CHERNOBYL. Declassified KGB archives. They lied for 33 years! 

The second part (The KGB Archive on Chernobyl has been declassified. Horror), see the link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HeiqP93qz9Y.html

A government agency lied? I’m honestly surprised!

We pretty much knew this already. USSR tried covering up the Chernobyl disaster as much as they could until a station in Sweden was getting unusually high radiation readings from Chernobyl. In the meantime the USSR risked contaminating all of Europe with attempting to cover it up. The USSR Government was more concerned with saving face of the political leaders than they were the well being of world's population.

I use to live in Korzortev east of Pripyat, the radiation cloud passed over our town and rained down upon us. The only reason we knew something was wrong was the ducks and geese began walking with their heads leaning back over like they were crazy. They were like thos because they had eaten their food which has been outside and cover in fallout which destroyed their nervous systems. All the birds, both wild and domesticated died within a week. Every bird in the sky fell to the ground, the leaves fell from the trees because the trees were covered in fallout and died, the trees and plants all died, everything died.

the 1% have lied to us about everything, I have thyroid cancer whether from Chernobyl or the nuclear power station a few miles from where I live, who knows but in the end is always us peasants who suffer

It's a good thing we live in the good ol USA where our government never lies to us or disappears people they do not like! Also, I have some swamp land in Florida I will sell you very cheep!

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. “ - Mark Twain

I was pregnant in W Germany at the time. We were told to stay out of the rain and avoid puddles of water. The next spring I collected clovers that had up to 7 leaves. It was scary.

Stunned that anyone would accept the robot voice as a valid source of information.

OMG! I just realized that the American ; so called; " free country"; now operates just like the former Soviet Union! 😔

These computer voices get better all the time. Max Headroom still rules though.

It is compelling that people remain obsessed with chernobyl but ignore Fukushima which continues to pour radiation into the ocean.

In the Sky drama Chernobl, all the blame was put on the manager of the plant and his incompetence. Good to hear another narrative. That's the problem when you're dealing with such a secretive country

The mum of a friend of mine was a computer programmer in ukraine at the time; they (ussr gov) made her team build an info display for showing 'current radiation level' at the town square. it did not include a radiation sensor or anything similar, just a randomised number that was basically higher than normal but not too bad...

Why the glaring lights? Its hard enough to be watching at 4am without that!

I was acquainted with someone who grew up in Kyiv in the 80s. He had no knowledge of Chornobyl until he played CoD 4

What? The KGB lied? Didn't see that coming.

I was a child in Frankfurt Germany during the fall out. They (Germans and US) didn’t tell us to go indoors but the German government told their people to stay indoors until it was safe. As a 7 year old I played outside every single day and slept with windows open at night. Now 41 years old I am very sick with unknown issues.

Now do an article about the nuclear test sites in Nevada and the fallout involved. John Wayne filmed there during this time. He died from cancer.

After Japan's Fukashima disaster a plume of radiation crossed the US. The US government said the increase in radiation was below health concerns but did not mention that it was more than double normal background radiation.

This sounds strikingly similar to something going on right now that cannot be mentioned.

My father helped build nuclear power plants in the US and Mexico. After this incident, he was allowed to read the construction plans and building planning documents. He showed them to me and marveled as to the incredpoor construction of the plants AND the substandard methods of handling, processes, and construction of nuclear power plants in the USSR. US plants as a standard had to be enclosed and withstand a direct hit by 2 missiles (ei; so many crushing foot-pounds of pressure) while inside had reflective shielding. In the USSR, there were no such protections. Nuke plant workers were expected to work and live for ~5-7 years before being so irradiated as to die.

i love the content and effort! maybe tweak your mic's noise cancelling settings though, dem thresholds are finick.

We can learn from the past however, conflict of interest has never been so present in politics as today. Exactly that, makes any political decision in the "common interest" highly questionable and doubtful. Democracy today, is electing the politicians who benefit by fulfilling the requirements of the lobbyists not that of safety or requirements of their voters....

I was in the Air Force in 76, worked in the minuteman missile program. In our classes, they told us that at the beginning of the minute man program, we sent all sorts of safety info to Russia. Supposedly, they had no safety program in place. A spark could launch one of their missiles, many safety issues. Really have no idea if this is true tho, just a tid bit of info. He'll, they also told us if the safeing key was in place while down in there working. Years later I find out this was not the case. It was a dummy box we inserted the key into, sneaky bastards.

Not only do we need to be worried for Chernobyl, but also Japan's nuclear disaster. We are not given the full truth about these tragic events. We here in the US also had our Nuclear disaster.

If you see the leash , feel the whip , and hear the command ...you must know the muzzle, too... GRRRRR

When you're dealing with the KGB, what else can you expect?

... as a German Biologist - this demonstrates clearly the consequences of Incest in Management. When prestige, career - advantages of all sorts dominate. When you select highly capable and responsible Engineers - rewarded for best performance - such disasters will NOT happen! Those Russian Engineers were as capable as any anywhere - and even the BAD reactor Design still can work today - when managed responsibly. The bad fallout is the Demonization of technology - that throws us back 100 ´s of years into stone age technology. The global demand for ever more Energy is unstoppable - Nuclear Energy still would be the most practical - and climate neutral at any output. Dumb! Dumb!

I worked in Siberia beside a crew of welders who were there when it blew. They were sent to work away to get out of the hot zone. A great bunch of guys, always laughing and joking around.

Did you see the mini-series? The level and depth of the deceit was amazing, both to the world and their own people. "We lie and we lie until we can no longer even see it is there. But it is still there. Every lie incurs a dept to the truth, eventually that dept is paid."

The Russian Federation is no different today than the Soviet Union was then.

I never got to visit Chernobyl while I was in Ukraine. I did get to visit the museum in Kiev and it was depressing.

What if Chernobyl was intentionally destroyed, by world leaders, in order to destroy the successful, self sufficient, city of Pripyat to serve as the "reason" why we can't have abundant low-cost energy that comes from nature...

Almost completely filled with known or useless information, but, let's make it two videos!

"The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the fountains of water. 11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died of the water, because it was made bitter." (Revelation Chapter 8: 10-11) Chernobyl is Russian for 'Wormwood.'

It’s a bit more serious now,I recommend Bet Fred,good odds on the apocalypse bro!

All this documented in the book "Midnight in Chernobyl" by Alan Higginbotham.

Maybe this is why Russia wants the Ukraine back?

As if the Japanese have told us the truth about Fukushima …

Why did the Soviet Union dress their Chernobyl staff like they were short order cooks? I mean if you plan to nuke roughly 58,000 square miles I'd say that outfits requirement goes a bit further than that of the short order!!

I remember seeing a video about the clean up crew and how they were dropping dead, left and right.

Nuclear power is very safe, but RMBK reactors are not. I don't think anything revealed here isn't already known by engineers. IIRC, there's a simulator somewhere on the internet where you can play with an RMBK reactor and it's not that hard to get it to explode.... essentially touching it, like to power it down, causes a power surge. oopsie

Great information. However, the video effect used was incredibly distracting and annoying. Not sure why it was used.

The inherent problems that stymied the initial response could be laid at the feet of the political commissar's, people who wielded enormous power over the humble worker and they had literally the power of life and death, the ability to send reluctant citizens and their families to gulag becoming known as political or capitalist saboteurs. Both the KGB and the GRU had enormous presence in every nook and cranny of Soviet industry and they used blackmail and threats to turn workers into stool pigeons again with the threat of gulag and these political monsters feared no foe so to speak knowing that to even question an order from such would end up badly for the worker. The security services evidently paranoid wanted a lid kept on it all and so they got in the way of a response in the vain hope they could contain the whole debacle hence why it took so long for Russia to admit anything had happened.

It’s not just this aspect but an otherworldly aspect also has been accounted for. A lot of people talk about a strange apparition called a birdman spotted @ Chernobyl and near the reactor too before a few days it exploded. Some people say it was a foretelling of some sort. And there are photographic evidence to believe that aspect too. Excellent presentation, wonderful explanation, very helpful. Super.

Please provide a link to part two.

Why 33 yrs

Beware of people who watched the Sky/HBO Chernobyl series who now seem to be physics experts on sub-atomic particle physics, Nuclear Fission, Chain Reactions and melt downs and probably what all the dials, knobs and buttons are used for in a nuclear power plant control room. Also these same people posses all the medical expertise on symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of Acute Radiation Sickness. A few are even helicopter pilots.

The radiation went high into the atmosphere went west ina weather system and rained radioactive rain on the sperrin highlands i the north of Ireland. They had to cull sheep. And years later a spate of cancer deaths occurred in the same area.

As soon as I heard the source was a Facebook post of the events of Chernobyl I paused it wrote this comment and now I am moving on to another video or channel

Interesting fact Chernobyl loosely translates to Wormwood

It might be interesting to learn WHO was the head of the KGB at that time, THAT might be enlightening.

THERES THAT NUMBER AGAIN " 33 " !!!

I wonder which was worse, Bhopal or Chernobyl. Its a tough call.

3100 Rogan per hour is pretty dangerous!

A few years ago, when the internet was young, I looked up and read an article about the small US towns conversations about the Constitution. And a few towns refused to sign the original paperwork, they just kind of fell in line. But the biggest question was, who will the people answer to? Can the federal government make towns send men to war? The answer was no. Then they began rewriting it and soon, if the federal government declared war, men could be forced inducted. That's how we got so many troops in WW2. This change actually changed something very important. You see, before WW2, the highest governmental office in the land was ... are you ready for this ... your town supervisor! If the governor stopped into town, he had to park where the Town Supervisor said! Just like the President. The Feds and States were not supposed to be in control of the country! There was wisdom in this. He was the one who collected taxes and forwarded to the state and feds. And if he did not like what they were doing with the money, guess what. They didn't get money from that town. If you do not like what your town was doing with your tax dollars, you had one option other then running for office. Move. Then, when war was declared, in order to force the draft, the Feds announced the Pyramid of power where the people were at the top with their Town Supervisor, would be flipped, giving the Federal power lead, then states, then the towns. And when the war was over, they left it that way. And man has it ruined our country. Because 'we the people' are now 'we the pawns of government'. I have searched for that article, and it appears someone did not like it and removed it. Imagine that ...

I am not sure that any of this is very new. The culture was still a closed CCCP one albeit on the cusp of transition. Yes the plants, of which a number continued to run effectively and efficiently until only very recently, lacked “inherent” safety but no plant will survive the determined disregard for the published safety procedures that we are told occurred that night. My car has numerous safety features and there are procedures for its safe use. If I disregard those procedures it’s a lethal weapon but only as a result of my actions and not those of the cars design. These plants had many sound and cost effective design advantages over their often somewhat over complex western cousins. Not least in the use of low enrichment fuels and the inherent engineering simplicity employed. Had the management ensured the application of procedures rather than acting with grotesque negligence, then I dare say that most of us would never have heard of this type of reactor or the entire Chernobyl complex. The west has often sneered at soviet era technology in the past only to find that it had merits unseen at the time. Procedures are part of the design and are not optional without extensive management of change processes.

I didn't realise a bot was reading it until I heard it say P L A N T S backquotes

Sounds like you need to do an honest one on 3mile island.

Honestly speaking the KGB has nothing to do with the explosion in Chernobyl. It is evidently the foreign forces who caused the explosion with sambotage to cause problems and harm to.tge former USSR.... KGB even lost agents of her own , who sacrifised heroicly their lives to save people lives of to contain the radiation! For example the heroic helicopter pilot who conveyed concrete and other matterials for the sealing of the reactor, proved to be a KGB agent. He lost his life after a couple of days due to radiation poisoning. My word for this person! RESPECT!

Not buying any of this ! Do you really believe the Soviets would declassify anything for anyone ?

Two minutes of this auto-reader dialogue was more than enough for me. Yeuchh!

Nothing new, it was Soviet (Russian) test to get export deals to RBMK type rectors. All of these were in contemporary news, but later suppressed. Strangely these have not been in public more often, but Soviets exerted all their power to do so. For example in Finland public contemporary fallout maps were doctored. NOTE: this was originally planned in other Soviet nuclear plant (Sosnovyi Bor / Leningrad, Russia), but they declined that.

Just a baby next to Fukushima. That was also covered up. "There is no containment" when you can not dam a river indefinitely without letting the overflow pass by the dam. "Or it can be stored." But they have not stored any since they put in the dam. Or explained where all the millions of gallons of old waist water went that they already had. There is a great many things that go into making life poseble here. But none is as important as being seperated from the radiation of space. And here we are iraidiating the earth with or ignorance. All because of the greed. And the ignorance' that is as evil as Biden is.

First they denied any accident even happened. Can you believe it! Soviet leader lied! That could never happen tod… Oooops!

This is old news. There was a film made about it years ago.

They lied for 33 years ! and this is supposed to surprise me !

It bugs me when people say "The Chernobyl disaster is why we shouldn't build nuclear power plants". The disaster was caused by gross incompetence . Also, they used old 50's technology, what we have today is safer.

Nothing really new here, but it does give a fascinating insight into the USSR mindset at that time, unfortunately, it really hasn't changed a great deal in the intervening years.

That's a insult to Valery Legasov calling the response to accident illiterate.

The USSR lied? Wow, who have thought it!

Imagine all the time thought and efforts that went into this thing only to put people in charge who don't know what they are doing. Thus blowing the place up. Reminds me of America as a whole.

"Three Mile Island, Love Canal" ? Any videos about that - and how the U.S federal government lied about that? Would love to see! Although, I have to wonder what point there would be being 50-some years old now and an elementary school child when that nuclear accident happened.

What was the purpose of the plant? Was is it part of the nuclear weapons program?

The new sarcophagus is a secret missle silo, they were able to safely salvage the nuclear fuel and create a doomsday weapon.

I see blind reliance on cloth masks has a rich history.

and this comes out on the 33rd year.....coinkidinks

The void in the reactor the pressure must of been in the thousands of psi steam pressure .

I think netflix or maybe prime video has a mini series about this disaster. Very interesting.

Yea, 33....huh

Chernobyl's problems were no secret at the time it was built. As an engineer working as a government contractor, Soviet construction was legend. Dad had us in stiches as kids talking about the 2 headed kids born for 200 miles around, other than that, no problem !

Corruption and lies are still in fashion, as can be seen by our current situation.

0:32 why is the text here displayed backwards?

You should do a video on Fukushima, it’s location and the uncanny timing of Covid. Low grade radiation poisoning has the same symptoms and based on the nuclear plant location would have spread across the entire world 🤔

was it really and accident???

Mind you this was NOT the worst nuclear accident in the USSR... the worst that I know of was a mountain in which they placed lots and lots of nuclear waste... that exploded back in the time period of 1950's to the 1970's... I do not know exactly when it happened.

That’s what happens when children play with matches

I studied Chernobyl at University and read many books on the disaster so I'm "In the know" about Chernobyl compared to 99.9% of people watching this video. My conclusion after my studies is that Chernobyl was the tip of the iceberg of the Soviet Empire.

The Yank who is speaking on here should talk to the sheep farmers in Wales (that's the country on the Western side of the UK mainland) . The radioactive cloud from Chernobyl gave North Western Europe and us in the UK radioactive fall-out in the form of radioactive rain. The Beef and Lamb the we raise in Wales was slaughtered and the land had to be left fallow for 3 years. Do you know , it's like Putin really doesn't give a dam about anything other than what he wants ?!! A prayer for Ukraine and it's people who are at the mercy of a greedy , selfish little KGB agent. God help the World and it's people .

There is nothing new in this video. We knew all already 1986 in München - especially the lack of understanding of the dynamics of a carbon moderated reactor. I measured the fall out and dumped all flower boxes from the Veranda. Until today wild boar meat hunted in south Germany has to be checked and quite often has to be disposed off due to high radioactive contamination.

This kind of surveillance and corruption in the US all along too.

Nothing to see here, Not an accident.

Always trust the government

Well that explains the world wide explosion of cancer cases.

Interesting to note Chernobyl translates to wormwood, as in Revelation

The Russians should get the "Chernobyl Prize" for keeping secrets!

A bunch of clowns n bluffers

Some of the fallout got blown over my area of Scotland afterwards their was lots of people having brain tumers and cancer

How does an RBMK reactor explodes?