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Ryan Hollinger S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Metro ( and that includes the books ) Fallout New Vegas, obviously Chernobyl cause I always found that disaster fascinating.
The greatest thing about the series for me was just how horrifying it is. Radiation can be measured and we can see what it causes. But the scariest part is that it’s completely invisible. The roof scene alone oozes Lovecraft-ian cosmic horror dread. Incredible series.
Don't be horrified. The show was all dramatized bullshit. You wan't to see what real radiation is like watch this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y5dV3IuNWvU.html
@@JoviaI1Nope sorry final stages of ARS are NOT exaggerated, here is a video of some of the victims. Go to the 25th minute and you will see a man completely blackened from body wide tissue necrosis which is what occurs in severe ARS.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-um1-Ub5BGac.html
@@JoviaI1 Again here is some more, note one of them is post mortem and it’s VERY graphic. www.reddit.com/r/chernobyl/comments/f9yjy1/are_there_any_burns_photos_that_are_confirmed_to/
It is literally eldritch horror; something the world has never seen before, you look at it it kills you, it's unseen, unknown, could be anywhere and there's no way of knowing if you're too close until it's too late.
This show made me think of Hitchcock's "bomb under the table". Only that the bomb already exploded and most of the characters are already dead, and we, the viewers, are burdened with this horrifying knowledge.
@@santiagobarrett7417 To be fair there are about a billion movies/tv shows that had great source material and weren't turned done justice in their transition from page to screen. I'd give the dude a little more credit than just saying he copied and pasted. Thanks for the book recommendation though
I know, like the last three seasons of game of thrones, but anyway, i comment that because sometimes the source material or the influences not get the credit deserve
Santiago Barrett that’s true! Thanks again for pointing me towards the source material. I doubt I would have found out about it if you hadn’t said anything lol.
@@ethhics Because the money represents the country and what it stands for. Russia constantly hid the truth and acted like it would be fine until much later.
@@ethhics Many countries will put their national motto on their currency, and those mottos usually try to summarize the values that the country stands for. Like "E Pluribus Unum" for America, "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" for France, etc.
Back in 2001, there was a small ukrainian game developer company, GSC Game World, that announced they were developing a game based on the aftermath of the Chernobyl incident. The basic plot was that there was a second explosion at the plant, and after that, weird events started to happen inside the exclusion zone, with tales of artifacts appearing in zones with high radiation, wielding weird and strange powers, and everyone wanted one, scientists, collectors, military, etc. So the military took over the exclusion zone, but that didn't stopped people sneaking inside the zone, the so called stalkers (we play as one), to retrieve said artifacts and to explore the weird events that made it all happen. The developers were inspired by a russian book called Roadside picnic and the movie Stalker, based on said book. This game was released in 2007 and was called S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, and it was said by many that it captured the bleakness of the environment perfectly, it has such an amazingly bleak and dread ambience to it that it almost makes you feel like you are really there, exploring the streets of Pripyat. If anyone's curious about it, I would recomend to try it out, it's really an awesome and unique look at this tragic event, made with passion by people that grew up hearing stories about it, surrounded by people that lived trough it.
@@schokoladenjunge1 In the gaming community yes, but outside of it not so much, which is why I take every opportunity I can to promote it, so more people know about it :)
@@mykolasrazanta8464 It's right there among the best games for me, just the ambience and mood alone that they were able to achieve it's amazing, it totally immerses you in that place.
A very fitting meme, knowing that the quote comes from a 1984-1988 anime series called Fist of the North Star (and the action takes place in a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by radiation). knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-are-already-dead-omae-wa-mou-shindeiru
Even the brilliant Marie Curie wrote that she would stay up over night to look at the pretty glow of the radioactive materials she was studying with no way of know how lethal it was just like the people of Pripyat gazing at the core. To this day if you want to look at her papers you have to wear protective clothing.
So three things about this series: I actually found it kind of uplifting in a way to see the soldiers, miners, the divers and all the other heroes after the catastrophe doing what they could to fix things and that together their actions save the world from how much worse things could have turned out. Having seen the shows approximation of ARS a lot of "pulpy" post-acop stories like Mad Max and Fallout have lost a fair bit of their appeal. The music in this show fits it so very well.
My dad went to Chernobyl like 2 days after the disaster , he was in the Baltic Army during the Russian Federation times- he had no choice- they weren’t told where they were going. He said it was an unforgettable period in his life
Great vid with a very worthy point - my favourite show since Band Of Brothers. One little detail i would point out, is that you mention the "Bio-Robots" for the roof being "forced unnecessarily" - however, sadly, they were necessary. No robot or machine of that time would have been capable of handling the sheer level of radiation being emitted from that one spot of roof. That's why they were forced to use the brave men who cleared that roof of radioactive debris. Also, random little tidbit i found super interesting was a interview with Oleksiy Ananenko - one of the three who went into the underwater section to access the drainage valve: "It was our job," says Oleksiy Ananenko, who was on shift at the time, while the others had been ordered in by their manager. They knew where the valves were, so they were the right men for the task. "If I didn't do it, they could just fire me. How would I find another job after that?" He points to a few inaccuracies in the TV portrayal: Their faces were not covered by respirators, so they could speak to each other, they were not offered a reward, and they were not clapped on their successful return. "It was just our work. Who would applaud that?" Love the channel though :) Keep it up.
I wasn't born during the Chernobyl disaster, but my dad was. (I am born in a country from the eastern bloc btw) And my dad told me just how terrifying it was. Decades they were told that we have it better, that we are in the right and that we are invincible. And yet, here it was. Fate dealt us this hand and told us to essentially check ourselves. I also find it scary just how afraid my dad was when he talked about it. He described it like the entire world was going to end. There was panic amongst people who genuinely feared what radiation might do to not just them, but their children. Some people were even afraid to have children the next couple of years due to the radiation. From what my dad said, it must've genuinely felt like the world was about to end.
Men in 1986: Sure, I'll help you clean up radioactive waste so we can save some lives and get people back to living normal lives. Men in 2020: Nope. I'm not wearing a mask, I'll look like a wimp. I'm also terrified of vaccines.
@@sorenp1332 Women in 1986: Sure, I make you dinner and spend all day cleaning the house and take care of the children. Women 2020: I can't cook and don't want to serve men, but I still expect men to die for my comfort.
Goddamn amazing show. Seriously, the panic I felt when the divers were in the water and all you can hear is the Geiger counter until the screen fades to black and still, that's all you can hear. They didn't need music or dialogue to make us worried. Just the sound combined with the knowledge of what it meant.
Can i just say, everybody in the show is awesome, but Jared Harris is a force. I always liked him, but noticed how he's usually playing antagonist or a secondary character, so i was super happy to see him as a protagonist and in such a powerful role, his interactions with Stellan Skarsgaard are great and he shines even in the most quiet moments. He was amazing in it.
The scene where the people on the bridge are being covered in debris and don’t realize what’s actually happening was so hard to watch. You want to scream at them to leave.
8:40 The explosion was not the concern, it was the radiation. The most dangerous part of highly radioactive materials is radiation poisoning. The next explosion would send the radiation into the atmosphere which spreads over a large area (fallout).
You all should check out a certain (instrumental) band, called We Lost The Sea. One of my all time favorites bands ever. They have this one song called Bogatyri, that fits absolutely perfectly with this whole mini series (wish they knew about it so they could have used it!). If you read a bit about it, it will not only make sense, but send chills down your spine while listening to it.
roadside picnic is easily one of my favorite interpretations of radioactivity style stories. SEMI SPOILERS- the concept of great beings from another galaxy coming to Earth to dump their trash and just leaving is fascinating and really puts into perspective that, sure we may be the top of the food chain on earth, but we’re easily bottom to any being who can travel the stars. The story of sending people in to retrieve space garbage because in reality, it’s useless to the aliens but far more advanced to us. It just shows how small we are in comparison. That beings come to our planet not to abduct people or study humans or annihilate them, but to dump their trash and leave
Thank you for watching, you say, well thank you for putting this together! Simple, informative, to the point. I now have a new understanding and POV as I watch the series. Great job!
I believe it was Mazin himself who said that had the Three Mile Island incident been like a Chernobyl, we would have no idea what to do and would probably end up in worse condition than the Soviets did with Chernobyl. It was this brutal heroism that was able to contain the incident to just the surrounding city and not the whole country. It's both inspirational and disconcerting.
I glanced up at the TV as my dad was watching some of the episodes and I gotta say, I was intrigued. Your video is convincing me to sit down and watch the series myself. Good stuff as always!
I watched the complete mini series in one day and really enjoyed it. I’m fascinated on the Chernobyl incident and am interested in building a post apocalyptic diorama with a couple trucks. But do it in 1/25 scale, but have it more of a dark ire type of a feel.
As someone who has been obsessed with learning about Chernobyl since early high school, this series has earned my highest praise just based on first impressions from episode one alone. However, even though I really want to continue watching, I don't know if I'll ever be emotionally prepared to see the other episodes. I made the horrible mistake one day of watching a Chernobyl documentary about effected hospitals where a mother, upon seeing she gave birth to a defective baby, screamed in absolute terror and agony at the sight of her own child. Those screams will forever haunt me to this day and I just know that the hospital scenes in this series will only make that worse...
What I thought was the most messed up part of both the show and the real events? Everyone we saw go anywhere near the reactor that was given protective gear were thought to be undertaking a dangerous suicide mission and yet they all survived and lived long healthy lives. Meanwhile everyone we saw just nonchalantly roaming the exclusion zone or the reactor building not wearing protective gear died horribly or from cancer years later. Was the USSR's understanding of radiation so inept that it never occurred to them to outfit more people with radiation suits or at least use lead shielding. The only time we see this is the guys on the roof and even then that was the most dangerous place to be.
The only issue (which was included in the show) is that only two senses can detect radiation. It's taste and smell. You can see it, hear it, or feel it. They do quote tasting metal in their mouth which is the radiation. There was someone who said radiation from different substances tastes differently as well. How Uranium gives off the metal taste but Plutonium (or Strontium) gives off a sweet taste. Scary but might not be true
I don’t know why the Chernobyl Miniseries scared me so much. I’ve never been so terrified in my life when watching a horror movie and/or show. Maybe it’s because I know how radiation works, being a doctor and all and I’ve seen firsthand how it can damage someone so much with just a small dose. Chernobyl doesn’t drag on the explosion and disaster, rather what happens after and the human mistakes. There’s no jump scares, no major “scare”- just human ignorance. We, as a race, will try to conceal as many secrets as we can and when those secrets go out, there’s no stopping them. And like you said, “lies become the villain”. Watch the show if you haven’t, because it gives you a bone-chilling, knowing how much we’ve damaged ourselves. The lies are like radiation itself, it spreads and it’ll feed on us until the truth is dead.
Nice Job! Excellent summation of the real take-away's of the series. I have studied the "accident" since it occurred in 86, and have worked in, and been certified in handling of industrial isotopes, as well as ionizing radiation safety health physics, for many years. The series is an incredibly accurate portrait of the events. The two main deviations (as acknowledge by Craig Mason), were the timing of the helicopter crash, and the single lady physicists from Belarus (Ulana Khomyuk). There were actually many more engineers and nuc experts involved helping Valery Legasov and Boris Shcherbin, but she represented all of them... There are so many lesions to be learned from this well-done portrayal.... and you highlighted them nicely!
'Chernobyl' broke me. It left me feeling emotionally drained and empathetic to the people it follows in a way that few pieces of media ever have and the fact that it's based on things that really happened only adds that much more of a punch.
I’ve watch med this series probably 7-8 times now, even recently when I think about how this actually happened and how heroic people acted when they KNEW they were gunna die, it’s compelling….it’s patriotic… and an absolute tragedy, “the single most reason of the downfall of the Soviet Union” how do you even put some thing like that into perspective it gives me chills when I think about it… I have a great respect ALL of the people that had to endure such a great tragedy in modern times. Despite so the tragedy despite such consequences I really feel like we could truly learn some thing about a bigger picture of how we perceive ourselves as individual countries and ideologies VS Cold hard truth of reality and our own mortality.
I was hoping this would edify the shows value outside of how terrifying all the events it depicts are. I'm not sure I've quite gotten the point of this show outside just direct and shocking depiction. It's all extremely powerful and horrific, but it feels like there should be more than just an examination of what went wrong. Like there are powerful things to say and that those should be explored.
The Chernobyl mini-series is the single most important television production made during the 21st century. It should be shown in Congress and memorized in all of our schools.
Chernobyl terrified me more then any horror movie or series ever will. The mix between the actual horror of radiation poisoning and the shadiness of politics rocked me several times during the show. Even the moments where little is happening are horrifying like the town folks watching the glow, the dread of knowing how fucked they are while they blissfully watch is staggering.
One of the greatest shows I’ve ever seen. What happened here politically is relevant to some of the issues and corruption we face here in the US with our contemptible and corrupt politicians. Why worry about something that is not going to happen? Oh, that’s perfect. We should put that on our money. Pure brilliance!
I loved Stalker, both the game and the movie. The movie's atmosphere was almost inexplicable, and the game's atmosphere was crushing while also being lighthearted due to the stalkers in the zone still seeming upbeat despite the fact their daily routine is gunning down freaks of nature and collecting irradiated pieces of scrap.
Thank you, I ended up watching it a minute into your video. It's terribly well done and I was impressed. As for media I like surrounding this disaster, it def be the Metro games. But I also like the take from the Chernobyl Diaries, do I exactly like that specific movie? Mweh. But I like the concept of humanity trying to possibly get something out of Chernobyl by experimenting with exposure and mutations. Possibly creating what not. Because that sounds like humanity alright. Concept one can do a lot with and we can certainly stick a lot of recent past, future and now sci-fi in a Chernobyl excuse.. especially if there's no good backstory given.
@@AtrocityEquine01 That guy who opened the vault door to the reactor and started bleeding from the hip is still alive, his name was Aleksandr Yuvchenko. He explains in modern interviews how that radiation fucked him up. He has a constant taste of metal in his mouth, and his skin doesn't heal right anymore because his blood wont congeal properly, which means he must live his life very carefully. He also mentioned his skin cannot touch gasoline or oil anymore. I believe he had to undergo numerous bone-marrow transplants and skin graft operations. Years after the accident and his recovery, people were still terrified of him, afraid that they might contaminate them if he got close to them.
@@AtrocityEquine01 he survived because he was only radiate in the part of him holding the door (his left side, I think), and because he was a beast. He was like an athlete (I think Midnight in Chernobyl mentions he was into rowing). And that minute he held the door basically crippled him for life.
"But we are still alive" "We are alive, but we will be dead in five years" *The facial expression of Boris Scherbina quickly changes from confident to existential crisis.*
that dude in the hospital that was essentially melting, has been the most grotesque look at radiation poisoning i've ever seen in a visual medium. Makes me easily consider the quote " you won't be dead but you'll wish you were"
@@matthewchristiansen9978 I literally can't think of a worse state to be kept alive in. It looks like it would be as painful as constantly being engulfed flame.
The most haunting scene for me was when the fireman held the graphite, only for a few seconds, and moments later had a growing hole in his hand, screaming in agony. Radiation is so invisible, and horrifying.
You are aware you are exposed to radiation every day? Humans live in pretty much a soup of radiation. Ultraviolet from the sun and radon from the soil.
And the scariest part is that as you see this the other firemen are ordered to go even closer to the reactor. The reason the main characters aren't introduced until episode 2, is because most characters in ep 1 is either dead or deadly ill.
@@RaySquirrel Yeah, still horrifying. But those pieces of graphite were so ASTRONOMICALLY radioactive that entire LIFETIMES in full sunlight couldn't compare.
That part was one of the most criticized by professionals that watched the show, they said it would have taken hours for the radiation to start dissolving his hand.
I think there's another underlying motivation. If it was just some ordinary "disposable" low-rank soldier, the lying propaganda machines who are supposed to be managing the whole affair could easily lie and say "you're mistaken" or "you misread it" and have it all covered up. The fact that it's a high-ranking and respected general, however, means they HAVE to trust his word. Real mind game stuff. I love it.
General Vladimir Pikalov was a WWII veteran who survived Moscow, Stalingrad and Kursk. He died of natural causes in 2003. He was the definition of soviet badassery and bravery. Not even radiation dared to fuck with him lol
The 500,000 (!!!!) people that saved Europe from becoming a total wasteland and save as much of Ukraine and Belarus as possible I will forever remember and be grateful to. It was sheer horror. RIP those who died and I never stop thinking about those who are dying long, drawn-out deaths to this day.
I see the Chernobyl mini series much in the same way I I view Schindler’s List, absolutely worth watching, just don’t expect to have any fun whatsoever
Similarly, it was almost all lies. Well, the Nazis were killing a bunch of people, especially Jews, so that part was true. But almost everything in Chernobyl was outright propagandizing lies.
Reshpeck that was kinda the point. Everything the Soviets said about Chernobyl was a lie, even when telling the truth would have helped them (e.g. the problems with the Joker robot). As for the series, some of the details, well, we’ll never know for sure exactly what role Dyatlov played or did not play as the witnesses are dead, and some of the inclusions were pure artistic convenience (Khomyuk). Is it false because it portrays the Soviet Union as a government more interested in suppressing embarrassing facts than in the well being of the people?
That's what made me hesitate from watching this video. I got traumatised by the ARS victims in the show that I couldn't sleep for a night after watching episode 3. I knew those pictures of them would be in here and I didn't want to have to see them again.
The makeup and prosthetic artists used actual photos taken of the dying firefighters and reactor operators to create those effects. I've seen some of those photos; they did a good job. But honestly it's even worse to read about their fate and let your imagination fill in the visuals. The entire plot line of poor Vasily the firefighter and his madly loyal wife Lyudmilla is the first chapter of the book "Voices From Chernobyl" by Svetlana Alexandrevich, who won a Nobel Prize for it. It's as told directly by Lyudmilla, and the details of how those men died are not anything they could even reasonably portray on television. As with so many other details in this book. I can't recommend it highly enough.
@@neuralmute I've seen an interview with a first hand responder in the Ukraine and she said the makeup effects were way too exaggerated. Especially the one with the Firefighter, who turned green and all sorts of funky colors. It is a Docudrama, makes sense that they overblow it, but even the worst radiation burns don't look like that
@@LilySaintSin I very much respect that. he doesn't want the horror of it all to come simply from the shock of seeing it, but the lasting implications that impact you from seeing it.
Actually I saw a video of a doctor that was there. And she says its the contrary, the wounds and the skin falling is not at all like that. She said they were kinda exaggerating with the black skin.
Most people can't imagine how nasty radiation sickness is. As someone who has has radiation therapy, I can tell you that radiation burns are nasty business. Radiation in general is nasty business. I felt like a hollowed-out shell who's innards were replaced by lead. Moving took an enormous effort and I had trouble even breathing. At some point, I developed sores in my esophagus and eating was extremely painful and difficult. I also kept vomiting up food. Now, take the (relatively) minor dose of radiation I had for a bone marrow transplant and multiply it times 5,000. That's the shitshow that was Chernobyl.
had to watch 2 grandparents go through cancer treatments and when i put my self in the shoes of people who have to do it weekly or people who suffered in Chernobyl i get sick because I cant imagine that pain. I hope you are doing better and I wish you well in recovery
I’m in remission and I’m not expected to get leukemia ever again, but a lot of people I know who have seen this show have asked me what it’s like. It’s not fun, but Cthulhu help you if you get blasted with an uncontrolled mass of radiation. Mine was controlled.
The Geiger counter clicking sound.. is scarier than the soundtrack for the movie Jaws .. Radiation?!! ..WTF!! .. I think I'd rather deal with the shark😉👍🏽
Ashlie Hood a phobia is typically defined as an irrational fear, which drives me to say that you dont have a phobia. Not that you dont fear geiger counters, but that you dont fear them irrationally. It’s completely understandable to fear a force which is powerful enough to kill the hundreds of people involved in the Chernobyl disaster, a force that can give you cancer just by being in its presence, one that can burn through your flesh without you realizing until after it’s done. If you dont fear radiation, then you’re irrational
Strange how they even thought having one down there was such a great idea. They knew the place was irradiated as hell and should've got out of there as soon as possible anyway.
Chernobyl is what I call “Horror Non Fiction”. The entire series has this sense of dread with the focus on the scientific community and the USSR trying their damndest to minimize the damage, which only gets worse with each tiny detail missed out by either side or pointed out when one situation is resolved. I am sorry if this seem edited now, I just had to fix the comment since it felt a bit vauge in its description.
The scene in the first episode where the children are playing and catching the “snow flakes” on their tongues made me realize how awful this event really was
"Don't let them suffer." "In five years will be dead." "I did everything right." "It will burn and spread it's poison until the entire contenitent is dead." Some of these quotes were downright haunting.
I love the quote from Harris' character in the final episode: "When the truth offends we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there, but it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth, and sooner or later that debt is paid." What a powerful and heartbreaking series!
This series was so dark and oppressive that when I stopped to take one of many mental breaks, I looked at my shitty life with a dead end job and thought, "hey, life isn't all that bad."
Interesting fact in the scene where The Firemans pregnant widow is holding his shoes it’s because they had bury him without them because his feet had swollen up so much from the radiation. Also next to where there is another woman holding a portrait of the soldier that went to the roof to escort the engineer to look into the reactor core implying that he had also died from radiation poisoning.
The graphite itself is harmless, this one was dangerous because of how incredibly irradiated it was. So don't fear your pencils, a banana emits more radiation than them :)
I'm sorry to hear that dude :c It sucks that so many have to lose so much time in their lives over this. Chernobyl teaches everyone a very important lesson, and we should all seek to embrace the truth. Even if it's scary.
@@Outoinen Its sad, I'm sorry to hear about this but its not radiations... As the UN report says (www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html) there is no scientific evidence to support such increase of cancer. Over 6000 scientists from all over the world worked on it and there is no way to fake the data... as the conclusions suggest "Apart from the dramatic increase in thyroid cancer incidence among those exposed at a young age, and some indication of an increased leukaemia and cataract incidence among the workers, there is no clearly demonstrated increase in the incidence of solid cancers or leukaemia due to radiation in the exposed populations. Neither is there any proof of other non-malignant disorders that are related to ionizing radiation. However, there were widespread psychological reactions to the accident, which were due to fear of the radiation, not to the actual radiation doses."
That scene where the guy is forced to go up to the roof to have a look and report back, when he turns around with his face now bright red knowing he’s a dead man was really impactful to me.
I was 5 when Chernobyl happened. Chernobyl is about 2000Km away from my country, but all the milk at the time was thrown out and all fresh vegetables was dumped. The amount of radioactive material that landed in my country was luckily very minimal, but it was significantly higher them the background radiation.
From what I also been told by family, people were also required to drink this thing which helped with the compound. Sorry I don't know how to exactly describe it in English.
The scene where the guys have to volunteer is so emotional. They are literally told that they will not live and do it anyway. It’s so bleak and straight to the point. I loved this miniseries, it’s terrifying
the universe rewarded them, two of them are still alive today, the third only died recently, they all were even able to have kids and raise their own families despite their exposure to the radiation :)
That cliffhanger where their flashlights malfunction and go out while they're in the flooded basement gave me chills. It was a weird sort of tension bc I know history so I obviously know they survived and succeeded in draining the water tanks, but for a split second I almost thought they wouldn't. It was terrifying.
If there's one thing to take away was the powerful friendship and their last bits of dialog together. Very well done. Boris is the very definition of a character arc.
I'm completely shocked Craig Mazin wrote this. I remember listening to an episode of his screenwriting podcast for an assignment in one of my film classes. After looking at his filmography it seemed odd that he was giving out advice. Kinda cool to see someone be responsible for something so universally praised after being known for a string of comedies that weren't really critically popular.
I was 14 when this happened in remember the radiation clouds coming over UK contaminating live stock and milk supply we had news broadcasts on how to test milk and water before consuming also a lot of people I know got scared to eat meat etc. I actually remember poring a glass of milk taking a mouthful and it burning like crazy I spat it out and washed my mouth with tons of cold water I saw the Dr the next day lucky I never actually swallowed any but it scared the shit outta me my mouth was painful for a couple of weeks.
Well from my understanding it wasn't an engineering failure if that's at all comforting. It was a bunch of people living in a system where if anyone brought up the issues they would be considered responsible and potentially killed, rather than being thanked for noticing the issue. I'm just waiting for something like this to happen in China they have a lot of the same blame passing that existed during the soviet union.
@@ChaosTherum BULLSHIT. The accident happened because one man played with a reactor till the point of no return. Other RBMK reactors worked flawlessly.
It wasn't poor engineering that caused Chernobyl; it was politics. The engineers made a plant that acted exactly as intended. The rods, for example, were made the way they were because that is what the people who backed the project wanted them to be. They *knew* that making rods that way would introduce a source of potential failure, but they decided the risk was acceptable and then *hid* that risk from those charged with operating the plant. As the MC said: it was lies that made the reactor explode, that more than anything.
I'm disturbed and terrified just seeing your take on it. It looks really well done. Haunting. Not sure I could actually watch it though. Love your insights and commentary and you narrate well.
Anna Talyn it’s definitely worth watching it if you think you can. It’s a new standard for TV drama. And it’s so well done. Honestly. Best mini series I’ve ever seen
