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I was only 4 going on 5 years old when this happened so I remember none of it. It wasn't talked about once while I was in school. I just knew the name Chernobyl from horror movie titles and just thought it was the consequences of test missiles. Had no idea what I walked into. This miniseries blew me away, big time. It also distracted me from the immense anger I was feeling after that joke of a GoT ending
@@cfinley81 I was 6 when this happened, remember played in the rain in sweden when the worst of the radiation fell on us. Fingers crossed i dont get I cancer! Never understood at the time why we suddenly didn't get to eat blueberries from the plants during summer/autumn.
Reporters dude :D It's KGB, the secret intelligence/police. Everyone involved are being followed and reported on. When that couple talked to Legasov in the hotel bar in prev episode and asked him if there are reasons for panic, they were testing him - if he talked, he would most likely be "silenced".
22:25 when he says its 50 degrees inside the tunnel that is 50 degrees Celsius (which is around 122 degrees Fahrenheit) due to the heat of the radiation directly over them. That is more physically hot than in Las Vegas, Nevada in the months of July and August... furnance heat with no humidity and hot dry air.
Poisoned, rather than infected, would be a more accurate way of looking at what radiation does to someone. High radiation will turn stable atoms into unstable ones (so the atoms that make up a person for example), making them radioactive themselves, which is why the patients were still kinda dangerous to be near (it's nowhere near as dangerous as where the reactor blew up, but still not safe to be around for a long time). They'd also breathed in contaminated ash so had that in their systems too.
the patients are not really dangerous to be around. radiation is not a virus, it doesnt spread like illness. The reason u couldnt touch an 'infected' is because the radiation destroys their body and their immune system gets weaker by the day so the bacterias can easily kill them so its important to stay out of their area. Of course back then it wasnt known that abt radiation so :( For example my father was close to chernobyl (and that was in belarus) and ive got a deformation now. Radiation isnt a virus its a form of energy that travels at the speed of light thru anything so it really doesnt matter if u go out or stay inside which ppl didnt know abt back then
35:00, if you notice the First Deputy of the KGB initially tells Legasov that he doesn't know who the arrested scientist is. But once he asks for her to be released and says he will be accountable for her, he tells him "You don't have to tell me, I know exactly who she is". Either the KGB deputy was gaslighting him or they were arresting so many people, she didn't come to mind at first. Yikes!!
This is possibly one of the greatest shows ever created. I cannot remember the last time I watched a show and it sucked me in so deep that I couldn't wait to watch the next one.
Remember in ep1 when my man said, "you'll be begging for that bullet!"? Radiation is probably one of, if not THE worst way to go. Yo Major, when you do your reading after this show, check out the story of Hisashi Ouchi. It's brutal.
Hisashi did not suffer like those in Chernobyl due to a lack of beta burns which were the main causes of death in 15 people, that’s why they looks so horrible, blackened and necrotised.
@@elric5371 I don't know 🤷♂️ There are places that say he endured the most radiation of anyone and was kept alive for like 80 days. When the pain and suffering is at that level I don't know if there's a scale anymore. It is all so far beyond understanding that it's just impossible to imagine.
@@matthew6427 um it’s just exaggerated, as he is the most modern case of extreme ARS, and that was mostly from gamma rays, firemen and plant workers from Chernobyl, Lelechenko is the best example, now Ouchi received a full body dose of 17 sieverts, now 99% of those dose is to the bone marrow, thr other 1% comes from skin and other areas when calculation full body doses, and gamma is the only one which affects the bone marrow. Lelechenko is the only one from Chernobyl who got a higher full body dose at 25 Sieverts, but his skin received a dose of around 500 sieverts, so he would looked absolutely horrific but due to being treated in Kiev there is no footage of him. Other victims who died, (the 27 others) all were treated in Moscow hospital number 6 by dr Angelina Guskova. The worst affected was Pravik, and Akimov, Pravik got a full body dose of 16 Sieverts, and high exposure on his skin, around 20 times higher, 300+ sieverts. Ouchi wouldn’t of got the beta radiation so his skin dose would of been the same as his full body perhaps slightly higher but well under 50 sieverts. Akimov who got a full body dose of 15.6 Sieverts and a dose to some areas of the skin at 450 Sieverts. So technically speaking the Chernobyl victims suffered more, eventually once you exceed a dose of 50 sieverts ( full body dose) you actually don’t suffer as much as if you were to received say 12 sieverts, as you die so fast most of the worst and most painful affects don’t actually kick in. For context a lethal dose (ld/50) with medical treatment is 5 Sieverts, at 10 sieverts your 100% going to die. The highest dose that a person has survived that I’m aware of is Anantoly Tormazin from Chernobyl, who received a dose similar but slightly lower than 10 Sieverts, between 8.7-9.5 sieverts. He developed pneumonia and sepsis after a failed bone marrow transplants and suffered severe intestinal damage yet survived, and is alive today as we speak, compared to say Anatoly Sitnikov, who received a full body dose of 6 sieverts. And died 34 days after the accident.
4:47, she can pick up radioactive contamination from him (which again is not an infection) but her husband's immune system is seriously compromised due to his exposure. So something like a common cold could run rampant through his system. That's one of the main reasons why she shouldn't touch him.
The coffins were buried in concrete to protect not just the radiation from spreading into the ground, but also for anyone who may be digging into the ground far into the future and happens to come across those graves. Encasing them in concrete ensures they won't be disturbed and anyone else exposed to the radiation.
The firefighters injuries were toned down for the show. Apparently at one point in real life, he lifted his arm up from his bed and his flesh came away and the bone just stuck to the bed. He also started coughing up his own internal organs. It’s just incredibly grim
and they actually filmed the scene with akimov, but decided it was unnecessary to show. His face was just gone IRL, and his wife was there to communicate because no one could understand him at that point.
Watching you react to this series was enough reason to subscribe. You're eagerness to learn more, understand, and empathize with the situation was so unique amongst the reactions I've watched RE this show, that I kept wanting to see more. You've earned a fan - love your reaction to this! Never lose your eagerness and willingness to learn and explore.
At the end, they had to bury them in lead coffins and entomb them in cement to make sure the coffins never resurface or get excavated by accident. You’re right about it getting harder to watch. The next episode is rough.
27:38 this is a pretty significant point in the show, as its when Boris decides to tell the truth. Even if it was the worst truth he could have told the miners, he told the truth. You can see Valery notice this, as its totally something that could get him, or both of them, killed.
The dialog "I told you I'd show you Moscow" sounds like pure Hollywood, but it happened. They actually prettied up what happened to Lyudmila's husband, but I won't tell you unless you ask me. "Voices from Chernobyl"? If the movie depressed you, don't read the book.
Radiation goes through gloves and PPE(Personal Protection Equipment). Like he said neutrons are like bullets, they can pass through most things at ease. Gloves would help him because radiation really messes up your immune systems, so the littlest of bacteria/virus/fungus you could pass to him could be fatal.
He’s not radioactive *sigh, he is emitting a trivial amount of radiation, Guskova thr head nurse got 40 milli sieverts from her months of treating these people some worse than vasily and that is a minuscule dose, gloves would protect from alpha and beta particles, neutron radiation wasn’t present at Chernobyl, its not a nuclear weapon, only alpha/beta/ and gamma were being emitted.
It seems strange but distance from the source is key with radiation. The difference between an arms length away and touching can be millions of times the 'dosage'.
In USSR there were only one type of people who could WATCH you. The KGB or the state security. You said something against the state and you got jailed for life. BTW. I think that this part was the toughest. The other two are not that brutal.
There was a spike in cancer even in Romania in the late 80's as a result of what happened in Chernobyl. I went to Hungary and Romania in 1997 with my college jazz ensemble and I looked up information about lingering affects of Chernobyl before going because even though I was only 9 when it happened, I was definitely old enough to remember the news.
The thing is...this could have killed most of the world. Then there was an issue with it about 20 years ago. Basically the roof at Chernobyl was collapsing. I heard it cost 2 BILLION dollars to cover it and I don't know how they removed the old roofing safely?! That was the biggest problem. All I can think of is that place is a danger from now until... the sun explodes (theoretically). I can't imagine. I just can't.
Now with the war between Ukraine and Russia i was really scared a couple months ago . They brought it in the news that russian tanks drove towards chernobyl and i thought that they would mess around there and just a couple minutes ago i read that Russia warns of a Chernobyl repeat 😳 wtf are they doing ?!
@@sophiecooper1824 they shoot the the plants in order to scare. Good thing that after Chernobyl the nuclear power plants were upgraded ... tho u do have to change some stuff every 100 years or so... 💀
they didn't remove the old roofing, they encased the entire thing with a new structure that has built in rigging and machines so people can work remotely to dismantle the original building over a long period of time without exposing the outside to more radiation. you should look up how they constructed it, it's actually wild
The New Safe Confinement is what it's called and it's an engineering piece of art, honestly. It'll only cover it up for 100 years though so they'll have to put something else over it before that. Decommissioning a nuclear power plant takes decades. And with the war going on right now there's not much more being done than making sure it remains safe and doesn't leak radiation. And Russia attacked the plant in a power move, just to threaten the NATO.
Yeah, it was actually a reason why irl Legasov was not welcomed by his compatriots after the disaster and he had to hang himself to make himself heard, everyone was kinda aware of him as the scientist who made a huge miscalculation and killed many people. It's a good thing he is the protagonist in this series so at least young generation doesn't see him as a villain
Since you’re pointing out game of thrones actors. The military officer who says no fans because the dust will go in your lungs from 22:22 is shagger son of dolf - cheifton of the stone crows. The hill tribes that team up with Tyrion at the end of season 1.
About the epilogue to your reaction, it’s best that you don’t get filled in just yet. The very last episode will certainly fill in the blanks and includes a epilogue of real post-events.
I'm European so I can't imagine the shock of learning about this for the first time! For us it was just a fact of reality, growing up in the 80s and 90s. But this reminds me of how truly insane the late Soviet Union was. Reality is terrifying.
Something the makers of the show changed for entertainment purposes in this episode is the way the coal minister and coal miners interacted. The Deputy Minister of Mining met with the miners, and basically gave them 24 hours to be ready to go to Chernobyl...there was no humorous coal dust on the suit moment. The meeting between the Minster and miners is covered in the History vs Hollywood article I recommended...as is the fact that the miners did not work in the nude
This show is so well crafted. It pays a tribute to the victim and ppl who lost their life trying to fight the fallout. I'm really glad the same producers made The Last of Us. I'm a MoCap performer and gotta say The Naughty Dog has always had an amazing team of cutscene writers and directors. The showrunners really did a justice to the video game. Also wanted to share a painful story of mine about the new Resident Evil Remakes. In late 2015 I was in contact with Capcom about the facial likeness role of Leon for the RE 2 Remake. I failed to mention I also have a voice acting background, in the end I lost the part... Now, many years later, when I see how successful those remakes are I can't forgive myself for wasting such a chance. In this business one audition can change your entire life.
while they use celsius in this show, the temperature while they were digging was about 122 fahrenheit. it really must have been like an oven under there!
@@lucieudem yep, it was proper for them to use celcius but for us lowly americans having the temperature translated gives us a better idea of just how hot it was down there :b
"I believe them". People going into this series knowing about Chernobyl most certainly know that that the shutdown button caused the explosion. But for someone who didn't know to believe that a shutdown button could cause catastrophe... man, that's just the sign that this show does something really really right in the storytelling department.
You have to harden your heart a little bit when watching this kind of thing, otherwise you would dissolve into tears! What an amazing tv show. Thanks for the reaction mate x
This show is rough, you aren't wrong. We watch to remember lest the past repeat itself. We owe it to the heroes who sacrificed everything for the greater good.
Damn i was about to go to sleep byt i saw this and knew i just had to watch it! Also, the ending to this episode is brutal, i feel so sorry for the real loved ones of victims but also the people that were just trying to help, first responders are heros.
One point worth of mentioning: All that "I"ll have you shot" lines that you see here and there in the show is an artistic licence to make stakes higher. Last time someone was executed in the USSR was in the early 80's, so killing high official or scientist in public would definitely cause problems, as during Gorbachov presidency restrictions eased off (hyperinflation and crisis made people mad so from 1985 when Gorbachov took over USSR became more leniant). Chernobyl disaster was just a gigantic nail to the coffin of USSR.
Dyatlov. Please don’t forget his name. He was criminally negligent but for history sake he stands for many many problems occurring in the Soviet a Union near the end of the Cold War.
Finally finished the enjtre season so happy now i can watch your reactions to it, this tv show was incredible. Theres a fantastic documentary called chernobyl the lost tapes its really worth a watch you see how realistic this show was and how some of the warning messages we heard in Russian were the real ones from the time. Like the 999 call placed to the fire department in episode 1 it was the real one, youmalso get to see an interview with the fiefighters wife who lost her baby she goes back to their house for the first time since leaving. Its a must see you wont regret it
I know fella, it’s a tough watch for sure. That episode really got to me first time around 😢. But please hang in there, you’re doing great and it’s important to know the whole story. Great reaction, big big hugs for getting through it xxx
As much as this incident was a tradegy it was also a opportunity to learn so much,from the affects on plants to the affects on humans and also a better understanding of what to expect in the future.
Russian people are extremely brave. If it wasn't for people like those miners, the scientists, the plant workers who went into the water to access the valves, then millions upon millions of lives would've been lost. Entire environments would've become inhospitable and impossible to live in. We owe our gratitude to those brave men and women who risked and sacrificed their health, and lives, in order to fix the mistakes of corrupt officials who would rather lie than to look like the bad guys.
My eldest son was born in 1986. I was aware of the disaster,but little did I know of the impact😢. There are several video's on RU-vid in which drones have taken footage of the site. There are also videos of tour's that folk pay a lot of money to be escorted in and around affected sites. Stupid people, with stupid money, so that they can witness the horrible history that took so many lives. Idiots!!!!
Keep watching! TBH, it will be continually harder to watch with every episode; it's meant to be a challenging story to digest. It's intended to hit viewers with gut-wrenching facts about what went down in the 80s at Chernobyl as the truth of what actually happened is finally unveiled, after many efforts to bury the truth, to show the world through the HBO show. The effects of the accident are still playing out and affecting the world around us and will for many future generations!
if you want to know a little more about Chernobyl, including seeing the first pictures/film of the plant taken that day, i suggest reacting to the: 'Battle for Chernobyl' (2006) documentary, (DO NOT NOT WATCH UNTIL AFTER THIS SERIES), it's 1 hour 30 minutes long, i won't lie that some of the info is slightly outdated and yes, the graphics do look like a cheap movie produced them, but you see the first photo's of the plant, video footage of the plant and men who fought to stop the disaster and learn a bit more about the events of the whole thing
Vasily wasn’t that radioactive only slightly, so any exposure from her husband irl would of been trivial, the dose she got from Pripyat is far far higher, 100s of times higher.
KGB, Russian in full Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, English Committee for State Security, foreign intelligence and domestic security agency of the Soviet Union. During the Soviet era the KGB’s responsibilities also included the protection of the country’s political leadership, the supervision of border troops, and the general surveillance of the population. But essentially they were informers protecting Soviet interest. They were bad people doing bad things. The United States as I’m sure most countries do, have their own version. Employed with the fbi, and cia they’re incredible actors and actresses. It sounds like out of a movie but they have to be good liars and infiltrate operations when ordered.
The enlisted men signing up for the liquidation effort at the end were apparently given a choice: help clean up an exploded nuclear reactor, or serve several years in the ongoing Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, which was going as badly as just about every other attempt that has ever been made to occupy Afghanistan. (Fun fact: the CIA *supported* the radical Islamist movements at that time in order to suppress the communist uprising in Afghanistan that the Soviet occupation had been intended to bolster and, by proxy, oppose Russian expansion; this had nasty repercussions for the USA and the rest of the Western world in later decades once the Russians had indeed been driven out and Afghanistan was left under the control of religious zealots)
Worth noting - the KGB agents following Shcherbina and Legasov through the quad were the same man and woman that asked Legasov in Ep 2 if there was "anything to worry about" when he (to them) so demonstratively only wanted a cup that had been stored upside down. Had he told them of the danger of the reactor they'd have arrested him.
People were probably following the people following the people who were following them, it was that kind of a failed state. Which is sad, because if the USSR hadn't been coopted by totalitarians it could have been amazing.
Couple of things. 1) there was a podcast that accompanied every episode with the creator discussing the show and how it is either accurate or they used devices in the show to make the story better (the one scientist being a representative of all the soviet scientists). Also what they chose to leave out because it was too awful (stuff with the pets). 2) Read the book Voices of Chernobyl 3) watch the documentary 4) I am fascinated with Russian history especially the soviet period-this country literally went from one dictatorship (the Czars) to another (Communism), why that happened and what led up to it is a cautionary tale for all of us to watch for the signs of in our own country cause you can see them in the US a lot lately…. People are not taught that 20-30 million people were killed in internal repression within the USSR during the soviet era THIRTY MILLION potentially (much worse in China) but you will never here about it…
Thank you PharmerLynda for this comment I can't wait to finish the series so I can get into more of what happened with the book and the documentary thank you
@@theConquerersMama it felt like this ever present danger growing up during the Cold War. I was born in 1972 so later Cold War but I remember what “duck and cover” meant… fyi, there is a museum in Tucson that is a Titan missile silo, missile is still there. It is so cool to visit, like stepping into the 1960s
Your reaction is the same reason why former eastern bloc countries and nations like Estonia and Latvia are so hostile to anything remotely Soviet. And it’s why anyone still waving the Soviet flag is cringe. It was an evil and corrupt system. Through and through
United Soviet ( Socialist) Republic The Soviets were in the late stages of socialism where it turned into communism. We are in the beginning stages of socialism. Do not forget history. remember santayana.
