CHERNOBYL | Episode 2: 'Please Remain Calm' | FIRST TIME WATCHING | TV REACTION

CHERNOBYL | Episode 2: 'Please Remain Calm' | FIRST TIME WATCHING | TV REACTION | Plus A Promotion!

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Things can't get worse can they? We continue the award-winning limited series, Chernobyl. Here's our reaction to our first time watching Episode 2, 'Please Remain Calm'.
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@takewhataway 2 жыл бұрын

Just a heads up, by the end of the series, eps 5, dont forget to see the very end. They showed some facts and real pictures of what happened

@Zero11s 2 жыл бұрын

"facts"

@bluebaconjake405 2 жыл бұрын

@@Zero11s yeah some of them were apparently pretty questionable facts lol. But its really interesting to see some info atleast

@kroelld 2 жыл бұрын

@@Zero11s yeah.. You really think legasov killed himself.

@maksphoto78 Жыл бұрын

@@kroelld He did. But for different reasons.

@KC1976fromDetroit 2 жыл бұрын

The helicopter crash actually happened, but it was the result of a collision with a crane's cables that was being used in the clean up effort, not from heat or radiation. If you go back and watch that scene again, you'll see the hook on the end of the crane cables fall as the helicopter blades connect with it. The crash actually happened later on in the crisis, in October of 1986. The film makers decided to place it earlier in the timeline of the show for dramatic effect.

@NZBigfoot 2 жыл бұрын

Which was a good idea of the shows personally, although some people seem to act like having some creative license with the events or rearranging or combining areas/characters to create a more cohesive flow for TV somehow invalidates the entire thing. Everything that wasnt 100% historical was done in my opinion with great respect and care (which is something some historical dramas are really bad at doing). Even though it didnt happen exactly like history, the event was portrayed the way it had to, to be watchable in a compressed amount of time and format.

@MRrealmadridRaul 2 жыл бұрын

@@NZBigfoot People are dumb and want any reason to complain to feel smart. Sometimes its the script writers trying to lie and sometimes its simply like you stated, for better flow. Some people are too dumb to distinguish between the two.

@langdalepaul 2 жыл бұрын

@@NZBigfoot I don’t agree. The very clear implication is that the radiation alone was sufficient to knock a helicopter out of the sky, amply demonstrated in this reaction video. That’s not just rearranging things for cohesion, flow, or even dramatic effect, it’s a misrepresentation of the facts. I’m pretty tolerant of the mistakes this show makes, because in general it’s very good, and some of them are pretty inconsequential, but that doesn’t mean you bury your head in the sand about things that are blatantly misleading.

@Nikchemni 2 жыл бұрын

HBO, че с них взять? Для пущей драматичности и засунули это крушение вертолета. For drama only.

@KC1976fromDetroit 2 жыл бұрын

@@langdalepaul - but, if you watch that scene again, you'll see the rotors hit the crane cables as they emerge out of the smoke cloud. You see the hook at the end of the crane cables fall. Seriously, go back and watch that scene frame by frame. People are jumping to conclusions about something they THINK they saw, not what was actually filmed.

@mwhyte1979 2 жыл бұрын

The scene where the hospital folks are dumping the Fire fighters clothe in the basement is true. The piles of clothes are still there as they are too radioactive to handle.

@SamnissArandeen Жыл бұрын

The basement of the Pripyat hospital is, excluding the core itself, the most radioactive place on Earth just because of those clothes.

@sam04019491 Жыл бұрын

Spoilers

@FanEAW Жыл бұрын

and yet some idiot tourists take some things from pripyat, when they are most likely radioactive and bring them back with them HOME... tourist agencies to chernobyl exclusion zone didnt give two shits. obviously its not a thing right now because of the war and everything.

@PiadaProductionsMacTutorials 2 жыл бұрын

I was in primary school when this happened. I live in Italy and I still remember that, for MONTHS, the government told us not to eat vegetables, greens and other stuff that had actually been under the rain in our gardens and/or fields... and this was in Italy. Cannot really imagine how it should have been around the actual site of the disaster...

@Pinkielover 2 жыл бұрын

It actually caused global cancer rates to go up still to this day ...

@deltahalo241 2 жыл бұрын

Here in the UK we had restrictions placed on lamb that remained in place until 2012. Essentially if a farmer wanted to sell his sheep to the market, they had to be monitered for radiation. Should the radiation exceed a specific level then the affected sheep were moved to different pastures until they excess radiation dissapated.

@AltCutTV 14 күн бұрын

I only remember it was for mushrooms. But that lingered as a "use with moderation" for many years after. There were also continued examinations of snakes and foxes, because they would be the things accumulating the most. Second hand radiation is a killer.

@Jhawkadam 2 жыл бұрын

General Colonel Pikalov- the military commander at Chernobyl portrayed in the series: actually took readings of radiation around the Chernobyl power plant in a modified Soviet BRDM-2. Either way, absolutely crazy the level of nerves and courage this man exhibited in this disaster. Served in the Soviet armed forces from 1941-1992 and took part in the Battles of Stalingrad, Moscow, Kursk, and Berlin. Mad respect for this man!!

@Celeon999A 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting fact about that evacuation of Prypjat : The West-german intelligence service first learned about the true severity of the accident by informants in Kiev reporting about countless people being late to work that morning because of no busses appearing on virtually every service line throughout the city.

@lucillebluth2616 Жыл бұрын

That's interesting 🥰

@FanEAW Жыл бұрын

didnt know this, thats very interesting, makes sense too i was wondering where all thoses busses came from lol now i know.

@Big_Bag_of_Pus 2 жыл бұрын

The conversion you want isn't "how much is 400 1986 rubles in today's money?" or "how much is 400 1986 rubles in dollars?" Neither of those tell you whether it'd be a lot of money, really. What matters is "how does 400 rubles compare to the cost of living there in 1986?" I couldn't find a definitive answer for that question; but as a reference point, in 1988, the average monthly salary for medical personnel with secondary or higher education was 160 rubles. Engineers in one of the "atom cities" were probably paid better than that. So they were probably being offered something on the order of two months salary.

@mark_p300 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, lots of other comments here about the official conversion rate to US dollars at the time, but really that's pointless. The Soviet Union was still a planned economy: prices of things were set by the _Goskomtsen_ , the "State Committee for Prices". The cost of food, housing, clothing, etc. had nothing to do with the supply and demand, or the input costs to make something: the prices were the prices. In reality a lot of staple goods were preposterously cheap, but availability was scarce and one would have to line up for hours to buy things because chances were they'd run out. Exchange rates for foreign currencies were also set by government edict, the rates having nothing to do with the real supply and demand of currencies. And again this was pointless for the average Soviet citizen, as they weren't allowed to hold foreign currency anyway. Comparing the value of the Soviet ruble using official or black market exchange rates doesn't paint an accurate picture of a citizen's cost of living.

@annelooney1090 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I wondered this and googled average ussr salaries in 1986. It looks like it's about 2 months salary. Which, like... I feel like I'd want my family to be taken care of for longer than 2 months....

@DaemonKeido 2 жыл бұрын

@@annelooney1090 If I knew how then about how fucked this situation was as I know now.....I'd question if my family would live long enough to spend it all anyway.

@Dragoon755 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting thing about the 15,000 figure for the roentgen is that is the maximum value that the high dose meter they used would go to, there have been estimates that it might have actually been in excess of 30,000.

@mnomadvfx 2 жыл бұрын

Makes sense - even the reading for the final core thermal power in megawatts (30+ GigaWatt) was only an estimate banked by the limits of the sensor equipment.

@jukicdalibor 2 жыл бұрын

I remember being a twelve-year-old boy in 1986 and living with my family in Ex Yugoslavia. For Labor Day May 1, I went with my family on a trip to the barbecue cottage. It has been four days since the Chernobyl reactor explosion and it has been raining heavily. We kids ran out in the rain because it was a real spring. At one point all the parents started yelling at us kids to get out of the rain as soon as possible because it is radioactive. It was at this point that they heard on the radio about the accident. We kids thought parents didn’t want us to be wet so we didn’t get sick. How the reality was so different and more cruel at the time. I still remember that day.

@Quotenwagnerianer 2 жыл бұрын

I was 9 and my best friend at the time had a sandbox in his garden. I remember that his mom told us to not play in the sand any longer because the sand might bind the radioactive isotopes. That was indeed just 100 km off of Frankfurt. Just like they say in the show.

@immortaljanus 2 жыл бұрын

Pozdrav, brate.

@jukicdalibor 2 жыл бұрын

@@immortaljanus vo-zdra

@lucillebluth2616 Жыл бұрын

@@immortaljanus lovely 🥰🙏

@expressschlinge 2 жыл бұрын

Fun Fact: Traces of the accident can still be detected in central europe today. Buddy of mine determined the radionuclides of a Lake in Austria in his thesis and still found traces.

@Jindrolim 2 жыл бұрын

Nothing in the series made me as scared and anxious as the end of this episode... Narrow corridors full of water, flashlights dying and the geiger counter ticking getting mroe and more intense... Absolute terror for me

@michaelriddick7116 2 жыл бұрын

I almost had a panic attack when it went all black and all you could hear was breathing .. 🤕🥺🥺

@SamuraiMonkey80 2 жыл бұрын

One of the best cliff hanger endings for any episode ever.

@whirlingidervish 2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelriddick7116 I would have straight up refused the Geiger counter. F that, like I need to know exactly how screwed I am.

@TrashskillsRS 2 жыл бұрын

They did complete it in absolute blackness, holding onto eachother and walking slowly. Only finding their way because of their internal map of the place. The geiger counter helping them not doing a misstep into a bad spot.

@jackinabox926 2 жыл бұрын

@@whirlingidervish amazingly all 3 of them actually survived and lived long lives.

@marina7592 2 жыл бұрын

I remember when this happened and it was very bad. Everytime the wind changed, people in Europe were freaking out. But imagine how much worse it would have been had someone other than Gorbachev been in charge.

@dudermcdudeface3674 2 жыл бұрын

For real. Any of his predecessors would have denied everything even after it was revealed, and the chaos and desperation that followed could easily have sparked WW3.

@gregpeacock5497 2 жыл бұрын

@@dudermcdudeface3674 There wouldn't have been WW3, the accident would have wiped out most of western USSR and eastern Europe. I say this because a more hard core leader like Stalin would have kept denying anything was wrong and the 3 men would have never emptied the tanks.

@dudermcdudeface3674 2 жыл бұрын

@@gregpeacock5497 Desperation increases the chances of war happening. Seventy million people fleeing would have been the most horrific migration history, and even if everyone was on board with supporting them, most would have starved. The East and the West would have blamed the other for their failures.

@marina7592 2 жыл бұрын

@@dudermcdudeface3674 Yeah, the mind bogles at what may have happened. It's a guarantee it would have been so much worse though.

@servantofmelian9966 2 жыл бұрын

Agree. Gorbachev actually seems fairly decent and intelligent.

@SotonCueMan 2 жыл бұрын

I was 17 when this happened, living in the UK I remember following this closely on the news - concerned about how much would reach us. The cloud did reach the UK but thankfully was greatly dispersed and weakened by the time it did. If all the heroes dealing with it had not stopped it as quickly as they did what would the impact have been on us - and the world.....

@raven4k998 2 жыл бұрын

well the impact would have been probably the deaths of everyone on the planet had they not stopped it that's what the impact would have been cause the radiation lasts for thousands of years

@fiddiehacked 2 жыл бұрын

"Sand & boron" Boron is a neutron absorber, stops fission quickly if there's enough.

@s1lm4r1l6 2 жыл бұрын

Sand to put out the Fire.

@josephstalin5374 2 жыл бұрын

The most accurate part of this episode is the Soviet general going into the reactor and coming back with the measurements and firefighters' uniforms. Still a very good show 👌

@Curraghmore 2 жыл бұрын

You know what they say: every big disaster movie starts with someone ignoring a scientist.

@SteveNaranjo 2 жыл бұрын

How powerful is that phrase "we are dealing with something that has never occurred in this planet before"

@a.a677 Жыл бұрын

And it has not since... hopefully it never will

@seanrosenau2088 3 ай бұрын

Look up 'Oklo the 2 Billion Year Old Natural Nuclear Reactor'.

@KevDaly 2 жыл бұрын

I was 24 and working in the north of France at the time. It was unsettling hearing of the progress of the cloud over Europe. There were reports that women in Germany were having abortions because of it. I never knew how much I owed to 3 men.

@corvo9406 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve heard that those three men actually lived fairly long lives

@rikardottosson1272 2 жыл бұрын

@@corvo9406 one of them died, but from something unrelated

@jamielandis4308 2 жыл бұрын

The problem really comes from the fact that they didn’t think that kind of reactor could explode so no procedures were in place.

@alextromagnetic 2 жыл бұрын

The ending of this episode is legit one of the scariest things ever put to TV. The sound of the geiger counter getting faster and louder is completely terrifying

@maujo2009 2 жыл бұрын

This series illustrates how true horror should be portrayed in film. I wish Hollywood learned this. Expensive CGI monsters scare no one. The unknown and unseen is always way much scarier!

@lucillebluth2616 Жыл бұрын

@@maujo2009 I agree, everyone is scared of the unknown 🙏

@old_spice8054 2 жыл бұрын

12:00 helicopter hity crane cabels. Simple like that.

@campagnollo 2 жыл бұрын

That video edit at the end of the episode was perfect. That sudden silence with her look is unmatched.

@maxgeorgievsky9527 2 жыл бұрын

Boris (as well as Stellan Skarsgard) is a freaking legend.

@hurricane1951 2 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite shots is when she puts down the phone handset and stares at it, just ringing and ringing. Very dramatic.

@Rod934 2 жыл бұрын

If you're interested. Kyle Hill has a video called "the elephant's foot" that explains more about what happened to the core.

@lucillebluth2616 Жыл бұрын

I watch that one, very informative 🥰🙏

@dbking4194 2 жыл бұрын

Just as a comment, I think the music is just perfect for this series. It creates an ominous atmosphere with a kind of industrial thread. It is so clever.

@QuayNemSorr 2 жыл бұрын

And it was made by sampling real sounds from Nuclear reactors.

@prollins6443 2 жыл бұрын

Even thou I was just a baby, it still makes me nervous knowing this happened in my lifetime. Plus, it is so difficult to not get emotional when those men volunteer to carry out the mission.

@shakawhenthewallsfell8570 2 жыл бұрын

Many (majority) of major accidents don't happen because of a single event, but rather a series of events that just happen to fall in place. Be they accidental occurrences, acts of omission or commission, mechanical failures, willful disregard, or simply bad luck. Taking one of those elements out will prevent the accident from occurring. In the safety industry, that is known as the "Swiss Cheese Model", where each slice represents a barrier, but a barrier that has flaws (holes). Eventually as you move the slices around or swap them out, at least one of the holes will line up and all the barriers fail. The RBMK reactor was in theory a safe design and had fail safes that should prevent the accident. In the last episode you will see the exact chain of events that lined up.

@DMichaelAtLarge 2 жыл бұрын

And as HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey says, "These things are always due to human error." The ultimate cause was the Soviet preference for propaganda over reality when they suppressed the danger in the cost-cutting design.

@michaelccozens 2 жыл бұрын

@@DMichaelAtLarge Was it only Soviet? Fukushima has some questions.

@michaelccozens 2 жыл бұрын

Most of your post is interesting, but I'm a bit skeptical of your grasp of the "safety industry". First, they don't use the word "accident", as "accident" carries an implication of inevitability and/or that the failure isn't anyone's responsibility. Second, they don't use the term "bad luck". On a long-enough timeframe, even the most remote possibility will come to pass. That's just probability. "Luck" doesn't enter into it. Also, you don't know what "fail safe" means. A "fail safe" is a design feature that anticipates that failure will occur at some point, and creates conditions in which the consequences of that failure will be ameliorated as much as possible. When you place a piece of wood under your car's frame when it's up on jacks, you're creating a "fail safe"; if the jack fails, the wood will keep the car from crushing you. The failure state will be as safe as it can be made. If the RBMK had failsafes, it would have failed relatively "safely". It did not.

@shakawhenthewallsfell8570 2 жыл бұрын

The word "Accident" is used plenty, as in: accident investigation, prevent accidental release, avoid accidental actuation... etc. Bad luck plays in when it's concerning individuals involved in an accident, or incident if that suits your vocabulary choice better, who are affected but not linked directly to the event; think of passengers on a crashing aircraft or people in the path of a derailed train. They are part of it, but have zero control or input in the event. In some cases the bad luck can be the accident itself as it sometimes really takes very remote and relatively low probability events to come together just right. Also a fails safe can either be a backup device such as example you've given, and also a backup plan. In the case here, the AZ-5 button.

@DMichaelAtLarge 2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelccozens The topic is Chernobyl, not every nuclear incident in the history of the world.

@AthanImmortal 2 жыл бұрын

!*No spoilers*! 2:00 If I can give you one assurance, that every question you raise *will* be answered by the end of the show. That thing about all of the experts saying it's impossible for an RBMK reactor to explode will make more sense, and there will be other things that may seem confusing at first or unbelievable, let yourself ask all the questions. Simply one of the best shows ever made.

@MrTech226 2 жыл бұрын

Plus, we can't forget about Fukushima Reactor in Japan when major Earthquake cause its breech there too. According to International Nuclear Event Level Scale, both Chernobyl and Fukushima's levels are at top level - Level 7. There are 8 levels from Level 0 to Level 7.

@Short_Round1999 Жыл бұрын

That’s a gigercounter. It basically tells you how radioactive something or an area is. And there is nothing scarier than that sound

@jeffsherk7056 2 жыл бұрын

This happened a couple of years after I graduated from college. All I remember is that there were some exchange students, Americans and Europeans, in Pripyat who needed to be evacuated. I don't think there was that much news coverage in the United States. Three Mile Island, which happened in 1979, when I was in high school, was more frightening to me.

@thedragon133 2 жыл бұрын

3:33 and that equipment partly still lies there, to this day.

@werdle92 2 жыл бұрын

I love how the show is alternately bleak and frustrating, but also illustrates the courage and heroism of the average men and women who sacrificed their health to prevent it from getting worse. It isnt just a criticism of the event, it is also a display of selflessness

@ct5625 2 жыл бұрын

There are a lot of names that everyone in the world should know, it's such a shame that genuinely heroic people who saved so many lives are so often completely forgotten.

@Big_Bag_of_Pus 2 жыл бұрын

Yes. It's easy to get so angry about Soviet officials (who definitely deserve that anger) that one forgets how so many showed so much incredible bravery and selflessness.

@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 2 жыл бұрын

@@Big_Bag_of_Pus I remember when this happened. I was just 17 at the time, but my 1st thought was for all the people who I knew were gonna have to go in, fight the fires & fix whatever else needed doing. I remember feeling so scared & sad for them, but also admiration at the courage they must have to do that, knowing what was going to happen to them.

@NZBigfoot 2 жыл бұрын

Chernobyl was one of those moments in history where if some things had gone slightly different... the world we know today would be VERY different. We were lucky, very very lucky... thanks to groups of Russians who stood up to the plate and stood their grounds against a souless machine. Buckle up... the next episodes a doosy of nuclear proportions.

@ashleyowen7664 2 жыл бұрын

"lucky" isn't the word, i've seen a lot of documentaries on Chernobyl, i've seen the real-life footage of what people looked like after it, yet i have never seen this series, to say we were lucky is an understatement as to what COULD of been

@sirmang9032 2 жыл бұрын

Real life heroes who put their lives on the line, some unwillingly, to save basically all of Europe. The word hero gets thrown out there a lot, but the liquidators are true heroes.

@MrDeadstu 2 жыл бұрын

The firefighters clothes in the basement of the hospital are still there to this day, and still very radioactive.

@conureron3792 2 жыл бұрын

Speaking of the lava, there’s a KZfaq video called “The Elephant’s Foot” - talks about that lava in the basement of Chernobyl

@darthroden 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting fact: Those uniforms that were irradiated that they put in that room are still there today in the abandoned hospital.

@pwph8361 2 жыл бұрын

'always prepare for the worst...' pretty much my motto for 2022!

@michaelgonzalez6295 2 жыл бұрын

18:39 Those three volunteers are true heroes. Fortunately for the the world, they succeeded. Their reward was far greater. They somehow survived. They did not receive fatal doses of readiation, or highly life-shortening ones. They lived for many years after. One died of heart attack in 2005, the other two were still alive in 2018.

@cyberdan42 2 жыл бұрын

This is the pure truth. Heroism is to knowingly walk into a situation you are almost certain will be lethal, to take an unimaginable risk of a truly horrible death in order to save a situation from becoming a literal world ending catastrophe. I cannot, fortunately, imagine being faced with such a choice.

@Garryck-1 2 жыл бұрын

And funnily enough, it was the dive suits they were given that saved them. Nobody knew at the time, but the particular fabrication of those suits turned out to be excellent protection against radiation.

@saviourself687 2 жыл бұрын

Come on man, mark this as a spoiler at least, the reveal for this isn't until the end of episode 5... = P

@frozenharold 2 жыл бұрын

Why is it you feel the need to put spoilers in here?

@vladleon2307 2 жыл бұрын

Not just lived for many years but keep working in this industry. One of them back to work on Chernobyl Power plant in 90s. That episode was a little exaggeration from showrunners.

@cyberdan42 2 жыл бұрын

A huge aspect of this show, which is mentioned, is that the Soviet scientists and leaders were making things up as they went. A few years before this disaster there had been a Hollywood film called the Chine Syndrome (1979) which had a nuclear meltdown in a fictional LA nuclear plant where the reactor lava was going to' literally' melt through the centre of the earth all the way to China (abjectly impossible for so many reasons). But this film and the possible "melt through the earth" scenario was seriously discussed during Chernobyl, because people simply did not know, the obvious misinformation and deception by the authorities then fuelled conjecture and bred paranoia, leading to all sorts of wild theories. In this I think Boris Shcherbina was a hugely influential figure, he was imminently practical and calmly addressed the most immediate and serious issues step by step as the arose, without giving in to the wilder what if fears.

@angelrogo 2 жыл бұрын

China Syndrome (1979) was a propaganda film against nuclear power plants. Hanoi Jane never complained about Chernobyl.

@cyberdan42 2 жыл бұрын

@@angelrogo Yes, propaganda of all types feeds on ignorance and breeds misinformation. Completely agree. My point is the amount of uncertainty there was, which bred exactly this sort of sensationalised fear. There were people in the the Soviet Union and the rest of the World, people with education and authority, who really worried Chernobyl would "burn through the Earth". Like many big issues everyone seemed to bounce between the ridiculous extremes of "it is the end of the World" or "it is infallible and a miracle discovery". The two extremes hugely contributed to the Chernobyl accident (the Soviets refused to discuss the dangers of Nuclear plants) and then the confusion in its clean-up (attempting to prevent dangers which were, frankly, impossible).

@dunbar9finger 2 жыл бұрын

The dumbest thing about China Syndrome is this: "Oh noes, the Earth has never had something as hot as magma beneath the surface before. Oh wait...".

@007sMoneyPenny 2 жыл бұрын

If this mini series got you hooked on that nuclear plant catastrophe topic I have another great recommendation for you: „China Syndrome“ with Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas. Or „Silkwood“ with Cher and Meryl Streep.

@JackOiswatching 2 жыл бұрын

'Oh my god, holy shit, WTF' is basically this shows secondary title.

@andrewnewton007 2 жыл бұрын

How it really was: - divers were not volunteers, they were forced. At the time, alcohol was illegal. -the helicopter really crashed, but it happened a little later than shown in the series.

@MattMajcan 2 жыл бұрын

2:16 synchronized eating

@JamesJoyce12 2 жыл бұрын

I like that you can correctly pronounce "Nu-Clear" as opposed to so many folks "nuke - u - ler"

@lucillebluth2616 Жыл бұрын

I found this series so sad, I remember many families came to stay in my city in the 90s I pray for all involved to recover 🙏🥰

@PaladinesAngel 2 жыл бұрын

They were all SO brave. What an amazing show this is. The scientist lady is an amalgamation of all the other scientists they recruited at the time.

@beastmasterbg 2 жыл бұрын

I'm still kind of annoyed that they used a WOKE character(woman saving the day to show independent and strong she is) to a serious show like this when in reality its multiple scientist figuring out the problem

@PaladinesAngel 2 жыл бұрын

@@beastmasterbg surely it can’t always be “woke”. Are we against women being seen in any role now lest it be suggested it’s “woke” Why on earth shouldn’t it have been a woman? What difference does her gender make to the story itself? I think it has more to do with personal issues than anything about the program. Maybe they just wanted to hire at least one woman who wasn’t in a very minor role and relegated to simpering spouse. Oh the travesty and temerity of that. Why with so little main characters who are men in the show. You can barely see them can you! 🙄 Were the brave men who went underground to drain the system, the main scientist, the leader of the whole endeavour, all the brave fire fighters and plant personnel not enough of a man showing to really assuage the thirst for men to be the only heroes. Are we so fragile we can’t stand to be the supporting role EVER? Not that this particular character even IS the main saviour. She’s one of many.

@beastmasterbg 2 жыл бұрын

@@PaladinesAngel gender doesnt make a difference.... But showing a group of scientist in their craft of the truth is far better then just showing 1 person who just randomly becomes brave like an avenger and ignores laws to go into chernobyl. I dont mind that its a woman. I mind the scientific representation of struggle when scientist try hard to find a solution while talking to eachother. It ignores the value of science and blatantly uses one person (who happens to be a woman ) as a hero instead.

@PaladinesAngel 2 жыл бұрын

@@beastmasterbg if they showed all the scientists involved we would need to have at least another episode to get to know all these other significant members of the team. There are already a gazillion we have to follow. It’s just a story telling ploy to reduce the number of players in the game so viewers aren’t completely lost with whose who. Making her a woman makes it even easier, given she’s the only significant woman on the show outside of car taker in the whole ensemble cast of mainly guys.

@lucillebluth2616 Жыл бұрын

All involved were so brave 🥰🙏

@Justin_Leone Жыл бұрын

The three volunteers actually survived. One died in 2005 of a heart attack, but the other 2 are still alive today.

@XLeon_S_KennedyX 2 жыл бұрын

Even til this day, the firemen suits left in the hospital are still very radioactive.

@windsaw151 2 жыл бұрын

14:19 Someone did a video on the series listing little details he would have wished they put into it. One was that on that day, in Kiew, everybody was waiting at the bus stops in order to get to work but no busses came. Really, no busses in a city of that size! And I don't think anybody was told why.

@ThePolarBearEST 2 жыл бұрын

do u have link to share´?

@windsaw151 2 жыл бұрын

@@ThePolarBearEST Unfortunately no, I can't find the video anymore. Other details I remember he mentioned: They were playing classical music on the radio all day, so everybody knew something serious had happened altough not what it was. That usually happened when a general secretary died or something like that. And that people heared that iodine pills helped against the radiation. Since they couldn't get them, several swallowed disinfectant iodine, which is a very, very bad idea.

@ThePolarBearEST 2 жыл бұрын

@@windsaw151 oh wow, thanks for reply

@Zagregarian88 2 жыл бұрын

Mrs Movie: This show is depressing. Everyone who’s seen the full series: …

@cleonmagabeefy8473 2 жыл бұрын

Please remain calm... Yeah right, I'm heading for thee hills!!!!

@immortaljanus 2 жыл бұрын

I was 2 years old when this happened. I hear the wind brought a good amount of that cloud our way.

@paulieluppino1856 2 жыл бұрын

15:48 ...."You've made lava"..... The original "The floor is lava"......

@MrTech226 2 жыл бұрын

About 36 years later, it still there!

@syx3s 2 жыл бұрын

"should have brought some glowsticks." - quote of the year.

@Tonyblack261 2 жыл бұрын

The stages of this from bullying, denialism, passing the buck and the realisation that they would need to actually do something, is interesting and disturbing to watch. I lived through this time and even as far west as the UK we felt its impact: "Parts of Cumbria, Scotland and Northern Ireland were impacted, but North Wales was hardest hit, with sheep still failing radioactive tests 10 years after the accident. The last restrictions on the movement and sale of sheep in the UK were lifted in 2012."

@revylokesh1783 2 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile you guys got Sellafield in your backyard... 😔

@mnomadvfx 2 жыл бұрын

@@revylokesh1783 Sellafield is not a nuclear power station, at least not anymore. It's a nuclear material processing plant.

@tkaki6029 2 жыл бұрын

Every time she drinks it’s to try to not cry. It’s all good I know you’re cheat code

@weisthor0815 2 жыл бұрын

german here, i was six when i was not allowed to play outside and we would not eat vegetebales from outside for months. even today there are still parts of southern germany were you shouldn´t harvest and eat mushrooms.

@willbudnikov8388 2 жыл бұрын

400 rubles back in 1986 would have been around $375-400. Insanity! It’s a fascinating show, albeit depressing. I remember when it happened and was about 200 miles away from there. Incredibly scary.

@Nester665 2 жыл бұрын

Hell our bosses at work act like 500$ bonus is life changing. Plant on fire? Get back in there for a 500$ bonus and put it out. Sounds about the same.

@hawkthorn33 2 жыл бұрын

the most dread filled ending of any episode ever made.

@evanjones1064 2 жыл бұрын

Not that I'm a scientist, but when the women are speaking in code they are referencing the periodic table of elements. They use the kids ages to match the periodic table numbers. Element 14 is Silicon (in this case dioxide), commonly found in steel and sand and element 5 is Boron. My 5th grade science teacher would be so proud haha

@ericmarley7060 2 жыл бұрын

There is a painting at the end of the hallway Legasov waits in before the government meeting starts. Legasov stares at it incessantly. The painting is "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan" by Ilya Repin (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible_and_His_Son_Ivan). The painting is of the first Russian Tsar (emperor) Ivan I, cradling the body of his son, whom he had struck on the head moments before with his sceptre in a fit of impulsive rage. Note the shame and horror on his face. The remorse. His son was his pride and joy, a symbol of hope for his nation, much like the Soviet nuclear program was in it's propaganda. The paining is visible in almost shot in that room for the rest of the series.

@GMlilEASTSIDEcharlie 2 жыл бұрын

Rubles aren’t interchangeable but back then from what I understand 400 rubles would have the buying power of about 4-6000 dollars today, the exact conversion rate would be less than $400 US dollars but in Russia in 1986 rent was about 20-35 dollars for a 3 nice 3 bedroom apartment

@christopherboudreau43 2 жыл бұрын

To answer your question, 400 rubles is 5 dollars and 12 cents US currency.

@lukoshey79 2 жыл бұрын

Hey its the Baron Harkonnen from the recent Dune film... Love this guy..

@jayman58016 2 жыл бұрын

I don't know how that general sat in the truck with balls that big.

@fiddiehacked 2 жыл бұрын

An interesting follow-up to this series would be the documentary Babushkas of Chernobyl, about several residents who moved back to Chernobyl & successfully lived off the land for decades.

@magus104 2 жыл бұрын

I cant imagine them actually using geiger counters that would just drive you mad when you know the whole place is screwed. I assume it was only here for dramatic effect.

@magus104 2 жыл бұрын

@Remington597man well if things happened the way they did in the show they knew that place was screwed sening the guys inside. there wasnt a doubt the way the show is presenting the info. Unless with the whole missinformation they didnt want the workers going in to know how fucked it was despite them knowing the number cause the general guy already went in and got the actual reading

@GrumpyOldGuyPlaysGames 2 жыл бұрын

I have been saying for decades that people everywhere should be building statues, and naming streets and schools after Oleksii Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and Boris Baranov. Even here in the United States, we should have been honoring these men as heroes who helped save the world, not just for saving the Ukraine or even all of Eastern Europe, but they saved the entire world. Because believe me, had Eastern Europe been erased like they described, North America would have felt it. They should have statues in every city. High Schools. Remembrance Days.

@angelrogo 2 жыл бұрын

15:29 That was the real footage of the flash news report on the Soviet TV, immediately replicated by news agencies all across Europe. That was the first news we the west Europeans had about what happened. If the north side of Spain (southwest Europe) was slightly affected by the radiative cloud, you just imagine how severe was in East Europe.

@aeliusdawn 2 жыл бұрын

I don't think it was real footage, only a very accurate representation. Here is the real news footage kzfaq.info/get/bejne/arapp8aYybbZhH0.html

@GustavSvard 2 жыл бұрын

First we in the West knew was from the radiation alarm going off at the nuclear power plant at Forsmark north of Stockholm. Which was earlier the same day as that Soviet TV news broadcast - the Soviets knew the news was getting out so they decided to announce it in a controlled fashion. I.e. lied like hell.

@angelrogo 2 жыл бұрын

@@GustavSvard You are right but in Spain, the first news we had was the Vremya flash news report replicated first in Germany, France and Italy.

@Archie2c 2 жыл бұрын

The Radiation so high it killed the Batteries or burned out the bulbs

@KittysInu Жыл бұрын

The helicopter hits part of a crane and breaks up, it wasnt the radiation that broke the rotor blades

@johlbenedict4960 2 жыл бұрын

Geiger counter the single most terrifying sound in the world

@Ozvideo1959 2 жыл бұрын

The thing about the nuclear industry and its advocates is that they always say they have planned for every contingency, and they have safety systems and backups for those safety systems. The reality is that when it all goes pear-shaped, it is left to men to risk their lives to stop a wide-scale disaster from happening. That was the case at Windscale in the UK, at Chernobyl in Ukraine, and at Fukushima in Japan.

@tomangelripper2255 2 жыл бұрын

The clothes of the firefighters are still down there in the building.

@JDams572 2 жыл бұрын

“Should’ve brought some glow sticks” TOO SOON MAN!! Those dudes were walking glow sticks 😂

@JDams572 2 жыл бұрын

Also! 400 Ruples was about $527 (American)

@gergosukosd8299 2 жыл бұрын

The last three minutes of this episode is one of the scariest and most intense scene ever . And this is just the begining.

@Fraxxxi 2 жыл бұрын

I am in this episode! ... well, kinda. I was one of the kids in Germany not allowed to play outside.

@rock4u197335 2 жыл бұрын

I toured Chernobyl and seen the hospital basement where they stored the fire fighters clothes

@ceemsc 2 жыл бұрын

According to Gorbachev, at the time 1 Ruble was the equivalent to 1 U$D so 400 rubles then would be the equivalent of $200 USD today.

@danielkelley2784 2 жыл бұрын

Such a good show so crazy that this happened

@HistorianOfVaelris Жыл бұрын

Would love to see an HBO miniseries in the same vein as this one about the Union Carbide insecticide plant disaster in Bhopal, India in 1984, a disaster that was far deadlier than Chernobyl, both in the immediate aftermath and in indirect deaths due to long-term health conditions caused by chemical contamination (which is still spreading while the surrounding area remains densely populated to this day).

@gillbarry8681 2 жыл бұрын

The helicopter crashed as result of striking an adjacent crane support line, not radiation. The busses came from Kiev, kiev's entire bus system was recruited for the evacuation and the city itself was immobile.

@Donbett1974 2 жыл бұрын

In April of 1986 the USD was worth $.7135 per 1 RUB. So 400 RUB is worth $560.7 USD.

@SecretLars Жыл бұрын

For americans the 30 km radius exclusion zone is roughly 19 miles radius

@ToxicDover 2 жыл бұрын

If you convert 400 rubles to USD in 1986, you're looking at just shy of $530...

@mrbasfed1948 2 жыл бұрын

530 of 1986 dollars and not todays crap. ))

@bodybytacos6043 2 жыл бұрын

400 rubles today equals $5.08

@manuela1986 2 жыл бұрын

@@mrbasfed1948 cca 1.3K today is not much better tbh

@Linwhiplash 2 жыл бұрын

All the music and noises on background is made with real noises from Chernobyl

@gerardmertens781 2 жыл бұрын

The three men dieing part very sad and r.i.p to them but to use a star trek quote "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one."

@kelvyquayo Жыл бұрын

Regarding “setting up families for life” they cannot suggest this because in Soviet system everyone is already supposed to be set up with all they need.

@marcquestenberg8385 2 жыл бұрын

The 3 people did not go to the basement voluntarily. They had the bad luck to belong to the shift that was on duty.

@thomasmccracken8819 2 жыл бұрын

I remember one day that spring my town Spokane had high radiation levels cause of a rain storm brought it down to the surface.

@carbuneskinny5797 2 жыл бұрын

Preparing for whats still to come !!

@JohnCollins 2 жыл бұрын

"How does a nuclear reactor work?" IS a simple question. It works like a kettle :D

@foley15136 2 жыл бұрын

The woman on the loudspeaker said that the situation was unpleasant.

@johnrobertson1 2 жыл бұрын

LOL @ 2:42

@tsogobauggi8721 2 жыл бұрын

0:39 A Simpsons reference :) 9:06 The other creep immediately betrays the other one. :D 9:34 That guy is a true man 18:20 Like those men too. 19:09 The point was to stress the viewers ;)

@bambusbjorn3508 2 жыл бұрын

Actually it wasn't the radiation which destroyed the helicopter ... the pilot did not realize that behind the smoke cloud was a crane ... he flew against it, the helicopters rotor blades hit the cranes cables and got destroyed ...