Chernobyl (2019) - What Have They Done? 

All the more frightening because _this_ horror was reality!

Another HBO show called 'The terror' could of been on par with this one, but they added some human-bear CGI creature for the scare factor which ruined it all. Other than that, the story in the terror was basically a recount of what we knew about the Franklin expedition where all 129 men vanished 170 years ago

@@feelsreeeman7992 It's a AMC show not HBO. And Jared Harris is also a main character in it

@@feelsreeeman7992 I like to think that that thing is just how the crew saw polar bears

I'm still horrified as FUCK thinking to that one scene when the fuel rods start jumping up and down. It was like i was in the room with the guy. My god the horror, he knew there was no way he'd make it out alive no matter how fast you ran.

You didn't see any graphite BECAUSE IT WASN'T THERE!

it's only 3.6 roentgen, that's no more than a chest x-ray, i don't know what you are on about

we told the Germans that it's 2000 roentgen

That was the Soviet way of doing things. We're infallible.

@Penny for my thot rule #1 of invading Russia: don't invade Russia. There's bound to be a winter coming along at some point.

Underrated comment

XD

Why he said do not use my name?

@@bo5329 I am not too sure about his background. I assume it is something that has to deal with the CCCP and being part of the KGB. This is by just watching the series and analyzing it. The KGB was/is a secret police group that monitored what you said. If they heard something that didn’t sound right or align with Soviet Russia then you were thrown in jail or worse. So another form of a military. In the military we never called someone by their first name...ever. Only if the person gave us permission and we knew each other really well. Also by calling someone by their last name is more professional and formal. Where as calling them by first name is not. And these two don’t know each other well (yet) and they are working on a professional level. I know that was a whole lot more than you probably wanted but hopefully that clears up everything.

@@bo5329 He prolly meant first name. Probably wanted his title, then last name

Dumb scene that peddles cheap dramatic effect. Imagine if they made a movie about 9/11 where the firefighters don't want to go into the burning WTC, so the mayor of New York threatens to have them shot if they don't go now. This is how ridiculous this piece of Hollywood propaganda is.

@@brotpros2306 expect that in the ussr you could really get a bullet

@@vitanera4032 Maybe in USA you could, I don't know, in your country cops and school shooters are killing people every day. In USSR you wouldn't get a bullet for refusing to look at a melting reactor, it's common sense.

@@brotpros2306 I’m not american, don’t say “my” country

@@brotpros2306 comparing getting a billet from a school schooling to refusing to obey a order Is dumb In USSR if you refuse orders you could A) get a bullet B) be fired And is that surprising that the USSR order to shot some else because he refused to do a order? in prypiat they evacuated it after a week telling nothing that it was all ok and they will return after a month It is really surprising that you could get a bullet?

*SHOTS FIRED*

Game of Thrones ends with season 6

@@apc3938 Correct. It's too bad it got canceled before they were able to finish it.

the flying dutchman needs a captain

What are you smoking man? All character arcs were wrapped up in Season 6 and the show had a perfect ending. However if you search enough you'd find two more fan made non canon season.

Show would only have one or two episodes 😂😂

That acute radiation sickness definitely won't be a good time, nor a long time

Yeben01 u had me dying 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

YOLO bitches! - the pilot.

and the pilot yells "YOLO" as he does so

@nickys34 he died in 1990 4y and 4month after he came to chernobil plant for radiation related cause

That character my dude... is a really great example of master writing.

@@williammontano2073 not even writing man. Remember he was a real person, who when confronted with his own mortality decided to use his time he had left to do everything in his power to make this right so nobody else suffers the same fate. That isnt good writing, its a good person

@@cowboybeeboopbop I meant the dialogue that was written for the scene, the real person didn't say those words.

@@Dave-8220 No one knows if it was radiation and Chernobyl related. It was prohibited by doctors to cite radiation as the death cause.

And he thought this boris is seems a half baked idiot and has no idea what could be the consequences...he will die himself and take others along with him...fuck to his order, better listen to this knowledgeable person..lol

Dieing from radiation is probably one of the worst deaths one can imagine - your flesh falls apart, you die, cell by cell, your body decomposes and disintegrates. I can't imagine what that must feel like.

Even if the pilot was somewhat ignorant of the true dangers of radioactivity (as many Ukrainians were during that period) the terror expressed with those words was a convincing argument.

That got the viewer's attention, because reality is not Hollywood and in reality Scherbina would never have threatened anyone with getting shot or he listened to the scientists from day 1.

@@Mysteri0usChannel You can't even administer painkillers for it. It's hell.

actually this all is made up. no one could execute a citizen without trial

@@NotTheLastOne in soviet union i wouldn't count on it

@@Putput-se5ew it is a holliwood made stereotype. it was true during the war time, indeed. not during the peace time

@@NotTheLastOne no, these kind of people would just randomly "Disappear" "have a stroke with no autopsy" or "suddenly commit suicide" KGB was truly a horror show

@@delusionfrag1 well, it is the case all around the world. everyday the FBI, CIA and other services kidnap thousands of ppl. Just last year it was discovered that 5k frenchmen were kidnapped by the CIA in their own coutry last year. isnt that a horror show?

And he's a SPECIALIST .... Profesor or whatever ...when man like this PANIC ...It's DAMN horrific ...

Here is the original footage from helicopter > ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p5GTvaW34O0.html

@@superpsion It's like the old joke about the bomb technician: if you see them running flat out, drop what you're doing and try to keep up!

Same.

Yes, the show is very adorable.

Yes, they are delusional and making us lose our time.

You didn't see the HBO miniseries. YOU DIDN'T!!!!!

same energy as: there is no war in ba sing se

@@josephastier7421 BECAUSE IT'S NOT THERE! (this is quite ironic because in my location the movie isnt available)

@@josephastier7421 Because it's not there!!

That's assuming the crash didn't kill them first, considering what the ionizing radiation did to the other helicopter.

@Lion Phoenix yeah, I only noticed that the second time I watched the episode too

@Lion Phoenix the control panel in the cockpit would likely burned too. So no control for the rotor

there was a film crew that flew over the core and they died within a week.

@@NeSeeger did they beg for the bullet though?

When the guy who asked "how does a nuclear reactor work" could get you shot the second you landed your considerations about whatever his knowledge is go to hell and remain there. I'm completely sure that what got him to change course was that the guy in the know told him that if he did what he had been told to do, he'd wish he had taken that bullet in less than a day. That dude was a Mi-8 helicopter pilot. So a career officer. most frontline career officers were at least somewhat familiarized with radioactivity as part of their training was operating in a NBC contaminated battlefield. As a pilot of an helicopter expected to operate over such a battlefield, and unlike lowly foot soldiers and conscripts, he'd probably been previously introduced to radiation and it's risks as part of his training. So probably he knew when Legasov warned him that the warning was for real and that he'd wish he had taken the bullet, he knew he wasn't full of shit. That's when he turned away. I very much doubt he'd otherwise done so...in the USSR you simply didn't pass on whatever a party high ranking officer told you to do for the consequences were dire. See in episode 1, the guy who gets ordered to go to the roof and look directly into the reactor - and that guy KNEW (didn't need to be told) what that would mean for himself. Still, he went up and looked in. Because he knew what would've come next had he said "no". And the guys who gave him that order weren't high ranking members of the Central Committee...they were the plant management: lowly local authorities only. If people were terrified shitless of disobeying even local scrub apparatchiks go guess what would cross their mind if the order came from one of the big fishes from Moscow...

I'm even more certain he didn't hear shit because he has aviation cans on and is flying a helicopter which requires lots of concentration and also is really, really loud.

@@ramjb I agree, he had a choice between two authorities of power. One, a government authority, the other an expert on the subject matter. He at least had an authority fighting for his wellbeing and the wellbeing of everyone on that chopper so that gave him the courage to disobey the gov official. Id take those odds myself especially when thinking about a trial.

Even If he didn't, he saw the blue glow of oxygen being ionized. By just looking at that glow, any sane rational person would conclude: "That's not natural, Flying over that would most certainly lead to death.

When scouting 1 guy did fly over it and everyone in the helo said great thanks, now we're all fucked

He might be a scary man but he'll never be as scary as an exposed nuclear reactor core.

Much like many of our politicians in the face of climate change!

@@_Game0ver_ Actually they only freak out about climate change when there's a hot summer or some event they can try to attribute to supposed climate change. So I'd say it's the opposite actually.

@@tomr6955 By "they", who are you referring to? Almost all experts on the subject are in agreement, have been discussing climate change for many decades, and have the scientific evidence to support their arguments. Then there are people (such as yourself, it would seem) who seem to think personal opinion trumps scientific evidence and facts and that the scientists and experts don't know what they're talking about. When you need your car serviced, your computer fixed, your plumbing unblocked, your cancer dealt with (God forbid), who do you go to? Old Jim down the road who thinks he knows stuff, or an actual EXPERT?!

@@_Game0ver_ you mean some of the same politicians that said Florida would be underwater by 2000 back in the 70s?

@@chrisgarret3285 not sure if, by typing "politicians", you meant scientists/experts. I am defending the science. Politicians, for the most part, do not. Hence, my original comment.

Boris starts to call him by his first name and later hugs and jokes with him. It's really touching how they bond over this tragedy, and come to mutually recognize the incompetence of the State.

"Is that a smile?"

@@wolfensteinJB (While driving a moon rover on top of the power plant) :)))

And on the last episode... Legasov to Boris : "You're the one who mattered most" *manly tears were shed

@@indiexanna i loved that part...he was telling Boris that he did the selfless thing and sacrificed his own health and wellbeing to help do WHATEVER it took to get this horrible mess cleaned up and dealt with.

Can't make this shit up, really interesting source of drama. Radiation is so counterintuitive. Look what radiation did to American pop culture! All the Avengers, basically. Hulk is like impossibility of nuclear potential.

It's the radiation

15000 really changed him...

People keep glowing over Jared's performance (which is, of course, great), but I think Stellan was the one who stole the show.

@@blppt they both did..

Yeah in a ways he's basically the ideal person for the job. Willing to learn, willing to listen to experts, able to navigate the system successfully. If the whole state had been made of people like that, maybe this all would never have happened.

yeah he kinda did didnt he? exposed the soviet union and saved an entire continent

This is what happens when you educate yourself from movies 🤣 There were hundreds of scientists and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and volunteers working on the clean-up. Legasov was in reality just one of many many Soviet people who saved the world.

@@brotpros2306 yes but he’s the one history remembers and Boris, certainly there were many who exposed themselves to terrible conditions and died who’s names have been lost to history

@@brotpros2306 Also, not the world, but pretty much most of Europe. Which is still amazing.

Hotaru Tomoe and throw the judges into the reactor core.

I agree ❤️❤️ he is just fantastic 👌🏻

This show deserved all the award

Nowadays awards aren't won by those who deserve it, but those who can play the biggest victim

@@danieldorn2927 And the biggest left wing nut job after all you don't get awards if you use logic or actual facts in films.

Not an engineer though.

Chemist, but he was a good scientist in general.

@@kirilbellic3602 physicist

@@ahmadfikrytrg5526 IRL he was a chemist

He was a Radio Chemist. specializing in radioactive elements.

Good take

One of the best lines in the whole mini series.

Since I’ve started reading the comments on this video, I was searching for this! Absolutely Boris was the one who mattered the most. The man who stood there and provided all the logistical support to clear the mess.

@@azizraheel8671 unfortunately also the one that potentially that cause it. From what I have read, he is the minister of energy that force to quickly built this reactor in short amount of time. Most of the scientists are expressing concern about the safety but he force them to complete it and as a result the plant still did fail during the testing period. As stated in the mini series, since those men in power want see the result and get promotion, these accidents happen.

@@kyril98741 Mate, I think you are referring to the plant director, Viktor Bryukhanov who signed the fake document to certify the completion of the reactor. Btw, I didn’t study much about this incident, my opinion is just based upon this mini series the way he was portrayed.

@@azizraheel8671 and why they were so eager to quickly finish it? It was because Boris as a minister pressure them to do so.

Ok come on the cgi wasnt that good but the acting was 10/10

can agree. we here in russia are astonished

Mabe it'll be a better idea to whatch the real footage then? Just to compare, How people actually behaved there...

@@Jebu911 The CGI was actually amazing

Yeah. While i didn`t live during the 80`s, the whole design and behavior just looks right. Architecture, clothing, technology.

…..over that “ core”….

3.6... it's not great, but it's not terrible either.

I've watched it 15,000 times already.

He must be delusional... bring him to the infirmary..,

Lmaooooo

I'm overdue for an x-ray anyway :D

Dyatlov is a meme lmao.

Hahahahha Dyatlov is a complete lunatic !

It's just a chest x Ray bro

Dyatlov: *throws up on the desk* "I apologize." *THUD*

Cherenkov radiation is beautiful, i can understand why it attracts people, like it did to those poor oblivious in Gôiana. I wonder though if it really was visible at Chernobyl. Not sure if it would be as visible in daylight like in this scene 🤔

AnarchyGames the Soviet system and way of thinking caused the accident.

@@grrr6637 and what causes all the other accidents? this is not a single event. its just the worst one. its totaly ignorant to say that only the political system is guilty for this...

@@peaveyst7 they had no safety regulations...the whole reason it was caused was because of how the reactor was built...no other reactor in the world was built that way...now other problems have happened in other ways but not on this scale...even the Soviets admitted to the world that it was their fault...10 years before this event the U.K. looked at the blueprints for this reactor and rejected it's viability due to safety risks

It´s true. People still deny to this day that the CIA was behind all of this.

*Politicians

An hour earlier he heard his boss ask "how does a nuclear reactor work?"

Coincidentally, he was also in "The terror", where the terror he displays there is also terrific. XD

That' Jared Harris for ya. Killin' every roles since time immemorial

Dont know why hes so scared. The reactor is fine. Its just 3.6 rotogen which is like q chest xray

its because its real, in that situation, that man knew everyone in that copter was dead in weeks.

Cgi

That still falls to the special effects team whether it's CGI or not.

Lmao compared to all of the cgi in this series, making ionized air to look glowing blue was probably the easiest to do

Easy or not, it's a great work.

@@gustavofigueroa3873 What do you want them to do? Ionize the air? Let's get out there bud, we're sending you in. Ionize that air.

LOL good one !!!

That's later. In the hotel when he comes with a big grin because several helicopters were able to drop the load inside the reactor building and Legasov tells him that in 5 years tops they'd be both dead. That's when it really hit him.

@@ramjb "drop the load inside the reactor." Idk about you but I don't want to drop my load anywhere near the reactor. No radiation on MY balls!

@@bandolierboy1908 damn i hope you are

@@jells31 I once read the average age on YT is 15.

Gib suppa povvah!

Dumb politician

It's a good scene but not that good

There are other more dramatic and better scenes in this series

@@JH-dr4xo You're right, in terms of emotional expression, pathos, etc: but this one literally had me on the edge of my seat! So I guess I'd revise my statement to obvious, action-related dramatic impact... the kind you see in a brief scene from a war movie - or a thriller?

Well I like how the show switched between being a thriller or drama.

This and Band of Brothers are two of the best "real life" dramatic series ever. HBO killed it with both.

In Russian aviation, the pilot in command is the final authority as to the safety of the aircraft. His refusal to overfly the core was within regulations. The threat to shoot him was not.

The people who made this mini series are awesome

But it's a fiction.

@@user-fu7iz8kw8e Lol, Another Soviet LARPer. Tells us the evils of imperialism comrade!

@@user-fu7iz8kw8e are you fucking kidding. This happened for real. Behind the scenes

The name thing is about respect: in Eastern Europe you address people with whom you have no confidence (at this point Legasov and Shcherbina barely known each other and Shcherbina is an important member of the Party) with name + surname, you don't use the name only or a diminutive.

Another note, minor spoilers ahead: In episode 4, it’s seems both Borris and Legasov become friends as Borris jokes that Legasov is smiling for once when the robots start clearing the debris.

@@MrFuzyUnibrow They actually bonded after helicopter crash, Scherbina got humbled at that point.

@@78kokka also in the Russian language we use combination of first name and patronym to address people formally. So to addres Scherbina in formal way Legasov should use 'Boris Evdokimovich'.

@@avejantzero9090 Wow that makes so much sense. So like "Ivanovich" is "son of Ivan"? Sort of like Icelandic people with "-son" and "-dottir"? If Boris's patronym is "Evdokimovich" then I imagine this means "son of Evdokim" or something similar?

This and his testimony during the trial. I've watched them numerous times. Fantastic acting.

@Limmamikegamma60 More like too late

SSSR*

@@krejziks3398 *USSR 🤔

@@9f81rsd00 Oh yeah in english, SSSR is on croatian, lol.

@@krejziks3398 then there's CCCP.

Boris S. I’m told it’s the equivalent of a chest X-Ray.

@@cameronblades8009 actually 400 x rays

What did the radiation patch show? Not much. Stayed black the whole time.

I rate this joke 3.6/10

Whoa Not great not terrible

Go check on the core!

You have to look at the core!

@@ProjectGibix I did, now my face is meting thanks.

@@Baghuul You forgot the sunscreen, bro

Cherenkov Effect. Perfectly normal with minimal radiation.

The best rated show would be breaking bad

the actor playing gorbachav is excellent as well

“Every victory inevitably comes at a cost, comrade legasov”

Ahahaha

you mean "smartest decision ever made in a mini series"

you guys forgot the guy who was holding the door in the reactor room. he went home then took a shower and then goes to another hospital since the hospital nearby was crowded

@@tartagliathewigsplitter3880 The hospital in Pripyat was heavily contaminated by radioactive dust brought in with victims.

It's not Cherenkov radiation. It is the air being ionized, as he says. This means it is much much much much worse than IF it would be Cherenkov radiation. Being a physicist, he knows that what he sees is really really bad.

He better of been nominated or won an Emmy. Man carried the series. Incredible performance. Anyone could of played Gorbachev with some purplish pink port wine stains

And I bet Legasov would be grateful for that. Since, choosing between flying over exposed reactor core or jumping out with no parachute is a "no brainer" for him.

TAKE HIM TO THE INFIRMARY

Throwing communists out of helicopters is one of life's great pleasures. However...

To be honest dying from a fall is 100 times better than decomposing alive and melting + vomiting your own organs out. Hell, a bullet is just an amazing deal.

😂

What are they hunting after?

@@flybeep1661 its haunting not hunting 😂

Boris realize just exactly how deep the pile of poop was that they were standing in.

“What’s that Valery?” “A smile?” („• ֊ •„)

I would trust a scientist more than a politician.

Any wise man would do so

@@phaizan , then there aren't too many wise men in America.

@@thatsawrap5235 probably yea.

Actually, the pilot trusts the pilot and doesn't take orders from anyone but his military commander. In reality this scene doesn't make any sense for many reasons, in part because there's an agreed flight plan and his job was to fly to Pripyat. He also would know better than to fly over smoke (low visibility) or approach a chemical, biological or nuclear fire.

There were no small mistakes

You bring up a sobering point.....How often shortcuts are taken by people in jobs where they don't give a shit doing some line of work they never wanted to enter because it would make someone else happy or suit society's idea of the ideal career... ie doctor, engineer, lawyer accountant etc etc you get the shtick.... And how 999 times out of 1000 those small mistakes get overlooked and don;t end up causing catastrophe... but then that one occasion where shit like Chernobyl happens... medical errors are made and patients die, life sentences and death sentences get undeservedly dished out, Accounting mistakes happen that cost firms potentially millions..... What I'm getting at is that when we care less about what we do, it becomes that much less likely that we will be able to perform the same high level of work with care, diligence and effort that someone who truly gave a shit did.... And how worse yet.. when we get in a habit of doing the tiny mistakes, mini shortcuts, it becomes a part of the wider culture. Whats your opinion on this view, am I onto something big...or am I talking out of my asshole, Speak forth thou views and enlighten my human soul

@@georgedaviddiaskouris3502 I think you're definitely onto something

You can't order a pilot to fly in an unsafe manner. You can try, but it is up to them whether to do it.

And the sound of the dosimeters I thought was like the cherry on top to make the scene even more terrifying

I worked there in 86. This was terrifying indeed. Never went to the roof, but we had to secure the whole area around the B4. I was 20 back then. My dad was there, too. He is radiologist.

Well you can do that or evacuate all of Ukraine and Belarus...

I found that scene the most anxiety inducing. And the fact that they shot the scene in real time, in one shot, the full 90 seconds.

@@burkanov I heard the guys from the military were given a choice between working the 90 seconds at Chernobyl and serving for two years in Afghanistan. Is that true?

It happened over 30 years ago.. It was caused mainly by the system which was running then, named communism. Nowadays, nuclear powerplants are very, very safe and events like this just won't happen again.

Technocrats

@@samuelbrida3814 I disagree....Japan and TEPCO were no better with their lies after 3 Fukushima reactors went bang

@@joeuzzolino9622 at least they did not lie and evacuated almost in an instant. Zhode reactors did not explode because of bad design but because of the bad design of the power plant building. Only one one of the reactor containment vessel has ruptured but because of the earthquake. That would not have caused as much trouble as the tsunami afterwards did. They're lucky that the reactor cure itself has melted down but not exploded wide open as the Chernobyl reactor did. Everything has been contained within the containment vessels the only real radiation escaped has been caused by a expected hydrogen explosion. The reactor core had to be vented to prevent worse. This saved the world from an even worse catastrophe but did not save the reactors. They lost power they were lucky the could do as such as they did .

No. Dyatlov is a perfect example of how "experts" are just as prone to dogmatic presuppositions as anyone else. Initiatives should be grounded in good methods, namely empirical (scientific) discourse. Experiments should be repeatable and falsifiable. Samuel Brida Socialism, not communism. Communism is the stateless utopia that follows socialism.

well its not really power of nature, nuclear fission at this scale simply doesnt exist naturally which is why it was so scary especially when you learn that if something got wrong back then whole Europe and half of Asia would be uninhabitable wasteland ...

@@Asghaad well if humans are a product of nature, so are our actions and creations.

@@user-ot1ue5qc5e thats not what the definition means, "natural" means happening in nature WITHOUT human influence just as artificial means the opposite - something that does NOT happen or exist WITHOUT human influence... and mass nuclear fission of materials that themselves are non existant in nature is purest definition of artificial process...

You dont understand. That is a very limited understanding of natural and artificial. Truth is, everything is natural, since if it were not natural, it could not occur. Humans are as part of nature as all other species. Evolution lead to humans having superior intellect. Just like a nest made by a bird is not artificial, similarly anything made by humans is not either. If other species had our intellect, they'd be building and inventing 'artificial' things aswell. Think about this: you say mass fissioning does not occur in nature. Except it does, because humans are also a force of nature, we are not separate from it.

@@user-ot1ue5qc5e no its the ONLY definition because it IS the definition ... by the way of your thinking unnatural or artificial wouldnt even exist because by your "definition" EVERYTHING would be "natural" ... so again natural means anything existing or occuring WITHOUT human influence unnatural or artificial is everything that exists or occurs BECAUSE the human influence. no buts, no ifs no nothing that is exact definition of the terms. the fission that occurs NATURALLY is the normal kind of any molecule by itself without any human influence, the kind that occurs in nuclear powerplants is MASS fission on scale that doesnt appear in nature of material that was ARTIFICIALLY modified to make this kind of fission even possible. and being "part of the nature" doesnt make our acts any more "natural" teh pure fact is that our capability to act UNNATURALLY is what defines the sapient race from the common animal ...

Put Legasov on the roof for an X-ray😂

Perfectly normal

"I've been following this story since 1986". What kind of useless statement is that? That's like saying "I've been following the 9/11 story since 2001".

Sadly without the show if you'd ask youth and Jung adults about tschernobyl/chernobyl most just know about some kind of accident. The aftermath effects don't get talked about or just very minorly. In school it is "too sensitive" of a topic. I was so glad that my grandparents told me a lot about it when I asked them back in my youth. The show magnifies the attention that should be given to such desasters, yet still the general public is left with very few details. To show those brutal effects in the show may help to convince the younger generations to oppose those energy producing methods, pointing on still existing problems as chernobyl or Fukushima.

Maybe they're only pretending to be asleep ;).