The Radioactive Grave of Spy, Alexander Litvinenko

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  • @susancousins8766
    @susancousins8766 2 роки тому +69

    Very interesting story, I have heard a few stories about killing people silently in Russia and other Countries. It’s amazing how this happens and not one person is arrested or executed! It’s sickening to know these killer’s get paid for this and families don’t get justice. Thanks for sharing this with all of us👍

    • @gregggoss2210
      @gregggoss2210 2 роки тому

      These kinds of things are happening right here in the US, and by the current administration. And this certainly has been going on for quite some time. Past and present administrations are guilty of killing their own people to further their agendas.

    • @xr6lad
      @xr6lad 2 роки тому

      How the ell would you prove it. A radium pellet hidden in a mobile phone or some other piece of equipment someone personally uses. You’d have no way to know who put it there. Could be the CIA, MI5 or whatever the KGB is called these days.

  • @LamontAtLarge
    @LamontAtLarge 2 роки тому +22

    👀

    • @leagueG5
      @leagueG5 2 роки тому +5

      Lamont! 🤙

    • @susanpeters5392
      @susanpeters5392 2 роки тому +2

      Hi Lamont from the UK I am also subscribed to your channel... cheers

  • @beyondhelp85
    @beyondhelp85 2 роки тому +28

    I remember this. It was on the news and in papers. There is a deeper hole than what has been told by the media.. it is so messed up. You do great work and continue to.. thank you for telling this story so others understand how crazy this world's underbelly really is.

  • @samjones3106
    @samjones3106 2 роки тому +23

    In the 1920's there was a company producing watches using radioactive radium paint. Some of the women working there had high radiation exposure and died. Their bodies are also still emitting radiation.

    • @xr6lad
      @xr6lad 2 роки тому +3

      Someone did a UA-cam video on them. The Radium Girls.

  • @Samouraii
    @Samouraii 2 роки тому +48

    The Salisbury poisoning is another interesting spot.
    It makes you wonder about the clandestine stuff that they're NOT allowed to tell us about

    • @deee5520
      @deee5520 2 роки тому +9

      We’d all have nightmares if we knew it everything. This is a cruel evil world because of evil people.

    • @JRWeez
      @JRWeez 2 роки тому +4

      If only you knew how bad things truly are....
      Its up to good hearted people to change that part of our world... if evil is put to sleep we will make sure it will never wake up

    • @billb7876
      @billb7876 2 роки тому

      That is faker than this one, you are aware that Porton Down is just down the road from there? uk military are complicit in these shady dealings sadly

  • @maryjames7193
    @maryjames7193 2 роки тому +15

    Thank you for highlighting this story. I remember when it happened. Tragic.

  • @IanP1963
    @IanP1963 Рік тому +1

    Had a meal in that hotel 3 years ago - fascinating !!!!!

  • @Monica_Baja
    @Monica_Baja 2 роки тому +10

    I'd heard of this, but your skilled story telling made it real for me, thank you. May he rest in peace.

  • @davywavy2141
    @davywavy2141 2 роки тому +3

    Thanks Chris, I remember this happening here in England very clearly. I'm glad that you are still here with us in the U.K. 🇬🇧

  • @soniad6378
    @soniad6378 2 роки тому +4

    Omg, I just found you today & I've been binge watching your stories. Just the way you speak & explain certain things are so awesome!!!

  • @owenmerrick2377
    @owenmerrick2377 2 роки тому +110

    Po-210 half life of 138 days; by now a cigarette contains a bigger hazard than his remains. The biggest hazard now, by far, is Putin.

    • @legendaryvapes8849
      @legendaryvapes8849 2 роки тому +30

      And Biden, IMO.

    • @owenmerrick2377
      @owenmerrick2377 2 роки тому +13

      @DEZZNUTZ 1001 It's BiDeau that makes Putin so hazardous

    • @kissthesky40
      @kissthesky40 2 роки тому +2

      Wrong. Putin is liberating Ukraine from western corruption. NATO and Biden’s joke of an admin is responsible.

    • @legendaryvapes8849
      @legendaryvapes8849 2 роки тому +1

      @@kissthesky40 he is definitely exposing more Fauci bio "research" labs over there in Ukraine.

    • @Scooby-Doo24
      @Scooby-Doo24 2 роки тому

      Putin would not have attacked, if ukraine president stopped being a bi*tch of US. Joining Nato & deploying missiles, What would US do, if Russia did the same in mexico

  • @tonybutler8811
    @tonybutler8811 2 роки тому +3

    Many thanks for sharing Chris. I remember this happening but thanks for all the extra detail which I didn’t know about. RIP Alexander 🙏. 👊👍🇬🇧🇺🇸

  • @jimschafer9196
    @jimschafer9196 2 роки тому +3

    I remember this story from back in the day, thanks for the share.

  • @debbiekerr3989
    @debbiekerr3989 2 роки тому +3

    I remember when this happened, and it was well-known by all the news agencies. I don't think that justice will ever be accomplished for him.

  • @julievanderleest
    @julievanderleest 2 роки тому +26

    This one is so interesting. I remember learning a little bit about Alexander but there’s still a lot more that I learned about watching your video.

  • @monicahyland8641
    @monicahyland8641 2 роки тому +9

    May this man Rest In Peace

  • @hollyb.3615
    @hollyb.3615 2 роки тому +5

    I remember this very well, thanks for the additional information and for taking us to see his grave.

  • @sallykohorst8803
    @sallykohorst8803 2 роки тому +3

    I believe i remember this story and thanks for sharing. What a way to go!

  • @LawNerdSoph
    @LawNerdSoph 2 роки тому +10

    It's 'Litvin-yenko'. But thank you for sharing this story, it's one I've always found quite disturbing

  • @matthewturnbull9547
    @matthewturnbull9547 2 роки тому +15

    I never thought about him still being radioactive, crazy to think. I wounded if his grave would show a higher reading on a Geiger Counter.

    • @c.j.1089
      @c.j.1089 2 роки тому

      radioactive deaths are usually put in lead coffins, so no, it shouldn't be.

    • @johncitizen3927
      @johncitizen3927 2 роки тому

      Nope....

    • @Ganiscol
      @Ganiscol 2 роки тому +2

      It really isnt. The half-life time of Polonium is only 138 days and it mainly emits alpha radiation, which has a range of about 10cm through air or can be shielded with as little as two sheets of paper.

  • @John-ym9ht
    @John-ym9ht 2 роки тому +15

    It seems like a very complicated way to kill someone and extremely sloppy and dangerous for the assassin as well.

    • @YouTube4me
      @YouTube4me Рік тому +1

      Exactly - it’s odd actually it was complicated, expensive, slow to act and likely difficult. I guess a simple poison would have been less notable in history and just not their style.

  • @samihanski4086
    @samihanski4086 2 роки тому +12

    For anyone who's interested to read more about murder of Litvinenko and the story of many other Putin's silenced critics I would recommend A Very Expensive Poison (2016) and Shadow State (2020) by Luke Harding, ex-correspondent for The Guardian in Moscow before he was harassed and deported away from Russian. Both of his books are essential to understand how ruthless Putin and his opportunist friends in Kremlin are to gain power and to keep it.

    • @billb7876
      @billb7876 2 роки тому

      How many boosters are you on? The western governments are the biggest criminals of all. Mass genocide and blatant cruelty over the past few years and your still bleating on about Russia???

  • @onsomebits7486
    @onsomebits7486 2 роки тому +8

    Man you’ve gotta travel more around the Uk there’s so much more to show the world!

  • @doggerproductions
    @doggerproductions 2 роки тому +2

    Great video Chris....you done the story justice 👍🇬🇧

  • @tommyromans7893
    @tommyromans7893 2 роки тому +4

    Very interesting Chris. We love the documentaries and history.

  • @mikeo9219
    @mikeo9219 2 роки тому +3

    you make a great reporter/tour guide

  • @redlady8296
    @redlady8296 2 роки тому +5

    If those two assassins left that much radioactive materials around every where they went how did they not wind up unintentionally poisoning themselves? I remember when all this went down in the mid naughts. Great video 😊

    • @sirarnie9837
      @sirarnie9837 2 роки тому +3

      They really only left trace amounts of polonium everywhere they went. So that little bit wouldn't have been very dangerous to them because a person has to inhale or ingest a substantial amount for it to be dangerous.

    • @billb7876
      @billb7876 2 роки тому

      Because its propaganda tripe thats why

    • @lindalumae
      @lindalumae Рік тому

      They clearly washed their hands in the bathroom if they found it on the faucet and dryer. So how were they still passing it around? Also, if they could not wash it off then they would eventually contaminate themselves. It doesn’t make sense to me.

  • @GMans-World
    @GMans-World 2 роки тому +2

    nice reporting and research, thanks mate

  • @susanpeters5392
    @susanpeters5392 2 роки тому +2

    Be careful MOBILE ....lovin your vids in and around the UK x

  • @misskitty2133
    @misskitty2133 2 роки тому

    Great reporting! Love your thoroughness, way of presenting cases & cadence of your voice. Outstanding!

  • @flitzgames2062
    @flitzgames2062 2 роки тому +3

    First man I love seeing the history in your videos!

  • @jontooke846
    @jontooke846 2 роки тому +2

    What a crazy story I remember that happening. It is a modern day Bond 007. Thanks so much for the work

  • @Stevie_B_0828
    @Stevie_B_0828 2 роки тому +5

    Good grief, this sounds like the plot to a James Bond movie, it's shocking to think of something like this playing out in real life. Some people have no conscience (nor a soul, IMO), whatsoever. Truly a frightening thought.

  • @iwrotethis4712
    @iwrotethis4712 2 роки тому +7

    "Sasha" is a nickname for all Russians called Alexander
    Its like Joe for Joseph

  • @michelehood8837
    @michelehood8837 2 роки тому +14

    My kids are studying the periodic table, and we watched this regarding the element Polonium. This was such an interesting and in-depth video about the Litvinenko poisoning. It’s crazy how they could track the radioactivity all over London 😳. All of the people who were exposed to Polonium from a pot of tea is chilling and goes to show how ruthless and soulless Putin is.

  • @VRed37
    @VRed37 2 роки тому +3

    It’s such a horrible death. Putin prefers radioactive poisonings of his exposers. And it’s true that I always have that awful image of Litvinenko laying in hospital. I’d never seen an angled headstone before. I love the meaning of it. Thanks for taking me along.

    • @billb7876
      @billb7876 2 роки тому

      blinkers on thats for certain

  • @sebastienbolduc5654
    @sebastienbolduc5654 2 роки тому +12

    An obelisk monument was usually used for men, in reference to the story of Isis and Osiris. It represents Isis crying over the lost of Osiris's phallic. Usually the story is depicted as an image of Isis crying while Father Time unbraids the locks in her hair. In other words, with age comes infertility. At that point in life ones sun is beginning to set, which leads to old age and eventually death. There's a deeper meaning to that story btw. So a broken Obelisk represents a man who has passed away too young, or before reaching their golden years. In some cases it's a man who never had children/offspring. Within some cemeteries they will place the broken part of the obelisk on the ground. So if you ever see one don't assume it's because the monument broke. Chances are it was purposely made that way. Just take a look at the age of the man who is buried there if you want to verify if it actually broke or was designed that way.

    • @michelehood8837
      @michelehood8837 2 роки тому +1

      I found that detail about his memorial stone fascinating.

  • @jond.2868
    @jond.2868 2 роки тому

    Great story. Buried in a lead lined coffin. This is eye-opening. Looking forward to your next story.

  • @Kim-Unearthed
    @Kim-Unearthed 2 роки тому +15

    Wow. Just wow. This was both intriguing and terrifying!
    That cemetery is hauntingly beautiful.

  • @jburnett8152
    @jburnett8152 2 роки тому +1

    I kinda remember this happening. Great story telling.😎

  • @skeeterdebeaux-stibick7406
    @skeeterdebeaux-stibick7406 2 роки тому +1

    Found your channel through Lamont at Large ❤ Going through all of Lamont at Large videos first ❤ Then I will come back to watch every video of yours ❤ You guys are awesome ❤ Thank you for the videos ❤ I know that it takes time and effort to do all of these videos ❤ God Bless and stay safe ❤ Love from Roswell, NM ❤

    • @xr6lad
      @xr6lad 2 роки тому

      Lurch at Large.

  • @terence2678
    @terence2678 Рік тому

    Just watched the docu-drama on itvX about this man.
    Very interesting to see his grave.

  • @elizabethanna
    @elizabethanna 2 роки тому

    Oh my goodness, this was a Very interesting story! Thank You.. for Breaking the monotony

  • @Rjc8888
    @Rjc8888 2 роки тому

    Great video with the most accurate history content. Thank you for sharing this with all of us. 👏👏👍😎👊

  • @reyconstantinopla1438
    @reyconstantinopla1438 2 роки тому

    I love history, that's right I'm watching all your videos, thanks you 👌

  • @idagranberg4521
    @idagranberg4521 2 роки тому +2

    You should visit Stockholm Sweden!😊 theres a huge cemetary there called Skogskyrkogården, there you can find a lot of famous graves🙏🏻

  • @JohnShinn1960
    @JohnShinn1960 2 роки тому

    Facinatin story, creeps me right out!
    Thanks Chris! 👍👍👍

  • @Liz-cmc313
    @Liz-cmc313 2 роки тому +1

    I vaguely remember this story. It was shocking news at the time.

  • @comesect
    @comesect 2 роки тому +1

    Spasibo comrade.

  • @thatguyfromcetialphaV
    @thatguyfromcetialphaV Рік тому +1

    Back in 1978 a guy was killed in London with a poison tipped umbrella. I forget his name but it was KGB hit.

  • @snotwurfit
    @snotwurfit 2 роки тому

    Another great video in a series of great videos. Thank you. Keep up the good work. Hope you do a few more videos while you're still in the UK 👍

  • @kjvav8755
    @kjvav8755 2 роки тому +2

    Great video sir

  • @elainelansbury5494
    @elainelansbury5494 2 роки тому

    Interesting. Thanks Chris.

  • @janesecaraway3995
    @janesecaraway3995 2 роки тому

    Wow...what a story! Never heard it before. From Montgomery al 🙏 ❤️

  • @freeman3467
    @freeman3467 2 роки тому +5

    What a gruesome death!

  • @BrokenChameleon
    @BrokenChameleon 2 роки тому +4

    Ironically on Audley Street (where you were walking by the Biltmore) there is a lamppost that was used by Soviet spies in the Cold War as a “dead letter drop”. The former MI5 HQ is also on that street…

    • @JuanRodriguez-wg4vh
      @JuanRodriguez-wg4vh 2 роки тому

      U rite about that I was raised rite down the street from there the burgers was killah dillah

  • @tobysirus4996
    @tobysirus4996 2 роки тому +9

    Lets hope Putin drops his defenses just once enough to get a cup of this. When I hear the news its party time !

  • @fernandoscrenci4874
    @fernandoscrenci4874 Рік тому

    Great stuff !!! ✍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 A. L. Was telling the a Truth !!! About Mr. P and about the Russia government Actions !!!

  • @BurtBowers
    @BurtBowers 2 роки тому +4

    Never trust anyone it could cost you your life..

  • @cameronmccreary4758
    @cameronmccreary4758 2 роки тому +9

    Sir, you said at 9:28 the body may be radioactive but it was safe walking above or around the grave there. Have you checked it, not just taken someone's word for it?

    • @sirarnie9837
      @sirarnie9837 2 роки тому +11

      It likely isn't radioactive anymore as Polonium-210 has a half life of ~140 days. And even if it was still radioactive, the radiation emitted(alpha particles) from polonium literally cannot penetrate a piece of paper. So you are completely safe standing at his grave. In reality, the lead lining wasn't even necessary as the dirt would offer complete shielding from any radiation.

    • @Fred_Burger
      @Fred_Burger 2 роки тому +4

      Also I think all the plants, trees and flowers at the site would be dead too if there was any radiation coming from the grave.

  • @MitchelLainyUs
    @MitchelLainyUs 2 роки тому +1

    In my opinion, the 2 suspects may of had a small lead container for the Po-210 which may have protected them enough to not get sick from it. Small amounts of it in a granular or powder form may of leaked out and got left behind in the 50 areas that were stated in the video.

  • @hannahrichards2526
    @hannahrichards2526 2 роки тому

    I remember this story so sad. Rip Alexander

  • @michaeltellurian825
    @michaeltellurian825 2 роки тому +2

    Cool story, nice job!

  • @ernestj3081
    @ernestj3081 2 роки тому +1

    😳Very scary! This silent killer, radioactivity 🤯When are you coming home Chris? 🙏🏻

  • @m118lr
    @m118lr 2 роки тому +2

    Wow. I wonder HOW MANY were contaminated after the fact..? Great story, SORRY HE WENT THROUGH IT..

  • @gailolson6324
    @gailolson6324 2 роки тому +2

    So sad. What a horrible way to die

  • @mortuusgeist
    @mortuusgeist 2 роки тому +3

    Are you still in the U.K.? You should check out Norwich, it's not too far from London & has a lot of history

    • @MobileInstinct
      @MobileInstinct  2 роки тому +7

      I'm not there anymore but I have a little backlog of videos to still put out.

    • @JohnShinn1960
      @JohnShinn1960 2 роки тому +2

      @@MobileInstinct Lookin forward Chris! 👍

  • @ghostcityshelton9378
    @ghostcityshelton9378 2 роки тому +1

    Crazy question I know, but could Queen Elizabeth II have been posioned some what like in this way? Look at the last pictures of her hands & exposed neck, they were purple.

  • @davidlyon1899
    @davidlyon1899 2 роки тому +2

    Check out the umbrella murder in london

  • @christinedelman887
    @christinedelman887 Рік тому

    That poor man! Such a horrible way to go

  • @David-vt3hn
    @David-vt3hn Рік тому

    Great video. Creepy!

  • @rachaelleann9847
    @rachaelleann9847 2 роки тому

    Very interesting to learn about. I never heard of this b4. Learn more from UA-cam channels than I ever did in school or from anyone else

    • @xr6lad
      @xr6lad 2 роки тому

      Read books. It’s fun.

  • @kayleeg1019
    @kayleeg1019 2 роки тому +5

    So he’s literally glowing under there?!? 😳 This was a great video, thanks for sharing all this information with us, so interesting!

  • @glennjudd2467
    @glennjudd2467 2 роки тому

    Great research !

  • @TammyMullins-jv8wm
    @TammyMullins-jv8wm Рік тому

    I remember this 😢

  • @jwwalker688
    @jwwalker688 2 роки тому +1

    How about some Beatles locations...there and Liverpool.

  • @3OH3Wes
    @3OH3Wes 2 роки тому +5

    London would be so amazing to visit!

  • @itsChris65
    @itsChris65 2 роки тому

    Chris have you been to Brookwood Cemetary while in UK? It's just outside London in Surrey near Woking

  • @ingenfestbrems
    @ingenfestbrems 2 роки тому +1

    Don’t know the half-life of this, but generally the more dangerous, the faster it decays. This isotope is only dangerous if you are 5-6cm. Close to it.
    Instruments designed to warn about it won’t give alarm of danger unless it’s about 5-8cm from the source

  • @samjones3106
    @samjones3106 2 роки тому +1

    The guys carrying the puloniom 21 must have had high exposure. I'm surprised they are still alive.

  • @mf5531
    @mf5531 2 роки тому

    Wow RIP Alexander

  • @margarita8442
    @margarita8442 2 роки тому +5

    They traced it back from a plane from russia, even the seats

  • @williamthompson5504
    @williamthompson5504 2 роки тому

    I remember when this happened. There’s a great book and documentary about it. Look up “cancer pants”. That’s a wild story if true.

  • @MissPiggy.
    @MissPiggy. 2 роки тому

    Interesting! Wow! Thanks 🥰

  • @fatant1982
    @fatant1982 2 роки тому +1

    For anyone interested, his body isn't radioactive anymore, the 210Po will have decayed mostly into stable Pb by now, it would have been way worse if it hadn't had such a short half-life! RIP Litvinenko

  • @johnstuckaiii
    @johnstuckaiii 2 роки тому +1

    There's a documentary about it called Poisoned by Polonium

  • @dianesaienni5466
    @dianesaienni5466 9 місяців тому

    I'm shocked anything is growing around his grave.

  • @RoxysYouTube
    @RoxysYouTube 2 роки тому +10

    that cemetery looks so cool can you do more stories from there?

    • @Skymaster.47
      @Skymaster.47 Рік тому

      He was given an Islamic funeral because he converted to Islam on his deathbed.

  • @detroitdieselseries5071
    @detroitdieselseries5071 2 роки тому

    Next, try to explore the park of where Sophie Lancaster was found in Bacup back in 2007

  • @corysummers3008
    @corysummers3008 2 роки тому

    Until just now I didnt know this was in 2006. I always thought it was in the 90s.

  • @starpower8093
    @starpower8093 2 роки тому +1

    Putin in the background of the thumbnail made me lol 😆

  • @ocean374
    @ocean374 2 роки тому

    Wow that’s so sad

  • @Fireball_Roberts
    @Fireball_Roberts 2 роки тому +2

    I wonder if you could have picked up anything with a geiger counter

  • @jacqepapara7898
    @jacqepapara7898 2 роки тому

    Rest In Peace 💐🙏❤️

  • @jessicapayne8622
    @jessicapayne8622 Місяць тому

    Think his room is still out of bounds due to radioactivity.
    Oh and possibly the floor also!

  • @purplevamp3132
    @purplevamp3132 2 роки тому

    OMG! I lived in London at that time! I wonder if I was exposed would it show up now?

    • @xr6lad
      @xr6lad 2 роки тому

      Oh dear. The only exposure you got was when the blinds weren’t pulled down.

  • @guavaB52
    @guavaB52 2 роки тому +18

    Being part Russian, this disgusts me that they are so wicked. I'm sorry that this guy couldn't find an escape from this tyranny.

    • @xr6lad
      @xr6lad 2 роки тому

      You really honestly don’t think our security services here in the west don’t do this. Jesus - the French security services sunk a Greenpeace ship in New Zealand in the 1980’s and drowned a person.

  • @tonylam9548
    @tonylam9548 Рік тому

    Alex's body will be preserved as good as any Egyptian mummy for hundreds of years.If only the ancient Egyptians know this, they could have saved a lot of work.

  • @anneshields2010
    @anneshields2010 Рік тому

    I remember this and seeing him in the papers and thinking omg poor guy also seen him before he got sick and my sister was like he looks like Princess Diana’s brother a big his story is really interesting and I think his remains are still radioactive also ITV x have ade a drama about it and actor David Tennent is playing him and they said that he was called Sasha for short also he was a good looking guy before he got sick and after God help him he was a tragic figure in that hos[ital bed my heart went out to him he looked in so much pain poor guy

  • @fredflintstoner596
    @fredflintstoner596 2 роки тому +1

    Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!"
    Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ."
    Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
    Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
    Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea !"
    Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
    Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
    Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"