Chernobyl Anatoly Dyatlov’s real interview (English) 

Ive been told the quality is equivalent to that of a chest x-ray

Maybe because it’s not HBO movie, but real shooting was taken 25 years ago

Vasilisa Lukashevich it’s a joke, the comment I made above are lines spoken by Dyatlov in the HBO series...I’m grateful you uploaded this important piece of history

Vasilisa Lukashevich just a joke from the script of the show. This interview couldn’t be better

Brilliant

LOL

i get it (From Chernobyl series)

Hahah I laughed more than i should

You didn't see Dyatlov because HE'S NOT THERE

Black humor

Thats really important, and the show made such a villain from him. Thats really sad, coz now 90% of people will know him exactly like that one from the show :'(

if he tried to help others he would have died a whole lot sooner. he is a known liar. based on these, it wouldn't be far-fetched that he is an ahole to the nth level.

It's not villanization. You can't begin to understand a higher rank's arrogance in the communist countries unless you have lived in one. That is the exact behaviour of, say, a communist teacher in class, when you contradicted them: they would throw a notebook at you, hit you in the head and call you an imbecil in front of everybody. If anything, the portrail is to civilized.

@@abelnicolae All the operators in that control room were operating the reactor under the assumption that a SCRAM would safe any unsafe reactor situation. They were operating under false pretenses.

@@hoghogwild That's not the point.

That's OK, I got strontium poisoning from watching the HBO series.

Oh hi figureight hahahahahhaha

thankfully i know russian so i dont have ur problem lol

Didn't expect to see you here

Thanos snapped his finger over and over

Lmao

This comment is beyond amazing lmao

It was not that great, not that terrible.

nah...paul ritter was amazinggggg

LMAO now I cannot unsee this again.

He left through the main gate and was evacuated. Most who died shortly after were the ones who stayed in the area for some time.

BTW, he got 550 roentgen, which is close to fatal, also important to point out

The man took fatal radiation doses TWICE in his lifetime and survived both.

He was on the toilet at the time, took most of the radiation for him.

No he did not

😂😂😂

Haha yeah I hope there's a copy of this without baked subtitles somewhere so it can be redone

Its not great, but its also not terrible

@@ShaunDreclin there is video without hardsubs

hahahahaha

That's profile pic ug hahaha

Duck autocorrect

If the real Dyatlov went denial, he wouldn't have ordered the cooling water pumps to be shut down after he came back from reactor inspection.

@@piotrmalewski8178 Your confused rbmk reactor cores don't explode

@@derpynerdy6294 You're confused, DerpyNerdy thinks that entertainment TV shows state pure facts.

except? he's lying - he's guilty of poisoning most of the land around the plant and he supervised four previous FAILED TESTS same test - has zero honor to make this statement

Wow man. I though It was another joke until I clicked on the time stamp Lmao he actually said it.

@@McLarenMercedes that explains a lot. Well written.

Not sure when the miner said "a Russian device designed to cut an apple into 4 pieces"

I grew up in the former GDR. It was the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany aka East-Germany. Dyatlov was right with his statement. The USSR and also all East block states (it includes the former GDR) were not allowed to make any mistakes. The technology should look and appear far more advanced than the technology of west states which includes especially USA. It was part of the propaganda: Russia had to be in space before USA, Russia had to build the first power plant before USA, Russia had to develop the first computer processor (CPU) before USA, Russia had to be better than USA in everything. It was the main part of the Cold War, that Russia had to be better than USA. That also means that the technology and the „socialist“ system had to appear flawless under all circumstances, that was Prio 1. And if something happened, it was the fault of single people at the maximum, but never of the „socialist“ system and its technology (which were -again- flawless). They made him (and others) a scapegoat to cover the flaws of a whole system. That’s what he tried to point out with that statement. In a dictatorship, like it existed back then, it is easier to replace people. I write „socialist“ system in quotation marks because it was rather a dictatorship than socialism. A real socialist state or real socialist system has not existed on our planet yet. Dictatorship should not be confused with socialism. As Gorbachev told once, the Chernobyl disaster was the real reason for the beginning of end of the USSR, not his Perestroika.

@@byte2702 I have a friend in Bremen now (she Grew up in the DDR & is the same age as me) She says the Trabant was considered a status symbol.?. I guess it's all relevant to what you know?

Sorry, the **good** commentometer was locked in the safe. I didn't have the key

You're delusional. Take him to the infirmary.

Stop shitting on the tragedy with this stupid fake meme

i've seen worse...

@@ThePayback7 You didn't see it because it's not there!

Radiation is a hell of a drug.

Also his son died from leukemia

He's 63? If you reverse 63 you get 36. 3.6 reontgen was the number that the low range decimeter recorded at chernobyl after the explosion. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

@@levibailey6256 Alright. He was 63 a year before he died (1995) the disaster happened (1986) he was 58 when it happened. So think twice. It's a coincidence, and itr would also be a coincidence if he died and was 36

@@ionobi9329 R/wooosh

whats so bad about them ?

Andreas Kasel can be alittle difficult to follow. Not the end of the world really lol. I

Its not even the fade in. It's the fact that it's a radial fade in

It’s because he uses iMovie

If you can at least read at a 5th grade level you should be fine.

Dave Newton The old Biff, LOL

He gave the sport almanac to himself on that night... 25th April, 1986 :D

Why don’t you make like an nuclear reactor and explode mcfly!

The comment of the year!

@@folgosa01 Hello Hello anybody home?! Hey think, McFly, think!

Indeed. Quite sad actually when people "becomes a scientist with a PhD" just after 5 hours. Cant blame em when the movie/series gave the basic or rather, the "in a nutshell of it"

@@covb2615 true, I'm a nuclear physicist. Since I was 16 y.o I was searching, looking for truth about Chernobyl. Because of my university I was able to meet nuclear physicists that was actually involved after Chernobyl to explain what happened. I was in Chernobyl by myself 6 times. Me and my co-workers actually prepared a map of cesium after Chernobyl in our area. Even though I'm still not sure where the truth is. The more I learn, the less I know - the more I have to learn. And I'm really shock how people after one TV-series are now experts, better nuclear physicists than professors with 60 years of work in nuclear industry - because on TV they show that they did this and this so it is true for sure. Like famous bridge of the dead - is just a myth in a real life.

@@modabska4789 you are literally how the hbo series depicts dyatlov, completely dismissive of what others say regardless of their correctness on the basis that youve been in the field longer

That, and distasteful memes. But I have seen worse - slash fiction. Like... make slash of anything, just not this. :(

True. The real Dyatlov was nothing like the HBO series. HBO turned him into a bloody tyrant.

Well, that, and the labour camp he had to serve his time in.

Actually he paid for other people's mistakes as did tens of thousands of other men.

Wikipedia+knowing that an RBMK-reactor makes energy= expert in atmic energy, lmfao.

Did you even read the comment section before your thoughtless post? It's literally 99% jokes no one's even trying to say anything serious let alone try and argue with the guy

I'm just here to say... Zup ese...

@WlakyMaster People definitely knew about it, they just didn't know much about it

THIS IS THE COMMENTS SECTION...... ????? I THOUGHT THIS WAS THE FUCKING TOILET, BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE I WAS WHEN THOSE MORONS RAISED THE POWER.

😂😂

*bluuuuuurp* 🤮🤮🤮🤮

Much better than the 3.6 comment.

Feed water He has been around it all night

@@infeedel7706 3.6? Not great Not terrible.

I read somewhere a while ago his son died because of wearing his dad's coat

@@JP-pu6zh it's very possible, see the chernobyl firefighters' clothing in the hospital basement - they're still so contaminated even today

He was twenty years older than he should have been.

He Caused it!

It's how Russians look

Willi Hansen I think cuz of the stress

Morri cone I don’t think stress causes cancer though

@@kelbylesage537 He never said that. Stress can cause heart problems

R3lay Yeah but it’s the cancer that killed him, not the stress. I’d chalk up his aging and hastened death to radiation poisoning first and foremost

@@kelbylesage537 He died from heart failure not cancer.

Because that was a dramatization. I can't help but feel so bad for him. Nobody was aware of the design flaws, including him, and HBO made him such a villain. But when I look at at him I just see a sick, helpless old man filled with nothing but regret

@@Katya2000 Agreed. They seemed to go over the top in villifying him for dramatic effect.

Katherine The 2 aren’t inconsistent. He likely was a real son of a bitch when doing his job. After everything he went through after that plus aging, he likely mellowed a bit.

Most accounts of him say he was a real stern boss but actually cared about the job and spent much time figuring out the reactor as best as he could with the limited resources they provided the employees and he was very well liked outside of work, I loved the show but I am a little disappointed that they made him out to be such a horrible villain

Throwing binders at Kirshenbaum, calling Akimov an incompetent asshole, calling out Toptunov on his job performance and the same with Stolyarchuck! What a guy! Well in the book it said he had not slept for 48 hours before, so maybe that's why he was being such a hardass!

Akimov was known for being in denial over the exploded reactor, he replayed false information for the next couple of hours. Dyatlov even tried, multiple times, to order Akimov and Toptunov to go home and save themselves. this was when they were still in the control room and had not received a fatal dose of radiation. Akimov and Toptunov later chose to put water in the core, believing that it was still intact, which was what gave them their fatal doseage of 15 Sv.

Wait then why Craig Mazin painted him as the bad guy?

@@iloveindomienoodle Because a single bad guy works better for drama, right? It creates lots of tension to have everyone else know it is dangerous but have to follow his insane orders anyway. Every character in Chernobyl represents lots of people; Khomyuk is literally an invention to represent many scientists. Boris too, even though he was a real guy; He represents 'the Soviet Bureaucracy' at first. Dyatlov became the single person that represents 'arrogance' in the drama, so all the bad, arrogant decisions made by others were put onto him.

@@rosePetrichor but why him? They can pick Akimov as the bad guy because IRL it's him. But why Dyatlov?

@@iloveindomienoodle Because it wasn't just Akimov either. It wasn't 'just' anyone. Dyatlov made very bad decisions too. Dyatlov makes obvious sense as the villain because he was in charge of the room, and he was known to be a very unpleasant fellow to work with. Ironically, they made the exact same move as the Soviets did in making him the bad guy because he was the easiest one to blame everything on.

First thing that came to my mind when i saw him 🤣

Manure! I hate manure!

LMAo

Absolutely spot on! Maybe Biff was made to look like Dyatlov....???

What are you looking at, _butthead?_

He said that the house would have been a good idea for the man to be able to make a decision to help with his own plans

@@TMJ0677 did hbo teach you that or do you know what really happened in the control room

Definitely.

@@Riddim_Squid do you know what happened in the control room mister

הלוואי שהייתי יודע רוסית ...אני לא מבין מילה ...חבל:(

Not a great day but it wasn't terrible.

It's a bad translation, in russian these words are pretty dramatic.

Ill-fated is what it was.

@@qqq1942, so if it is, there is no understatement.

I've been told that day is equivalent to a chest x-ray

Great depiction of what happened that night (based on what they knew)

me too

Same here

I paused the video 90 seconds in to read all the comments first haha Not disappointed!

Literally the same

Bill Laswell maybe drunk typing?

What explosion? You're delusional.

Not explosion, but rapid unscheduled disassembly.

Правильно: Союз Советских Социалистических Республик, тупой гейропеец

You should have completed it with "Oh wait! You can't...."😂😂

I’m assuming you’re aged 12 or under, otherwise your attempt at humour is incomprehensible

He looks like 80...

​@@cuba317 yeah and even if it was partialy his fault that this happened.Having to live with that while your health slowly deteriorates month by month and year by year is still something that he did not deserve.I hope he found peace at the end.

@@promeneuzivotu117 absolutely agree

Do you taste metal?

Haha!

Pricaj na srpskom 😂

Ra Lo Tako je!

Miloš Pjanović this series really filled with solid memes

He had already experienced radiation poisoning before Chernobyl so he probably believed it

Anatoly Dyatlov worked in a shipbuilding plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, installing reactors into submarines. During a nuclear accident there, Dyatlov received a radiation dose of 200 rem, a dose which typically causes mild radiation sickness. His son died of leukemia at the age of 9 in the 1960s.

@Antoine Gauthier he's the Radiation Man

@@MontyGumby That's RAD MAN! New radio active super hero

This interview is not great but not terrible.

Literally the first line in the movie is about how the world blamed him because world likes to point a finger. It vilified nuclear energy which pisses me off

Watch the real documentary and you will change your mind, but in all the powers higher up we’re responsible for sure...!!

but he is one of the causes of the expoltion. If only he had followed the rules...

@@necronomicion00 correct apparently he was a very hard man to work for too as his ego was ginormous that’s if you believe the documentary’s...He was probably entirely innocent but was made the scapegoat by the regime at the time..!!

@@Roscoe.P.Coldchain >entirely innocent He poisoned the core and then removed ALL control rods except 1. Would that been enough for that alone to blow the core? Probably not. But it's not as "innocent" as you tried to imply

Me too but please OP take note - don't display the subtitles from last to first. Make all the text appear at once, subtitles need to be low-key - no effects - and in particular not effects that show the last words before the first.

I second that

She didn't translate it.

Roman....

@@Denisoiu-ts4ck eeee romania

He thought he had a fail safe. The AZ5 button if thing got out of hand. But thanks to a design flaw the button made the situation lot worse. He is guilty but not completely

@NEZ You quoting the movie or some tangible evidence? Personally, I applaud the movie for being so good but I don't trust it..

@@howdoifindaname2743 Its actually pretty concerning to see so many peope citing the mini series as if it were a historical source. People seem to forget that Chernobyl is fiction, BASED on true events.

Dyatlov may have been a harsh man, but he was far from unreasonable.

@NEZ Survivor engineers said that Dyatlov,Fomin were totally misrepresented in the series.They were not such villains in real life as they are in the show.They said the spirit is there,but its not reality.The HBO show is not a documentary.So many documentaries on YT,books etc. and people learn about Chernobyl from an HBO production...Come here and judge.They say absolute horrible things about Ignatenko's wife too.It's really sad...One thing is sure HBO is making huge money from this people 's lives and deaths...

why add good video to 5-series-long piece of lies? NBO at 80% is a lie

@@trololoev NBO?

@@nicku.9470 HBO

Agreed. Living in the USSR, even as one of the elite (not politically elite, but elite due to education/training), had to be harsher than most of us these days can even imagine. Of course for those who have never held a salaried job anywhere, much less the USSR, it would be even more difficult to understand. (edited: typos in one word)

I wonder how much Rusia has really changed.

@Jardmang ​ Jardmang Well I guess North Korean defectors go through a similar thing, or worse... a huge change in their lives from black to white. Only thing I've read about Russia is people are still very poor even though poverty rates have decreased over the last decades. Don't know why I find it such a confusing country when others seem so easy to understand for me, but I guess it's just a matter of knowledge about each specific country.

Are you stupid or belive, that HBO showed a truth? Do you know, that HBO tried to show the USSR like a "Mordor" with stupid "ocrs", who drink vodka anytime? Do you know, that a scene with naked workers was a fucking nonsense? Do you know, that at 80-s alcohol was forbidden and nobody drunk, espacually on the hard work? It must be the real fool to belive, that all in series was true.

It was not just one man but a team and he was at the top of that team. Yet he takes *zero* blame himself - he points to the reactor 100%. There are still many of these in service and yet zero have gone skywards. Sure procedures changed but its not like they did not know what they were trying to do is not *risky*.

@@user-hx5jt3kh9j Спасибо

Uh and he was the one that let the test proceed REGARDLESS of everything else you mentioned. He is 100% at fault.

@@ShootBlues Buddy, If I get into a car crash because I got into a car and decided to drive faster than the speed limit in places with the main accident being caused by applying the brakes to find not only that there are none, but that the brake is also an accelerator. Who's fault is it? Partially mine for going faster than I should have yes, but I only went faster than I should have because others have done so before and because I thought there were brakes that worked on the car and I had every reason not to suspect the brakes on the car would also be an accelerator. i.e. The entire design gave me a false sense of security. The result of human error that night at the reactor should have been a power spike with scram, at the very worst, a partial meltdown which is more than manageable without deaths, not a reactor explosion and the irradiation of 2600 square kilometers which was the result of bad design and processes plus a lack of any processes written for a test under the situation they had been put in, all of which were out of the operators control. Had the reactor design not been so flawed, the only thing you would know about Chernobyl would be a brief Wikipedia page with it sat next to 3 mile island in terms of severity and people would still be living there.

Agree. I guess he's one of the most misinterpreted characters in the history of lies.

No. He's just a whiny bitch who should have gotten my light saber chops.

he caused it, he is like that not because of physical pain of radiation, he's like that because he killed more than 4 thousand people

@@David-qe2gs Like I said, he's been through more than any of us ever will. Imagine trying to live with knowing you did that.

@@David-qe2gs he didn't cause it-he just acted inappropriately.The actaul cause is down to lots of things

He is absolutely crushed. He recieved heavy doses of radiation 2 times, first when he was installing a nuclear reactor in a submarine and then in chernobyl. Unbelievable he survived both incidents.

Sounds like you are sympathetic to someone who was directly responsible for the worst nuclear disaster the earth has seen, which killed unknown thousands of people.... He doesn't deserve sympathy.

Especially at 34:06

He got what he deserved

It wasn't his fault... you dint hear this video... the experiment they were doing was related to safety measures and maintenance which happens in every reactor.. it has been done with reactor 2 and 3 in 1985 the previous yr... n even if at all things go out of control or doesn't seem proper every reactor has a shut down button n in soviet it was AZ5 whose wrk is supposed to shut down reactor effortlessly. But there was the dysfunction in AZ5 mechanism as well as the design of the reactor which was hidden from the operators. If operators knew abt it they would never have gone ahead with the experiment.

@@shubhisharma4261 you are wrong. The authorities knew about those types of reactor and they knew it malfunctoned ( reactor build and reactivity of headings, lack of strong confingment building). He wasn't aware of those things maybe but he knew that after he switched it off completely, xenon- reactor poison appears so he should know not to switch it on immediately only after few days. So yes, it was his mistake and authoritie's health and safety negligence.

@@ultron374 anyone got sources or are you all just talking out your ass after watching a fucking HBO documentary as if THAT was completely factual.

The real Leonid Toptunov worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant since March 31, 1983 (!). He was born on August 16, 1960, and after graduating from university at the age of 22, he began working at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. In the USSR there was a distribution system after universities, when you didn't find a job yourself, the university found you a job.

He was my favourite character at the series. And I also like the real life LT. Brave and warm-hearted young man.

He and Akimov were my fav. I hope they rest in peace.

Piyush Sharma He was the same age I am now. RIP Comrade Toptunov.

"kid". Are you serious? Is this really how current generation views maturity? When this happened, 25 year olds could already have had almost 10 years of experience in their industry, and be In supervisory positions, commanding others. In the 80s and 90s, 25 was very much not "a kid." As it always was. The current situation of perpetual childhood is abnormal and at odds with the previous 10,000 years of human history. Don't insult these competent and experienced men by implying that they should have been at home playing video games and reading comic books until 30.

Captain MacMillan

It is not a tourist attraction but a memory duty. Will you blame people visiting WW museums?

@@fabiendevil it is tourist attraction right now. I was in Chernobyl before new shelter, before TV-series and after it. I see difference. Before TV-series: we were only people in Pripiat at the moment. You could actually feel the silence of dead city. Only noise was my dosimeter. Now? Commercial...

@@modabska4789 Yes and is not only because of serie HBO many youtuber with millions sucriber make this place to be a commercial with their influence and Ukranian poor gourv want to make money on tourism with Chernobyl area so ...

the show has a lot of things rushed and dramatized. its at best infotainment if not entertainment. for instance the harsh quick reactions to the radiation, vomiting, severe burns...its all presented as in "10 minutes after big bang happened". YES, you would react to it like this. but over the course of hours or days, not this immediate. but it was dramatized informed storytelling about the catastrophe of chernobyl, not a specific documentary of one firefighters realistic radiation sickness. every entertaining story needs its villain and its hero. they tended to make dyatlov to be the villain and legasov, who actually factually omitted facts and "lied", the tragic hero. which he also very likely was not, even if he eventually took his own life over all of this.

But it was his decision to raise power after the reactor stalled. He knew that was against the rules.

I don't think you understood the series. The narration literally says Dyatlov was a criminal but the true culprit was not him

Then you haven't seen the show from beginning to end? In the last part Legasov explains the AZ-5 button flaw in court and also tells that people in the control room didn't know that because it was kept from them.

Don't forget he ignored important warnings as head Operator! and threatened other operators, if they would not listen to he's reckless commands.

@@RombautsRacing66 Yeah believe hbo bs more, why do your own research right?

@@SASHqua mate if you search it up you find it not hbo related get your facts together boy

@@SASHqua Yeah why care about a series which took source from survivors, let's believe an old man who is about to die and decided to say his version of the story.

@@zzureee And tell me which of the survivors would possibly know anything about what happened at control room? Arrogant pricks don't become nuclear physicists, they don't have enough brains for that. Even while watching the HBO series, Dyatlov scenes felt so unrealistic, because basic common sense just feels he should be way smarter than he is showed there, and I didn't even know this guy existed before! Series even clearly showed, that the design flaw was known and kept in secret, so you are stuck in paradox, mate!

you are right

That is exactly what happened. The design team was too powerful to prosecute, also it would have harmed the reputation of their products, which were considered the pride of the Soviet Union. 4 of the 11 expert witnesses worked for the parent company of the design team, most of the others worked for connected groups who did work for the parent group, and only one was affiliated with the parent group of the operators. It was a show trial.

THAT!! I wish people understood that better. I think that is one thing I dislike about a lot of works coming from USA. They sure do like to know who the good guys and bad guys were.

Dyatlov's character is well-described in an earlier dramatisation of Chernobyl. He is described as "A hard man, operating in a harsh system," and "not an unreasonable man; rather he is the product of the contradictions inherent in the Soviet system."

@@Turtle1631991 American TV is mostly trash and has been for a while.

@Bill Laswell fairness is what HBO lacks, grant fairness to the fair

@@johnathanhughes9881 I watched this interview and Zero Hour's docudrama before checking out the miniseries and the hyperbolic portrayal of Dyatlov became immediately apparent to me for this reason.

Not a good analogy smart guy. Plenty of RMBK reactors stayed active and were fine for 20-30 years after Chernobyl.

@@noobovsky420 thank you, comrade

@@noobovsky420 Yes. Because they have been retrofitted after the Chernobyl disaster so that emergency shutdown would actually work among other safety improvements!

@@cptpayday2080 yes. I know.

You forgot to add the fact that after you hit the brake and it accelerates twice as hard that your car will then explode .....

But for must of us who don't understand Russian, the weird and fuzzy style used for the subtitles makes the important part, the actual words, are very hard to grasp. So naturally, commenters criticise that. Often in a mocking fashion. That they criticise it by making jokes doesn't make the criticism less valid. I want to watch it, but a strange decision made by whoever added the subtitles makes that very hard.

The HBO series was extremely meme-worthy. In today's pop culture, that's actually a testament to it's quality.

This man is delusional take him to infirmary

The question is whether or not he lied in this interview.

Nobody is ignoring the more important context my dude, you can step off from your higher-ground feeling of moral superiority

Yes. He is a victim of URSS. He is a victim of communism. He, Legasov and Boris and another 100 million people in the whole world are just victims of Marx. That is why I hate left, communism, socialism, Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Hitler, Mussolini, Antonio Gramsi, ...

Absolutely what happened to this guy is like someone driving really fast in a car and expecting there to be brakes but then when he pressed on the breaks the car exploded sure he shouldn't have been doing what he was doing but it not like what was doing was beyond the ken of what the reactor should have been able to handle.

He knew what he was doing and chose to not follow the safety rules. He was in charge that night. His fault. Despite the design flaw in the reactor it never would have been put at risk if he performed the test as detailed.

@@darbyohara He’s basically saying that he didn’t break any rules that were known to him at the time. Others knew and they kept the RBMK design flaws from the operators to avoid embarrassing the state.

@darbyohara I mean kind of but also not really. The it definitely wouldn't have happened under "normal" conditions like he was saying it could have in the interview but he was expecting the reaction to abort when the rods were inserted. Like I said, sure he shouldn't have been rushing the heating process. But also a car shouldn't explode when you step on the breaks. Had he known he wouldn't have done that, obviously. All his knowledge and education told him input x and y will happen but when x got inputted z happened and that was completely unpredictable because the image obsessed soviets hid design flaws from even their own nuclear engineers. Really it's closer to a test pilot being blamed for an aircraft crashing. Yes he was at the controls, yes he did an unusual procedure but also he can't really be blamed for the plane not flying straight. Had the soviets built the reactor right what he did probably wouldn't have even warranted a reprimand and the reactor wouldn't have exploded.

Many. Neither Dyatlov, nor Byukhanov or Fomin, were small-minded villains. They were dedicated to their work. The safety test should have gone perfectly, but the fatal flaws in the reactor design caused the disaster.

@@maksphoto78 You might have just a slight misunderstanding of what went down. The safety test had nothing to do with the explosion, it's just the reason the reactor was placed into the configuration it was (excess water-flow, leading to high control rod positions). The test went perfectly but the shutdown of the reactor didn't.

@@aluminium5738Yes, you are correct.

@@maksphoto78 You're maksimkak?

@@aluminium5738Yes, on Chernobyl subReddit.

Не точный перевод.Автор плохо знает английский

DECADENCE жжош. Вот чел, который одну фразу по-английски написать не может, будет судить переводчика-любителя :-)

@@watchingu4568 приведите, пожалуйста, пример

@@watchingu4568 радуйся, что они вообще есть.Я тоже косяки заметил, но при таком титаническом труде грех плеваться

@@VasilisaLukashevich Просто разговор еще более-менее понять можно, но как только дело касается технической части, просто рукалицо.

thanky

Cheers

You're deluded.

Emergency shielding was the problem? Really? According to Illinois Energy Prof Xenon was the problem: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RZQwL-2WTgA.html

Thank you

He turns into a living creature again 😂

More like crank it up to x2.0 speed

Neither slow, nor fast

Turn it to 3.6 roentgen

Not great not terrible...

Yeah radiation poisoning is one hell of a thing

Spile and chain smoking

radiation smoking and stress. maybe some alcohol too :D

RoxyDzey I mean being sent to a gulag probably didn’t help either

@@roxydzey "Some" Alcohol.

He did not "regret what he did" . Basically he told that reactor shouldn't have been operated with such fallacies that it had back in 1986. Unfortunatelly this fallacies were not known to people who operated reactors untill the tragedy though constructors knew about them perfectly well

@@sergeyb3380 The point of the comment was to point out how people can make jokes about someone relating to something no matter how disastrous or horrible it may be, nothing more than that and it's not for better or for worse, I my self dabble in dark humor even if offensive xD I'm not against it is basically what I'm saying. Though thank you for putting some effort in commenting, people like me normally just type things for the sake of typing them out so ye.

@@laster3753 No problem)

You would not have made that comment if you had taken the time to read it. But you didn't, you got your history from HBO

A lot of people suffered and died, it could have been much worse if certain people didn't sacrifice their lives... but let us all feel bad for this guy who regrets his decisions, the decisions that caused the disaster to happen in the first place, because naturally we feel bad for people. The only type of humor that a person can appreciate watching this humor is dark humor, come on.

We don't know everything that happened, but we don't need to know that. We know enough based on the records from the SKALA computer and from independent witness testimony to conclude that while RBMK was a faulty design, Dyatlov has contributed to the disaster a lot. Yes, the emergency shutdown should not cause a power surge - but it only did that when the rods are fully withdrawn from the core ...and it still wouldn't have been dangerous had the reactor not been brought to the edge of disaster by Dyatlov. When he says that the experiment had 'nothing to do' with the disaster, he is in direct contradiction with virtually every single nuclear scientist in the world.

@@Liquiddnbftw 1. only the RBMK reactors were unsafe, VVERs are Russian and they are just as good as any other reactor type. 2. USSR might be no more, but RBMKs are still running. 3. the design flaws of the RBMK were definitely a major factor in the disaster, but this is no excuse for Dyatlov. He violated every rule there was about running the reactor and the test and even the flawed control rod design would not lead to an explosion had he not insisted on increasing the power of a reactor poisoned with xenone, which could be achieved only by pulling out almost all of the boron rods out. Xenon poisoning was not a secret, it was an issue he knew about and which he ignored

they killed tens of thousands of people and noone was held responsible, sickening, whatever the facts were, they caused a catastrophy, end of story

@@leeroa1 Can you personally prove him guilty?! I'm guessing you can not. Dyatlov was sentenced to 10 years of prison and died either in prison or shortly after.

@@eugeneasmakov2251 Can you personally prove him innocent? I'm guessing you can not. But i love how you asked if he can prove him guilty and then pointed out that he was in prison, which means that he was proven guilty. You are a special kind of dumb.

The quality is not great not terrible.

RU-vid turning arrogant know-it-alls into trolls and contrarians who are out to tar everybody with the same brush.

Would Hollywood lie? Sounding kinda anti-Semitic there buddy.

I thought I might chime in- If anyone has questions about Russian, Japanese, American nuclear power systems (et al) I’ll be happy to help. I’m not a nuclear physicist but I did stay in a holiday inn express last night.

Hbo did a shameful job at history but a good job at drama.

I thought that was RU-vid?

I am interested in both books. Which one of those would you recommend best as being the more thruthful, please ?

In the podcast for HBO about the making of the series, it is verified that everyone who spoke, walked into the Reactor 4 control room, and what they did and said are accurate. Making Dyatlovs insults, and denial 100% true. Dyatlov's belief that the core didn't explode led to the death of Sasha Akimov, and nearly half a dozen more men who had either looked directly into the core... Or attempted to feed water through it under his orders. And I have found the real footage, where Dyatlov attempts to claim he was in the bathroom. Didn't blame anyone, but definitely tried to save his own ass

He wasn’t evil, but he was stubborn. He didn’t know how dangerous it was, or that the fail safe method would not work. That was something that the show did talk about. The show also brought up that it would’ve happened eventually even without his influence. He was scapegoated by the government and this is well known. However, he was a known bully who intimidated his subordinates, according to other interviews.

@@hannahbeanies8855 What he did know, is that the reactor had stalled, and there should have been at least a 24 hour wait before raising power again. SCRAM, and АЗ-5 are not there to let you almost fuck over the entire reactor, then say "Whoops time to use my fix it all button!" It's there in the event of an uncontrollable emergency, that will result in a meltdown.

Ah the general English public is not known for its grasp of subtlety...

Watch Chernobyl, you will feel only disgust

​@@kelvinthomas9945 ?

@@koz3ris252 ?

@@kelvinthomas9945 Yeah because film always gets things 100% accurate. So many creative liberties taken w/ that show.

Can you link those videos?

@@markusw7833 Thank if you could give us the links

You're right. He wasn't a villain

@@AndreyDrovosek The fact that he was bullying employees is true and confirmed by many people. He wanted to deliver results to those of higher rank, no matter the cost. Sadly, whole soviet union worked like that.

​@@cytrynowy_melon6604 I so tired of seeing people who judge another people or entire system living on the other side of the planet without checking fucking facts. He didn't bullied anyone. If you actually read accounts of people who knew him, you wouldn't find any mention of "bullying".

Rest in peace, Anatoly Dyatlov.

you're delusional

Robert Balejik you’re a positive void coefficient

@ Get to the infirmary!

@@GN-Aaron **vomits** ....my apologies. **THUD**

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Welcome to the internet. Land of the idiots

Not great, not terrible. Equivalent of a chest X-ray

Idiots repeating quotes from that tv show. Disrespectful assholes making fun from a disaster. Thanks to that show this man is considered as evil as Hitler, people mock him by putting words he never said into his mouth. Show was interesting as a piece of drama, now do some research and pay some respect to those who died there and afterwards. Chernobyl is not a cool tourist attraction, Stalker has noting to do with it. It was a horrible disaster and still is. Listen to what he is saying, it is hard for me to blame him for what happened. Imagine going to work do your job without knowing the equipment your employer provided is faulty and after something goes wrong everybody blames you. He calls his dead colleagues "rebyata" that means kids or boys in english. That does not fit to the monster of a man he was portrayed in the show.

@Ninad Kulkarni Sounds like he needs to let off a little steam!

​@@ThreeFontStreet well, actually no. I don't think it enrages him, but proly he fails to understanding this. I mean of course you can make fun of this tv show, the tragedy that occured thousands of lives, but I'm not sure that you should wait for the person who lives on post-Soviet space to laugh with you on this. Everything that happened is a tragedy. I'm not sure that you make fun of WW2(which doesn't mean you can't do it).

Forest Denizen you’re delusional.

That is, assuming of course, he wasn't lying.

LCwavesAtYa is the day we go home to the house for the night and then we will go to dinner

Completely agree with you, I feel sorry for him

What you’re saying is almost entirely correct, however I would like to highlight that I’ve heard comments that Dyatlov had quite a large ego, and would not have seen the test not done on schedule.

Nah he wasnt im pretty sure he was told a long time ago ( u know when the soviet union existed) what to say and what to keep as a sectret when asked. this is how it works, its kinda works the same nowdays in post soviet countries (Im from hungary this is how i know)

how you know it???? maybe he didn't tells the truth here.....maybe it embellishes the story.....but piece of history for sure

1.75 here.

he was gravely ill, he didn't last a year after this video was recorded

3.6 Rontgen here😂

@@RyanGosling5176 this isnt even funny... Why are people getting fun of this? HBO made a nice serial, but Chernobyl is something, that killed lots of people, so I dont see a reason to laugh

@@dashkinoo6740 its because replicas of this people like diatlov,but also i have a big respect for all who died in this accident and saved the Europe from a bigger disaster

I have ptsd from falling out of building, you bet your ass he does from that nightmare.

What is ptsd?

@@aminatimerbaeva8807 post-traumatic stress disorder

I am also sad... I started with Russian language last November and I am abble to understand quite good and cpould it is disgusting, HBO demonised him!

The RBMK reactor has a design flaw, yes. However, its engineers knew the flaw wouldn't be detrimental IF all the tests were conducted correctly. Dyatlov conducted the test incorrectly. 1) He put in too many control rods, causing power to decrease far below the generators' working threshold. 2) Because generators and backup system went offline, there emergency water pumps did not have enough pressure to put water into the reactor in the case of a meltdown. 3) When the control rods were pulled from the reactor, AS PER DYATLOV'S ORDER, too many were pulled and too quickly. 4) Pulling all but one control rod caused a power surge, raising the temperature far beyond its operating limit. 5) What little water there was in the reactor almost immediately turns to steam, but is trapped inside the reactor core. 6) Trapped steam within the core raises pressure, which causes the fuel rods to reach Super Critical Mass. 7) Super Critical Mass leads to the chain reaction, causing the explosion and immediate release of lethal doses of radiation, killing the personnel who were working closest to the reactor. The RBMK reactor's generators were never supposed to reach below a certain threshold. But if tests were conducted correctly, they wouldn't get near that threshold. This accident was caused by two major factors. A) Poor design, and B) Poor decision making.

@@bigtime9597 The thing is, he didn't know the reactors were flawed as this knowledge was kept a secret from everybody. He didn't know that what he did will cause an explosion. They were given information or better say propaganda, that RBMK reactors are virtually safest thing in the world and indestructible. He did things wrong, but because he taught that he can't do damage to the reractor.

@@bigtime9597 But again he, during the whole time, was thinking that if something goes wrong, he can abort. He didn't know that the AZ-5 button that is supposed to abort everything, will in fact cause an explosion. If he knew that AZ-5 will blow up the reactor, he would never put the reactor in that state.

@@DuneDemon8 Yeah the guy was a head nuclear technician with almost 30 years experience he wasn't stupid even if he was a brute.

No. Dyatlov in the Chernobyl HBO miniseries was nothing more nor less than a classic small-minded Soviet bully. I disagree totally that they made him a monstrous one-dimensional villain. The opening monologue by Jared Harris clearly states that the guy was anointed to carry the can publicly because he was nominally in charge and was deeply unpopular. The series’s true genius is its total authenticity. And there’s enormous nuance, especially in the clear stunned shock on Dyatlov’s face, in the final episode’s courtroom, when he discovers the SCRAM button was the trigger not the fail-safe they all assumed would be there. The Soviet Union churned out such people in their hundreds of thousands, robbing individuals of their humanity. Deny the facts if they go against the agenda. Call naysayers delusional. Bully and cow opposition. Appeal to the good of the state and question others’ loyalty if cornered. Denounce your rival before he denounces you. Lie, cheat and steal because the only crime is getting caught. As this is how anyone, anyone regardless of talent or competence, can rise up the hierarchy... and become in charge of an entire republic (Episode 2) even if all they’ve accomplished previously is being a worker in a shoe factory. A person who spent any time behind the Iron Curtain in the 80s is instantly transported to a period they knew, by the series, populated by characters they totally recognise!

There's not a single moment in any of the 5 episodes that show Dyatlov as being a nuanced character that can be sympathized with in any way. If your only example is his facial expression in the trial I suggest you watch it again. His facial expression barely changes. Throughout the show he is completely 1-dimensional. Give me a single example of nuance in Dyatlov in the show. There are none. When his coworkers are injured and distressed he's shown to be disgusted, annoyed and angry and doesn't seem to care about them at all, but in this interview it seems he is at least somewhat bothered by their deaths. In the show he doesn't seem to be interested in finding out what has happened, but here he describes running all over the plant trying to figure out what happened and working as best he could in taking precautions to prevent further disaster. He is not once shown to stop and think about what he is going to say, no sign of uncertainty, second guessing or considered thought. In this interview he really takes a long time to think before every word he says. And he describes how he immediately realized his mistake and tried to undo it after giving the order that resulted in 2 people dying. In the show he doesn't even care. The opening monologue in which Harris points out that Dyatlov was a very convenient scapegoat set up a very interesting expectation: that we would be shown a man that was indicated by circumstance as the man to blame, but that reality would turn out to be more nuanced than that. This is not what was shown, the show depicted him as a villain, and that depiction starts in that very same monologue with the final words "And as for what Dyatlov did do, the man does not deserve prison, the man deserves Death" Before we even see Dyatlov on screen we are primed to think of him as a despicable man deserving of death, and we are not shown a single thing to contradict this. Every single action he takes and every single word he speaks are those of a small minded, sociopathic, egotistical thug. I'm not saying he was a good guy. I have no idea what kind of man he was, but it seems to me that Craig Mazin wanted to show Dyatlov as being entirely despicable. A Joffrey type character that doesn't have a single redeeming characteristic. I enjoyed the show greatly, and especially the details and different perspectives, but when it comes to the character of Dyatlov in particular I don't see how anyone could say it is anything other than 1-dimensional and clearly out to show him as a villain. This is why I say the show is hypocritical. It commits the sin that it starts off by condemning. The sin of going for the convenient, simple and expedient narrative, instead of looking hard at the truth. I don't think Craig Mazin took a hard look at the truth of the character of Dyatlov to see who he really was. People who knew him has gone out after the show came out and said that yes he was arrogant, bullying and disliked, but he was nowhere near the monster shown on screen. When I see this interview I see a human with flaws. not the monster shown on screen. In fact I would say the character writing in general is the weakest part of the show. The actors are great, and the plot is fantastic. The attention to technical detail is admirable. The directing, editing, etc. It truly is a great show, but the main characters are not at all like real people. They are very neat and tidy dramatic types. What Hamsun called "a dramatized mass of wood" when criticizing Ibsen.

DavidKlausen Untrue. Nuance does not imply sympathy. You are totally confusing the two. As I said if you knew life in the Eastern block the character is totally human, totally _real_ because you encountered such people every *single* day, in every layer of interminable bureaucracy! If your complaint is that the dramatic Dyatlov wasn’t the “real” Dyatlov, that charge can be levelled at every character, because the series is not a documentary neither is a historical re-enactment. Dyatlov *sees* the graphite burning, in walking back to his office, but his Soviet programming refuses to let him see. He has a greater understanding of the Soviet system than the lady professor when telling her no matter what he says he will be found responsible. His entire motivation is to move up the ladder to a cushy office just like the two incompetents have done above him. He grabs for the hydrogen explosion/feed water lifeline. Dyatlov is the only one with the courage/or more accurately nihilist disinterest, to call out the show trial as a show trial! Your perceived lack of nuance is based, I suspect, in not understanding just how breathtakingly authentic the portrayal of characters in Soviet life really are in the series.

​@@michaeljames4904 Nuance does not imply sympathy, and I never said that it did. Showing nuance in a character means showing how that characters actions are brought forth through the balancing of many internal forces that drive the character. The most common way of showing nuance in a villain-character specifically is to show the sympathetic characteristics, and how they stand in relation to the more awful ones. It does not mean that you have to make a likeable character. It means showing how character is driven by more than just one thing. If you show that a character is driven by one thing and one thing only, and there are no other internal forces working in that character, it is by definition a ONE-dimensional character. I asked you to give me examples of how the series shows nuance in Dyatlov, and you're only giving me examples of how he just cares about himself and doesn't give a shit about anything else. You're even saying it: "His ENTIRE motivation is to move up the ladder". Yet you call this nuance. Do you not see the contradictions in your own argumentation here? I'll try again: Give me ONE example of how the series shows nuance in the character. You can't because there isn't. I think you're the one who's confusing nuance with consistency, because the only thing you're saying, over and over, is how the characters actions are consistent with his motivation. A motivation which you yourself admit is entirely one-dimensional. I don't care if it's an accurate representation of a "type" of person. I'm not arguing wether or not this type of person existed in the soviet union, and I don't see why you think that's relevant. I'm sure there were millions of selfish bastards. I'm talking about a portrayal of one singular real person that actually lived here on planet earth, because even though it's not a documentary, the show is presenting itself as a version of what really happened and why. The show's main theme is the dichotomy of lies vs the truth. Here is a show about a very important and controversial event in recent history, whose main message that it keeps trying to hammer in is that the truth is very very important, and yet the show's creators feels that it is entirely ok to be untruthful in their depiction of the people involved. Do you disagree that this is hypocritical?

DavidKlausen _“Nuance does not imply sympathy, and I never said that it did. ... Do you disagree that this is hypocritical?”_ _8 hours ago_ *“There’s not a single moment in any of the 5 episodes that show Dyatlov as being a nuanced character that can be sympathized with in any way.”* Er... For whatever reason it’s clear that you’ve got a bee in your bonnet about Dyatlov in the HBO miniseries being as you keep alleging a “one-dimensional” un-engaging character who’s “lacking” in nuance. You can keep hammering that point until the, presumably irradiated, cows come home: but doing so simply avoids looking at any of the comment threads on hundreds - possibly now thousands - of videos related to the series, what do you read: what’s undeniable? You’re almost entirely on your own. Because whose lines do you see quoted more than anyone else’s by absolutely everybody?? By a factor of at least 3.6 to 15,000... Dyatlov’s. So, you may argue all you like that maybe, he may not have been great... but he certainly wasn’t terrible. 🤣🤣🤣

But he wasn't reckless.

And how do you know?

If you say it, it must be true...OH WAIT!!!

Everyone knows that the regime was main to blame. The TV series shows that too.

@@fantommm OH WAIT!!! What? Your presumptions come from a tv show?

@@deimantev8641 No i was inside Chernobyl just like you (OH WAIT) and i know exactly what happened..I also believe someone who says "it wasnt my fault" because you know thats TOTALLY something that a guilty person wouldnt say...MINDBLOWN right "expert"??

100%, hope he's not judged entirely by the show.

very smart man at the least, the show didn’t portray that correctly

Muhammad Amir Shehzad , ok he did what he had to and shot down the reactor then explosion. İf the show telling the truths he had to warn city commity or governer to evacuate the city immediately, in real people continued to live in the city for more 30 hours !

bros, the test was meant to start between 700-1000 megawatts but Dyatlov yelled at his workers to start from 200. there was an error and the reactor needed to be shut down but Dyatlov yelled to continue the test