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

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.

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. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/gH57mKN-b52Gtps.html

@@vikachu19 same thing is portrayed in the show, pay close attention

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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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.

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.

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.

@@MFenix206 How do you know that?

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.

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

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

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.

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 🙂

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 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?

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.

> 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 :)

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

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

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

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.

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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

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.

😂😂😂😂

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

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 UKposts in China.

What?!

@@ryanopolous5643 It's not foreshadowing when you know exactly where a narrative's leading to.

@@ryanopolous5643 do you know what for shadowing is?

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.

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.

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.

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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.

@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 😞

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

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!

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The series was far from excellent in regards to its script. It was an extremely dumb script

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!

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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.

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.

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.

Yes! Really HBO created a masterpiece. Kudos to all involved. Really, to all of them.

Either way ideas genuine on the right

@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.

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

We all are

I'm not alone :-P

Sainsburys dad Me 2😂

ukposts.info/have/v-deo/goWJfYp_pXt_uJs.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.

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

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.

How big was the plant when you were close by it?

Life-size.

@@nocalsteve correct answer

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.

While New Zealand actually took this seriously and has cases in the double digits only on the border from planes and what not. They are the only ones ill recognize as being truthful

@@sandshark2 blocking flights is racist!

CleanerBen it’s not...

@Urban Legends Criticizing the US and Trump doesn't equal saying China is good. China was bad but the US has handled the virus horribly. Life is more nuanced than you think mate.

@@cleanerben9636 what next? Staying at your own home quarantined is racist?

Это называется пропаганда. И она работает на тех кто за нее платит.

⁠​⁠@@CorRubrumit’s called a narrative. The irony is the show is about lies and the burial of truth and yet people just deny most of the things that happened. For one thing, Legasov WAS NOT A HERO…at first. In real life he was devoted to the Soviet cause and even helped keep the National image intact willingly…but at some point, in the later moments in his life, he changed and did ‘the right thing’ and began his war for reform in the RMBK Reactor cores. But you need to do what’s necessary for your plot and narrative. Because in the end, look at western politics now, or the war in the east, Covid and climate change. Look how easy it is for people to lie EVERYDAY. Chernobyl the show is not just a telling of Chernobyl, it’s a condensed dramatised encapsulation of how much damage a lie can do and how it still applies to everyone this current day

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

There used to be a lot on sale on ebay , being sold from Ukraine