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@nithishkumar7234

5 ай бұрын

Watch salaar

@acereporter73

5 ай бұрын

Very tough episode--and it needs to be. This series does a great job of getting across something that might otherwise be hard for folks who weren't there to understand the severity of what happened.

@jgaringan

4 ай бұрын

It's not important, but a fun little detail: the roof scene is a oner, a single shot with no takes. It's exactly 1:30.

@thedefinitionisthis

4 ай бұрын

Just a tough ep to get through overall. Such a gut punch.

Another thing about the smoking, the lower class people are shown smoking unfiltered cigarettes showing how disposable they are, while the upper class are smoking illegal cigarettes smuggled in from the west

@jackson_craft_gamingscates9324

4 ай бұрын

too bad most of the poison of cigs is in the filters lol

@5050TM

4 ай бұрын

​@@jackson_craft_gamingscates9324 Yeah they're literally plastic and full of arsenic and chemicals. That's why cigarettes became so dangerous.

@MilesL.auto-train4013

4 ай бұрын

@@jackson_craft_gamingscates9324 I think the takeaway is that they're considered "higher quality" and therefore only the best of the best (or the most manipulative, depending on your situation) can have them... the people can go f%$@ themselves.

@TheJerbol

4 ай бұрын

@@jackson_craft_gamingscates9324 lmao no. It's 2024 how are we still discussing cigarettes? Filters don't melt, they keep most of the tar out

@jackson_craft_gamingscates9324

4 ай бұрын

Cigarette filters don’t contain only plastic, but also a cocktail of toxic substances: arsenic (rat poison!), lead, nicotine and pesticides. As the filter disintegrates, the chemicals seep into the soil or the water. .... ur an absolute moron if u think this is information only contained in "media messaging"@@AL-fl4jk

About Legasov: In real life he had a wife, grown/adult children, and grandchildren. So he had a lot to loose.

Having a dosimeter on that roof is like having a moisture detector while scuba diving...

@Lorlic1138

4 ай бұрын

They didn’t actually have those. It’s part of the sound design. Everyone knows what that sound is and what it means. Having it play like that is how they show us just how deadly that area was.

@kittymandias

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, I think they didn't have it. Not only because it was useless in that context, but also because it would be demoralizing for men. Imagine having only 90 s to focus on that task with a constant reminder that you're being destroyed by something invisible.

@budgreen4x4

4 ай бұрын

They did constantly scan the levels on the roof, that was the only way to determine exposure time, as more and more was removed the allowable time on the roof increased

@jojivlogs_4255

4 ай бұрын

the characters carrying dosimeters during most of the scenes in this show is the equivalent of carrying a moisture detector while scuba diving

@jojivlogs_4255

4 ай бұрын

@@Lorlic1138 which is wholly unnecessary

27:27 The brutality of this simple line... "You're done." Yeah......... He's "done" alright.

@iCortex1

4 ай бұрын

Yup, the emphasis of the actor on the word 'DONE' feels heavy af. The job is done, the supervisor meant 'your LIFE is done'.

@budgreen4x4

4 ай бұрын

The stuff the helicopters were dumping was lignosulphanate(sp?) meant to keep dust down and seal contamination down and keep it from getting blown around, it formed a film and resisted water, was good for binding dust down but also made washing equipment impossible, it was abandoned after a few weeks

@budgreen4x4

4 ай бұрын

The TV playing during the roof scene was actual footage

@Felamine

4 ай бұрын

Well done. Like an overcooked steak.

@mnomadvfx

4 ай бұрын

Possibly, but likely not unless it actually scratched him too. The shoes wouldn't have given so easily if they were lead lined. So they were likely providing only minimal protection anyway.

When this was broadcast, there was a hockey sportswriter named Slava Malamud who was originally from Ukraine who had a lot of praise for the accuracy of the sets and props, as well as the writing and performances. He said that he went to visit his father one day, and suggested that he watch Chernobyl with him. His father told him that he didn’t need to watch it-he had lived it. Only then did the son find out that his father had been one of those working in the restricted zone, doing clean-up. Luckily,, he was only there for a week or so before being transferred elsewhere for military purposes, so he didn’t have extended radiation exposure.

I always took the cigarettes not only as historical accuracy but, if you are aware you have already recieved a dose of radiation large enough to riddle your body with cancer, you begin to care a lot less about your cigs giving you cancer.

@thatcarlchick7655

4 ай бұрын

I thought it might also be that American audiences (and maybe western audiences in general) tend to associate cigarettes with cancer, and the focus on the ashtrays is a reminder that there are all kinds of horrible health problems coming for most, if not all, of these people.

@sawanna508

4 ай бұрын

To me smoking a lot of cigaretts also shows a lot of pressure and stress.

For me, the liquidators will forever be the heroes of Chernobyl. Without them it would not have been possible to bring the sarcophagus over the reactor. Many of these liquidators have gone out there more than once.

@biankab390

4 ай бұрын

This is exactly what I wanted to write! There are recordings of them in documentaries, it's amazing what they did and what the radiation did to their bodies is terrifying! As they sat and lay down in the hallway completely exhausted after only a few minutes of work. It really shows the overwhelming power of radiation and how it crushes a healthy and strong body in minutes. I will never forget, the liquidators are real heroes!

@calebreynolds9183

4 ай бұрын

@@biankab390a lot of the fatigue was from wearing a lead suit…

@sawanna508

4 ай бұрын

Yes, they deserve a huge momument and an offical day in the calender to remember and honor them

@Monoryable

3 ай бұрын

Liquidators are until this day celebrated in Russia. They don’t get enough attention, but there is a place for them

One the liquidators on the Masha roof said he could feel the radiation when he walked out among the rubble. It was like diving underwater where the senses reduced significantly; especially hearing and taste. The hearing was like being underwater or in a vacuum where only his steps could be heard.

@zloychechen5150

4 ай бұрын

Power lines used to give me a slight headache, so i can relate.. In a way. Only that is times a billion billion trillion.

PLEASE NOTE THAT IN THE FINALE THEY HAVE SCENES AFTER THE CREDITS!!!!!

The "90 seconds on the roof" scene is a MASTERPIECE- expertly shot, detailed and scored.

@Tr0cheus

5 күн бұрын

Search for Chernobyl 3282 on KZread and watch that half an hour. You will know where they got their details from.

I recently found this channel because i saw your reaction to episode 1 of Chernobyl and I have to say this account is an absolute gem! I l love all your reactions!

@ianaustin5012

5 ай бұрын

You’ll love these guys lots

@iCortex1

5 ай бұрын

welcome aboard ! best reaction channel by far !

@nicholasluff7452

5 ай бұрын

One of the best reaction channels right now no bias

@kepler1377

5 ай бұрын

These guys, and Nikki and Steven are the two goated react channels

@jenloveshorror

5 ай бұрын

Welcome.❤ These fellas have alot of great reactions !!!❤️💞❤️

18:15 to your point here Quinn, the reason you don’t do this is that at this moment, although everything is still radioactive, the radiation is somewhat settled. Blowing up the roof to drop the debris would send more radioactive ejecta into the air and more dispersed.

25:35 That _is_ the most dangerous, thrid roof. The one where robots can’t work. Time and distance are the best protections, so 90 seconds is still massively better than 2 minutes. And even the 2 minutes don’t mean immediate death where you stand, but a higher probablilty of acute radiation poisoning, shortened lifespan and cancers. 90 seconds still carry all those risks, but less so. It’s a numbers game.

@Just_us1324

4 ай бұрын

He said about 2 hours not minutes

@tilltronje1623

4 ай бұрын

​@@Just_us1324 you are mistaking Masha for Katya

@AliothAncalagon

4 ай бұрын

True. The biological resilience against radiation is not a linear relationship. An amount of radiation that is deadly after 10 minutes can have so little effect after just 2 minutes that it becomes difficult to even measure any long term effect at all. Converting radiation units should always be taken with a grain of salt, because they are different units for a reason, but 12,000 Röntgen per hour can be thought of as roughly 33mSv per second if my conversion formula didn't lie. This should kill anyone who is unshielded after experiencing a little over 3 minutes of exposure, 50% after around 100 seconds, 10% after 45 seconds and below 30 seconds one would expect "radiation hangover" and other comparably "mild" consequences. The idea that they could reasonably push things to 90 seconds with enough shielding is at the very least very plausible. Although it must feel very weird to know that you experienced something for 90 seconds without any issues that would kill most people after 180 seconds.

Interesting thing about the comment in the show about "bio-robots". I don't think many people realise that the word "robot" was popularised by a Czech author and it means something along of "the one that does things". It comes from the word "robota" meaning "work" in a lot of Slavic languages. But there is another word related to "robota" in some Slavic languages, especially Russian, and that is "rab". And it means a slave. You could say that to some, slaves were as disposable as those men who did all the work were for the Soviet State. Quite a chilling paralel when you think about it. I wonder if that line was just a coincidence or a purposeful approach.

@sawanna508

4 ай бұрын

There is a similar term in German in historic context. The work that a bondman/woman in the middle ages did on a farm was called "robot".

@you_deserve_the_world

4 ай бұрын

it’s “rabota” actually, not “robota”. sorry, i’m from russia and the misspelling bothered me a little.

@user-yg7tb7ex4x

2 ай бұрын

you are confused and have it all upside down, this word "раб" (slave) comes out of the word "работа" (work) as it is constantly working. The word "работа" is much earlier than the word "раб". In this scene it's just a literary manoeuvre to feel the moment of hopelessness and gravity of the situation.

You'll never be you again. But then you wake up the next morning and you're still you. And you realize: that was you all along. You just didn't know.

i hope you include the epilogue section in the last episode, lot of reaction channels miss out on that

6:14 "bottled water" :D

6:50 - to take from a documentary: " as if unaware of the danger, they eat, sleep and work right on the premises" 10:00 - this is a sticky substance called Burbur, basically it binds the radioactive dusts into clumps as it falls to the ground 12:00 the photo is the second photo taken by Igor Kostien, he was the first photographer on scene and took several pictures, even a video recording, he did however, open the helicopter window close to the reactor, not realizing how big a mistake it was, once he proceased the pictures, he found the colours faded and blurry because of the radiation affecting the camera

@sawanna508

4 ай бұрын

Yes, I have seen those pictures they are still radiocativ. He is one of the heros too as he voluntered for cleaning rubble from one of the roofs nonetheless.

Fun fact: Pacho, the guy with the big nose, is a Swedish actor and his brother Josef Fares owns a gaming studio and made most recently It Takes Two! Would love to see you play it on your gaming channel. Quite a talented family!

@PG13eduard

5 ай бұрын

Dude, i can see the resemblance, and i would love to see them a way out as well.

@lennyvalentin6485

5 ай бұрын

Btw, the guy's name (who played Pacho) is Fares Fares. :)

@PaleTyche

4 ай бұрын

He is Ishamael in The Wheel of Time.

@Quzga

4 ай бұрын

@@lennyvalentin6485 His parents knew what they were doing lmao

@stormstereo

4 ай бұрын

Pacho/Fares Fares also has a role in Rogue One!

The amount of radiation exposure is actually cumulative across a lifetime. There's no coming back again a day or a month later for those roof guys, they've taken a lifetimes worth of damage already. This is even applied today for those working around nuclear materials - they have a personal meter which records their lifetime exposure and if they reach certain limits they are done in that job.

The 90 second group was send to the most dangerous roof. The offical assumption was that 2 minutes would cut your life expendency in half. 90 seconds was then deemd "safe enough". Officially no man ought to have gone more often than once. Some swaped with their commerades though so they did not have to go up at all. Also this is sadly one of the most problematic line the show sells to us. The whole the baby absorbed the radiation thing certainly is how the womand describes it in her retelling of her story. It is not how any medical professional both in the USSR nor in the West would describe what happened. It is certainly possible that radiation played a role in the babys death. But that is radiation she absorbed simpyl from being close to the reactor during the event and for quite some time after (not from being in close proximity with a deconterminated patient) and the baby did not absorb radiation for the mother, because that is simply not how that works ...

@porirvian8457

4 ай бұрын

I always took it as her trying to influence their decisions...

@BobHerzog1962

4 ай бұрын

@@porirvian8457 which given that she is a fictional character representing the scientific community a strange choice. And still one they could have come clean in the last episode where they came clean about other stuff. A line lik: "this plot was presented in a way the general population saw it to emphasize the discrimination the surviving evacuees from the area faced" would have been sufficient. With the addition of a short line of the real explanation. The way the show leaves it one could argue the people faced discrimination for an actual good reason because apparently radiation is contagious ...

I loved the fact that the man who had seen war and has to live with nightmares of killing men took the burden of killing the momma dog and her puppies so that the kid didn't have to suffer the nightmares he does. I found that so honorable on his part since the kid was just drafted for this clean up and never saw the horrors of war or death before and didn't need to add killing innocent puppies to his already terrible trauma. I feel like nobody really comments on this detail but I love it. Probably my favorite mini series ever despite the brutality of everything! So much love to everyone who sadly passed to this tragedy and everyone who still suffers after it 💜💜💜

13:10 I personally think the cigarettes are more about people resigned to their fates (and the usual filmic way to show stress). Cigarettes were known to be bad for you bsck then too, but for the people like the ones we see here who’d been at Chernobyl, would it even matter? Might as well light up

@Wanda711

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, we saw that in the first episode: one of the operators, right down by the core, was eating sunflower seeds in his office because he was giving up cigarettes. When he was dying from the radiation and another worker came by, asking if he could do anything to help, he asked for a cigarette. Why not, now that you've nothing left to lose?

Excellent point regarding the animal culling. What it also did was save the wider gene pool from getting contamimated, sparing countless future generations of animals from painful disfigurements and mutations. Culling is never pretty, but the alternative is much worse.

@kdizzle901

4 ай бұрын

They were putting them out of their misery

the dogs that live in Chernobyl NOW have had some interesting things happen to their DNA, an ability to fight off cancer, you should look up info on that, mind blowing

Yo, I didn't remember Barry Keoghan was in this ep. Very cool.

@dicekolev5360

5 ай бұрын

It's the only place I know him from, lol

@5050TM

4 ай бұрын

I saw him first in The Killing of a Sacred Deer and I wish I hadn't 😂 I always associate his face with the bizarro events of that film and he always just comes off as unsettling now.

@caleidoo

4 ай бұрын

His face was very different compared to Saltburn (2023). Always the same BS with actors - women more than men - nullifying their original look & feel. I guess he was tired of doing the boyish roles and playing someone younger than himself and bought himself a new jaw. He was already past 25 in Chernobyl. You don't grow an extra jaw when you hit thirty.

@falsenostalgia-shannon

4 ай бұрын

⁠@@5050TMlol, I haven’t seen that so I assumed he played particularly “wholesome” characters until recent ones (first thing I saw him in was Dunkirk). I totally understand what you mean; I’ve always been that way about Matt Damon, who most people seem to adore.

@kandy1515

4 ай бұрын

Hes great in banshees of inisherin with colin ferrel

The most personal episode to me. Cheers from Ukraine!

The dogs of Chernobyl survived, and are still there to this day. They have short life spans, but they are still there. You should look into the recent stories about the dogs of Chernobyl.

@rklong1790

4 ай бұрын

There was a charity founded by scientists after they came home. They sent food, money and medical vet supplies to the permanent caretakers on the exclusion zone. It struggled during the Covid outbreak. I don't know if they can get in now with the war.

@sawanna508

4 ай бұрын

Wolves too. But it is also true that troups were sent there to shoot them.

Bacho is Georgian and Garo is Armenian both Caucasian guys and they always had famous banter historically like who is older and better looking etc. Also Bacho is just perfect representation of Georgian man - tough, dominant but stil very compassionate and who will not let his shitty life make him depressed so he accapted his fate living under the USSR

@ninimtvarelashvili3406

4 ай бұрын

I just noticed that at 10:36 one of the guy's surname is Jughashvili, Stalin's surname.

This is a tough episode. I'm reading a book called "Meltdown," about the history of accidents involving radioactive stuff, either in manufacturing or from power plants. The Soviets had an accident involving highly radioactive waste in a tank that blew up when it got too hot. This was in the 1950s, and they killed all the pets and farm animals just like in this episode, so that the people who were evacuated would not have a reason to go back.

My wife and me had to watch this top to bottom, all episodes back to back. It was so intense that we couldnt sleep until we Finished it. Amazing storytelling, visuals, and acting.

Just to clear something up: The health risk to smoking was well known in the 80's. Even publicly. I learned of the risks when I was in 5th Grade. In 1986, the exact year this happened. But if you consider that in the west no one seemed to care, they would bother even less in the SU.

@joshuacoldwater

5 ай бұрын

Funny enough, The Soviet Government was the 1st to condemn the use of Tobacco products, this occurred in the late 70s. After this happened, most Soviets switched to unfiltered cigarettes made at their local shops. The number of Soviet Smokers almost tripled in percentage through the 80s. Their government’s condemnation never wavered. Some giver systems that appear wrong to us can still make the right decisions, it is all about the population’s choice.

Episode 5 is the ‘Meat and Potatoes’, you guys are in for an unforgettable experience. Your reactions are genuine and trust me we all felt the same way. A favor to ask… PLEASE include the entire epilogue in Ep5 in your reaction. Gut wrenching, but reveals the depth of the coverup and how it was exposed. Greatest series ever made! “…and now I wonder at the Cost of Lies!”

The thing they didn't know was the Lead shielding and armor was a 1 time use. The lead absorbs the radiation and if you don't replace it with the new lead shielding you carry all the radiation it absorbed with you

15:48 Great point from Oak. Never thought of it this way. At this point in, we're four months after the explosion. Those poor pets were definitely already suffering from radiation-related illnesses.

@Tyranidlord556

4 ай бұрын

There were stories of liquididators coming across an animal on a rock, partially melted into it. Initially they thought it was a lizard or something, until it meowed.

For those interested in another account of the effect of radiation on people, I suggest Masuji Ibuse's 1965 novel "Black Rain". It relates the experience of living in Hiroshima before, during and after the atomic bomb drop from the perspective of one family. While a novel, Ibuse incorporated real accounts from diaries and testimonies of 'hibakusha' (survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). Written just 20 years after the event, it illustrates (like this series) the limitations that even very smart and well-intentioned people operate under when dealing with new technology. Cautionary tales that are just as relevant today.

@rukki024

4 ай бұрын

There is also a documentary on hbo called White light, black rain, which has interviews with survivors and decentants of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I thought it was very good.

11:17 Nah, time lag between the Moon and Earth is only seconds. 7 minutes is closer to Earth and Sun distance (which is around 8 minutes). Still, seconds of lag is a hassle and a half, hence why we rarely do direct control of rovers; usually it’s more like a sequence of commands. Also, that great shot of the Apollo 17 (I blieve it was) lander taking off from the Moon, where the motorised camera tracks it as it rises: all those commands had to sent ahead of time to match the take-off when it happened a few seconds later.

@joshuacoldwater

5 ай бұрын

It’s not even seconds it’s 1.33 seconds to the moon.

@ferchrissakes

4 ай бұрын

@@joshuacoldwater true, for one-way broadcast. Though for something like driving a rover you also need to get the camera/sensor feed back as well, so perceived lag will be double that

I'll be honest. I was ugly crying by the end of this episode. It took such an emotional toll on me with the animals being killed like they were, I could not watch the last episode before a hiatus of a whole day😢😢 Hope you enjoy the last one too

I think the close-up on both Legasov’s and Dyatlov’s cigarettes was to show that they both have real insight into truth and lies. We heard Legasov talk about that in the opening minutes of the show, and here, Dyatlov is saying the exact same thing.

@caylem00

5 ай бұрын

Watch the branding - who has western brands and who has unfiltered. It's the difference between who has the money to smuggle in illegal western cigs vs unfilitered russian crap ones

@tommcewan7936

4 ай бұрын

@@caylem00 I think it was less to do with money - the wage gap in the USSR was tiny - and much more to do with what connections you had.

@Psycorde

4 ай бұрын

​​@@tommcewan7936 It's essentially the same thing. Wealth is power amd vice versa.

There are estimated to be around 600 dogs still living in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. They are fed by workers from the three other nuclear plants, scientists and other visitors. Also there is a group called Clean Futures Foundation that is taking care of the animals needs for food and medical needs. Also it has a spay and neuter program to try to naturally lower the dog population. It also has found that alot of the dogs once they are washed have acceptable levels of radiation. In fact some dogs have been sent to america and other countries for adoption with help from the SPCA.

@nr1fan4all

4 ай бұрын

the interesting thing is, they are being studied because they are developing some resistance to cancer due to being exposed to radiation for the past 35 years

Let's be honest here - the US government wouldn't be any more transparent in a comparable case. All to keep the peace. Ask yourself: what did the US populace really know about what happened, in "Three Mile Island"/Harrisburg, in 1979? And what did the rest of the world know? And when did everyone know about it?

@DevSolar

4 ай бұрын

Oh, you mean like the Hanford Site? ;-)

@toddjohnson271

4 ай бұрын

US government lies endlessly.

@sawanna508

4 ай бұрын

Besided we don't even know today the whole truth about the events in Fukushima.

@MegaMerdeux

2 ай бұрын

I dont remember the entire are being evacuated or millions of people getting cancer from that incident...comparing the USSR level of surveillance with the USA in the 80's it's like comparing an ocean with a lake😂

Glad to be watching this along with you guys. Feel so honored by the stellar performances of everyone involved in the series ❤

What an episode; I enjoy your reactions so much. Despite it being animals instead of people you see the immediate PTSD affects on the kid going from “it’s too early to drink” to this is clearly the way in which they are dealing with the emotional trauma.

I remember watching this episode and then coming to work the next day - I was digitizing a memoir about Chernobyl, and I saw the exact same picture of scientists operating the lunokhods, I work for rosatom's library, and I have an immense respect for the film crew and their attention to details (also my boss worked at Chernobyl in the 90s until they shut down the remaining reactors).

I watched this series some time ago and I love your reactions so much that I decided to watch this. You guys are all awesome. There are pics online of the elephant foot (a pile of highly radioactive material) at the site. The blatant disregard for human life really shows what's important to them. In any case, thank you for this

Whats crazy about this episode is the biorobots scene of them shoveling the roof is real its near perfect footage but in the actual footage you can see the camera getting messed up from the radiation

-what you saw from the helicopters is lignosulphunate or a product called "bourda", meaning molasses. It was used to bound to the radioactive dust to prevent it from being blown and carried by the wind. -Moon is very close. it only take 2-3 seconds radiowave to travel there. 7-8 minutes far is the sun.

I susbcribed with the first episode I really appreciate your thoughtful reaction and the final comments. My country is the western most part of Europe we were never in any real danger because of the sacrifice of all these people. Those days are forever in my memory.

that captain of the animal control group, i can't help but think he got a few messed up people who caused him to make rule 2.

omg what a great timing! i also finish watching this in one setting 3 days ago! xD now i get to watched this again with these guys!

Oh boy, this episode! No words, just tears.

I have watched a lot of tragic stories based on true events. And i have seen this show like 7 times yet every time i time I see this show it lefts me in such a weird mood. Almost like I became numb and for a while I just need to soak in the stuff I just witnessed actually happend in the history. The way they filmed this show is just peak cinematografy. I just sit in utter silence just like Oak does xD

I AM EARLY, READY, WILLING AND ABLE for another great reaction :D

Appreciate the regular content you guys put out. Always great videos 😁

This episode was such a masterclass in tv like the way scenes were shot, the acting, the music, it just blew me away. It made me cry a lot harder than the previous episodes too, the poor little puppies. The brutality and harsh reality of it all was just projected beautifully. the roof scene had me on the edge of my seat.

11:15 Round trip time for signals to and from the moon is only around 2.5 seconds. Mars is the one with the delay of several minutes, between 5 and 20 minutes depending on where Earth and Mars are in their orbits.

The opening showed how tragic the entire 20th century was for the Ukraine. From WW1 to the Russian Revolution, to Stalin's purges and the Soviet collective farms, to anti-Semitism, to WW2, and then the abuses of post-WW2 Soviet rule. Ukraine deserves our love and support.

@LaMancha958

5 ай бұрын

Not to forget the Holodomor! 😢

@Just_us1324

4 ай бұрын

Thank you from Ukraine!

It is somewhat ironic that shortly after you posted this video, news came out that cancer-resistant mutant wolves have moved into and thrived in the exclusion zone around the city of Chernobyl. They are being studied in the hopes of learning how resistance to cancer can be developed in humans.

20:09 such an amazing performance, i can only imagine how people like Legasov and Scherbina must have reacted in real life dealing with every roadblock. Im pretty sure Skaarsgard got it at least close to right though

The moon is MUCH closer than 7 light minutes of delay away from Earth, equivalent to about 1.3 light seconds worth of delay. The one on the left must have confused Moon rovers with Mars rovers. The time delay on communicating with Mars rovers will be over 20 minutes - which means that every movement must be choreographed because you can't find out if you made a mistake for over 20 minutes, and you can't correct it for over 40 minutes. The time delay on something like New Horizons (out past Pluto) is more like over 20 hours.

I remember when this happened. We were so worried about the radiation for our relatives in Germany.

Great reactions. I remember, as a 10yo when the Tjernobyl disaster happened, being told we couldn't eat berries in the woods anymore here in Sweden.

6:16 Ah yeah, totally bottled water. One wouldn't want soldiers to get drunk on the job, not in the Soviet army, no Sir.

@lennyvalentin6485

4 ай бұрын

60% bottled water... ;) Maybe less. lol

9:35 What you're missing is that the censor should have given her NOTHING but he most likely knew what she was looking for, what she was doing and what she needed

48:26 - There are hundreds of documentaries on Chernobyl. Some on how the accident happened, some on the effects on the people still there today, and some created to teach nuclear students about what went wrong. There is a large issue with documentaries that people NEVER address, and that is who is making the documentary. The issue often falls with WHERE that person IS FROM, WHEN was that person born, WHAT type of company is backing the documentary, and WHO is the audience that they are interested in appealing to. Here is a perfect (fake) example, a documentary made by Adi Aris who is Russian born in 1967 has full funding from the state nuclear council and is creating the film for Russian Nuclear Students. Now, what do you believe that documentary would ACTUALLY contain? I can tell you, I’ve seen one of them. Chernobyl was an “accidental fire” that expanded into the reactor hall and caused a building collapse. When the building collapsed it exposed some radioactive material that needed to be regulated. That is the reason they built an entire cement building around it, and now the giant dome. This is what they teach the children and more importantly the soldiers in Russia. So, when they invaded Ukraine, which they did AT CHERNOBYL, the soldiers dug up parts of the ground to create defense mounds. They walked through forests and parking lots that have NEVER been touched post-accident. They did this all, because in their minds it was just a fire. So no, I wouldn’t trust a word in that documentary. Now the complete opposite would be a Documentary made by Zach Ryan who was born in LA in 2002, he is self funded and wanted to make a film to launch his career. I can’t explain the amount of ways that this young man would have NO IDEA what he was talking about. I don’t believe that you have to have lived through the tragedy, but at least a tragedy similar. Documentaries have to have a CLEAR purpose, and that used to be educating the people. Now, with streaming it is having the “best story” or telling it a “different way”. There is also no system to check the information used or stated in a documentary. It is trusted. There are hundreds of “9/11 was created by the US government” DOCUMENTARIES out there. People just rambling on about whatever they felt like saying that day. It is CRAZY. So no, I also don’t trust a documentary like that and I’ve seen 4 of them before. So what does that leave? A show like this, or a FILM like The Impossible, or Oppenheimer. Is every line correct? Nope. They actually have a nice little credit scene with facts on the screen, and a few changes they made. THAT is honesty. To me, taking an event and turning it into a life passion project is what needs to happen. I’ve watched people complain on these videos stating that things aren’t correct, or this isn’t right, blah blah blah. BUT I’ve also read the ACTUAL documents from that time, I have seen MULTIPLE interviews with people who are still alive and where there (even a hospital worker)- they all have said it is the closest to what actually occurred that they have seen. So, this show, I can trust this and the HARD evidence that I have read. Documentaries though, they just no longer have people with passion.

I like the interpretation you folks had on the cigarette shots, I always took it (probably a bit deeper than intended) as an interesting allegory to the radiation. If I recall correctly, in terms of activities in your day to day life that expose you to ionizing (the bad kind) radiation such as riding in an airplane, sunbathing, eating a banana (yep), taking a walk around Chernobyl today, etc., smoking cigarettes by and large dwarfs the rest of activities in terms of radiation exposure, and some academia consider it a contributing factor in cancer rates among smokers (among the other factors).

Great reaction is always guys. I think when you do your research, you’ll find a lot of different things that you never thought of. When this came out about six months later, I met a guy who is stationed in Germany an about 5-10 years after the Chernobyl disaster. And he had German friends and a family that he could go and visit they offered to do all kinds of stuff with him and show him the local fair. One of the things that’s a big deal in Germany is to hunt wild boar and he did get to hunt wild.boar. But his host told him he would not be able to eat the boar due to many of the wild animals being an edible due to radiation levels. The one thing you never think of is how wild animals breed they don’t respect borders they don’t respect lines of any kind. Crossbreeding, water supply, etc. polluted many of the wild animals, not only in Russia, but in the countries near and surrounding Russia, I found that super interesting and I told him if he hadn’t seen Chernobyl that he needed to watch it. Oh my goodness oh my goodness oh my goodness oh my goodness oh my goodness. I cannot wait for you guys to see the final episode and see all the information that’s offered at the end and the fact about some of the stuff that is true regarding what they showed you.

The amazing thing about this episode is how incredibly shows the tragedy was not just for the humans but for all living creatures and nature - animals, trees, plants. They all lost...

The animals: Dogs and cats that go feral will return to their predatory nature. They will hunt mice, small birds, beetles, and other small wild animals and insects. Packs of wild dogs will even go after small deer or fawns, feral pigs, sheep, etc. So that means that the prey animals are eating plants that are growing in contaminated soil, and then the cats and dogs are eating those animals and drinking contaminated water. This means that the radioactive material is concentrated in the higher predators.

I've been waiting on this upload lol I was just thinking yesterday... when do I get the next episode reaction lmfao and right on time you guys got me covered.

Haven't seen the last one yet. Had to watch episode 4 in two parts because I couldn't take the dog killing. Glad to be watching with you guys. Great commentary.

I've seen many reactions to this series, but you're the first to really discuss the line "you're done". To me, that short phrase carries such immense weight.

Hey guys, great reaction. I have watched the series a few times and the scene where she's trying to get information at the library has two possible motives imo. The more likely is that all those titles were denied bc of censorship of USSR. But I later wondered in a later watch if he was a fellow scientist that highlighted the title that would explain the explosion for her and crossed out the others bc they wouldn't provide any usable info. Since I'm here early after the upload, just an FYI that the title card in the reaction section says 1x3 instead of 1x4. I don't think it matters in the slightest but wasn't sure if you'd care. Excited for you all to see the final episode, does a great job explaining everything.

Probably not the right word to choose, but I really enjoyed watching this with you. All your comments were so thoughtful and so well delivered. It prompted me to think in different ways about now, what we were saying. I have seen the full documentary, so it was good to see it again but with a fresh perspective. I remember that when this happened here in the UK. We have stories in the press of radiation sweeping the world, which could even cause deformities in sheep and cattle in this country and across Europe. It really scared the world. But the Soviet Union, USSR, was a slow-moving, determined force. They cld not b seen as weak. IMO, not much has changed.

When it comes to documantarys it depents on how they are made whether they touch you emotionally or not. I have seen two that left an immotional impression. Both of them are German though. One is called "Rückkehr nach Tschernobyl" (Return to Chernobyl) and it tells the story of people who were evacuated and allowed to come back later. The whole movie had the sound of a dosimeter as a constant background noise. And one sentence stuck with me for ever. it showed a water truck clearing a street with the line: "Toxic machines are cleaning toxic tust of toxic streets with toxic water". I saw the movie in the 90s. The other one is about 10 years younger and is just called "Tschernobyl!" My mother was a teacher for biology and physics (also taught a little bit of Chemestry) ans she took that documantary home to show me as well. It was also shown on TV after Fukushima happened. It shows a lot of the events shown in this series. it was the first documantary I saw that showed the explosion it sleve not jsut the Nuclear Power plant. They mention the massive desaster that could have happned the reactor core had come in contact with the water. It shows the tunnle workers, the eveacuation in Prebyat, the decontamination work of the liquitators, the cleaing of the roof inculding the robots that went out of funktion. They cover some of the events with futage of the fotographer Igor Kostien and his destimony. They included the destimony of a young girl who was evacuade as well. It also covers how this desaster was the beginning of the end for the UDSSR and how people who are living closed to the area are doing present day (I saw the movie the first time somewhen between 2007 and 9. At that point the second sarcophagus was not yet finished) Even when I saw that documantary the second time it was hard for me to handle. Really impressive. Of course this series is even more impactful.

I woke up this morning and saw this video was up, figured "cool I'll watch it after work." Then I get to work and the first song I hear on the radio is Bon Jovi's Bad Medicine, and I was just like "year ok universe, I get it, watch the video." So now I'm gonna watch the video.

I highly recommend watching the video "The Dogs of Chernobyl" to see what's happened to the surviving dogs of the region. They've breeded into the world's most beautiful dogs, highly intelligent wild pack dogs who most are friendly to humans. You can pet them, mindful of washing well to remove contaminated particles, and they do have shorter lifespans. But man are they beautiful.

It's hilarious that these dudes are brainstorming on how they would fix it 😅

I guess I'll watch this devastating episode again😅 Love the reaction ❤

"He is with me, you don't mess with him." Was not about intimidation. It was the explanation that his job was horrible. To add any harassment on top of that was crossing a line. At least that was my take after watching the full episode.

One old man from my village in Lithuania had worked on this roof in Chernobyl and he managed to stay alive for a long time after that. He told us that in Chernobyl they were been drinking vodka all the time because they believed that it helps from radiation. He died about 10 years ago.

I think the long pauses on different objects is to show that everything they touch and everything around them is dangerous because its contaminated. Its the type of camera work you'd normally see when showing a dangerous object or person in movies as well as a way of emphasising an object or persons importance. Those few extra seconds draws you to it.

Can't wait for your reaction of the last episode. I like the last one the most. Go on guys!

He totally Office Space'd that phone.

Coincidentally an artical came out yesterday talking about how There's thriving gray wolf population in the Chernobyl

The area being evacuated is mostly in Ukraine, which suffered terribly during Stalin’s pogroms (including efforts to cause mass starvation there) and the Nazi occupation. Hence the old woman’s I’ve-seen-it-all… it-can’t-get-any-worse attitude.

I always tried to show the show to my parents but they didn't care until some weeks later they told me they watched it and they were amazed by it

Not-so-fun Facts: 1.The speech General Tarakanov gives to the soldiers about to go on the roof is real audio of the very speech the real general gave. And he repeated this speech to EACH of the 4 man groups. He did this day after day, hour for hour, again and again. 2. The footage seen on the TV screen during Tarakanov's speech, is actual real-life footage from the roof. The snippet shown is taken from footage made during the "Unstuck" operation, which leads me to... 3. Joker, the German robot did actually work in IRL; the operators did move some graphite from the roof with it. Sadly, Joker got stuck with its tracks on a piece of graphite and, as mentioned, men had to build a winch system to "unstuck" him. When this was finally done, Joker had spent so much time in the high radiation that he soon ceased to work. 4.Officially every one of the 3,828 men could go to the roof only once. This meant that their suits had to be produced for "one time use only." Despite this, it is said that some liquidators chose to go up several times, arguing that they "already done so" (and thus have to live with the consequence) and by going again "someone else would not have to waste their livef." Lastly, with each team removing some graphite, the radiation on the roof became less and less. So later cleanup teams could stay longer on the roof for their cleanup cycle.

Great reaction!

I live in the Baltics and we were occupied by the Russians when Chernobyl blew up. My grandfather was on the list of people that were called to clean up the area. Thankfully he managed to wiggle out of that.

This show did take artistic license in many ways, but it was done for impact. I feel like it was done very well. The time some of what is shown in the show would take far to long to make viewers understand the horrors this tragedy caused.

I might be seeing things that arent there, but i viewed the scene where she asked for documents and they only gave her one, as the "comrade" telling her, only this one matters, pick this one. Thats why she said thank you comrade.

the way I see cigarettes is that they are smoking nonstop which emphasizes a lot of stress. Even when they pretend to be calm or like they don't care anymore.

One thing a Western or an American commentator might miss is the ideological part of this - and author mentions it in the podcast. Soviet Union was, same as China with COVID, the only place a disaster would be treated like this - reckless management, cover up first, fix it later, but also the place with huge capacity to 'get things done'. We shouldn't underestimate the ideological motivation for people to self sacrifice for USSR, and do inexplicably laborious, complex or dangerous task 'for greater good' no questions asked. Which is an irony, considering how state does the complete opposite and repeatedly puts them in those kind of positions.

Even though I was born in 81. I studied so much about disaster, especially nuclear related things. I was so happy when they made this series. Even though they REALLY cut back on how graphic it really was. But many people felt horrible with what they showed as it was. Can't image peoples reactions tot he full graphicness of it in reality.

Incidentally, they didn't get rid of all trees and animals. They took out the dogs because there was too high a risk they would roam outside the exclusion zone and be adopted by people, and the fields of crops to prevent them entering the food-chain and to strip away the top layers of the soil otherwise the land would be unfarmable for a century-plus. Can't wait until the last episode. To me it was uniquely enthralling.

The is episode somehow made me the sickest. The gravity of what they left behind. I think of my pets and there is no WAY I could ever leave them. Seriously. I couldn’t. And the fact they are getting young people to do all of this is so horrifying.

I read that the anger that Stellan Skarsgård expressed when screaming at the phone came from how he felt about the incident when it happened and how it was handled by the government

37:10 I think that was the point, she didn't know what was going to happen when she went to see her husband, up until the end she thought he was just burned