
These guys deserve a international remembrance day, like all their names need to be shown on the tv st the date this catastrophe happened. If these heroes didn’t do what they did Europe would be dead and inhabitable with the reactor still spewing out the radiation to this day.
Of course these liquidators are heroes there’s no doubt about that, but they wouldn’t have had to put their lives in danger had it not been for scientists trying to act smarter than they really are
I agree with you. every April 26th I take a few minutes to respect the brave men who were willing to sacrifice their lives to save pretty much the world.
This should be remembered 👍
If I shoot someone on the chest and take him to the hospital right away I’m a life saver right? Lmao
Agreed.
"All the machines were destroyed by the radiation."
"Send the people."
You get the idea what the soviet communism was.
Somebody had to do it
@@JanKowalski-bf8rq bro America would have done the same lmao
@@freewayross4736 America would never be able to, there would be too many people unwilling to do it and America doesn't have the same grasp on it's population that the soviets did in order to get people to clean it up.
@@Mrtuttz how many Americans have ran into gunfire?
These men had 2 seriously big balls to get up on that roof...
Now they probably have 4
sleary123 haha original joke haha
Ok everyone, stop whooshing me. I got the reference, I was just trolling. I will even fix the joke. "THESE MEN HAD 2 SERIOUSLY BIG BALLS TO GET UP ON THAT ROOF.....
NOW THEIR BALLS ARE LIKE PEAS....
GET IT, RADIATION....
My original post was you cant grow balls idiot. I was just trolling though.
Alaskan1Medic you’re the idiot if you didn’t understand the radiation reference
More like none!
Lol I’m givin a like
Some of these liquidators continued to work well past their limits, knowing they would die a horrible death, but they did it anyway. It shows a certain type of courage and love for their fellow human
horrible death is pretty relative terminology.
Sometimes ya do what ya gotta do
The fact they got footage of the liquidators working is crazy in itself, as their was massive amounts of radiation
yeah who had time to stand around up there and take video footage? unless it was a mounted static unit. amazing video.. true heros.
@@JohnSmith-bn7bl actualy it was a man Vladimir Shevchenko who died 1 yr later from the radiations
@@JohnSmith-bn7bl well idk people do that all the damn time. Tornado? Film!
There was
The photo of the Elephant Foot cost the cameraman’s life.
They died to save millions of people and alot of the environment, may those brave men rest in piece
... pieces?
@Matthew721 79 chill
comrade piece.
Men and women.
Peace or intentional?
When you realise what these guys did the saying “lions led by donkeys” come to mind.
My grandpa served as a bus driver in the exclusion zone. He helped transport civilians out of Pripyat. He later died from cancer in 2002. Radiation no joke.
How old was he when he died? Because to be honest, lasting 16 years after being that close is good going, sorry about your granddad though
Dat Blue-Eyed Devil I believe he was around 50
Well, he served well to transport people out of danger. Truly a comrade
Agreed radiation is no joke and the fact that you can legally buy uranium here in America makes me sick and scared because you can turn uranium into plutonium
You say he was 50 you had to be 30 to 34 so 1986 to 2002 would not of made him 50 sorry guy busted. Those who where close to this age where volunteers considered sons of farmers. The rest was the army. An those who DID survive are well over 60 years of age back in 2006. Sooo.
they saved europe. always remember that.
After their nation caused the catastrophe.
I mean.....it kinda was their fault, but....yea they cleaned up that mess as “responsibly” as you’d expect...
well if I shoot someone in the chest and afterwards also heal him in the next couple of years so there is only a scar on him left, then yeah.... I saved a life... in theory right?
Not really, since you did SHOOT them.
Achilles 1776 Yes!
I'm a proud grandson of one of the liquidators.
I dont mean this in a disrespectful manner at all, just genuinely curious, Do you have any deformities or health issues due to it?
@@rreprah9515 Luckily my mother was born way before that, so noone else was affected
What was his name?
Filip Zimoch
Allah Chenko
You are related to a liquidator. Why make up such a dumb lie?
I think that those Soviet soldiers and civilians where incredibly brave we should not forget their deeds
They risked their hearth as volunteers, not by being forced...
@@davidhollenshead4892 If they had known the actual danger they were exposed to many wouldn't have done it. Most of them thought it would be not much different than moping the floor of an elementary school.
@TheOtherWhiteBread0 They should have been told I won';t argue that at all....But, I don't think the truth would have made as much of a difference as you think. If they knew the dangers to themselves, and the dangers to the nation and world as a whole I am certain a great majority of them would have gone in anyway.
@@peniku8 They should have been told I agree. But, I Think you underestimate the willingness of people to expose themselves to great danger even certain death when a far worse catastrophe is possible if they do nothing. For every man who walked away one would have taken his place. There was no choice the situation had to be dealt with, people had to risk death, disease and horrific suffering or it would have spread to women and children across the country. even if they knew it was a death sentence people would have risen to the challenge.
@@davidhollenshead4892 if forced or not, those men are the real soldiers,
giving their lives by fighting for the country and most of for the people who have to live there.
''somebody had to do it ''
-The highest definable meaning of taking responsibility and being accountable thru conviction fm the heart.
I agree but the people who made those courageous sacrifices as with the guys on the nuclear subs were not the ones responsible .
Would never happen today
@@twc0117 of course it WOULD ! It d have to be done mate can`t just leave it there... so yes bio robots again
@@twc0117 it depends of the country, the more invididualistic the country the less likely it is
That should be on a memorial to them all, "Somebody had to do it".
"...But all the machines failed, as the radiation corroded its circuitry, therefore forcing the the clean up crew to use man power..." let that sink in
It made me distraught watching that part
The fuck does it want now?
I let him in once. Big mistake
Why didn't they use brooms surely they would've gotten much debris off the side of the roof then shovels
@@AirQuotes Have you ever broomed thick layer of debris with 10kg chunks of graphite?
@@AirQuotes it isnt all fucking dust, its whole chunks that weigh 5 to probably even 20kg
"Comrade soldier. You're done."
"I work for the Soviet Union"
"Thank you"
Yes.
"Work done or life done?"
"Yes"
Starfish Prime in the HBO show, because of who it was said to, both could apply given the tone of voice the man used when he said this
'Looks At Boot' 'Scared Face'
"We didn't know it was the reactor. No one had told us."
-Volodymyr Pravik, Chernobyl Power Station Firefighting Brigade
June 1962-May 1986
May the souls of those brave Liquidators of Chernobyl who died containing the disaster rest in forever lasting peace.
Most of the fire fighters died for pointless reason - they could have controlled the peripheral fires & leave the site, but many went too close to the reactor to try putting the main graphite fire out.
This was a completely pointless task and has no effect on the fire. If anything, it makes the contamination worse by immediately creating highly radioactive steam from the water sprayed.
philosophical inquirer how many firefighters in Russia at that time were that educated to know any better? None. Be respectful of their dedication to their job.
philosophical inquirer they did not tell them. Jesus!
They should have told the fireman that the nuclear core exploded!! .. that the fuel was burning in the open-air!! .. that it was highly irradiated!! .. they should have told the fireman so that they could have protected themselves .. those were SOVIET firemen!! .. so you knew they were still going to show up!! .. they just would have been better prepared .. they deserved that much .. that part was so upsetting to me!!!😠😡👎🏽👎🏽
Mutherfuqbucket The firemen weren’t told about the radiation! .. of course they know what radiation is! .. They could have been more protected just like the liquidators were told!😡👎🏽👎🏽
The "volunteers" had absolutely no choice. The vast majority of them were taken from all over the western USSR. My mother-in-law who lived in Kazakhstan at the time clearly remembers military trucks arriving and taking away men from late teens up to middle-age to resolve the issue. A lot of them didn't return, and many of those who did died young after developing cancer.
Those men are heroes.
What's tragic is that the roof should have just been left alone, all those people wasted their health on a completely pointless job.
@@motherofallemails why should it have been left alone?, i would think the dust radiated a lot of radiation.
@@svenvolwater5473 all dust went into the air and got blown away during the explosion. What was left was only solid pieces. Clearing those was a COMPLETE WASTE OF MEN and their health. Complete waste of time. Clearing up the mess for who? Who will visit the roof tops to appreciate the tidy swept roof?
Just LEAVE it there, you can't move it to a "better place". This is the tragic truth of it, men's health was wasted for nothing, because of a stupid Communist regime that has to have its mess cleaned up for it to save it from embarrassment every time. It's just awful.
@@motherofallemails well maybe they wanted to clear those pieces to have less radiation, otherwise they also needed to make the sorcophogus over the roof. Also i think those pieces stil radiated a lot of radiation, that isnt handy while building a massive structure a few meters from it. But yea i dont know shit about radiation but what i do know is that the ussr wasnt always good at making good decisions......
@@svenvolwater5473 they were far from building a structure over it at the time, what they should have done was leave it alone, so that the most radioactive elements with the shortest half life have a chance to decay, and only do any clearing after a minimum of months if not years, as late as possible, but communism doesn't make smart decisions like that, it's a stupid regime led by stupid people making stupid and costly decisions that other people have to pay for, with their health.
Did you forget to mention those 3 guys that went underwater to open manually the faulty valves of the pool under the reactor?
They survived
@@Abysia one died at the spot but other 2 stayed alive
@@SDZKProductions one didn't die at the spot he died later from a heart attack
@@CoriumSeer ah, ty for thr info
@Ashton Engelbrecht Not just that, but all of Europe wouldn't be habitable until the radiation either broke down and wasn't deadly or was safe enough but still there
General Tarakanov is still alive at the age of 80+ but he takes many pills because of the radiation. He likes the HBO Chernobyl.
Edit: I just received a reply notification tonight and did not expect to have 1.3k+ likes. Thank you for recognizing my comment.
jien1988 he seems like a good enough dude
Also, Putin refuses to pay him, and he's in a long argument with the state...
@@anthonyminarik1962 Yeah he looks like the kind of leader that men would follow into Hell. And they did!
He said he almost fell in love with Ralph Ineson’s portrayal of him
jien1988 did you mean the guy wear a glasses?
Not too long after the Chernobyl disaster, Sergei Sikorsky, son of famous aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky, spoke to a group of American Air Force officers about being invited to the USSR to chat with a number of their helicopter pilots who had flown the boron missions. He related to us that when he asked them how they found the site at night without proper navigational aids or night vision gear, they responded that all they had to do was follow the blue glow. Pretty soon their aircraft were glowing too.
That's effing crazy. :/
so reactor worked as a giant electric flycatcher
@⸚ You're correct, the helicopters weren't directly glowing, but the radioactive isotopes stuck to the metal, causing the oxygen near the helicopters to glow.
In a sense this is how powder coating worked. Except instead of a coat of glitter or somesuch, it was radioactive isotopes.
@⸚ I would assume so. Particle and Nuclear physics is incredibly beyond me however.😋
The whole world should dedicate one day in a year to celebrate and honor the sacrifices of these men, the least we can do for these heroes
They are actually remembered and celebrated, on April 26th, by many nations. Though, sadly, not by the entire world.
I didn't know about the commemorative day, how sad we don't join in. I have marked 26th April in my calendar and I'll say a quiet prayer for them all.
No, people need to stop with the holidays, shark week, national donut day. Just stop ✋
Why on earth would the whole earth care about this
Hard pass. Typical Soviet mentality-create a problem, cover it up, lie to your own citizens and provide terrible equipment to the first responders. Chernobly should have never happened.
Funny thing that after the HBO show, everyone is doing Chernobyl-related videos...
Yes indeed, although I love this TH-cam channel I find it insulting that so many idiots that had access to Wikipedia hadn't even bothered to read about the Chernobyl disaster. Then HBO make a drama about it and they think every minor detail in it is factually accurate or a new revelation.
Most people don't deserve smartphones.
I'm amazed that an already popular and well known subject has gotten such a resurgence.
And I'm loving every minute of it.
Gotta cash in on disasters and people's death while the getting is good.
The more who know about it the better.
😢 may god bless all of you liquidators.
You guys are real heroes..
Indeed! 😢❤
Asif Talpur .........
@@xenomorphyongaming61 a man's gotta eat 😢
This is just one example of humans uses other humans like were dog shit. Really scary we can be this dumb and awfully evil
@Kin yoshida you can't be a communist and a hero.
Some really brave shit these people did. Honestly some real balls here
Very. Honestly I wish I could say I would do the same however if it truly came down to it I don't think I could.
I'm sure the threat of the state destroying your life and your family's life for refusing to do your job was enough to keep you on task. Communism has its ways of motivating people, even if it means walking into certain death.
Radioactive balls
Not really considering this was still communist Russia and you didnt have much choice.
When you're not told of the severity of the situation, and not given a choice whatsoever
"Every lie told incurs a debt to the truth. Eventually the debt must be repaid."
Edit: thanks for the 1k likes :))
You're delusional.
Aren't we all?
My man made a whole ass TH-cam for that mini series
No, on average only 3.6 out of 15 000 are delusional.
@@pug5330 3.6, from the feedwater?
“(…) all the machines failed, as the radiation correded and destroyed their electronic circuitry”.
Let’s do it by hand!
No choice at that point unfortunately
Somebody had to do it
Misha Korol May they rest in peace.
Any other suggestions?
*biorobots have entered the chat*
I swear to god...
You could narrate an ingredients list from my grandma's cookbook and I would think it was somehow historical and deadly.
Yeah I'd watch that
Grandma's famous Uranium-234 cookies.
I can count the times i've been at chernobyl on my fingers, 13 times
Ha I got 16 noob
@@AeroZeppelin-rb4pt ha i got a new hand to count on beat that
Kek
@@goat5815 that only makes it 15 he still has one more....
Classic.
May all the Liquidators(and everyone involved in the clean up) be remembered for all time.
I appreciate the serious manner you address the issue with. This is not a subject that should be exploited for clicks/ratings, or to score cheap political/social points..The men involved deserve to be remembered and their efforts, and the cost of their efforts, known to the world.
William Byrd j agree completely. This video is a wonderful and respectful tribute to the brave souls who made the ultimate sacrifice. May their courage never be forgotten.
may they rest in peace
Yeah. Makes you wonder how bad it's effects on the rest of the world might have been had it just been abandoned and left to burn out by itself. On that note, we're all lucky it was safe enough to get it contained,even if it did cost many lives. We can never be sure that an incident will never happen that creates so much danger that nobody can get near enough to stop it..Then we're all done for. These places have no place in the current day and age and must be stopped, before something uncontainable happens
All those men didn’t know how bad radiation was.
Oh, they knew alright. We had civil defence drills regularly at work, even had inter-company competitions. Everyone knew.
thats messed up man
Didn’t even get a Geiger counter
@@oldbluewitch3386
Are you sure? -Probably they weren’t told, that they probably die a horrible death within months. -Skin peeling off.
How much could they know, without a TV, when nuclear was so secretive.
Some nationalist call, bottles of vodka and empty promises and you could find some liquidators, probably even today.
I really doubt officials were honest. If only the UdSSR could, Chernobyl would have stayed a secret. A town that never existed.
In the end, they could just force them to liquidate or take away their apartments.
But probably people didn’t know enough, about radiation. Beautiful blue tscherenkov radiation. Beautiful gray ash. Like snow.
Most of the spectators watching the spectacle from a bridge died.
The fireman didn’t know about radiation as well.
The reactors were considered totally safe. As safe as the titanic was unsinkable.
@@oldbluewitch3386
Do you have any ideas how to improve comments in other ways?
My dad was there, got to be on the roof of the 4block several times, he is 67 now and pretty healthy(fingers crossed) I was very young but I remember that night when around 4am we got a knock on the door and he was given enough time to get his stuff. after being on a freight train for several days he arrived in Ukraine. I saw him again around December that year.
If this is true u are 1 of the very very lucky one's
Respect from 🇺🇸 Your father great man
@@scottrobinson2286 thank you sir!
that’s insane!
Respekt from Germany!
I've been doing alot of research on this lately, thanks for doing this! Puts alot of perspective on the unsung heroes most people know nothing about.
Like the man who saved the world...
im so pleased they made the series, its an easier way people can know about the heros and the event itself.
HEY! Most don't know reactors 1, 2, and 3 still were up and running and staffed.
Last was shutdown in 2000 or so
Yes, they were always staffed, but 3 was shutdown hours after the 86 explosion and 1 and 2 were shutdown 24 hours later. 3 was finally shut down in 2000 since running since late 1986 after the accident. 1 had a partial meltdown September 9, 1982 and was up again 8 months later. Reactor 2 had a turbogenerator fire in 1991 and never restarted for political reasons. In 2013 the pump that raises cooling water up to a pond at the plant was finally shut down. The pond will eventually evaporate. Chernobyl #5 and #6 were approaching completion, one of them was at 70% complete and was used to train the liquidators how to work with the nuclear fuel and graphite blocks. Numbers 1 and 3 literally meters from #4 cranked out power for Ukraine for decades. For all the safety issues, the RBMK-1000 did allow a lot of power generation.
@@hoghogwild Thank you for this explanation - really apprecaite it. I was not aware.
And people still have to work there. Nuclear plant itself doesnt make power to the public, but it still needs constant maintenance and supervision. Same thing all around the world.
Before Chernobyl, liquidation always meant to break something, to eliminate, to destroy. After the accident, the word received a new life and meaning. A liquidator became a person who rescued people and living things. A person who creates. They were proud of this, and put their souls into the work.
hahaha maybe in the simple language of english. but in french where this word originate it doesnt mean that at all. it only means to get rid of something. the original world "liquidateur" in french come from liquidazione from italian that mean to sell at low price.
@@Francois_Dupont lol yea thats how I've always understood it too
@@Francois_Dupont it means the same in russian actually
Before Chernobyl, "liquidation" in Soviet Union meant sending the kulak to the gulag
I've lived in Russia my whole life and have heard the term "liquidation" thousands of times. It still has multiple meanings, but in most cases means eliminating/getting rid of something/somebody. I've never heard somebody refer to a person who creates or rescues people as "liquidator". Even when we talk about Chernobyl, a liquidator is understood as a person who helps to get rid of the radioactive materials.
“...to deal with the fallout.”
Very rarely does that phrase contextually apply both figuratively AND literally...
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