Indeed, Vichnaya Pamyat = Eternal Memory In the Roman Catholic Faith there is a prayer for the deceased that begins, "Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord"; in the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Faith (which is practiced by a majority of those in the former Soviet States) there is a similar phrase said for the deceased, "Vichnaya Pamyat", Eternal Memory. In fact, the music playing over the end credits is the Orthodox Chant of Vichnaya Pamyat from the end of the Funeral Liturgy, courtesy of the Homin Lviv Municipal Choir.

Вечная память ;)

You know they have writers who come up with all that, right?

@@tchoupitoulos You know it's okay to celebrate the performance of an actor, right?

You missed a few others: “Every lie we tell incurs a dept to the truth, sooner or later that dept is paid” “What is the cost of lies?” “For god sakes Boris, you were the one that mattered most” “You are dealing with something that has never occurred on this planet before”

you mean dyatlov? 🤣

holy shit

you just blew my core

@@BhlackBishop you're obviously in shock

You are delusional. Get to the infirmary.

@@tsogobauggi8721 I'l volunteer!

why worry something that isn't gonna happen...

Yes that was the point. The flaw was discovered but the reports were expunged and everybody silenced by the KGB to prevent embarrassment of the regime.

Bill Dean I get not telling anybody about the flaw, but you would think they would stop building reactors of that specific model, & design a new one. They said in the show that there were 17 of that model operating at that time, so I wonder how many reactors did they build between 1975(discovery of the flaw)-1986(Chernobyl).

@@blakewilliams5627 When I say not telling anybody about the flaw, that includes the people whose job it is to make the building decisions. AS for numbers, it's hard to discern from this which reactors had their designs corrected, as there were a number of redesigns whose details it doesn't go into. But here is some raw data on the reactor build and operation timeline: www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/nuclear-power-reactors/appendices/rbmk-reactors.aspx

@@blakewilliams5627 it was still cheaper

not too bad, not too great

He also described the event as a "battle between me and the reactor" which shows how arrogant he was.

what about miners' accountability? You speak like there was no heroes there among soviet people, while there were hundreds of thousands actively fighting against this disaster. They fought and they won.

Dima S oh I completely agree. The miners and scientists and citizens who were actually on the ground and busted their asses and risked their lives. They are the real heroes. Not the Russian government.

Then why the fuck was that man in charge of a nuclear power plant if he didn't have the necessary skills to run it?

@DWN KAOMWN I know it sounds ridiculous but it was actually very typical nuclear power plant bureaucracy! Dyatlov’s job was Deputy Chief Engineer, a managerial position, whereas Akimov and Toptunov et al. were reactor engineers, their job literally was to operate the reactor. This isn’t to say that Dyatlov was stupid or didn’t know how the reactor worked, in fact when he had taken the job at Chernobyl he immersed himself to the point of obsession reading everything he could get his hands on about RBMK reactors. He knew the reactors at Chernobyl intimately because he made a point of routinely inspecting every last inch of them. At Chernobyl, though he was considered domineering and hard to work with, he was actually highly respected for his knowledge on RBMKs. What Dyatlov didn’t know about RBMKs wasn’t worth writing about (obviously this would turn out to be very wrong. CATASTROPHICALLY WRONG.) He just couldn’t operate them in the sense of pushing the buttons, moving the rods in and out, because that wasn’t the job he was trained to do. I feel like his expertise also explains his stubbornness; nothing he had read said that RBMKs could explode, therefore in Dyatlov’s mind, they couldn’t explode. Also, his previous job was with the military, installing reactors on nuclear submarines (he also survived a nuclear accident then too!). And what do you do in the military? You do as you’re told, you trust the orders that have been given to you. I’m not claiming to be an expert on Dyatlov’s psychology but I do believe these two factors can reasonably account for his stubbornness and nigh on unshakeable belief. Also, interesting fact about Viktor Bryukhanov, the plant manager: he was a very talented engineer who made his name working at coal powered electricity plants. The Party picked him up and sent him to rural Ukraine charged with the task of building the nuclear power plant which would become known as Chernobyl. He was literally responsible for planning and building a nuclear power plant AND the city of Pripyat from the ground up. All at the age of 35. Remember the bunker scene in episode one? When the old Party chief asks the assembled men if they know the real name of the power plant? Remember who answers? Viktor Bryukhanov. Of course he knows its real name! HE BUILT IT!

Leigh-Ann Turnbull wtf dude. Dyatlov was an engineer

@@dwnkaomwn3953 Because he's management now. His job is to know and run his staff, it's their job to run the plant. No one can keep up with the constant change of cutting edge technology forever while taking on greater organizational responsibilities. This is a very common circumstance in technology-based orgs. The young better understand things that change, like the evolving tech. Older people better understand the things that don't change, like human and organizational behavior.

@lilmoni I guess my original comment is somewhat confusing, but as I later explain (and as Bill Dean succinctly puts) Dyatlov's job at Chernobyl was MANAGERIAL. Yes, he was a trained engineer, but that is a very broad field. Just because you're trained to work on nuclear submarines, doesn't mean you're trained to operate an RBMK reactor. He seemingly did his best to educate himself for the job by reading a lot of literature on RBMKs, but the fact remains he wasn't specifically *trained* to operate them. I've edited my original comment to specify more clearly that he wasn't trained as an operator.

Well damn.

I know Right! I had the exact same thought!

That was actually Dyatlov's cousin, IIRC.

she wanted to marry him if Im not mistaken...

Obeefnik hope Ramsey doesn’t find them there

Multiple corroborating accounts vs. one dissenting account. It's not rocket science.

@@tchoupitoulos Yeeeah. Not sure why OP even had to ask. They kinda explained that several times through the series.

Goldblum**

@@jacquelinelaface136 Fixed

We definitely want to! :)

@@ImonSnow You are welcome to Gothenburg any time :D

At least it was not Ramsey. Tho he is not far behind.