Hi guys so the thing is people back than didnt know how a nuclear plant works or what is radiation.. thats why they were so careless and easy going liike it was nothing.. :) also it was a communist country no information whats so ever... and u couldn't argue with your supervisors or u might end up in a labor camp.. :D Different world back than especially in Russia and Ukraine...

Without people like Legassow, many of your European channel members would not be here today.....

How bad was the schooling in Vic that you were unaware of Chernobyl? Guess standards must have dropped? Spartan, Aussie history isn’t something to just dismiss btw… immigrants like your family benefited from what was offered here… that’s something to acknowledge and be thankful for😊, yeah?👍

I honestly can't believe that you didn't know of Chernobyl, one of the worlds worst disasters of the modern age.... And one of Russia's worst moments. The Iron Curtain and cold war were in full effect and Russia's paranoia and fear of the west caused untold damage.... Don't forget at the levels of Radiation involved being anywhere near meant certain death.

You guys should check out the TV show reservation dogs it is a really funny TV show

I thought the same thing. 😂 they are probably playing the fool on purpose for the “reaction” . it’s hard to believe anyone can be this ignorant of Chernobyl/the Soviet union. Reaction creators love stating videos claiming “ we honestly have very heard of this” and tilting it “first time watching- “

🙄🙄🙄

I get that vibe from a lot of reviewers, but not them. I've learned to trust my gut and I have a good feeling about them. They were born after the Soviet Union fell and they live in Australia. I think it's perfectly reasonable what they're saying.

​@@resin807i dont think so. They always make it from the start clear if they know something about the series or thematic.

@@resin807Have you heard of the Secret War in Laos without looking it up?

Absolutely

What’s embarrassing is to continue to be that way and not care

well. there are somethings you just should know when youre at a certain age. and having never heard of chernobyl is one of them. you dont need to know all the details. but the gist of it should be common knowledge

​@@nilexinator5901I write it off as Australia not being all that involved in the Cold War and all of its juicy little stories. In contrast, I would assume Australians to be far more familiar with far east history. Tit for tat. But I'm being presumptuous. In any case, intellectual humility is a virtue.

@@nilexinator5901 what? that makes no sense how can you expect someone to know about certain world events if its not a mandatory thing taught in schools? just becuase a piece of media reached you doesn't mean it reaches everyone in the world

they’re not north american either :p but yah, or the emu war lol

Were you alive during the meltdown? I can still remember the exact place and time I was on 9/11 so I’m curious if you do too

​@@kylerb2631why does it matter if they were alive? They should know about Chernobyl regardless

To be fair, I'm from Europe and Chernobyl was never mentioned in school. I heard about it regardless, but the education system is lacking.

@@tilltronje1623 if its not taught in school how can you expect someone to know about it? someone would either have to tell them about it or they would have to by chance see a post on social media talking about it, and thats not gonna happen to everyone in the world. do you know about Halifax?

Yeah this is frightening to see these oblivious westerners who have absolutely no clue about whats going on beforehand. This must be what its like to be attractive people and having life on easy mode. Cant believe these people are gonna reproduce. They probably dont even know about the soviet union and how the socialism in the soviet union was way worse than the national socialist under hitler.

It isn't a global event of importance. You would learn about it in higher education like Uni classes, bur primary and secondary? If this isn't an important part of your local history, why would you learn it?

@@TheMilkMan8008 i learnt it in primary/secondary school. In physics class during the topic of radiation. But i do live in Denmark, so it's closer to home for Europeans than Americans, our government advised the public to not be outside because of the radioactive fallout from Chernobyl. So it's definitely more important for us to learn about, compared to the US where you have never experienced an event like this. I bet most children in Europe learn about it in the formative years of school. We don't have primary/secondary school, most countries in EU have just one school from around 6 years old to about 15, called grade 1-9 or "Folk school" because everyone has to have it, and it's free. Then you can go to "Gymnasium" which is a high school equivalent, and then university like the US, with bachelor and candidate degrees. So it's a bit different in Europe than in the Americas.

@@sp0r26 Yes, I believe that is the thing. The closer you were to the disaster, the more you learned about it. Some parts of Europe were totally unaffected. That is where we see nobody learn it. The same is true with the Americas and such. It makes sense that people don't learn things that aren't big for them. If you were closer to Russia during this and had a real threat of issue or real scare, then you would learn some. If you have a real threat and non hypothetical issue, you learned more. If you were in the range of danger, you learned even more, and so on and so on.

Honestly, Siknikov might have been better off going with the bullet compared to what he went through

The reality is that they didn't need any threats from the government to make the sacrifices they needed to to save their families and communities. They did what they had to because of their love of those groups.

Pudgey: I'd be walking out. KGB: No need, we will carry you out ... go stand against that wall...

You might get out, but your family would be dead.

@@hoathanatos6179 Yes , they were heros !

Its always frustrating watching these reactions when they havent listened to the podcast with Craig Manzin. There is SO much subtlety that went into this show that is often missed.

@@SweetLou0523 People shouldn't have to listen to a podcast before watching a show to enjoy it though.

When i saw the series for the first time it was a reaction from another person I didn't need a pod cast to understand the different levels going on ​@mariekeho

@@SweetLou0523and most people don’t know about that though

@@SweetLou0523I was a baby from a nearby country around that time and I didn’t even know about the podcast (or the person)…

Thank you for your comment.

Grandparents?! How old are you?😅 It should have been your PARENTS!😅

So sorry it happened it Must have been scary. I heard many people still get diagnosed with Cancer there is that true?

@@mrcool7358 At least not in Germany, but in Ukraine the cancer rate around Kiev is far higher. However, increased radioactivity can still be detected in wild mushrooms in Germany today.

Same in Italy. I was outside anyway, but even as a child, I remember i was scared about those "radioactive winds" I barely understood

@@Station-Network in boars too. to an extent

Similar age in Wales and remember it like yesterday. Growing up during the cold war years was wild. Our local reactor would release enormous amounts of “waste” to avoid melt downs and stay very quiet about it, but after months of weird happenings they would eventually make tiny statements hidden in middle pages of the news. The media would help keep it quiet too. West and East were both adepts of propaganda.

USSR

@@ladyhotep5189 Yes USSR sorry typo !

@@alm519 You can edit comments when you want to make corrections. The function is right there.

It was always in Ukraine.

@@Trepanation21 Source?

It was called the Red Forest after that

@@tealsquare it's still like that today from what I've heard/seen

@@chrismcginnis1407 Yeah, the worst effected part they felled all the trees and buried them, but for a large part of the area that was still effected but not all of the trees died, they have a problem with in the modern day because the radiation effected small microbial life and insects, causing the wood to not rot down as fast, which puts the area at risk of wildfires. I think back in 2019/2020 there was a wildfire quite near, which they were worried would spread to the most contaminated area and contaminants might get carried with the smoke. When Russia invaded Ukraine they also stupidly dug trenches and camped in the Red Forest, a few of the rooms at Chernobyl where some of the Russian troops stayed have belongings that are contaminated with Red Forest soil, and it's thought many of them were evacuated back to Belarus and Russia with acute radiation syndrome, they didn't heed warnings from the civilian Chernobyl staff.

@@G1NZOU Yeah contaminants being spread by not just smoke but ash as well would be a huge concern if there was a wild fire. I keep hearing people say 'burn them' in reference to the clothes in the basement of the hospital but that would be a horrible idea for the exact same reason. the ash and smoke would carry contaminants wherever the wind went. Kinda sad that with everything we know today, especially from the lessons learned from the Chernobyl disaster, those soldiers didn't heed the warnings of the staff.

@@tealsquare and recently the russian soldiers dug trenches in it, disturbing buried fallout

I have even read that Swedes were warned off from eating fruit off trees and that a particular berry, forgive me for not remembering which, was only recently declared safe to eat...

Growing up in the north of Sweden during this period, and the aftermath, all adults also told us not fish in the lakes and absolutely not eat the fish.

Given that they haven't seen the show and it stays mostly accurate to historical events, it may be best to leave cool personal stories for after the show, otherwise it could be a spoiler :P

@@PeterDB90 Given that I was nowhere near the events depicted in the show, I don’t get what you think my comment spoils.

@@Griexxt I’m referring to Soviet Union trying to hide the accident and other countries discovering that the accident happened because they detected radiation and traced it back to Chernobyl - you literally listed things that happen in the show in the next few episodes, what do you mean that you “don’t get” what your comment spoils?

In the Soviet Union that is . Outside of it people were pretty aware of the dangers of radiation.

Let them find these things out as the show progresses. You're kind of spoiling the later episodes.

​@@hoon_solYeah, they totally dive into that in later episodes. 😮‍💨🥂😬

​@@hoon_solSurely they have filmed most of the series so far, but for anyone else who may not know... But honestly, I'm thinking it doesn't really ruin anything

Ya it’s insane they weren’t prepped for something like this, as in how to deal with it safely! Aka RUN AS FAR AS AWAY AS POSSIBLE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE! Not evacuating everyone in the town immediately IS CRIMINAL

You didn't see graphite.

You didn’t, because it’s not there!

Erm - I dunno - what it does with the miners is the very definition of 'overly sensationalize'

He had also survived serious radiation accidents before so I think he actually thought it couldn't possibly be that bad. His generation was shockingly cavalier about the dangers of nuclear power.

Also the way politics work in the Soviet Union, people in middle positions are determined to pass the buck of blame and try to advance. Really though the series did Dyatlov dirty, in reality he realised quickly what had happened and helped walk around to inspect the exterior, some of the lines of denial were actually from Akimov who didn't believe such a thing could happen, I understand why they did it, they need a more clear villain type character rather than a bunch of relatively more competent individuals who made a mistake based on incomplete info and also complacency about procedure and safety.

Communism/Fascism/Socialism is the replacement of a religious deity with the state as god. That's why its perfect and you cannot question it. Of course the state didn't screw up despite evidence to the contrary, you were obviously seeing things. One more reason why Communist insane asylums are full of political prisoners, they're obviously crazy.

It's not quite that straightforward - this was a black swan event - Nuclear reactors do not explode. There was no reason to believe what peple were saying - it simply didn't make any sense. Diatlov was very experienced at his job - and had every reason to trust his own judgement and to assume the impossible thing people were says was impossible. Imagine taking your car to a mechanic and him calling you up to tell you the engine melted. Not caught fire, or exploded, but melted. You'd just assuming he was mad.

@@DaveF. And they were going off limited information, a closed control room where panels stopped working and the damage control procedures were to keep the core cool and prevent a meltdown.

It wasn't socialist. It was communist.

​@@gavinderulo12 If we're being technical, the system was socialist. The whole business of state ownership of the means of production is classic, textbook socialism. The Soviet system was ideologically founded in communism in that the goal was to build a true communist society as outlined by Marx but where the socialist system established by the Bolsheviks was to be the transition between capitalism and the intended communist future.

How nice, that people who never lived in the USSR discuss whether it was socialist. How easy to live with myths about the KGB, totalitarian state and others. Study fucking history, not by the one side - luckily today it is possible. Otherwise, the world will stay black and white.

​@@DavidEllis94state ownership is the opposite of Communism or Socialism. It was a fascist state.

@@MidnightKittehBoi That's literally the core of socialism my guy. Central ownership of the means of production.

Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania

I was tiny when it happened. My father told be about how parents bought instant milk powder, because they were afraid that mother's milk was contaminated. Just imagine that thought of "we consume contaminated food and water, but at least our children should be save".

What lessons learned? Don't be an idiot? Don't build your reactor shutdown rods with a material that briefly spikes fission? Chernobyl would not have happened if they either just followed the protocols or didn't build a fatal flaw into the reactor design due to greed.

​@@gavinderulo12So... There were lessons to ve learned, you just have to word ot in a way that makes you seem more correct than OP. What silliness, Gavin.

​@@gavinderulo12 I think I see your point, but none of these are what happened at Fukushima. The problem there was a terrible reactor design that had the control rods raising up from the bottom. When the tsunami hit, it took out power and the back up generators, they were unable to raise the control rods to scram the reactors. I think the lessons learned were how to contain and recover from a nuclear disaster. Fukushima is still an ongoing problem, just like Chernobyl still is today.

@@RealBradMiller you are right. I'm sorry for being harsh. There are lessons to be learned. I'm just fed up with human incompetence.

@@BigMateo24 Fukushima and Chernobyl were very different. Imo there was no real flaw in the design nor the procedure of Fukushima. They just completely underestimated the force of nature at it's worsed. And still the earthquake itself claimed way more lives then the powerplant.

How do you get to adult age without knowing about Tchernobyl though 😭

@@nephastgweiz1022 Well they're Aussie, about as far away as you can get from Chernobyl. I'm sure there's a lot of Australian history I am oblivious too, and I like my history.

@@nephastgweiz1022 the australian education system doesnt teach anything bad about left wing/socialist ideologies.

@@nephastgweiz1022 i knwow plenty of people who never heard of it i mean its sad but true most people go through life without learning about some events and i come from germany we where effected from the icident

At the time of event the USSR did as much as possible to downplay. Most people knew it exploded but not how bad it was. It wasn’t until recently years after the collapse of the USSR that the details were revealed.

those poor angels, hopefully you don’t partake in that and have access to real food

Mushrooms here in Finland still have radiation. Not dangerously high, but it's there. When this happened the authorities recommendend not to eat mushrooms and berries for the next couple of years.

​@@CassxowaryI guess that in one of the wealthiest nations on the planet, they have access to many sorts of food 😂

And the follow up "ohhh fuucckk"

Ahwr shit

It's amazing to see how they're taking it! I've watched a lot of reaction to this series, and researching nuclear disasters has been a hobby of mine for decades. Seeing this through the eyes of people who know zero about it is both wild and fascinating

Yes my husband studied every facet of the Chernobyl tragedy at the US Naval Nuclear school. We heard about the show from his fellow Nuclear sailors who gave it rave reviews. According to my husband, this is the most accurate nuclear based show he's ever seen.

soviet not russian and that mess you’re vegan too then?

@@Cassxowary soviet union is just a name for russia and its puppets. until they disbanded after east germany was finally allowed to merge back into germany and the puppets figured now is the time to break free. And no, i love my meat.

Why is history an elective? In Germany, at least when I went to school, you were obligated to take history until 10th grade in "real school" and until the end in "high school" (12th or 13th grade). Yes, the German curriculum is absolutely crammed but the state tries hard to teach all students a comprehensive knowledge about mankind's history from 20000 BC to now. Other subjects such as geography and biology expand and complete the timeline back to how homo sapiens emerged and further back to 4.567 billion years ago when Earth emerged from the proto-solar disc. History as a subject starts in 5th grade and focuses on the transition from nomadic mankind (hunters and gatherers) to men settling down, with the Sumerians creating the first ever civilisation and high culture. Later, after intense months and years on the history of Germany and Europe, and some brief excursions to the Americas, Africa and Asia, 9th grade arrives in the 20th century. There, German students get bombarded with the chapters Wilhelminian Empire, First World War, Weimar Republic, world economic crisis, fascist dictatorship/Hitler-Germany and Second World War. It is a neverending barrage carried out in other subjects as well. It dominates larger aspects of schooling in 9th and 10th grade, and in the months before the examination at the end of 10th grade there are chapters on the Cold War, on the second half of the 20th century, and on the German reunification. Students who carry on to attend high school will then spent most of their time in the subject history with the trifecta of Wilhelminian period, Weimar Republic and Hitler-fascism again, followed by a substantial amount of time on 1950-2000 and onwards. The difference between middle school and high school is that the history courses in high school typically integrate the subject history with the subject civics and politics (Gesellschaftskunde) while in middle school those remain separated. I personally think it should be illegal to make history an elective. It is one of the most important subjects in school. If people would pay more attention, we would stop repeating the same mistakes over and over again, and younger people would be better enabled to make good choices at the age of 18 when they are allowed to vote for the first time. A lot of teenagers do not know enough about the world, the political parties and the many failures of many political parties and politicians.

​​@@bobbwc7011 I couldn't agree with you more! In Australia, education and curriculum are set by state governments. I was schooled and teach in Sydney so under the New South Wales Dept. of Education. Our reactors S&P are Victorians so I can't speak as to what they did or didn't learn. Now in NSW, history is first taught in primary school,Kindergarten to sixth grade. We introduce students to ancient civilisations and cultures around 5th grade (age 10 for most kids) and Ancient Egypt seems most popular. In the 6th grade we teach British/Irish and therefore early Australian history, with emphasis on the aboriginal culture. A recent criticism is that 'woke' teachers are 'black washing' and preaching the displacement of native peoples at the detriment of 'Australian' and white history and culture. High school begins 7th grade, aged 12 or so and junior high school is grades 7 to 10. In yr 7 we teach more English history, with emphasis on the War of the Roses and Tudor England. We introduce histiography and analysis. This is where many students are done with history. In 8th grade they select elective subjects, choosing between History and Geography. Not to malign the subject of geography, but lazier students will have elected this. Their reasoning? 'I won't have to learn dates'... The separation here between History and Geography especially in public schools, comes down to numbers...not enough teachers and not enough money or resources. In the private school system, they can be offered both, but this tradition of history or geography seems to have prevailed, since when I was in high school 1990-1995... Students who continue with the subject in 8th grade will continue learning and honing critical analysis methods. We delve further into ancient civilisations Chinese and Egypt most popular. Then more British Empire...and we now introduce WWI and WWII. In 9th grade they focus more heavily on the wars. In 10th grade post bellum Europe and Cold War, including Korean war and Vietnam. By the 11th grade, you will find you can tell which students enjoy ancient vs modern history. Senior high school is grades 11 and 12. We split the subject into 2 subjects: Ancient History and Modern History. Interestingly few students select both...but this is where we lose a lot of kids who are into history. 11 and 12 grades are for preparation for the Higher School Certificate exams taken at the end of 12th grade and secure entry into university. Many students' parents will have them drop history to concentrate their efforts into so called 'real' subjects like Economics or the sciences. In 11th and 12th grade we focus on The Revolutions, American, French and Russian. This is where they delve further into political and civic concepts. This very long answer (apologies 😂) is very generalised but unfortunately these days, students and their parents are very much looking to take the subjects that are likely to gain them entry into undergraduate degrees of more prestige. Many students call it the Curry 5: taking English, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology and Physics for their final exams. English is the only compulsory subject and 'Curry' is a slur on students who are the children of Asian and particularly Indian migrants, who tend to push their kids towards medical, engineering and scientific careers. But those of us who love history and love to teach history are also teaching English and English literature. This keeps us in work...the demand for us as educators would be severely diminished if we only taught history unfortunately...and while our education system is nowhere near as broken as say the American public school system, it leaves a lot to be desired, especially in comparison to Western European education standards...in the private schools in Australia it is more on par with you guys and indeed our students will take the international baccalaureate program to attend at least one yr in a European university. Sadly education is becoming monetised here too....

I don’t think we learned about Chernobyl in school either. Granted, we’re in Asia, and there’s so much Asian history to cover lol. And to add to that all ancient history, European history, up to WWII. But I’ve heard of Chernobyl from other stuff. It’s just a very important event that it would too hard to miss. You must be living under a rock to miss it at all growing up 😂.

⁠@@darcypenn6702both of you have explained it really well but I hope that your claim to love history and therefore teach english stuff too doesn’t mean you prioritise that over Aboriginal one and the real history of the country (and world) and you’re against those racist beliefs claiming teaching the truth is blackwashing…

Reminded me of a very dark joke: a Soviet news reporter appears on the television. "Comrades, we bring you good news! Early this morning the V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine SSR achieved it's 40 year target for energy production in 0.1 seconds!"

The Russian troops had also never hear of Chernobyl, it was not something the Soviet government had taught in school. They didn't know what had happened and they had no clue what trouble they were in.

This. I can only second that. S&P are very fast with their judgement and forget that this is about real life, real events, real people. Well, they are young and naive, who think they know everything. Hopefully, they will learn in time.

well said and agreed are you two vegan and even activists or even kind to all kind yet then?

I was 21 and was horrified to my soul upon being told by our media in the US what the ramifications would be. I grew up terrified of the nuclear capabilities of the USSR and they were still trying to pass this off as nbd in Russia for weeks after that reactor blew.

Yeah. And it also heavily affected Reindeers due to them eating moss, lichen and fungi, which absorbed radiaton easily. The Norwegian government allows a _relatively high level of radiation_ in reindeer meat, 3,000 becquerel. To this day, they still monitor radiation levels in many of the Norwegian plateaus. Most affected I believe was the area around Jotunheimen/Dombås and Nord-Trøndelag.

And a big redemption for the Baron Harkonen

Xd​@@SphericaICow

He would play a good Anthony Fauci...

you can generalize that to communist and socialist systems

Gorbatchov's Soviet Union*.

One would think that people would evolve from this Soviet (now Russian) mindset of a strange cultural pride in total obedience and generational sacrifice - but they mostly haven't. The proof is in the fact that Russian troops went into the Chernobyl zone two years ago and dug into the irradiated ground during their invasion of Ukraine, and how the Russian army mindlessly charge to their deaths today in so-called 'meat wave' attacks in Ukraine.

@@zh2184 Exactly. It's horrifying.

@@zh2184 get off the internet, buddy, you're spitting some fiction

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I was one of these children. It's one of my earliest memories going with my mom to our local hospital in Poland to drink the iodine solution. I was 4 really hated the whole experience.

And you got brain cancer. So sad

@@AJ-jf7cl I don't really understand the comment... According to you I have a brain disease because I mentioned the giving of iodine by the authorities?

​@@caballeroPL are you ok now?

The graphite itself isn't really the big problem. The problem is the graphite is part of the reactor core and if the graphite is on the ground that means the core is now outside of the building, including extremely radioactive irradiated nuclear fuel.

When the core exploded, fuel rods and fuel pellets containing Uranium and fission byproducts also ruptured and so a lot of radioactive isotopes were literally mixed into graphite that was shot out of the core. That said the depiction of the firefighters hand being basically burned from the inside out in minutes of holding the graphite is unrealistic. A lot of the depiction of radiation and it's effects were off in this show. Good entertainment but inaccurate.

​@@Lovemy1911a1The graphite, itself, will have becoming highly radioactive, itself, because of activation products due to prolonged exposure to very high neutron flux.

@@DavidEllis94 carbon activation is not that big a problem, at least not in context of what else is happening. Yes it happens but C14 has a 5000 year half life so it's not very active and the capture rate of carbon is very low, that's why it's used as a moderator. I will maintain that by far the greatest threat was fission products also blasted from the core. Which would be around, on or in the graphite chunks.

@@Lovemy1911a1 That's fair, and you're certainly right that fission products could also be an issue since you have a meltdown in this context. Under normal circumstances, when a reactor doesn't melt fown, fission products shouldn't get outside of the fuel cladding. In this case..... yeah you'd get a lot of nasty stuff embedded in the graphite, but when that graphite is exposed to high neutron flux for a long time (I forget how long reactor 4 was active), it's not just that C14 you need to care about, but also the activation products of previous activation products. In much lower concentrations, sure, but they build up.

Since you watched the show it must be clear to you that chernobyl was caused by a mixture of extreme incompetence and a severely flawed reactor design. And even still it caused only about 50 casualties. That's less than fossil fuels cause each year. If you look at the stats it's quite apparent that nuclear energy is the safest and cleanest energy source we currently have.

@@gavinderulo12 It did not cause "about 50 casualties" That's the propaganda number DIRECTLY it may have caused that few, but its lasting effects on tens of thousands of people cannot be ignored

@@gavinderulo12this comment might take the cake for being the brain dead comment ever. I never thought I’d see someone actually believe only 50 people died from this. You watched the show then believed the Soviet Union? You learned nothing from watching this then.

@@cam794 those are the UN numbers. The propaganda is all of the nuclear fear mongering. You believe a drama series over official United Nations numbers and I am the idiot?

@@cam794 you believe a drama series over the official United nations number? The propaganda is all of the Nuclear fear mongering.

Tell us the truth. You researched the subject, didn't you?

@@AJ-jf7cl I didn't honest. My friend and I had a deep discussion of this and the Union after we both watched it. Plus those things are taught here in history classes

It is insane, im as surprised as you are. This should be mandatory education next to lessons about the cold war

@@killerbas40yeah in my school (Wales) we learned about Chernobyl and the aftermath of it as we were learning about the Cold War and the potential of nuclear conflict.

I went to school in Australia in the 80’s and 90’s. We learnt about it as part of social studies / history.

I live in Peru and know about this. I thought everyone knew.

I live in Spain and my school didn't mention Chernobyl at all. I heard about Chernobyl through documentaries and such.

I’m Australian and I’m super confused as to how they’ve never heard of it. 😂 I definitely learned about it at school and I’m a similar age to these guys.

I posted myself about this: I'm an Aussie, a history teacher and we DO teach Cold War history etc .. IDK how it was missed by some..

It's not. They just think history is boring because they are bogan.

of course they know about it, they just have to have some "excuse" so they can say they are reacting blind, they never seen it, they never heard about it, they know nothing about it as with every other tv show or movie. People are so naive.

@@Molda22 I knew about this obviously. But the show didn't get less interesting because of it. In fact, me knowing about the event, actually made the series even more interesting. So I really don't think there's a reason to lie over this specific TV show. If they did though, they definitely didn't need to.

Why?

I'm 34 and had heard of Chernobyl but didn't understand exactly what it was or how bad it was until this show. I was horrified watching this mini series. I've only watched it once and even watching this condensed reaction is rough. Spartan and Pudgey have no idea what they are in for.

Exactly they were looking at something no human being is ever meant to view with their naked eyes

@@technofilejr3401 most of them didn't live long enough to tell anyone... the KGB is so proud of the way the reactor silenced those who would counter the narrative of the central government

typical american/australian education. teaching whole lotta nothing

I wouldn’t say WWII level. But I’d say it’s just bellow Titanic. A lot of people can’t remember the name of the event so they forget 😂

Not everyone heard about it

I think it is not a bad thing if you dont know about those things, because you made an effort to learn it now and show interest..even if a tv show guides you to it. So you should be commended on not to stay on status quo but to expand knowledge

It is understandable. There are immediate reasons comes to my mind how you can heard of Chernobyl: 1) you lived in the time of event, 2) you live somewhere close so the aftermath was long lasting and people who lived in the time of event like your parents kept talking about it time to time for reasons like increased rate of thyroid cancer cases in the Blacksea region, 3) you heard from a video game, 4) you heard from a some youtube content like Kyle Hill or Veritasium and Tom Scott etc because they have talked about it or visited the site. 5) you have a special interest for history of radioactivity, nuclear energy etc. I can checkmark 4 out of 5 right away, so that's how I do know about Chernobyl even if I did not lived in the time of event. But I did never heard about Chernobyl in history classes. And I don't think there are history classes teaching about Chernobyl unless you are from Ukraine or your history class is specialized on history of USSR/CCCP.

This is definitely not a documentary. It has a ton of inaccuracies. Also, look up the radiation levels in that zone. It's completely safe now.

The zone does not have any harmful amount of radiation anymore. There still are some contaminated items there but you can visit with out any issues. Did they actually fight there during the current war? What for? And the building is made to withstand all kinds of bombs.

@@gavinderulo12 Dude have you seen the pictures of the recently released Chernobyl workers? They look like holocaust victims. Typical Russian prisoner treatment.

The zone itself doesn't have much radiation, it's comparable to the natural radiation in my country (held a dosimeter in my country and in the zone) There are certainly areas *within* the show that are still radioactive, and of course underneath the confinement built for Plant 4 there's still a ton of radiation.

​@@gavinderulo12Chernobyl nuclear plant is still operational, so they were fighting for control of it

@@wildpendulum I don't think this is true. None of the reactors are running.

What do you know about 911? Also, how do you know about Chernobyl from such a pseudo-documentary? 0 information about the incident, the main thing is to shed tears to the viewer, put pressure on emotions, and during this period blame whoever is profitable. psychology...And there is already so much distorted information about the Second World War. The Japanese believe that the USSR dropped atomic bombs on them, given that it did not yet have these weapons.

@@user-xg4dw8wq1p интересно, тут только от наших адекватные комментарии можно встретить?))

It really isn't. Stop exaggerating

Most of it is actually tonned down

@@tealsquare Yeah, megatonned down. Dude, do some research! The whole show is exagerrated. Great entertainment, not a lot of science.

​@@GanzBestimmt You should read up on that..

@@Jimmie_Rudolfsson Could you be more specific? Any recommendations?

The core itself technically didn't explode. It was a steam explosion.

That's because it really is impossible for that kind of core to explode. It was the steam that exploded around it

Which is complete and utter bs since LEGASOV was more of a villain than Dyatlov was in real life.

Not really. USSR used about 1% of its GDP on Chornobyl disaster. It surely didn't help though.

​@@Overlord734it's not just the money, but the loss of credibility.

Well put!

"innocence"...yeah, that's how you can call it lol