Chernobyl Episode 3 Scene | HBO | Lyudmilla Ignatenko
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2019
- Features combined footage from the HBO miniseries Chernobyl Episode 3, scene of Lyudmilla Ignatenko trying to be with her husband (Vasily Ignatenko) one of the firefighters who was sent to the nuclear power plant reactor after the reactor's explosion and was exposed to extreme radiation.
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the first responders literally became nuclear waste.
:(
Poor guy,if he only knew what fire he was putting out
That’s why they were laid to rest in a wood coffin inside a led outer shell coffin then encased in concrete 😞
no they didnt
@@taraspikeyhelton It was a zinc coffin not lead.
“Don’t touch him”
*immediately hugs him*
Right!
I feel sorry for the unborn baby but not her, it's almost like she wanted it to die?
@@tonym9716 I think it was more that she was clueless about just how bad the effects of radiation are
@@tonym9716 I feel sorry for her. Imagine having to watch your partner slowly deteriorate in pain with your own eyes. I’m not sure if she knew she was pregnant then but I felt really sorry for her.
Tony M imagine watching the person you love the most literally rotting away by the day and you could do nothing about it? also keep in mind that before Chernobyl no one even knew the effects of radiation but scientists and doctors
@@tonym9716 In reality though, there was no harm in touching him. It's not like he was radioactive lol
that scene where Vasily is screaming in agony is definitely one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen on screen
Chad Myron Gaines-Normington i cried for them ...
A person exposed to fatal levels of radiation suffers a hundred times more than a third degree burns victim.
It's really sad.. disturbing... the agony and pain they went thru...
There is worse out there...
@@generichandle7 nope, there is not. This episode alone made over the top dogshit like Human Centipede and Serbian Film pale in comparison, specially when you remember it's based on REAL EVENTS.
Thank you, Vasya Ignatenko, and all of the heroes who sacrificed their health and lives.
Does anyone know why you would look like you’re “getting better” after a day or two after severe radiation, but then your body starts decomposing?
And without sacrifices of brave souls it could have been a whole lot worse much worse if the molton corium made contact with the underground water a full multi megaton nuclear detonation would have taken place and made most of Europe a dead nuclear unhinabitable wasteland
@@lecheman01 it's the period before the destruction of the DNA and begining of cell degradation (cell death). During this period the body begins to recover from the radiation burns and other early onset illness'. Depending on exposure this period of recovery can last days or even weeks. Basically they look like they are "getting better" because they are getting better.. Right up to the point they start getting worse.
No one told them the reactor had exploded and was on fire. If they knew I'm sure things would've been much different.
@@AlexLopez-rx8lw Firefighters face death every time they respond. They are well aware of the dangers performing such service brings along.
The last smile on Vasily's face when his wife told him of her pregnancy is so heartwarming. Even on the face of death, even in the face of horrible pain and mental decay, he could only smile.
Little did he know his wife destroyed the kids life by touching him.
@@finn7750 the kid was already exposed to those harmful radiations. You cannot blame her for loving her husband till the end. Seeing her husband die and not being able to hold him, it’s painful.
@@monke7101 but it still had a decent chance of survival at that point, especially because she was already pregnant when he took the radiation. Obviously I know it's painfull but it was just a foolish decision
@@finn7750 while watching the episodes I was angry too. Why is she touching him, why this why that. But at the end of the day we cannot hold her responsible for what happened. Sometimes our emotions overpower us. We can’t do anything and it must’ve been scary for her. She never heard of this before, never saw this before. She was all alone. Only had her husband by her side and he had little time left.
@@finn7750 People back then werent aware of what radiation was or how to be careful about it. Ontop of which the gov was hiding the truth about the reactor, so they werent even informed about what was going on. Not even the medical staff knew how to deal with it (and it didnt help that after this incident the gov hid all research and educational material regarding radiation and treatment)
Ontop of that, they didnt know even know what was going on with the reactor since the gov was keeping it under wraps. Medical staff were threatened not to reveal anything or face "consequnces". Anyhow in RL, he wouldnt have been capable of heavy contaminating her as thats not how irridiated people work after medics strip off the clothes and bathe them. She lost her child because the entire town was bathed in radiation.
"He's my husband"
- "Not anymore"
This must be the most painful response she could have heard.
And the way she say "Yes, my love" was so tender
The wife gets a lot of hate on the internet, being called 'dumb' and a slew of other absurd names. I always felt that it was her love for her husband that made her act like this. She didn't want her husband to die alone. She had to watch him suffer until the very end. Then, she had to watch him get buried in a metal casket before being encased in concrete. I can't imagine watching my Significant Other going through that, I wouldn't want them to be alone either. I know what those moments cost her in the long run, but she will always have my respect for her pure heart. She really did love her husband.
@@Spartain14 it's easy for someone who has never been In her position to say bad things about Lyudmilla Ignatenko but I bet that a lot of people would have done the same thing. Her baby died four hours after birth and I'm pretty sure that it was because of the radiation exposure from staying at Vasily's side but I can't blame her for not wanting to leave her husband in his final hours. I can't imagine how hard it must have been for her to watch him go through that.
@@Spartain14 After Lyudmila told Vasily she was pregnant, I asked my husband - if you were in that position, would you want me to be with you or would you want me to protect our baby? He couldn't answer. It's a tough choice and ultimately a bad situation.
Similar line as the one in House MD in the episode where a man's wife dies and house wants her heart for a transplant.
@@Spartain14 Oh man I feel the exact same way. She went with her heart and acted out of pure love,That is NEVER stupid, God bless Lyudmila forever,I wish I could tell her to her face how much I respect and admire her. She's the verydefinition of a loving woman,
Such a good actor, what the hell. you can genuinely feel her pain and sorrow, it's amazing.
Besides when she sits with him inside of the plastic curtains in the end, when he's taking his last breaths. Really didn't seem like she was as chocked as one would if there husband looked like the living dead
She probably had a delayed reaction.
@@Swessy Nope. That scene was pretty good. She gave him a proper 'send-off'. Pure love from her. Haven't told him anything, haven't showed him anything, she was calm, so he could be calm. He was dying in the most painful way but her reaction was great. No panic, she was ready for it but she wanted to make him feel 'good'. I know it sounds ridiculous. Also she told him about the baby, which I think was a good idea. If she would start crying, screaming, whatever, it would be even harder for him. He looked really bad earlier but she gave him sunglasses, was telling him what she's seeing outside. She was trying her best to make him feel normal. To think that everything is going to be okay. She really did a great job. She was holding it. Keeping it inside. I would want my wife to do the same. Really.
@@mjd4904 Exactly. When you love someone already in dire straits, you hold back on showing your pain to prevent adding to theirs. You find the will to be strong for them.
@@mjd4904 that's definitely true, thanks for a different perspective!
At the first scene he had a face and his body was burned, then the next day it's GONE. It's so easily broken down.
That is what happens with radiation poisoning when she first saw Vaseli he looked like he was recovering but after the (recovery part) the worst part of radiation sickness happens as you saw at the end.
@@THE-MOES-SHOW yes
@@ramixpAPEX 😂😂😂
Ghost-phase of radiation sickness - seems like normal, when cells and systems of a human body already has died...
How did comrade dyatlov recover from his radiation? He was in the same building as reactor 4
Lyudmilla and Vasily married in 1983, after meeting in 1979 as teenagers.
At the time of the Chernobyl disaster, Lyudmilla was pregnant.
Sadly, Vasily died of radiation poisoning two weeks later on May 13, 1986, and his wife watched him endure a painful death which had drastic implications on her own health and her unborn baby.
In Voices of Chernobyl, she recalled: “Every day I met a brand-new person.”
She continued: “The last two days in the hospital - pieces of his lungs, of his liver, were coming out of his mouth. He was choking on his internal organs. I’d wrap my hand in a bandage and put it in his mouth, take out all that stuff.”
He was one of the 27 firefighters who died of acute radiation sickness in the weeks following the disaster.
Vasily was buried in a sealed zinc casket under cement tiles in Moscow, due to the radioactivity still present on his body.
That is terrible
Does anyone know any worse ways to die? The pain, the horror; the way he looked was shocking and so much like something you’d see in a horror film. Yet, this was real and this happened.
fuck me if that was me in his position i wouldve begged to be shot in the head
🙏🏻⛪️🕊
The baby died of heart failure and liver cirrhosis as well. Not sure what happened to his wife, but seriously .. I can't imagine any of it.
The worst part is that what we're presented on screen is still nowhere near as bad as what actually happened to them.
This is a *toned-down* version of what they looked like by the end, because otherwise it would be almost too gratuitous and graphic.
Their faces melted, try and lift their arm and only the bones would come up. They were coughing up their own insides.
One of the most painful ways to die. It's beyond imagination.
It's not possible to lift your arm and have only bone come up, bone is useless without muscle which is what actually lifts it. What actually happened was no more graphic than what was shown here.
@@yawgmoth6568 No you are totally wrong. This is exactly what happened, they toned down in miniseries. Just research more about this firefighter, you would start crying.
@@yawgmoth6568 he's not saying that the person themselves lifting their arms. He meant other people lifting their arms and the skin would peel away like its wet tissue to expose the bones.
And yes, it is extremely grusome and plausible. Read about Hisashi Ouchi. There are even some real pictures of him in his final days.
The way the colors were in the makeup was unrealistic. I think the reality was even more terrifying. Skin black and peeling, blotchy and oozing...If you haven't seen the footage of the real people after the disaster, I highly recommend it...But not if you're faint of heart
Not even HBO had the balls to show such horrors
Imagine the guy who picked up the grafite...
I don't think I want to
*graphite
You don't have to imagine the man who picked up the graphite because there was no graphite! lol
I think I remember reading that he lost his hand. Not sure if he survived after the radiation exposure, though.
@@Hirundo-demersalis of course not lol. nobody would survive that.
Radiation Poisoning is like getting a mega sunburn on the inside. Then it burns outward until your dead.
No it’s worse than that. It instantly kills all of your DNA. Your body ceases the ability to make new cells. When your cells dies, nothing replaces them. You’re in an active state of living decay until finally you succumb to your own body rotting to death.
Actually no… it completely destroys your DNA and your cells don't know what to do anymore. You become irradiated cancerous goo.
Laura Voyce yeah that’s pretty much it. You slowly die as all your cells expire. With nothing to replace them you melt away. Organs slowly fail, your stomach develops ulcers and acid leaks out, your spinal fluid poisons your blood even more...it’s just about as 7th circle of hell as you can get.
@@Lieutenant_Dude DNA isn't a living thing, so no. It doesn't "kill" your DNA.
You’re dna does fall apart though and then after that everything else falls apart
The fireman were so brave. They probably knew it wasn’t a “normal” fire. Such heroism
I think that's the tragic thing, they went in not knowing what it was.
Do you taste metal?
And also people working on the roof to clear out graphite
@@gregap8282 According to Craig Mazin (the writer/show runner), he believes that at a certain point, the firefighters must have known that they were in serious danger because their skin was turning red while standing outside the reactor, but that they decided to continue fighting the fire anyway. We can never know for sure I suppose, but it's incredible to imagine the bravery behind that decision to stay at Chernobyl instead of fleeing.
@@BenMoranFilms That was what I felt was lacking from a lot of this - after a certain point everyone on-site knew how bad things were, and a bunch of them went near an exploding nuclear reactor *anyway* because they were more concerned about stopping the disaster than their own lives. One of the firefighters even said in 2008 something to the effect of 'of course we knew how bad it was and that we all might have died, but if we followed regulations, we wouldn't have been helping to put the fire out'. But I guess everyone acting all scared makes for better TV.
What makes that funeral scene even worse is that it’s immensely disrespectful, but they have no other option to prevent the ground from being contaminated.
Toxic waste disposal
TBF, at least they gave them some form of ceremony.
@CaptHawkeye I honestly don't see how concrete makes it humiliating... you're acting as if they were putting their bodies in trash cans or something
Just imagine the relatives' feelings in this. You're at a funeral, it's already one of the worst days of your life, the whole ceremony should be somber, and then a big dirty loud machine backs into place and pours concrete over your loved one.
It's necessary yes,but it's also very out-of-place and yes, it can feel disrespectful from the POV of the relatives.
The show added dignity to it, in real life is was insanely rushed and without ceremony because the Soviets were scared of anyone finding out about how badly contaminated the men had been (the metal coffins and concrete would have been a give-away). They didn't even give the family last words, but hurriedly brought them to the field where they instantly dumped concrete onto the coffins then rushed the families out again. Even with the safely measures, it would have been done with dignity but it wasn't.
the most epick scene from this episode is one where she watches the wall of the clinic through the window telling him how beautifull st Basil's cathedral is. Hearthbreaking, beautifull allegory
В сериале это действительно просто аллегория, потому что на самом деле это было 9 мая и Вася сказал жене посмотреть на салют. И она его действительно увидела, после чего он ей подарил спрятанные под подушкой и купленные заранее медсестрой по его просьбе гвоздики со словами "я обещал дарить тебе цветы каждый праздник". Так, как показали в сериале, конечно драматичнее и тяжелее, ну и раскрывает её ещё больше как безумно любящую женщину, готовую на все лишь бы мужу стало легче
I know even though she can only the building next street.
Might as well give him a comforting lie, he’s suffering enough as it is.
The real story of Belarusian village guy who fullfilled his Duty as fireguard. Lyudmila is still alive and she is living in Kiev, Ukraine. Their's baby was buried at the same grave with Vasia. Remember them, please.
I heard she died in 2011. Not sure if that was true or not though.
@@barrystanton9242 no, she is still alive. At least in 2016 it was made documentary with her.
@@Rahvalods Fair enough :) That's good to hear.
I salute him, and those who stood with him. And hope that they find themselves in a place free of pain.
She also had various brain problems and doctors told that she wouldn't have kids and yet he has one!
"These people are dying, but no one has truly asked them about what happened. About what we have suffered. What we have seen. People dont want to hear about death. About horrors.
But i have talk to you about love... About how i've loved."
- Lyudmila Ignatenko, "Voices from Chernobyl".
Why nobody seems to praise the doctors and the nurses who attended to
the hurt and sick people? I wonder how much of that radiation they
absorbed only by touching the firemen's clothes and bodies. And unlike
the visitors they couldn't just hide behind the plastic curtain.
i think i read somewhere ( not sure about the credibility of that article. anyone feel free to correct me) that the first hospital where injured people were directly taken those people didn't have enough precautions and most of them died too
heartbreaking...
I'm pretty sure in real life it was safe to touch them since they would've been decontaminated. This was added for dramatic effect I believe.
@@somebodyonce5976 no, they weren’t. Because they weren’t even told what was going on, and treated the injured as burn victims without the necessary precautions.
The basement of the hospital where the firefighting equipment and protective gear was dumped remains one of the most radioactive locations in Chernobyl even till today. And the hospital staff had been handling them unwittingly with their bare hands.
@@Charlie0l9 Getting your information from an HBO show, I see. You should watch Matrix too, maybe you can learn something about physics.
Patients were stripped of clothes and washed. Safe to touch, but unsafe for the patients to be touched and visited by others, as their immune system was toast.
"Yes my love" this is deep.
Seeing him fine at first made this a lot worse, I hoped he'd recover but that was cruelly snatched away.
It is called the Latent Stage of ARS. It is the period where people appear to be returning to normality but then this is like a trick. Afterwards comes the critical illness period which is the rapid deterioration of the body.
@@aznsushirofl
Yeah I watched the show
@@aznsushirofl That would be just enough time for me to get hold of a firearm and blow my head off
2:44 Those things are not supposed to exist except for a depiction of Hell. I can't even imagine the world of pain he has been through before kicking the bucket.
after a while burning can become just a sensation, pain is really about fear of getting hurt from a thing that could cripple us for life, a man burning from inside and outside has nothing to lose, for us this is really disturbing for natural porpuses, and dont get me wrong, to die like this terrifies me greatly too, but its not the pain its the fear of permanent damage on our body
iirc poor guys were literally puking their organs out
The death of a soldier is more bearable than dying with this fucking radiation
@@komasajt8795 Literally the medical definition of pain: "An unpleasant sensation that can range from mild, localized discomfort to agony."
The fuck you going on about?
Koma Sajt yeah bro pretty sure none of that made sense
I salute all the people who sacrificed their lives and prevented a worse outcome. May their souls rest in peace.
This was the worst thing to ever happened during peace time.
They deserved to have their story told so effectively
I'd say the Red Terror tops it by a large margin.
@@omgwizza You think decaying, having you skin melt away and coughing up your own internal organs while you're still alive isn't as bad as the Red Terror? The Red Terror was horrible, but not as bad as this disaster.
There was not peace time.
The guy who played Vasilly was so fucking good he deserves credit for his performances.
It's Adam Nagaitis! Who also appeared in The Terror, which also had Jarred Harris in it as a protagonist.
Funeral scene is so very sad. It is hard to find the right word for it 😢
The funeral scene is my favourite scene in the whole mini series. Its so heartbreaking to see they cemented his metal casket. A point of comfort in burial is that the deceased is returned to nature, peace. But turning him into concrete? There is no peace. Its a prison, almost literally forever.
izzad ibrahim Wow, I did not think of that. Terrible.
@@izzad777 it is very sad and it happened to real people. That is also why everything is terrifying. They put them in lead casket not to contaminate soil because even after their bodies decay their bones would keep contaminating the soil. Yes you are right it is like a prison. Forever...
There’s a phrase we use down south for this kinda thing. “Just ain’t right”
@@izzad777 his soul is free and that's all that matters.
I have fairly thick skin for seeing gore in movies and real life. When I first watched this episode I gasped in horror at 2:43 and nearly started crying. Seeing him go from a young, scared, good-looking kid to an absolute alien was just horrifying. I am glad I finally watched this show so I could be educated about the enormous sacrifices made in the aftermath of this disaster.
The actual victims never looked like this. Real victims only had burnt skin and their organs started failing, no gore like this show. This shows costume designer just threw paint in random directions to add more horror element.
Today, in the abandoned Prypiat hospital, fireman's clothes are still there. Those clothes are the most radioactive things in that zone. Can you imagine how many radiations they received?
3.6 Rontegen, not great not tragic
I'm from Russia. I very rarely cry when I watch some sad scenes in films, but this series squeezed all the juice out of me. After watching, I had a certain depression. it did not last long, but still. Thank you for such a masterpiece! Russia can not make films at this level!
These people were Ukrainians because Chernobyl is in Ukraine. No doubt there were probably Russians who also worked there because at that time Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union. Russia is much better today without the communism and Soviet Rule it seems.
clemsonbloke Yes I know that. I do not say that it is the merit of the Russians. Thanks to the heroes of the liquidators.
@@user-ku6ec9vj5j I have to take a break from watching & reading about Chernobyl. The series really draws you in & makes it so much more real & personal. My husband & I are about the same age as Lyudmilla & Vasily... It's so easy to identify with them. You feel their emotions like they're your own. I can't just read accounts of the disaster now without immediately visualizing the people involved, & feeling pain for their pain. I think this illustrates the power of film. I was really affected by watching this, & subsequently reading about it: & it definitely depressed me too! The overall mistrust I have for nuclear power in human hands hasn't helped. :-{
@@clemsonbloke чел там был советский народ, город атомщиков по большому счету, куда напряли по распределению после специализированных учреждений с всего Союза... не неси пурги про украинцев, советский народ разделили, переформатировали с языком и получились граждане Украины, Беларуси и РФ, но в ТО время это был - один советский народ.
@@sergioone9002 Да он дебил, что ты ему объясняешь.
My Grandpa served in Korea and ordered napalm strikes, he never forgets what it was like to have the Chinese and North Korean men charge at him in hopes of getting shot in order to kill the pain. Can’t even imagine this, such a tragedy.
Yikes that is messed up
Roger they had napalm in Korea ?
Sunshine Skystar hmmmm didn’t know they had that my grandad also served in Korea and he was part of a mortar platoon and he said they’d fire phosphorus at the North Koreans and the Chinese
Shhhhhhit! That stuff's nasty. I believe they consider it a war crime if you use that stuff in battle today!
@@MCL003 They did. Many strategic bombings on Nazi Germany and Japan were carried out with napalm bombs
I cried like a damn onion. Poor Ignatenko and the rest of whom fell victem of radiation😭😣
Oh, dear God! Bless the souls of all those who died tragically for their families, their country and the world.
amin
Rest in peace firefighters of Chernobyl. You can't be hurt anymore. Heroes never die.
I cried at the end of this episode, during the funeral part and when Lyudmilla cried, it was really hard to get through without tears. It is easily one of the most heartbreaking plotlines ever. And to think that all of this happened! R.I.P. Vasily, and all the other people who died. And honestly, why did they keep them alive like this, at this point of torture, death would have been literal mercy, and yet they let them suffer for many more days...
I watched a documentary on this disaster and the kids born in the area . I had to keep pausing it because it was so horrible and disturbing how deformed they were . I cried a lot because it was so awful that it was real people. Kids born with no eyes or no brain or no arms. This is when you just put people out of their misery no one should have to live like that especially children
I agree I would have brought in drugs and overdosed him or shot him. Out of love and mercy
I cried rivers during this entire series.
Makes me feel sick to my stomach
That radiation is scary as hell and you cant see nor smell it
Same here, I’m not easily grossed but that literally made me feel sick
I swear that show fucked me up so bad...
@@rosegold-beats But did you taste metal?
I was more shocked (2:43 and funeral precautions taken) than anything. Though after processing what I saw, it got worse the more I dwelled on it. I think the biggest shock was, that someone can ACTUALLY look like that, and still be living. He was in agony, and not really "living" but I meant in terms of definition of the word.
Lyudmilla had a baby girl four months later but she died in days due to heart problems. The TV drama hinted the child saved Lyudmilla, 58, by absorbing radiation while in the womb. The baby was buried in Moscow next to Vasily, who lies in a concrete grave to contain radiation
The most horrifying part is that is all true and that he wasn't the only one
Wait till you realize that this was a toned down version of death by radiation
@@saint_gales I believe the mans appearance (at least in the end) was not quite accurate. His skin would likely be a more black than blue but that’s a rather small detail. They did definitely leave out many gruesome details tho that’s for sure. As his wife reported, he was vomiting up parts of his internal organs for example
2:43 jeez
if the doctors know how they will die, then why didn't kill them ?
SS Ferenc without permission it’s murder and with permission it’s euthanasia - both of which are illegal
@@ssferenc3624
No, unfortunately, doctors did not take such measures, although, perhaps, for the first liquidators of euthanasia, it is really better than a painful death. The result is still the same. But in Soviet hospitals was not accepted so to do
They were probably interested to document the effects of poisoning by radiation on human beings. They had to keep them alive.
@@lfc_annie6256 They could of just overdosed them with morphene, painless and simply just speeding up there death
To die alone when you're suffering from that much pain ...I can't even imagine. It doesn't matter how much they knew about radiation or what was told or not told, I'm glad she was by his side. What happened to her baby might have happened anyway, but her husband passed away, knowing that he was loved. Whether love makes you stupid or brave is not something we, sitting in our comfortable homes can discuss. She literally saw him puking out his organs. If it was my lover, I would lose all rationality and hold them too. Idc.
Also I think it was later said that he wouldn't have been radioactive himself to cause harm to her. Vasily, thankyou. Luidmilla, I hope she knows she did her best for him.
Amen, I would do the same thing.
Strong woman. A lot of respect for her..
Doctors told her she could never bear a child.
They were wrong. So happy for her so happy she lived a happy life
But her child dies 4 hours after being born.
She watched her husband die slowly.
@@comradedyatlov4143 she gave a birth to other child, a boy. He's about 30 now
@@moranamiller so she cheated on him?
Kolo Ignanov this is after he died
I feel soooo bad for him
His flesh being destroyed by the radiation
Jeez thas so sad
we dont need any superheroes from movies like batman, superman. spiderman....when we have like people from chernobyl!!!!rest in peace!! thank you!!!the whole world now know what have you done!!!!!
Everyone who died for Chernobyl was a hero. I was overwhelmed with sadness after I saw what happened to them, but I can't find the words to describe how I felt when I saw what happened to Vasily and his fellow firefighters. Watching firefighters going through pain rips me apart, let alone watching them going through this unimaginable suffering! They have saved us all, and they may rest in piece
I couldn't sleep after watch this episode 😥
This is why I took phenibut before watching episodes 3 and 4. I wanted to make sure I got a good night's sleep no matter how unsettled I was.
@@humanrays You sound like a pussy smh
Me neither, I recently started watching the show after reading online, and hearing about it from a colleague. When I got to this episode, I couldn't go to sleep. It was too scary and traumatizing in a sense. Horrible, the most haunting thriller is actually real. I always watch something happier after Chernobyl now, but I truly appreciate this well thought out show, and all of its accuracy and stortelling. It's never too late to get educated on something you didn't know so much about beforehand. I only knew a tiny bit before I watched it.
Same here. For some reason the image of his melted body just stuck in my head. Too haunting.
I’ve been reading Voices of Chernobyl and their story is the first entry, absolutely heartbreaking. I’m visiting the exclusion zone in less than a week and it’s going to be emotional.
I'm so jelly belly your going there, I'd love to go. So much heroism went on in that area and so much tragedy at the same time. Hope you have a good experience 😎
You will miss season 1
try to make videos if you can and post them for us
I know that some idiots illegally go there to take a selfie for instagram on the background of the reactor, and I hope that you do not belong to them.
This is not a place for tourism. Ordinary people have nothing to do in Chernobyl.
Very bad idea. If you are planning to go there, cancel your plans and do something else or at the very least, do a lot more research before you commit. (Especially if you want to have healthy children some day).
I'm thinking there's an awful lot that you don't understand about the residual effects of radioactive contamination. The former residents of Pripyat do go there. Neither should you.
Imagine being in your 30s, just trying to start a family, and your partner not only dies but dies pretty much the worst way possible on earth. Holy crap
She was in her early 20s. 😞
I'm almost married 7 years to a loving woman she's similar to this lady she would be strong in front of me but heartbroken knowing she's spending the last moments she will ever have with me. Vasya and his brothers were so brave so too was this woman it's a touching scene.
In case anyone is interested, there’s a book with a long monologue of Ludmila about how everything happened from the begging till the end
It is "The Shout of Chernobyl" by Svetlana Alexeyevich.
The first responders and the 3 divers deserve to be rewarded as the heroes of the whole Earth's lifetime.
The 3 divers survived. Of course they were forgotten about by the country and everyone.
Nikolay Stoynov Still, their heroic deeds are everlasting and should be recognized by the whole world. I wish schools would educate our students about them more often. They are the prime example of heroism.
1 guy died the other two still live to this day
Thank you Vasily! Thanks to the fire brigade, liquidateurs, miners and all the people who gave their lives so that we can live. I live in Germany myself and if these people hadn't had such courage, I and many other people wouldn't exist.
Vasily Ignatenko had a great wife. She stayed with him even though he looked something other than human ... he was a danger ... and she stayed with him. I hope that Vasily can live a second life in which there is no sorrow, pain or evil and is rewarded for his heroic deed. He was 25 years old when he died. I don't want to know what kind of pain it was and I wish Ludmila and her son a good life.
In other episode, Legasov described that people who were suffering this poisoning felt so much pain that not even morphine shots could lower it. These people were true heroes who gave their lives to save their people and the people around the world.
This story as its told in Voices from Chernobyl (the book) is easily the saddest thing I’ve ever read. It exemplifies what it is to truly love someone better than any other story could.
Jeez you could Litralley see the radiation rupturing his DNA so badly his body was all disfigured.
I think the most morbid thing is the fact that it happened in such a short time.
His entire body literally decayed in a matter of days.
@@denizmetint.462 Also crazy to think that someone can look like and not be dead.
In this episode if I was one of those firefighters I would be pleading with doctors to kill me because of how much pain I would be in pure and simple.
I think he had trouble even feeling pain during his final days. The nervous system was practically gone at this point and his body was probably just in permanent shock.
This is one of the most horrible ways to die, for certain. Read about Hisashi Ouchi - he got the worst one.
R.i.p. to the fallen heroes of Chernobyl who died trying to save the world.
They didn't try, they did it!
God bless your soul Vasily, you are true hero and you sacrifice will never be forgotten!!!
When I was a kid and sick in the hospital I was looking out of the window for people walking , birds flying and life moving around, I can feel him asking for look how it looks outside
This scene put me in a deep pool of despair, misery, and sadness. Very compelling, gut retching stuff.
2:40
No sleep tonight
@ 2:44 Is heartbreaking- 😱😭
Salute to the brave firefighters
Her husband was extremely radioactive and gave a lot of radiation to his wife.
Actually not because people can’t be radioactive
If he isnt wearing the contaminated clothes and took a shower he is not "radioactive"
Her unborn child died because of the contact that she had with her husband. You both are full of shit.
@@Purp1ehaz3 why tf did I just get a notification of this reply? anyways, no, a baby cannot absorve radiation in order to save the mother, that is just a lie
Those men did not deserve what happened to them.
Not all heroes wear capes, many wear a fireman’s uniform.
why were these people allowed to live long enough to reach that state, why did they let themselves live to that point? Why did no one put them out of their misery? This is the point where the oaths that doctors and nurses take to never do harm are taken too far. There was no saving these people, the very few that survived were exposed to less radiation and did not progress to the point where their organs began to rot. There must have been a point where it was obvious they were doomed and the best thing to do was to end their pain, yet they were just left to slowly rot in agony until their body failed on it's own.
Alot of hospitals and countrys will most likely do the same today. They dont give a shit if you suffer. They only follow written down protocols on some paper .
I do agree atleast, ALL of these ppl that suffered this much should have been put down to ease there pain right away instead.
If euthanasia is illegal, there really isn't much they can do. You can't just take another person's life, no matter how dire the situation is
Because it's not a decision you can undo. You end them now, you don't get to take it back.
Very tragic but at the same time a great example of a great husband and wife. Together until the bitter end.
And killing their baby in the process...
No one should live like that. There was literally nothing left of him, so sad :(
After all the sacrifices they made and after all that they had endured,
In the end the radiation even took their unborn child...
You both deserved so much more, thank you for your fight..
I truly hope you are at peace valiant warriors 🖤
did they get buried in cement cause of the radiation they had orr?
@@sumnlight6893yes
I accidentally left episode 3 on with my little sisters roaming around the house...
I think you know where that ended.
You were unable to sit for the next month after your parents found out, weren't you.
Oh little poor heart must be scared af now.
your little sisters are delusional
Vasily : *Screaming in pain*
Sub : (Music)
for me this is the saddest part of the whole series, She didnt want him to die alone and stayed with him till the end, despite all the risk and trauma, I was with her all the way holding back the tears, right up till the last few seconds where she is holding his shoes and trembling, only then we see her cry. Then he is gone when the concrete finally covers him up completely. then I lose it. . such a powerful closing shot . brilliant series. and a reminder if how tragic it was for those who suffered.
What's interesting is that they're talking about st.Basil's Cathedral and the russian version of name Basil is... Vasiliy. In Russian/Ukrainian this cathedral's called st. Vasiliy's Cathedral.
That's cute
Read the book "voices of Chernobyl"...in that book she tells the story in more detail. It's a beautiful love story ...
The most heart wrenching scene ever, watching the love of her life dying from the inside.
She said he was choking on his fucking internal organs and was coughing out lungs and liver, I can't even fathom the visual in real life, especially by a loved one.
What they did by letting these men suffer unimaginable pain before death is cruel beyond belief. Unethical and just plain evil period. No one should suffer a horrible death like this. To see a loved one reduced to radioactive waste must have been so emotionally painful.
And what would be the reason for killing him hmm? Acute radiation syndrome? Well I'm afraid that nuclear accidents don't happen in socialist societies so you'll have to come up with something else.
Kim Jong Skill the reason for killing him would be mercy.
There is only one reason they were kept alive in that decaying state near the end and that was for research purposes.
These men were the first responders to a threat they had no idea about and probably still wouldve gone there to fight the fire.
You dont treat heros like lab rats.
As if they already didnt know about what acute radiation sickness would do to a human body.
@@Radec913 If they killed him they'd have to admit that not only did a nuclear accident occur but that people had died in it. But thats crazy! People don't die because of nuclear accidents in socialist society, Comrade... do they?
What else could they do? Euthanasia wasn't allowed in USSR
They could have killed him at any time they just chose not to. In this horrible case like this you out the person out of their misery .
2:05 I'm a registered nurse and I work in the emergency department, I hear that literally like 5-10 times a day.
Honestly I could never be thinking straight while hearing these sorts of screams and here, people like you tending to those in pain even with risk of some sort of infection.
I wholeheartedly salute you my lady... In memory of the one nurse who lost her life tending to patients infected with nipah virus in my homeland, Kerala.
@@ajeshkt1041 Thanks! And what makes me mad watching this is how that woman also keeps doing the exact opposite of what the nurse tells her to do (or not to do) repeatedly! I get that she loves her husband and all, but I deal with that all the time, family members of patients arguing with us and thinking they know better than we do. And of course, they always end up making things worse!
Yes that kind of situation happened here too when the medical personnel advised complete cremation of the deceased which attracted the wrath of many religious people. Many people don't realise the nurses concern for the society as a whole. Emotions mean the death of duty and being a nurse means thinking reasonably at this scenario which is why in this video the nurse strictly adhered to the rules despite witnessing the despair of a loving wife for her husband melting before her.
@@amydamjanovic9183 Amen. She was a selfish idiot, who'd rather endanger her unborn child than accept the reality of the situation. (At least, in this portrayal.)
BTW: 2:44 Oh God, I felt like I was gonna' hurl. I had to get a glass of water to keep it down. Trauma is one thing, but how do you stomach seeing people like that?
You should give inner engineering a go or isha kriya, really beneficial with your level of work.
Like every second you want to scream to her: you are pregnant, listen to the nurses! And she disregards everything. And loses everything.
And the fact that this is watered down to the survivors is terrifying
When they had to kill all the animals
"Don't let them suffer!"
Yeah... but let's watch these poor guys suffering in pain and slowly dying from radiation sickness.
Nothing the doctors could do
I once worked as "The IT Guy" for a small government contractor in Oak Ridge, TN that did work for nuke power plants and weapons facilities. One of the co-founders, who was my immediate boss, had a PhD in nuclear engineering; he'd studied the disaster at Chernobyl, and I think he did some consulting work related to dealing with the aftermath. He talked about a couple of times when I was there.
A lot of good, brave men were sent to their deaths by party stooges who either had little or no idea what the hell they were doing or needed to be done, or they knew what was happening and were more concerned with covering their asses and assigning blame. Many of them died doing things they were told would contain the problem, but just made it worse (i.e. spraying water on burning nuclear material).
Chernobyl is a veritable case study is just how ridiculously f**ked up the USSR and the Soviet system really was. Bad as it was, it's practically a miracle it wasn't worse.
"I'm here... I'm here..."
I love the Ludmilla character
2:44 was the most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen. Can anyone tell me if radiation sickness actually does that to the human body? I mean, he’s totally decaying, like a Ghoul in the Fallout series... That’s the real importance of Chernobyl, people educating themselves and looking for the truth. Hope this series will get all the attention and awards it deserves. Vichnaya Pamyat.
Its worse this guy choked with own.organs
think about radiation as tiny bullets , millions ,who destroy everything in their path, basssically those particules rupture his DNA .......yes , radiation can do that.
"Don't touch him"
*touches him*
SMH...
Yeah I flipped out over that. Then she had the nerve to blame the nurse, who is literally running around helping everyone else while also getting exposed. I get it’s a real situation that happened but it still irked me. And the woman threatening to expose the hospital because of the woman with her husband like Jesus those health workers must’ve been through A LOT. I feel so bad for everyone that was involved.
Its impossible to stop a spouse from hugging their other especially after they had been injured.
@@NeSeeger And their baby died as a result....
I am so confused are they trying to imply that radiation poisoning is somehow contagious?
@@Antares-dw9iv He was so irradiated it would pass to her a bit. Think of it like a heat transfer he is so hot with radiation if she touches him it will pass to her.
I actually thought at first that they were just another fictional character like Komyhuk, but turns out they were really real and all of it did happened. Sad really, to think they were only just about to have a baby, and then the baby also have to die shortly after it was born. 😢😢😢
Jessie Buckley played Lyudmila's role very well.
Lyudmyla comes from Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine
people out there are stubborn as hell
Are you from Ukraine?
She wasn't stubborn, she loved him
@@machigiceb7788 Kyiv
2:40 B Y E B Y E S L E E P
i knew i recognized the doctor's voice! She played philippa in witcher 2-3.
Oh shit
Buring them under concrete just broke my heart 😔😭
Those men will remain in that concrete at least for 50000 years.
It must be done!
For the entire series, I kept instinctively thinking that they should just burn all the radioactive materials-the bodies, the clothes, and so on-but I kept realizing that that would be a bad idea.
George Hamilton definitely not. the radiation would carry with the smoke. this isn’t a disease. you can’t just burn away the remains and everyone else is safe.
@@gingerbreadducks4508 Agreed Layk
This was the story that impacted me the most while watching the mini series.
While it was extremely tragic and heartbreaking to see a young woman lose the love of her life to the worst kind of death possible, what I felt the most was anger towards the then soviet regime. And all the people involved in covering this up.
I am so disgusted by the way they responded to this disaster immediately after it happened - not acknowledging the event itself for what it was, denying the actual gravity of it, not providing the right information to their own people, putting these brave people, especially the first responders in so much danger, sending them into an actual death pit without any protection or information on what they were getting themselves into, and finally letting them die this horrible death.
So terribly inhumane....it's akin to murder or taking somebody's life away from them against their wishes.
And all for what, 'Soviet Pride'?.. I saw nothing but a government pathetically failing it's own people. I don't care how many titles, awards or medals of honor you give them. You basically stole their life and joy from them and their loved ones forever.
Christ, the job the makeup artist did to make Vasily into the...thing he looks like at 2:44. My God.
Jesus the "Incredible Melting Man" remake is grim AF.
Seriously though, this whole plotline kinda broke me. :(
I know.. he died for nothing. The socialist lies even killed his baby.
I worked in the nuclear pharmaceutical industry for a year around some pretty high level medical radiation sources. Our watchword was ALAR as low as reasonably achievable, I still shudder to think of what ever small amounts of radiation over time can do to your DNA. I’m pretty sure my risk of weird cancers went up
This movie is much scarier than any horror movie.
What makes the difference, is that almost everything in the movie happend in real life.
some of the saddest shit I’ve ever seen in my entire life. I still can’t believe it all actually happened.
2:44 That has to be one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen in a long time 😢
Poor Vasiliy
Most disturbing part in the whole movie. My heart goes out to every person who put their lives on the line for the chernoble clean up.
3:31 The reason why she was holding his shoes was because he was buried bear foot because no shoes would fit him, due to the radiation
I haven't seen a scene this genuinely horrifying since I watched Threads.