RIP Bryukhanov. Such a sad story, ‘Midnight in Chernobyl’ has a number of fantastic interviews with him. Definitely not the monster HBO made him out to be and god I can’t imagine the stress he was under. Thanks for another amazing video love your channel keep it up!
If you pay attention closely in Chernobyl HBO, they don’t make him out to be a monster. He’s soft spoken, never berates anybody and shows respect for those around him, like he’s portrayed in the two books I’ve read, midnight in Chernobyl, and Chernobyl by Serhii Plohky. Obviously he looks somewhat bad from lying about the radiation levels, but in reality, he did sign the document that understated radioactive levels, despite not intentionally doing so as he didn’t fully the read the report he signed.
These individual stories are heartbreaking. (At least Bryukhankov soldiered on to a long life.) I'm waiting for a detailed account of Fomin, who I've heard didn't handle the situation well emotionally.
Don't you find it funny how bryukhanov witnessed an earthquake in his homehown and after exactly 20 years, on the same date, he witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history?
A massive improvement over earlier recordings, the audio is much better. And that kind of saves the day here. The information is good as always, if you'd redo the Dyatlov episode in a similar fashion you'd make me a very happy camper indeed! Regards
Excellent reporting. The several Russian workers I've known were strong, loyal, and honest, as this man appears to be. A sincere thank you, for the video. A personal note about the power business, it gets in your blood, you can't get away. You can resign but they always call you back. When Viktor submitted his resignation, it was refused. This rings true to life. Once you're in, you are stuck. I think it's because your skills are useless in any other business. As a young man, I once had dinner with one of the chief engineers of a NPP in Florida, USA, and we discussed emergency backup systems. I said, people tell me the power plant business is boring. He exclaimed, it is SO BORING! Naturally, I didn't listen. My current boss, a career atomic scientist, is fond of saying, "It's only boring until it's not" (meaning, when an accident happens). Can we agree, boring is the way to go? Keep your eyes on Zaporizhzhia.
So many people in leadership were denying the reactor was destroyed for so long. But none of them were brave enough to go check themselves, they had to know deep down it was gone.
Excellent videos! giving a shaft of light on the main characters of this tragic event. I read some things about Victor's and what a life! to much responsibility and willpower on one man, sad what happened to him, he didn't deserve that fate.
Wooo! These videos are so good to listen to while drawing. Thank you for making more content. It's very interesting to listen to. If you run out of Chernobyl topics, I hope you cover other radiation accidents.
Great content, you've really put some effort into researching these things. I'm working on a Chernobyl archive at Arweave - would you be okay with me preserving the videos on your channel there (if that is done, it's effectively impossible to delete them later on if one's mind was to change) ?
Explain to me what exactly was "tragic" about his life? He was not only dodged imprisonment for life but rose higher and higher in the ranks after the accident and even lived to an age of 85, dying of natural causes. I'd call that unbelievable lucky.
This channel does seem to be very vested in not holding the control room operators accountable. However, it was my impression that Bryukhanov wasn’t too involved in the day to day operations. I think he’s best described as the CEO of power plant and the city of Pripyat.
First of all thank you for your work. A controversial subject to be sure. However you do a great job of easy to understand. As a historian of over 50 years, I think this shows so well the left over "Stalin mentality" If you don't know what that was a good example was Stalin's front line commanders were telling him over and over the other bad guy was going to invade, he did and Stalin had them shot. And a more recent example the loss of the submarine Kursk.
HBO's miniseries was probably among the biggest character assassinations in TV of the 21st century, in terms of how many people were badly portrayed and how wrongly they were.
If Craig Mazin is a good writer I have wings and can fly! & whoever claims that the show 'Chernobyl' is well-written does not understand that it is an example of authors inherent inability to understand people and nuanced history, leading to egregious oversimplifications, all based on a deceitful propaganda publication-Grigori Medvedev's book 'The Truth About Chernobyl'-which presents a version of events aligned with Soviet propaganda that placed the blame on the plant's staff and management. Craig Mazin not only completely misunderstands the system and country he attempted to describe (communism, the USSR) but also entirely failed to grasp the mentality of the people he depicted so crudely that they came across as caricatures from the comedy *The Death of Stalin*. Ability to understand people and their motivations is crucial skill of good writer. While some distortions may be due to cultural barriers, they also stem from sheer ignorance and negligence in fac and source checking, something an author tackling such a subject should have done impeccably. The fact that the HBO series is well-produced (with commendable work by the set and costume designers) does not make it a good film, let alone a well-crafted exploration of a complex issue.
You forgot to mention he didn't want to admit there was an explosion, and he didn't care for the people receiving radiation, until it was known by everyone.
RIP Bryukhanov. Such a sad story, ‘Midnight in Chernobyl’ has a number of fantastic interviews with him. Definitely not the monster HBO made him out to be and god I can’t imagine the stress he was under.
Thanks for another amazing video love your channel keep it up!
If you pay attention closely in Chernobyl HBO, they don’t make him out to be a monster. He’s soft spoken, never berates anybody and shows respect for those around him, like he’s portrayed in the two books I’ve read, midnight in Chernobyl, and Chernobyl by Serhii Plohky. Obviously he looks somewhat bad from lying about the radiation levels, but in reality, he did sign the document that understated radioactive levels, despite not intentionally doing so as he didn’t fully the read the report he signed.
@@johnsmeith3913 I got the same impression from HBO series. The monster in that series are primarily the Soviet System.
Chernobyl HBO is not really matching up with the facts, in quiet number of cases.
I used to really enjoy that series until I actually did some research and realized it was just a slam piece on Soviet Bureaucracy and barely factual.
These individual stories are heartbreaking. (At least Bryukhankov soldiered on to a long life.) I'm waiting for a detailed account of Fomin, who I've heard didn't handle the situation well emotionally.
yeah i also wanna hear about fomin
Don't you find it funny how bryukhanov witnessed an earthquake in his homehown and after exactly 20 years, on the same date, he witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history?
It is certainly ironic.
A massive improvement over earlier recordings, the audio is much better. And that kind of saves the day here. The information is good as always, if you'd redo the Dyatlov episode in a similar fashion you'd make me a very happy camper indeed!
Regards
1:30 it is so strange and almost ironic that the earthquake he would witness also happened on April 26
It's crazy how HBO made him into some kind of Soviet Michael Scott.
They were going to do rality but weren't given the materials.
@@diegomontoya796 They didn't even tried to dig deep enough. This video proves the point.
@@diegomontoya796 Is that why they went 1:1 with the soviet union Propaganda version of events instead of reality?
I didn’t get that from the series at all
My new favorite channel! Glad to see more content.
Thanks, man. It means a lot.
Excellent reporting. The several Russian workers I've known were strong, loyal, and honest, as this man appears to be. A sincere thank you, for the video. A personal note about the power business, it gets in your blood, you can't get away. You can resign but they always call you back. When Viktor submitted his resignation, it was refused. This rings true to life. Once you're in, you are stuck. I think it's because your skills are useless in any other business. As a young man, I once had dinner with one of the chief engineers of a NPP in Florida, USA, and we discussed emergency backup systems. I said, people tell me the power plant business is boring. He exclaimed, it is SO BORING! Naturally, I didn't listen. My current boss, a career atomic scientist, is fond of saying, "It's only boring until it's not" (meaning, when an accident happens). Can we agree, boring is the way to go? Keep your eyes on Zaporizhzhia.
Let's agree that boring is good, eveything works as it should.
So many people in leadership were denying the reactor was destroyed for so long.
But none of them were brave enough to go check themselves, they had to know deep down it was gone.
Dude these videos are amazing, please don't stop making them, been here since the iceberg vid
Thanks for sticking around, it means a lot. More videos coming soon. :)
Excellent videos! giving a shaft of light on the main characters of this tragic event. I read some things about Victor's and what a life! to much responsibility and willpower on one man, sad what happened to him, he didn't deserve that fate.
Just stubled upon your channel. Very interesting and well done videos. Thanks for your work!
earthquake april:26
chernobyl april:26
Leonid Tuptonov's dather died on April 26th too.
Absolutely amazing information. Thanks
Wooo! These videos are so good to listen to while drawing. Thank you for making more content. It's very interesting to listen to. If you run out of Chernobyl topics, I hope you cover other radiation accidents.
Great content, you've really put some effort into researching these things. I'm working on a Chernobyl archive at Arweave - would you be okay with me preserving the videos on your channel there (if that is done, it's effectively impossible to delete them later on if one's mind was to change) ?
Love it, keep it up!
I love these stories and facts about the people at chernobyl. Could you do a half live of Fomin?
Explain to me what exactly was "tragic" about his life?
He was not only dodged imprisonment for life but rose higher and higher in the ranks after the accident and even lived to an age of 85, dying of natural causes.
I'd call that unbelievable lucky.
These are eye opening untold stories .
So Dyatlov was not guilty, Bryukhanov was not guilty. It was the system. So convenient, the system = nobody.
Ppl who designed the reactor
This channel does seem to be very vested in not holding the control room operators accountable. However, it was my impression that Bryukhanov wasn’t too involved in the day to day operations. I think he’s best described as the CEO of power plant and the city of Pripyat.
@@Veritas419you think they did do something wrong?
It was both the designers, the operators and the people who hid previous accidents fault not just one group of people caused it
not only was dyatlov innocent, he’s the most scapegoated dude of all time
keep up the good work
First of all thank you for your work. A controversial subject to be sure. However you do a great job of easy to understand. As a historian of over 50 years, I think this shows so well the left over "Stalin mentality" If you don't know what that was a good example was Stalin's front line commanders were telling him over and over the other bad guy was going to invade, he did and Stalin had them shot. And a more recent example the loss of the submarine Kursk.
Wow, this video hits hard if you can understand it.. :(
So even the HBO series was a hatchet job. Wow.
HBO's miniseries was probably among the biggest character assassinations in TV of the 21st century, in terms of how many people were badly portrayed and how wrongly they were.
Honestly I’m shocked none of the “guilty” leaders just straight up fled to the U.S as soon as they got that first call waking them up 😂
From Rags to Rads
If Craig Mazin is a good writer I have wings and can fly! & whoever claims that the show 'Chernobyl' is well-written does not understand that it is an example of authors inherent inability to understand people and nuanced history, leading to egregious oversimplifications, all based on a deceitful propaganda publication-Grigori Medvedev's book 'The Truth About Chernobyl'-which presents a version of events aligned with Soviet propaganda that placed the blame on the plant's staff and management.
Craig Mazin not only completely misunderstands the system and country he attempted to describe (communism, the USSR) but also entirely failed to grasp the mentality of the people he depicted so crudely that they came across as caricatures from the comedy *The Death of Stalin*. Ability to understand people and their motivations is crucial skill of good writer.
While some distortions may be due to cultural barriers, they also stem from sheer ignorance and negligence in fac and source checking, something an author tackling such a subject should have done impeccably. The fact that the HBO series is well-produced (with commendable work by the set and costume designers) does not make it a good film, let alone a well-crafted exploration of a complex issue.
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I thought it would be a biography of Brykhanov. instead it's just another recap of the Chernobyl nuclear station building process.
Saying he's the man that built Chernobyl really down plays all the other people who put in the effort to get it done
You forgot to mention he didn't want to admit there was an explosion, and he didn't care for the people receiving radiation, until it was known by everyone.
That's not true. He cared a lot. You can watch his interviews from 2000s. He died in 2021.
USSR government is to blame, only in Russia
So you read the book. Good for you.
Once peace has come to Ukraine then I wonder what new chernobyl videos you have planned?
diction, diction, diction...