The truth is many of them stayet1 because of wages as they were poor and had no much understanding in what radiation is and how it is gonna affect them for real..for many it was like a myth or nothing to worry about,like drinking coke is bad for you.
@@Smoletss true, not everyone back then understood the effects of radiation as these were soldiers and it was 1986 unlike today where we have the internet and can look things up
Evil Mofo, Alirexa A, Wolflicious and the Ukranian/Russian Person, YES . . . lets remember the cameraman. The Day After - People, lets NOT forge the camera man, most likely KGB, who filmed the blown reactor in daylight 1 or 2 days after the initial explosion. He flew over the reactor and open core. The radiation received by the crew of that helicopter would have been un-measurable. The roetgen were 22,000 when the Liquidators began their clean up task three weeks later. The automated, mechanical robots, including Joker were fried by the radiation. The Soviets told the Germans that there was only a count off 2,000 roentgen in that roof covered in graphite.
there are also phtographers from the reactor. the tried to record all, but some photographs were destroyed by radiation. :/ sick how small humans actually are, when there's a catastrophy
I was working in a nuclear power plant in Arkansas when Chernobyl blew up. Our electrical supervisor called us into the lunchroom and told those of us in there to take our hard hats off and say a prayer for all of the plant personnel in Chernobyl whom we knew were going to die. We also prayed for those we knew would die sometime in the near future, their families, and all those others who would be forced to die by the soviet government. Some of us stayed in the lunchroom until we had to go back to our jobs... we prayed long and hard that God would ease their suffering
And God did nothing because he doesn't exist. Religion is a waste of time and I find it personally hilarious that something as blood soaked as religion is anyone's go to when something bad happens 😂 pathetic. Grow up. Religion helps nor solves anything and humanity (if not for religion) would be much better off , as tech , medicine , infrastructure , morality and more has been poisoned by religion. Also fuck the pope.
Well I hope your praying helped you at least because it didn't help those men. Aside from the fact that if there was a "god" he ALLOWED it to happen, and 90% of those involved WERE INNOCENT PEOPLE!! "free will" is nothing more than an EXCUSE!
@@toddsalisbury3851 yeah thats very sad and scary and i truly feel for the nightmare they faced but what i mean is sacrificing mere hundreds saved millions of lives....
you could have send them without the devices... But they had It... If your really think about It those words really mean a lot. No more lies, Only Truth, you are going to be in hell for 2 minutes, and you will know it.
Matt you both have average reading speeds and this comment’s position is determined by its amount of likes. if you ran 100m independently, you might achieve similar times, too.
@George Thomas Stupid politics tried to cover it up as they were afraid for their asses as usual. These people are heroes who sacrificed their lives and health for humanity.
@@TheModernSnipez actually yes it would, if nobody did anything, whole of Europe or whatever would of have gotten radiation, and radiation dust and there would be would a big ass hole where all the reactors would of have exploded, approximately a few days later or a week depending on weather, the radiation dust would soon reach us and kill alot of civies or or give alot of people health problems (thankfully it didnt because of these people but the radiation dust left from just that one reactor reached parts of the world in different places, like Florida for example)
"Not really just their country." There could have been a second meltdown right after that would radiate the whole EU if they wouldnt have stopped this. The cause would be the elephants foot reaching the water right under the reactor. But as they say ignorance is the power.
The three men that saved the lives of between 60 and 100 million people and unknown numbers of cancers across Europe by volunteering to swim into the reactor and open the sluice gates: Ananenko ; Bezpalov ; Baranov. Super-heroes. Real ones.
@@Jonas-xl4wg Not really sure, but from what I've read from other comments, it's that the contaminated water around them? They never got wet from it. It never touched them, nor penetrate their suits, allowing them to live far, far longer than anticipated.
It's difficult not to feel sadness for hundreds of thousands of heroes who gave their lives and health in order to save millions of people who could have died from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Although many of the liquidators are now gone, the respect that the world has for them will always remain.
if you watched carefully, it was stated that some were unwilling to go and asked others who were going to the roof to take their meters to get higher radiation readings.
@@lizgascoigne4262 Actually, it was the control rods that had graphite tips. And it would not have been a problem, normally. Put in one or two at a time, and the rise in reaction rate is balanced by the others that are already beyond the tips and decreasing the rate. No one ever expected to have to jam all the rods in at once. But when they did-BOOM!!
Shout out for the General who personally inspected the area and instructed each group, instead of just delegating it. He received a lot of radiation doing that. Cares for his men.
@F. Friedrich Kling Hauss stop making a smartass of yourself, and listen to an actually smart man, who said some good words to you bruv. Just research literally 5 minutes on the Internet instead of hating them because they are russian or whatever reason you have.
@F. Friedrich Kling Hauss they were dealing with something that had never occurred before. They were still learning about it all weren’t they? They asked for volunteers bc one person wouldn’t be able to survive cleaning the roof.
Look at 8:10 in this video. That man is standing right next to a chunk of graphite moderator from the reactor core. Those were basically the *MOST* radioactive pieces of garbage strewn all over the roof and surrounding area, second only to the pieces of uranium fuel themselves. I mean...that piece of graphite that the man is standing beside would certainly kill him deader than a door nail and mangle his body within an hour if he put it next to him and sat down for a simple dinner. 🙀 Yet, we watch as he stands there as if the Grim Reaper isn't looking over his shoulder and slowly slicing pieces of flesh away with his scythe.
Listened to the HBO Chernobyl podcast (because I needed something...anything...to help me through the depressing horror) and they talk about how accurate everything is...right down to the smallest screwdriver) Amazing.
the writer started writing the script and researching from 2015 that's 4 years of research and he said they tried to be as accurate as they could. All the people are real only the one woman scientist is fake. And everything that happened from firefighters,people,parlament is real in the show
Well, some of the liquidators that survived say otherwise... they even call most of the serie inaccurate and very false..especially concerning the real men being portrayed and the liquidators way of thinking about what they had to do
@@user-gu3ie you have a point there but if you kind of think about it if they weren't scared it's because they really didn't understand the scope and pain and shit that would cause even brave men to still have fear
@@Watcher4111 yea like HBO saying a multi megaton blast was possible if water met the core material Simply impossible Or that death was certain if they had even a tear in their clothing Again over stating the risk Most of them lived long lives
@@daviejay5326 the thing about blast was what scientists believed at the time. We know now that it was not possible but at that time it was a possibility.
@@sherlockwatson101 do you think the supervisors "your done"comment was because he saw the tear,it sounded more menacing than a simple jobs done lad go home
bartman01021988 he wanted him to leave quickly to not have his break down in front of the guys waiting for their 90 seconds so that they don't get terrified of their task.
Jesus Christ.. the german robot sequence was actually WORSE than depicted in the HBO series.. Some of those men who had to try to reclaim the robot suffered huge doses of radiation for basically nothing..
@@nurichbinreel4782 at that point they didnt play down the amount of radiation it was just too much for any reasonable amount of shielding considering the roof loading and what was available at the time. It's amazing how competent the communists were are producing paranoia and disbelief, sadly it was the only thing they were competent at producing.
Lots of men from my homeland, Estonia, also were taken to Chernobyl to liquidate the disaster. Some never returned, those that did were plagued by health issues. Now there's a handful of them left and all they get for their sacrifice is a meager 230 euros per year. Yes, YEAR, not even every month. Once a year. The welfare system claims that they didn't receive dangerous enough amounts of radiation, so apparently they don't deserve more money or any other help or discounts. I'd like to see those damned office rats who make these decisions shovel radioactive graphite off a roof until their skin falls off.
Thank you for bringing light to this. I have been researching Chernobyl and I can’t believe how much has been kept from the public. God bless you and yours
Живу в Петербурге, и у меня сосед был ликвидатором в свое время. На самом деле, то что в видео верно, с его рассказами совпадает, за тем нюансом что такая храбрость у большинства была потому что люди не осознавали масштабов происходившего, а просто выполняли свои задачи. Они действительно настоящие герои. Искренне надеюсь что таких неприятностей не будет в нашем мире, хотя понимаю что они к сожалению неизбежны.
You'll have to translate this just like I translated your comment. I just wanted to say how amazing your neighbor is. Look at 8:10 in this video. Very likely could have been a similar situation that he was in. That man at 8:10 is standing right next to a chunk of graphite moderator from the reactor core. Those were basically the *MOST* radioactive pieces of garbage strewn all over the roof and surrounding area, second only to the pieces of uranium fuel themselves. I mean...that piece of graphite that the man is standing beside would certainly kill him deader than a door nail and mangle his body within an hour if he put it next to him and sat down for a simple dinner. 🙀
it's amazing how accurately they made it and that's why I love the show, it's about how and what really happened and not some sci-fi bs, it makes me sad that we will only get one more episode
@@Motoko1134 You ignorant idiot. Do you even understand what happened there? In Europe we could not eat fresh vegetables for a long time, there was acid rain and fog even here in italy...
Their names won’t be forgotten because of people like you. I was 20 when this happened and didn’t pay much attention because “it was on the other side of the world” in my eyes. After seeing Chernobyl on Hulu it brought me here. Human resiliency is truly something 🙏🏼♥️
Watching them step over those graphite blocks at the 19 min mark, those are part of the actual core and these guys just step on and over them... Something is rather haunting in these clips....
George Papadopoulos because most of these men are dead!!! No survival with contact that close!!! Just like the elephants foot. Death is soon to come after exposure.
which is the stupidest thing about radiation. its so god damn deadly but watching the video it just looks like some guys walking around on a roof with some suits on. no gas or light emissions or burning or sound or anything. just invisible doom
"The shift lasted only two minutes but I've dreamt of those two minutes for the past 25 years every night every night again and again. I accompany these people to that terrible M-zone the area covered in graphite debris. Here, the unthinkable background radiation of nearly 8,000 roentgens. 20m away from us is the naked muzzle of the destroyed reactor. My task is to show what must be removed there first. With each succeeding group, with each fragment removed, the background radiation will reduce; this means that the risk for the next group will already be lower. I will transfer a few hundred people through the zone, I will not know who they are, and I will not see their faces behind protective masks, and we'll never know what is going to happen to them afterwards. It was not me who had made a decision to send these men in the zone of mortal danger, but each night some inexplicable feeling of guilt brings me back to the past in that first two minute shift which stretched out for me for a quarter of a century."
19:52 "I will transfer a few hundred people through the zone. I will not know who they are and I will not see their faces behind protective masks and I will never know what is going to happen to them afterwards."
We have not forgotten. And I will personally make sure that my bloodline doesn't forget either. The majority of those soldiers were boys, no older than 30 and some as young as 16. They gave their lives to save us, even if they didn't know it at the time. These men are true heroes, and not a single one of them got the praise they deserved. They saved the entire world, and we don't even know their names. While we may not know their names, we know their stories and their bravery, and we will never forget that. Rest in peace to the 3828 heroes that saved the world without even knowing it.
Wow, the amount of accuracy that is shown in the fourth episode of the new mini series compared to this is incredible. Respect to all who took a date with masha.
It seems, there was a mistake in the text the narrator read. Or maybe he made a mistake by himself. In the end he said 3828. And this is a correct number.
From the first responders, fire fighters, to the liquidators, mi-8, doctors, nurses, and everyone else who was put in harm's way by this nuclear disaster, please know that your bravery, selflessness, and courage have not gone unnoticed. You people are true heroes, and we will never forget your brave actions during the worst nuclear disaster in recent history.
That's ANOTHER thing... how the hell was this the best fucking suits they could come up with? They were sending ppl into space - didn't they have anything better for these men to wear?
@@TheArayray impossible to do a perfect radiation suit ; the only thing important was the huge lead sheet on their shoulders to protect the bone marrow. As longs as the bone marrow survive, they have a chance. I think the rest is mostly to have radioactive dust directly on contact whit the skin
@@ytuser555-z8t Similar to what happened in the TMI incident, ok no core explosion, but they tried to hide it to the community... Who are the good guys? Americans? Are you joking? They are the ONES who dropped an atomic bomb on civilians, in the pacific during the nuclear tests in the marshall islands people were forced to relocate as their home was needed as a nuclear playground, ever since their community is destroyed and suffers from nuclear related illnesses. American soldiers dispatched in the testing zones suffered in large numbers of cancer and other related illnesses too. Seems to me that the GOOD AMERICAN LEADERS didn't give 2 shits about it. On top of that President Donald Trump recently announced plans to remove the US from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia, a move which many fear could ignite a new nuclear arms race. The INF had banned all short and mid-rang nuclear and non-nuclear missiles, and helped to eliminate thousands of land-based missiles. Trump has also promised to build new nuclear weapons.... TEAM AMERICA TO THE RESCUE.... BTW my respects to the Soviets that sacrifice their life to save us EVERY COUNTRY should build a monument to remember those 3828
@@PlasticVibeMusic First of all who said anything about the U.S.? You really think all that bullshit you just spouted is Anywhere near what the Soviets have done? THE SOVIET UNION a Country responsible for Gulags are More death than the fucking holocaust is better than the U.S. beacuse the U.S. used atomic bombs and Trump wants to leave a treaty? Do you realize how dumb you sound? The only other way to Defeat Japan was a Full on Land Invasion by the U.S. which would've was estimated to cost over ONE MILLION American lives that's a pretty easy choice if you ask me. The Soviets committed 21 Massacres, Cut corners and Nearly destroyed all of eastern Europe, Starved their people and Forced them to stay in the Soviet Union, Given Rise to communist dictatorships like China and North Korea, supplied them with weapons INCLUDING NUCLEAR BOMBS, and Violated the Human rights of it's own citizens for practically its entire existence. Not to mention all the world tension they've caused Even today and you have the Nerve to say the Soviets were the good guys, you need to pick up a fucking history book and learn a thing or two beacuse the Soviet Union was possibly the most fucked up Awful country on earth
@@ytuser555-z8t no one is denying any USSR atrocities by recognising the bravery of these men! The lived in a dictatorship, as you might know it means only the elite takes the decisions and anyone opposing will pay the full price. In contrast, living in a democracy shouldn't lead to such a depraved society as today's USA..! So who is actually the moral questionable?
@@vanroman5004 can you just shut up... If you don't like it just keep scrolling lolll what makes you an authority on what should or shouldn't be said lollll so fucking dumb
I’m from the USA, though I am formerly your cold war adversary I have tremendous respect for all the men who fought to clear the radioactive debris and also the divers who prevented the corium from contacting water and setting off a tremendous steam explosion. Saving people from suffering is important whether they stand on one side of a line or the other.
It must be done, its so that we can understand generations of suffering... ive made my peace now you make yours.... *3 men stand up one by one saying there names* thank you for saving half of europe boys. God bless you... btw 2 are still alive out of the 3 who pumped the valves
And it will quitly go done the ladder as well when more people start to vote it. It is good, but not that good to be in first. Personally I will not give it more than 8/10, because althought it's very well made and depicts chronographically most of the events, also feels real, it does contain enough anti-soviet officials propaganda and anti-soviet society propaganda. Ulana Khomyuk character and all her interactions with people around her, feels like some sort of a western propaganda schooling what's wrong with the soviet society, but because this character is purely fictional, all this is made from assumtions. All those conversations with Soviet officials in meeting are classified, but i highly doubt they were so incompetant, evil and obnoxious like the series depicts, nor Valery Legasov was the only one that understood the gravity of the situation. I mean they've had other scientists too. Because the series uses enough real events, but also fictional ones, at times propaganda driven, western viewers will not distinguish between the two and will accept it all to be as close to the truth as possible. But people who actually lived in that period will spot on those (intentional or unintentional) flaws right away.
@@Captc5766 Well, I've lived, but was little, so take it as my father insight on the matter. My parents speak with respect and non hard feelings for this period, the nostalgia they feel can be attributed to the fact that they were young back then :), but the feeling of prosperity, equity, morals in the society, officials that put people's interests and well being in their priorities can not be attributed to young age. Everybody talks that communism was a failure nowadays, but one thing that is quickly forgoten is that communism brought industrialization and education with such speed in all this countries, which were agricultural orientated back then. Something that took 150 years in the West was done in 40-50 years in the East. Surely it was done with many flaws at times, but one incident like Chernobyl, however grave it is, should and will not erase in people's minds all the good things that were created.
@array s Fuck you too...The CCCP didnt drop nuclear bombs on civilians.And yes there is such thing as Western Propaganda, esp in Hollywood.Hollywood full of pedos,whores,abusers.Oscar for the White Helmets?Really?More people died in Vietnam,Syria,Lybia,IRAQ which was and is an illegal war.WMDs anybody?Not an accident.I also lived in this era in Hungary.This accident happened on my father's 30rd birthday,I was seven. And you know what?I was happy as a child,and wasn't like ratrace for money and fake boobs,there were no Kardashians,celebrity worship,panama papers..etcThe great Swedes are puppets of the dying US empire today.We can see it:Julian Assagne.And what is that Norwegian garbage on Netflix "Occupied"?Yes Western propaganda is a real thing too...
@@v.9802 I used to think communism is the most evil thing, but then as I became older it became appararent how profoundly brainwashed we are. Everywhere in western media and entertainment you will find anti-russian propaganda. I see it clear as day now and I agree with your analysis of HBO's Chernobyl. It is sickening. So much about lies and truth as they say... Hypocrisy at its finest.
This was a devastating incident that should never of happened. I was at a nightclub in Australia 🇦🇺 where I live, and I remember my father panicking about this nuclear explosion. R.I.P to all the people who did the clean up of amongst air that had devastating radiation that you can't see. How very sad 😔 for all the people kept in the dark by the sickle and hammer on the red cloth 😢😢😢
Worst thing to me is that they possibly had no choice. Authorities maybe told them "go there!"...or else? I do not know what the option was for them if they refused.
ye exactly....they either had to do it or risk losing their jobs and not be able to find new job ever again...but anyhow that is why they used soldiers for the most dangerous area, for most of them, they likely had great sense of duty to not let their country and ppl down. Personally I wouldnt have gone to that roof for any price or threat, just the thought of being constantly exposed to lethal amount of radiation...... so huge respect to them who risked their lives and likely died sooner or later because of that.
Balnazzardi Being older, I'd risk my life if I was doing something like this so the youth would not risk their health. I would not be happy to do it, but I would :)
Those who were not duty-bound (army, special forces etc.) were either volunteers or highly paid l personnel drafted from across theUSSR. They were not always properly informed of the dangers, though. But you need to have a head on your shoulders - how safe can a leaked nuclear powerplant be? My mom's colleague went there for liquidation. Atomic reseach institute, Saint-Petersburg (Leningrad). He knew what the dangers were and he chose to go even though he had a wife and a kid. Duty was huge in USSR and still is in Russia. That is what foreigners can never understand. And this was duty to the world, the life or death situation for these men's children (pollution). These guys literally saved the world. They make movies in US with some ridiculous premises about saving the world but here are the actual people who went and done it.
I think they were pretty stupid to take a job where you clean up the most radioactive substances in the world without proper protection. Just, plain, stupid.
John Smith. Almost 20 Years later and 9/11 seems like a distant memory fading away into history. It’s not a distant memory to me but others might be. Whaat I’m saying is from 1 disaster to another, it’s weird how the most recent one feels like an eternity ago and the most earliest 1 feels like yesterday. Weird how time twists like that !
@Komma Här because modern-day russia is a meritocracy much like the United States forgetting about 9/11 first responders, which are still alive and drowning in medical bills from cancer treatments or lung problems from the asbestos in the towers.
I saw ep4 on hbo chernobyl God its so accurate Imagine a robot breaking down on that roof and they had to send biorobots to clean up the debris Its deserves the 9.7 rating on imdb
@Nathaniel12345678910 are you another clueless USAmerican schoolkid? Most of this information has been passed on since the explosion happened. Ever thought of independent research based on personal curiosity? Or are you expecting being spoon fed your whole life..
@@OmmerSyssel So, are you saying that it's a bad thing for someone to learn about the catastrophe from a TV show, as opposed to not at all? Don't you think people will be interested after watching the show, and perhaps inspire them to do research? Most kids today probably don't know about the event, and you know what? That's not really weird! Ask yourself if there's any practical reason beyond "it's history" that an American school kid should know about this? I not saying they shouldn't, but I'm also not huffing my own farts in front of everyone, like a pseudo intellectual jagoff. The only reason I ever heard about a nuclear accident on the other side of the world, before I was born is because of a computer game called Stalker. That was back in 2009, and now I've read all the books, did all the research and loved HBO'S show. All learning is good, and some is better than none. You really earned your name.
towards the end, you're seeing men literally picking up and tossing graphite bricks from the reactor off the building. i'm guessing none of those men are alive now.
ye, but I bet even they have suffered from the consequences of being exposed to such huge amounts of radiation in some way.....the amount of radiation was such that they didnt die right away, but many died in the following years....just utterly terrible and waste of life, this accident was completely uncessary, and could have been entirely avoided if the ppl responsible had known how dangerous it was to play with RMBK reactor.
Yuri Samoilenko, what a brave, courageous man, he was, given the order to put men on the roof, you can see it in his eyes and demeanor how he suffered, is beyond.. he knew, what will become with liquidators, who knew nothing about the radiation, but Yuri was given the order by the cruel Soviet mashine!! What could he do poor man, just follow the orders, or else 😢 Respect to Yuri S. and of course the men who gave their lives to save the planet from the meltdown!!
This brings me to tears. The heroes should always be remembered. I know there's a list of many of them in a museum. Why not make it more widely available.
I feel you. Even though this was a time during the cold war, despite the tensions between the American government and Soviet government, the Soviet 'people', those of Pripyat, and liquidators, suffered. My heart goes out to those who suffered and sacrificed
@@federicoveronese7998 HBO portrayal of Chernobyl is comparable to Disney trying to portray Pearl Harbour to reality, its just not going to go very well.
idk about saved the world, certainly lessoned a potentially massive environmental disaster. plus, its still happening, the elephants foot aka the spot where the material melted through directly underneath the reactor, is still melting down towards a massive fresh water aquifer. the disaster isn't over nor has it been stopped, y'all just believing the one lie the soviets *really wanted, nay, needed you to..* and it's just been forgotten about.... it'll soon enough rear its ugly head, once more.
For those saying bacteria and viruses are equally as bad let me ask you this.. Would you rather have covid or be a liquidator at Chernobyl. Personally (remember that word personally) I would choose having covid for a decade rather than being a liquidator for even 5 minutes.
"I cannot see radiation i cannot smell radiation i cannot taste radiation but it can still hurt me?!?!" quote from TMI guy (you can taste radiation though)
From 22:35 it's almost the same monologue word by word as they did it in the series. Excellent research by the team, they managed to emphasize the scale of the tragedy and human sacrifice.
There's a Podcast for every episode with the writer and creator of the show and he mentioned that those words were like a prayer and he wanted to have them word by word in the show because they were so important to him.
@@strobbedelutz hahaha. You are such an idiot! Get a grip you clueless spoiled nutcase. Ever tried physical demanding and dangerous work? Sitting on your ass as journalist is as comfortable as anything imaginable! Ohhh my feeeelings, this is sooo demanding 😨😂😂 My limbs are out worn, I need a wheelchair for the rest of my life 😵
imagine watching these men die heroicly, knowing the dangers and the costs, recorded as their lifespans were cut by years, and the viewer getting tiktok ads about making coffee.
Let's be honest. These guys were real heroes. I have litteraly no words. They touched graphite from the core with bare hands, just to save lives. These guys, with the one who stopped the third reactor to avoid the explosion of the whole power plant and the three guys who swam were heroes. And they should be seen as real heroes forever. We have to thank them for what they did.
Ye...just terrible to think how high The radiation was especially for those who were among the first to go there....If it really was 8000 roentgens per hour....so what some 80 sieverts per hour, More than 1 sievert in minute....just enough for them to stay alive after working there for a minute or two but with shortened Life and likely many health issues afterwards. Its hard to find solid facts, but in my understanding many of them have since died and some of them were even quite young, men at their 20's....
Let's be honest: Liquidators are some of the greatest heroes of our era. To those who gave some or all: thank you. Your infinitely valued, honorable, and courageous sacrifices can and will always live on in the hearts, minds, and voices of those who witness(ed) your merits and achievements; this knowledge and reverence will be etched into the histories by those who those that Lead and Teach. Like radiation: undetectable and unnoticed without the proper equipment, your sacrifice will echo for all eternity as a beacon of hope, strength, courage, and nobility, for all of humanity to learn and strengthen themselves from. From the bottom of my heart, and countless others: Thank you.
David Pendleton but truth is they take everything from them in Russia even free bus pass , they like regular citizens here, Putin and his friends full of corruption
1:02 - There's the man, right there. Thank you for all of your hard work, Doctor. Really wish you were still alive today. May you rest in peace. If not for you, millions more might be dead today.
Pray to God that something like this never happens again. I was 10 when Fukushima happened. Still remember that one, and not hearing about the Meltdown until weeks after that Tsunami occurred. Crazy to think that area is still abandoned to this day!
@Frank F Kling u probably wont be typing this comment if those 18 yo were not "forced" to do that. Sometimes its neccesary to abandon the rights of a personnel for a greater good of humanity.
@Frank F Kling if certain things were'nt forced ,things would be entirely different,u would'nt die stupid. U would become a tumor in ur father's ball sack even if ur father was in peru. Well,i get that,lack of secondary education in science induces these types of arguments.
Yup, I just finished the first episode and looking forward to the next one. I must say, it really is disgusting how their upper management tried to downplay the significance of the situation.
This would the first sign of a nuclear attack. Everything electrical will go dead. They call it an electromagnetic pulse or an EMP. When an air strike takes place, we won't know it outside of our electronics being suddenly disabled.
@@exmachina3426 True, there's not much information though, but it looks like one of them died in 2005, others are still alive and one of them even works at the Chernobyl power station today (the station is shut down but there is a lot of maintenance work exist).
Bio-Robots, Such a horrific term. The thing that makes it so apt and so horrific is that the word robot is of Czech origin Robota meaning Enforced labour/slave.
George Devol In 1954 George Devol invented the first digitally operated and a programmable robot called the Unimate. In 1956, Devol and his partner Joseph Engelberger formed the world's first robot company. In 1961, the first industrial robot, Unimate, went online in a General Motors automobile factory in New Jersey.
@@sarahk7232 they were humans, actually it was men who again stepped in saving others lives! No wild screaming Feminazis engaged in saving the world? Unbelievable!
Ever since I started seeing UA-cam videos on Chernobyl because of the HBO series (although I knew about it prior to the series), the UA-cam recommendation is full of Chernobyl videos. The series is amazing and really does a wonderful job at capturing a frighting atmosphere for the incident. I didn't know there were sacrifices and this series deserves praise for its effort to show what the people went through with this incident which I think many people don't know much about.
@@Bers18855 you ever smelled the tip of a pen? thats graphite, put it in your eye and you can lose it now hold radioactive graphite in your hand, burning radioactive graphite and you will lose your life
@@Bers18855 Graphite in this situation is dangerous due to the fact that it was in the center of the reactor, rods with nuclear fuel were located between the graphite blocks, so after the explosion this graphite became incredibly radioactive.
I remember that in that period of time, I was working for an Avionics Maintenance squadron for B52 bombers, We had to deal with nuclear payloads, prepare secret briefs on unit readiness reports. They brought us into a room and showed us classified video and photos of this disaster. It shook us. We give great honor to those who sacrificed to save so many lives.
“Gurkha, flying a swift and powerful vimana hurled a single projectile charged with the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and flame, as bright as ten thousand suns, rose with all its splendor. It was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death, which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas. The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. Hair and nails fell out; Pottery broke without apparent cause, and the birds turned white. …After a few hours all foodstuffs were infected… …to escape from this fire the soldiers threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and their equipment.” - The Mahabharata, a several thousand years old indian text. did it really never occur before?
The accountability and responsibilities all these volunteers gave to this situation is an echo of humanity. Something our governments clearly have forgotten about as they just played the blame game and left it to civilians. This is our world and it's up to us to do the best we can to learn from and fix our mistakes.
10:38 - Always gives me chills I remember watching it 6 years ago and wondering how scary it is - to run from an enemy you can't see, hear, smell and even feel, but it kills you on microscopic level cell by cell.
Ironically, you're more right than you may realise. Smokers are exposed to 160,000 microsieverts more radiation annually than the average person, because the tobacco contains radioactive elements such as Radium and Polonium. For comparison a US radiation worker is allowed to receive a max of 50,000 microsieverts annually. The dose from the radioactive elements found naturally in Tobacco is 1000X higher than what you would get from exposure to the radioactive Ceasium-137 that was absorbed by leaves after the Chernobyl disaster.
At the time, and to some extent still (among stupid people), it was widely believed that vodka cured radiation. It "flushed the system", probably because you sweated and pissed more. Naturally despite being known to be bullshit this theory was encouraged by the Soviet government, since it allowed them to skimp on radiation safety measures while pointlessly improving morale. It's always easier to ride into hell with a good buzz on.
@@orangejoe204 It was pretty much guaranteed death to anyone who worked on cleaning it up on site. If they hadnt it would have spread contamination to this day. Guessing they were fully aware of the risks and that death was inevitable. Fake hope better than nothing i guess.
" "the heroes who saved the world" the newspapers would write in a pathetic manner. a few years later the heroes will no longer be remembered, and then they will be completely forgotten.." Salute Heroes Of Chernobyl .I will never forget them !!!
The more I learned about Chernobyl, the more intriguing it became, so much so that I have just returned after doing a private tour of the zone. "the Chernobyl claw" was just incredible, the bottom claws still measure 451.25 μSv microsievert per hour, 33 years after the disaster. The men in this film are remarkable, the saved hundreds of thousands of lives and allowed 99.9% of Europe still to be habitable. To the 991 dislikes to this film, you have no heart, no soul, no respect and no place on this earth, go back to your pit of darkness.
It's more like 40 microsievert, which is like 4 dental x rays over an hour. That's from a measurement in the middle though, I haven't seen a reputable source for what the actual radiation at the tips of the claws are. Much higher than 40, no doubt.
More dangerous than Afghanistan AND Iraq COMBINED. Much more likely to kill you or at least disable you. These men are true heroes and their sacrifice should not be forgotten.
Cc Cro Pa neki od tih biorobota ili likvidatora su još uvek živi a oni nesrećni su uglavnom umirali od srčanog udara, što je posledica stresa a ne radioktivnosti. Neko je morao to sranje počistiti. Nije bilo izbora. Možda je trebalo poštedeti mlađe ljude (one između 20 do 30 god.) a slati starije što su kasnije i činili kada su shvatili (priznali sami sebi) da je radioaktivnost na krovu preko 10.000 R/h (što je astronomski mnogo).
The fact that some of these men stayed way past their limits just to prevent others from having to do it is insane. True heroes.
The truth is many of them stayet1 because of wages as they were poor and had no much understanding in what radiation is and how it is gonna affect them for real..for many it was like a myth or nothing to worry about,like drinking coke is bad for you.
Smoletss True, for them it sound like a easy job only 90 sec so staying a lil longer is no problem they tought
@@Smoletss true, not everyone back then understood the effects of radiation as these were soldiers and it was 1986 unlike today where we have the internet and can look things up
LucefieD why Russian is still the worlds number one superpower
@@sturggaming6759 lol Russia is not and never has been a superpower LoL only The great United states of America can claim that
"Perhaps for the first time in military history the army was fighting against an invisible enemy and an invisible danger".. Salute to those brave men.
1918 flu? Hello?....
Vietnam
@@brettm.1770 Helllooooooo???
2020 corona?
The show must go on.
Corona virus says hi
@@vachanshan9472 Well I'm not saying hi back...
Cmon lets have a moment and appreciate the camera men which he took the risks among others and recorded this horrible tragedy, Hats off for the men
Alireza Asadi I think the camera man was called Igor Kostin, he died in 2015
@@wolflicious8912 His name is in the credits and it says Yuriy Bordakov.
Evil Mofo, Alirexa A, Wolflicious and the Ukranian/Russian Person,
YES . . . lets remember the cameraman.
The Day After - People, lets NOT forge the camera man, most likely KGB, who filmed the blown reactor in daylight 1 or 2 days after the initial explosion. He flew over the reactor and open core. The radiation received by the crew of that helicopter would have been un-measurable. The roetgen were 22,000 when the Liquidators began their clean up task three weeks later.
The automated, mechanical robots, including Joker were fried by the radiation. The Soviets told the Germans that there was only a count off 2,000 roentgen in that roof covered in graphite.
there are also phtographers from the reactor. the tried to record all, but some photographs were destroyed by radiation. :/ sick how small humans actually are, when there's a catastrophy
sorry for misleading information, I didn't know that the kgb filmed the blown reactor.
I was working in a nuclear power plant in Arkansas when Chernobyl blew up. Our electrical supervisor called us into the lunchroom and told those of us in there to take our hard hats off and say a prayer for all of the plant personnel in Chernobyl whom we knew were going to die. We also prayed for those we knew would die sometime in the near future, their families, and all those others who would be forced to die by the soviet government. Some of us stayed in the lunchroom until we had to go back to our jobs... we prayed long and hard that God would ease their suffering
😢😢
Their balls must ve bien heavier than thor's Hammer
ANO?
And God did nothing because he doesn't exist. Religion is a waste of time and I find it personally hilarious that something as blood soaked as religion is anyone's go to when something bad happens 😂 pathetic. Grow up. Religion helps nor solves anything and humanity (if not for religion) would be much better off , as tech , medicine , infrastructure , morality and more has been poisoned by religion. Also fuck the pope.
Well I hope your praying helped you at least because it didn't help those men. Aside from the fact that if there was a "god" he ALLOWED it to happen, and 90% of those involved WERE INNOCENT PEOPLE!! "free will" is nothing more than an EXCUSE!
Respect to all the liquidators, and RIP to those already gone.
God bless them all and they're familys
ua-cam.com/video/uD2bgf09268/v-deo.html
Rip 🙏🏻
Respect fore everyone
RIP 🙏
If a robot broke down so quickly because of the radiation, I shudder to think what effect it had on all those poor human bodies.....
Biorobots is better for SOVIETS this is horrible 😥😢
@@milanhrabovsky8795 great things come at a minor cost , what had to be done ,had to be done.
@@husainmithaiwala351 Minor cost? They were sent with nothing more than a janitor suit and brooms to a toxic wasteland.
@@toddsalisbury3851 yeah thats very sad and scary and i truly feel for the nightmare they faced but what i mean is sacrificing mere hundreds saved millions of lives....
@Rick Harrison Wearing only a lead apron in this is the equilevant of wearing just your favourite hoodie on the North Pole
'...these devices measured not only the level of radioactivity, but also the level of human dignity'.....Powerful words
I was scrolling while listening to the video...
I get to yours and read it word for word as it's being said. The timing is disturbing me. Wtf
@@SourceFedMan same here. How weird is that
you could have send them without the devices... But they had It... If your really think about It those words really mean a lot. No more lies, Only Truth, you are going to be in hell for 2 minutes, and you will know it.
Onder Gun about 3.6. not great, not terrible
Matt you both have average reading speeds and this comment’s position is determined by its amount of likes. if you ran 100m independently, you might achieve similar times, too.
Until recently I didn't realize how bad this really was. These people were some brave souls
A nuclear reactor blowing up is no big deal. A casual walk in the park.
@@dregsta Njet problem, normal katastrof
@George Thomas Stupid politics tried to cover it up as they were afraid for their asses as usual.
These people are heroes who sacrificed their lives and health for humanity.
Dey toök er jrebs
Bruh how did you not realise how bad it was lmao, it’s like one of the biggest human disasters
At 22:06 you can see them throwing actual graphite from the core off the roof using their HANDS. I have no words...
But why did they do so?
@@rajatsinha17 so that they could build the sarcophagus around the reactor and the exposed surrounding area
@@LorenzSinclair but why they wanted to build that.
@@rajatsinha17 to keep the radiation away, so the people didn't die?
@@rajatsinha17 if they didnt the radiation would continue to leak into the atmosphere and spread farther and farther killing more and more
Tragic as it was, Those men not only served there country but the rest of the planet.
Not really just their country.
Not really, couldn't give a fuck about what they did, never would have affected us over the pond.
@@TheModernSnipez actually yes it would, if nobody did anything, whole of Europe or whatever would of have gotten radiation, and radiation dust and there would be would a big ass hole where all the reactors would of have exploded, approximately a few days later or a week depending on weather, the radiation dust would soon reach us and kill alot of civies or or give alot of people health problems (thankfully it didnt because of these people but the radiation dust left from just that one reactor reached parts of the world in different places, like Florida for example)
But wasn't as potent thanks to just being one reactor and small amounts of dust, so less people were affected
"Not really just their country." There could have been a second meltdown right after that would radiate the whole EU if they wouldnt have stopped this. The cause would be the elephants foot reaching the water right under the reactor. But as they say ignorance is the power.
The three men that saved the lives of between 60 and 100 million people and unknown numbers of cancers across Europe by volunteering to swim into the reactor and open the sluice gates:
Ananenko ; Bezpalov ; Baranov. Super-heroes. Real ones.
They did not volunteer it was ABC order
2 of them still alive now.. from Episode 5 Season Finale Chernobyl HBO Mini Series
How did two of them survive? Wasn’t it so much radioactive materials that they should have died in days?
@@Jonas-xl4wg ikr..miracle maybe..
@@Jonas-xl4wg
Not really sure, but from what I've read from other comments, it's that the contaminated water around them? They never got wet from it. It never touched them, nor penetrate their suits, allowing them to live far, far longer than anticipated.
It's difficult not to feel sadness for hundreds of thousands of heroes who gave their lives and health in order to save millions of people who could have died from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Although many of the liquidators are now gone, the respect that the world has for them will always remain.
These were men. Humans that didn't look away. Thank God there is video proof that tells their story of sacrifice and bravery.
but actualy they dont knewed the real risk , they are cheated
There are no gods.
@@alven72 obviously not but they gave their life to the greater good. Have some respect
@@alven72 oh wow! give that man a cookie for the dumbest comment ever! at least respect the people who sacrificed their lives for a greater ideal
if you watched carefully, it was stated that some were unwilling to go and asked others who were going to the roof to take their meters to get higher radiation readings.
People after watching the HBO Chernobyl Mini-Series: “You know, I’m something of a Nuclear Scientist myself.”
so true my god
I agree! I now understand why the tips of fuel rods shouldn't be made of graphite!
@Dante Galand HAA :)
Liz Gascoigne Is your dad a werewolf by chance?
@@lizgascoigne4262 Actually, it was the control rods that had graphite tips. And it would not have been a problem, normally. Put in one or two at a time, and the rise in reaction rate is balanced by the others that are already beyond the tips and decreasing the rate. No one ever expected to have to jam all the rods in at once. But when they did-BOOM!!
Shout out for the General who personally inspected the area and instructed each group, instead of just delegating it. He received a lot of radiation doing that. Cares for his men.
@F. Friedrich Kling Hauss you need to educate yourself on this time period. you know nothing boy.
F. Friedrich Kling Hauss who pissed in your cheerios bro like damn
@F. Friedrich Kling Hauss stop making a smartass of yourself, and listen to an actually smart man, who said some good words to you bruv. Just research literally 5 minutes on the Internet instead of hating them because they are russian or whatever reason you have.
@F. Friedrich Kling Hauss they were dealing with something that had never occurred before. They were still learning about it all weren’t they? They asked for volunteers bc one person wouldn’t be able to survive cleaning the roof.
It was only 3.6 Roentgen, it's not that bad...
Look at 8:10 in this video. That man is standing right next to a chunk of graphite moderator from the reactor core. Those were basically the *MOST* radioactive pieces of garbage strewn all over the roof and surrounding area, second only to the pieces of uranium fuel themselves. I mean...that piece of graphite that the man is standing beside would certainly kill him deader than a door nail and mangle his body within an hour if he put it next to him and sat down for a simple dinner. 🙀 Yet, we watch as he stands there as if the Grim Reaper isn't looking over his shoulder and slowly slicing pieces of flesh away with his scythe.
I caught that too! Especially after watching the HBO mini series Chernobyl
That’s why the shifts were only 90 seconds two two minutes long…
incredibly enough, some of those people actually survived
When u see it in HBO u can say : must be some exaggeration.
From here we see that hbo is recounting the absolute horror in all its dreadful truth.
Soooo accurate!
This is a great comment because its true
Listened to the HBO Chernobyl podcast (because I needed something...anything...to help me through the depressing horror) and they talk about how accurate everything is...right down to the smallest screwdriver) Amazing.
Listen to "The Chernobyl Podcast" on UA-cam. The man who wrote the show talks about each episode and how accurate it is.
the writer started writing the script and researching from 2015 that's 4 years of research and he said they tried to be as accurate as they could. All the people are real only the one woman scientist is fake. And everything that happened from firefighters,people,parlament is real in the show
These brave souls never had a chance. Never even had any idea. These men are heros in my eyes and I don't even know their names.
These men clearly lost their minds, doing stupid shit like this that will lead to their death.
if they don't know, they are not hero..... what kind of conclusion is this anyway ....
google it dude !!... their names are all there!
we usually call those type of men ; "Soldier"!!! and clearly, they didn't have a choice lol
Of course they knew. Many of them volunteered for this work. They knew if they failed, the effects of the accident would be much worse.
Still amazed at how visually accurate HBO treated this catastrophe. Things matched up damned near perfectly.
Few things in hbo series is fiction
Well, some of the liquidators that survived say otherwise... they even call most of the serie inaccurate and very false..especially concerning the real men being portrayed and the liquidators way of thinking about what they had to do
@@user-gu3ie you have a point there but if you kind of think about it if they weren't scared it's because they really didn't understand the scope and pain and shit that would cause even brave men to still have fear
@@Watcher4111 yea like HBO saying a multi megaton blast was possible if water met the core material
Simply impossible
Or that death was certain if they had even a tear in their clothing
Again over stating the risk
Most of them lived long lives
@@daviejay5326 the thing about blast was what scientists believed at the time. We know now that it was not possible but at that time it was a possibility.
They went willingly into hell to make sure Hell wouldn’t engulf the world
nope. all unwillingly with families threatened... the usual russian stuff 😂😂😂
The amount of graphite... it’s gut wrenching
“Scoop scoop, run away” these poor men - bless their sacrifice
Did you see the recreation of this operation in the HBO miniseries? It was SCARY. In fact, the whole damn miniseries was terrifying.
tommyt1971 yes so beautifully shot but you couldn’t help holding your breath. When the man came in and you saw his boot ripped 😭
@@sherlockwatson101 do you think the supervisors "your done"comment was because he saw the tear,it sounded more menacing than a simple jobs done lad go home
bartman01021988 he wanted him to leave quickly to not have his break down in front of the guys waiting for their 90 seconds so that they don't get terrified of their task.
You didn't see any graphite.
Jesus Christ.. the german robot sequence was actually WORSE than depicted in the HBO series.. Some of those men who had to try to reclaim the robot suffered huge doses of radiation for basically nothing..
Wow
Jesus Christ what a joke, ur Jesus would die therr in a second he can't even survive on cross. Look at this brave men died for ur sins pray them.
Yea maybe if the russians didnt play down the insane ammount of radiation on that roof they could have sent a better robot.
@@nurichbinreel4782 at that point they didnt play down the amount of radiation it was just too much for any reasonable amount of shielding considering the roof loading and what was available at the time. It's amazing how competent the communists were are producing paranoia and disbelief, sadly it was the only thing they were competent at producing.
@@Vranabg ... and the first man in space :)
Lots of men from my homeland, Estonia, also were taken to Chernobyl to liquidate the disaster. Some never returned, those that did were plagued by health issues. Now there's a handful of them left and all they get for their sacrifice is a meager 230 euros per year. Yes, YEAR, not even every month. Once a year. The welfare system claims that they didn't receive dangerous enough amounts of radiation, so apparently they don't deserve more money or any other help or discounts. I'd like to see those damned office rats who make these decisions shovel radioactive graphite off a roof until their skin falls off.
the idea is to find imbeciles to do it same everywhere on globe
And lithuania.
Office sewer rats are true vile vermin, they should be shot and burned , not buried.
that is disgusting!
Thank you for bringing light to this. I have been researching Chernobyl and I can’t believe how much has been kept from the public. God bless you and yours
Живу в Петербурге, и у меня сосед был ликвидатором в свое время. На самом деле, то что в видео верно, с его рассказами совпадает, за тем нюансом что такая храбрость у большинства была потому что люди не осознавали масштабов происходившего, а просто выполняли свои задачи. Они действительно настоящие герои. Искренне надеюсь что таких неприятностей не будет в нашем мире, хотя понимаю что они к сожалению неизбежны.
You'll have to translate this just like I translated your comment. I just wanted to say how amazing your neighbor is. Look at 8:10 in this video. Very likely could have been a similar situation that he was in. That man at 8:10 is standing right next to a chunk of graphite moderator from the reactor core. Those were basically the *MOST* radioactive pieces of garbage strewn all over the roof and surrounding area, second only to the pieces of uranium fuel themselves. I mean...that piece of graphite that the man is standing beside would certainly kill him deader than a door nail and mangle his body within an hour if he put it next to him and sat down for a simple dinner. 🙀
@@mannys9130 он просто хотел сказать, что люди не знали что такое радиация . Они не знали, что будут умирать в муках
@@asist.b Typical russian logic...
Translate this: Russian scum. 😅
@@Martiiin2008 а ну ка разъясни про "типичную русскую логику"
Episode 4 of HBO Chernobyl can thank all its content to this youtube clip!
100 purrcent
it's amazing how accurately they made it and that's why I love the show, it's about how and what really happened and not some sci-fi bs, it makes me sad that we will only get one more episode
@@TheEffence I totally agree. It's been en experience I won't forget. But it also makes me excited to see what the team behind it create next.
@Youri Stfu how about that?
HBO can thank the Chernobyl meltdown for episode 4
The politicians and other idiots who were responsible for this should have cleaned up on the Roof... not those brave mens, husbands and fathers
men is plural... mens...
i agree, the fools who weren't checking the 4th reactor of the Chernobyl plant should have been working on that roof!
if they survived...
DAMNIT!
NEED A TIME MACHINE!
If only we had a time machine....if we ever invent one,we can go back in time and stop this from ever happening
until "butterfly effect" fucks us 100x worse....if you believe in such things that is....
This is probably the most important military operation in human history
Many campaigns in world war 2 were far more important.
@@Motoko1134 not really
@@Motoko1134 This core left unattended had a potential to kill the entire human kind.
@@dreambim2446 people dont really understand that if the those men never risked their lives, the majority of earth would be uninhabitable wasteland
@@Motoko1134 You ignorant idiot. Do you even understand what happened there? In Europe we could not eat fresh vegetables for a long time, there was acid rain and fog even here in italy...
Their names won’t be forgotten because of people like you.
I was 20 when this happened and didn’t pay much attention because “it was on the other side of the world” in my eyes.
After seeing Chernobyl on Hulu it brought me here. Human resiliency is truly something 🙏🏼♥️
Same here! Do you have spotify? They did a podcast for each HBO episode! Very good info clarifying fact and fiction of the series!
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Watching them step over those graphite blocks at the 19 min mark, those are part of the actual core and these guys just step on and over them... Something is rather haunting in these clips....
George Papadopoulos did you write a book on blackjack?
George Papadopoulos because most of these men are dead!!! No survival with contact that close!!! Just like the elephants foot. Death is soon to come after exposure.
Everything here is haunting.
@@georgep6495 what about Apollo Flame Bistro?
which is the stupidest thing about radiation. its so god damn deadly but watching the video it just looks like some guys walking around on a roof with some suits on. no gas or light emissions or burning or sound or anything. just invisible doom
"The shift lasted only two minutes but I've dreamt of those two minutes for the past 25 years every night every night again and again. I accompany these people to that terrible M-zone the area covered in graphite debris. Here, the unthinkable background radiation of nearly 8,000 roentgens. 20m away from us is the naked muzzle of the destroyed reactor. My task is to show what must be removed there first. With each succeeding group, with each fragment removed, the background radiation will reduce; this means that the risk for the next group will already be lower. I will transfer a few hundred people through the zone, I will not know who they are, and I will not see their faces behind protective masks, and we'll never know what is going to happen to them afterwards. It was not me who had made a decision to send these men in the zone of mortal danger, but each night some inexplicable feeling of guilt brings me back to the past in that first two minute shift which stretched out for me for a quarter of a century."
@@lisafoos8976 there are no words....
The Russians have unique taste for poeticism. Incredible
@@ThatBigGuyAl потому что это советские люди, добрые, отзывчивые. Которые шли выполнять, долг тогда общество не диградиравало как сейчас.
saved us all (across the planet) from a bigger disaster
ua-cam.com/video/uD2bgf09268/v-deo.html
19:52
"I will transfer a few hundred people through the zone. I will not know who they are and I will not see their faces behind protective masks and I will never know what is going to happen to them afterwards."
Coronavirus belike
We have not forgotten. And I will personally make sure that my bloodline doesn't forget either. The majority of those soldiers were boys, no older than 30 and some as young as 16. They gave their lives to save us, even if they didn't know it at the time. These men are true heroes, and not a single one of them got the praise they deserved. They saved the entire world, and we don't even know their names. While we may not know their names, we know their stories and their bravery, and we will never forget that. Rest in peace to the 3828 heroes that saved the world without even knowing it.
Narrator: I will always remember the number 3823
Titles: 3828
"...So, in the fall of 1986 3,828 people would pass through the roof coating of the Chernobyl power station...."
I thought I had hallucinated that lol
Czeski błąd 🤣
yea.... i immediately caught that.... so what is it.. 3823 or 3828?? what happened to the 5 people?
@@JoshJos-Shwa hmm...they said 3828 in the show
Wow, the amount of accuracy that is shown in the fourth episode of the new mini series compared to this is incredible. Respect to all who took a date with masha.
Jack Topoleski god bless their souls
Jack Topoleski Nice Profile Photo!
@@moniarts2761 glad you know who it is!
@@jacktopoleski4923 Who is it?
@@dawn-blade ayrton senna
There were 3823 of them. This number, i will retain in my memory for the rest of my life.
The video: chernobyl 3828
It seems, there was a mistake in the text the narrator read. Or maybe he made a mistake by himself. In the end he said 3828. And this is a correct number.
Iryna Patsel still, seems odd no one noticed before it was released.
what is 2309?
From the first responders, fire fighters, to the liquidators, mi-8, doctors, nurses, and everyone else who was put in harm's way by this nuclear disaster, please know that your bravery, selflessness, and courage have not gone unnoticed. You people are true heroes, and we will never forget your brave actions during the worst nuclear disaster in recent history.
I feel pain when I see flesh exposing between the seams of their anti-radiation "suits".
Paul Staker it was whatever they still die for sure
That's ANOTHER thing... how the hell was this the best fucking suits they could come up with? They were sending ppl into space - didn't they have anything better for these men to wear?
Viktoria Rayne it’s because they weren’t going into space!!!!!!
@@TheArayray impossible to do a perfect radiation suit ; the only thing important was the huge lead sheet on their shoulders to protect the bone marrow. As longs as the bone marrow survive, they have a chance.
I think the rest is mostly to have radioactive dust directly on contact whit the skin
@Sadie Smiles any source ?
Thank you people of the Soviet Union for saving the rest of Europe from the mistake of your leaders.
lol no
@@ytuser555-z8t Similar to what happened in the TMI incident, ok no core explosion, but they tried to hide it to the community... Who are the good guys? Americans? Are you joking? They are the ONES who dropped an atomic bomb on civilians, in the pacific during the nuclear tests in the marshall islands people were forced to relocate as their home was needed as a nuclear playground, ever since their community is destroyed and suffers from nuclear related illnesses. American soldiers dispatched in the testing zones suffered in large numbers of cancer and other related illnesses too. Seems to me that the GOOD AMERICAN LEADERS didn't give 2 shits about it. On top of that President Donald Trump recently announced plans to remove the US from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia, a move which many fear could ignite a new nuclear arms race. The INF had banned all short and mid-rang nuclear and non-nuclear missiles, and helped to eliminate thousands of land-based missiles. Trump has also promised to build new nuclear weapons.... TEAM AMERICA TO THE RESCUE.... BTW my respects to the Soviets that sacrifice their life to save us EVERY COUNTRY should build a monument to remember those 3828
@@PlasticVibeMusic First of all who said anything about the U.S.? You really think all that bullshit you just spouted is Anywhere near what the Soviets have done? THE SOVIET UNION a Country responsible for Gulags are More death than the fucking holocaust is better than the U.S. beacuse the U.S. used atomic bombs and Trump wants to leave a treaty? Do you realize how dumb you sound? The only other way to Defeat Japan was a Full on Land Invasion by the U.S. which would've was estimated to cost over ONE MILLION American lives that's a pretty easy choice if you ask me. The Soviets committed 21 Massacres, Cut corners and Nearly destroyed all of eastern Europe, Starved their people and Forced them to stay in the Soviet Union, Given Rise to communist dictatorships like China and North Korea, supplied them with weapons INCLUDING NUCLEAR BOMBS, and Violated the Human rights of it's own citizens for practically its entire existence. Not to mention all the world tension they've caused Even today and you have the Nerve to say the Soviets were the good guys, you need to pick up a fucking history book and learn a thing or two beacuse the Soviet Union was possibly the most fucked up Awful country on earth
@@ytuser555-z8t You are a brainwashed idiot
@@ytuser555-z8t no one is denying any USSR atrocities by recognising the bravery of these men!
The lived in a dictatorship, as you might know it means only the elite takes the decisions and anyone opposing will pay the full price.
In contrast, living in a democracy shouldn't lead to such a depraved society as today's USA..!
So who is actually the moral questionable?
Narrator: And this men will be forgotten.
HBO: Hold my
Roentgen
these*
_* Hold my graphite._
@@vanroman5004 can you stop with the telling people to stop crap.
@@vanroman5004 can you just shut up... If you don't like it just keep scrolling lolll what makes you an authority on what should or shouldn't be said lollll so fucking dumb
@@vanroman5004 can you hold my beer...
I’m from the USA, though I am formerly your cold war adversary I have tremendous respect for all the men who fought to clear the radioactive debris and also the divers who prevented the corium from contacting water and setting off a tremendous steam explosion. Saving people from suffering is important whether they stand on one side of a line or the other.
Shut yo world police as up
Came here after watching HBO's Chernobyl e4,
These are some really brave and heroic men.
I would never have had the guts
I don't really think you had a choice. Cancer or bullet, pretty much.
@@linushh not really, they were only for 80-90 seconds. Most of them had no health effects later.
MirzzG simply not accurate suggest you research the topic they explain the grave health risks in the video.
Communism doesn't provide you with much choice.
It must be done, its so that we can understand generations of suffering... ive made my peace now you make yours.... *3 men stand up one by one saying there names* thank you for saving half of europe boys. God bless you... btw 2 are still alive out of the 3 who pumped the valves
These men were walking on graphite and touching it. This is nuts.
So that’s not bad
@@Kellzs2x that's bad.Do you know how much radiation you can get from touching something that belongs to the core of nuclear reactor.
Mykell Lastname "it's the equivalent of 4,000,000 chest x rays in your hand"
@@krisgamingtm8234 Only 3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible.
There isn't any fucking graphite!!
The series on HBO has quietly become the highest rated show ever on IMDB
And it will quitly go done the ladder as well when more people start to vote it. It is good, but not that good to be in first. Personally I will not give it more than 8/10, because althought it's very well made and depicts chronographically most of the events, also feels real, it does contain enough anti-soviet officials propaganda and anti-soviet society propaganda. Ulana Khomyuk character and all her interactions with people around her, feels like some sort of a western propaganda schooling what's wrong with the soviet society, but because this character is purely fictional, all this is made from assumtions. All those conversations with Soviet officials in meeting are classified, but i highly doubt they were so incompetant, evil and obnoxious like the series depicts, nor Valery Legasov was the only one that understood the gravity of the situation. I mean they've had other scientists too. Because the series uses enough real events, but also fictional ones, at times propaganda driven, western viewers will not distinguish between the two and will accept it all to be as close to the truth as possible. But people who actually lived in that period will spot on those (intentional or unintentional) flaws right away.
V. I appreciate your well-thought out comment and I am curious if you were one of the people who lived in that period.
@@Captc5766 Well, I've lived, but was little, so take it as my father insight on the matter. My parents speak with respect and non hard feelings for this period, the nostalgia they feel can be attributed to the fact that they were young back then :), but the feeling of prosperity, equity, morals in the society, officials that put people's interests and well being in their priorities can not be attributed to young age. Everybody talks that communism was a failure nowadays, but one thing that is quickly forgoten is that communism brought industrialization and education with such speed in all this countries, which were agricultural orientated back then. Something that took 150 years in the West was done in 40-50 years in the East. Surely it was done with many flaws at times, but one incident like Chernobyl, however grave it is, should and will not erase in people's minds all the good things that were created.
@array s Fuck you too...The CCCP didnt drop nuclear bombs on civilians.And yes there is such thing as Western Propaganda, esp in Hollywood.Hollywood full of pedos,whores,abusers.Oscar for the White Helmets?Really?More people died in Vietnam,Syria,Lybia,IRAQ which was and is an illegal war.WMDs anybody?Not an accident.I also lived in this era in Hungary.This accident happened on my father's 30rd birthday,I was seven. And you know what?I was happy as a child,and wasn't like ratrace for money and fake boobs,there were no Kardashians,celebrity worship,panama papers..etcThe great Swedes are puppets of the dying US empire today.We can see it:Julian Assagne.And what is that Norwegian garbage on Netflix "Occupied"?Yes Western propaganda is a real thing too...
@@v.9802 I used to think communism is the most evil thing, but then as I became older it became appararent how profoundly brainwashed we are. Everywhere in western media and entertainment you will find anti-russian propaganda. I see it clear as day now and I agree with your analysis of HBO's Chernobyl. It is sickening. So much about lies and truth as they say... Hypocrisy at its finest.
This was a devastating incident that should never of happened. I was at a nightclub in Australia 🇦🇺 where I live, and I remember my father panicking about this nuclear explosion. R.I.P to all the people who did the clean up of amongst air that had devastating radiation that you can't see. How very sad 😔 for all the people kept in the dark by the sickle and hammer on the red cloth 😢😢😢
I have so much respect for those who risked their health and lives. They are true heroes!
Worst thing to me is that they possibly had no choice. Authorities maybe told them "go there!"...or else? I do not know what the option was for them if they refused.
ye exactly....they either had to do it or risk losing their jobs and not be able to find new job ever again...but anyhow that is why they used soldiers for the most dangerous area, for most of them, they likely had great sense of duty to not let their country and ppl down.
Personally I wouldnt have gone to that roof for any price or threat, just the thought of being constantly exposed to lethal amount of radiation...... so huge respect to them who risked their lives and likely died sooner or later because of that.
Balnazzardi Being older, I'd risk my life if I was doing something like this so the youth would not risk their health. I would not be happy to do it, but I would :)
Those who were not duty-bound (army, special forces etc.) were either volunteers or highly paid l personnel drafted from across theUSSR. They were not always properly informed of the dangers, though. But you need to have a head on your shoulders - how safe can a leaked nuclear powerplant be?
My mom's colleague went there for liquidation. Atomic reseach institute, Saint-Petersburg (Leningrad). He knew what the dangers were and he chose to go even though he had a wife and a kid. Duty was huge in USSR and still is in Russia. That is what foreigners can never understand. And this was duty to the world, the life or death situation for these men's children (pollution). These guys literally saved the world. They make movies in US with some ridiculous premises about saving the world but here are the actual people who went and done it.
I think they were pretty stupid to take a job where you clean up the most radioactive substances in the world without proper protection. Just, plain, stupid.
I think this is the best documentary about Chernobyl.
i agree
@Totally Anonymous lol
The zero hour documentary is also quite good
In my opinion "The battle of Chernobyl" is a masterpiece.
Yes I agree
I pray for all of them 🤗
30 years later they are still remembered
John Smith.
Almost 20 Years later and 9/11 seems like a distant memory fading away into history. It’s not a distant memory to me but others might be.
Whaat I’m saying is from 1 disaster to another, it’s weird how the most recent one feels like an eternity ago and the most earliest 1 feels like yesterday.
Weird how time twists like that !
John Smith only because of a show. No one would care otherwise
@Komma Här because modern-day russia is a meritocracy much like the United States forgetting about 9/11 first responders, which are still alive and drowning in medical bills from cancer treatments or lung problems from the asbestos in the towers.
This is still the greatest Chernobyl video on UA-cam. This video deserves 10x the views that it has.
I saw ep4 on hbo chernobyl
God its so accurate
Imagine a robot breaking down on that roof and they had to send biorobots to clean up the debris
Its deserves the 9.7 rating on imdb
3.7 on imdb
@Nathaniel12345678910 are you another clueless USAmerican schoolkid?
Most of this information has been passed on since the explosion happened.
Ever thought of independent research based on personal curiosity?
Or are you expecting being spoon fed your whole life..
I recall the episode when Dyatlov was insisting that the other guy ddnt see graphite then he pukes all over the place
You dont have to say biorobots lol.... just call them humans you idiot
@@OmmerSyssel So, are you saying that it's a bad thing for someone to learn about the catastrophe from a TV show, as opposed to not at all? Don't you think people will be interested after watching the show, and perhaps inspire them to do research? Most kids today probably don't know about the event, and you know what? That's not really weird! Ask yourself if there's any practical reason beyond "it's history" that an American school kid should know about this? I not saying they shouldn't, but I'm also not huffing my own farts in front of everyone, like a pseudo intellectual jagoff. The only reason I ever heard about a nuclear accident on the other side of the world, before I was born is because of a computer game called Stalker. That was back in 2009, and now I've read all the books, did all the research and loved HBO'S show. All learning is good, and some is better than none. You really earned your name.
Alexei Ananenko
Valeri Bezpalov
Boris Baranov
NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES
Bravo, Sir.
Hotel Trivago
Anton Varismäki all of them died a week after going down man
@@sargissukiasyan9756 how do you know that?
Two of them were still alive as of 2016, the other died of an heart attack at age 65.
Heroes nonetheless.
towards the end, you're seeing men literally picking up and tossing graphite bricks from the reactor off the building. i'm guessing none of those men are alive now.
some are still alive
ye, but I bet even they have suffered from the consequences of being exposed to such huge amounts of radiation in some way.....the amount of radiation was such that they didnt die right away, but many died in the following years....just utterly terrible and waste of life, this accident was completely uncessary, and could have been entirely avoided if the ppl responsible had known how dangerous it was to play with RMBK reactor.
Balnazzardi
maybe not die,but have big problems with health 100%
The man who did some quick runs in the most irradiated zone on the roof and then put a flag atop the pipe (twice, in 86 and 87 (!)) is still alive.
These men clearly lost their minds, doing stupid shit like this that will lead to their death.
Yuri Samoilenko, what a brave, courageous man, he was, given the order to put men on the roof, you can see it in his eyes and demeanor how he suffered, is beyond.. he knew, what will become with liquidators, who knew nothing about the radiation, but Yuri was given the order by the cruel Soviet mashine!! What could he do poor man, just follow the orders, or else 😢
Respect to Yuri S. and of course the men who gave their lives to save the planet from the meltdown!!
This brings me to tears. The heroes should always be remembered. I know there's a list of many of them in a museum. Why not make it more widely available.
I feel you. Even though this was a time during the cold war, despite the tensions between the American government and Soviet government, the Soviet 'people', those of Pripyat, and liquidators, suffered. My heart goes out to those who suffered and sacrificed
They should’ve sent Dyatlov to that roof to clean up his own 💩
He was too busy laying in the hospital bed eating his own vomit.
Dyatlov was good guy!
@@federicoveronese7998
HBO portrayal of Chernobyl is comparable to Disney trying to portray Pearl Harbour to reality, its just not going to go very well.
@Judy G.
I know he died of cancer complications, I never said he died in the incident, it was just a take on some dark humour that is all.
@@SMGJohn ok commie pig
When u have hard day at ur work just remember this people who saved the world
True💪☹️
Da😕
idk about saved the world, certainly lessoned a potentially massive environmental disaster.
plus, its still happening, the elephants foot aka the spot where the material melted through directly underneath the reactor, is still melting down towards a massive fresh water aquifer.
the disaster isn't over nor has it been stopped, y'all just believing the one lie the soviets *really wanted, nay, needed you to..*
and it's just been forgotten about.... it'll soon enough rear its ugly head, once more.
@@jevgenijlasakevic6921 false, actually.
incredibly false.
@@user-dr5jv1wk4j NYET! its still an ongoing disaster, goes to show how little the world actually knows about the disaster.
For those saying bacteria and viruses are equally as bad let me ask you this.. Would you rather have covid or be a liquidator at Chernobyl. Personally (remember that word personally) I would choose having covid for a decade rather than being a liquidator for even 5 minutes.
Thank you for sharing this. All the Liquidators deserve our highest respect.
That General NikolaiTarokanov (sic) was a really brave man, a real leader! He talked to all of his men.
He is still alive BTW.
I’ve seen a lot of Chernobyl videos but this is by far the best. Truly chilling.
What is happening in this clip and how did they Save so many people?
"I cannot see radiation i cannot smell radiation i cannot taste radiation but it can still hurt me?!?!" quote from TMI guy (you can taste radiation though)
From 22:35 it's almost the same monologue word by word as they did it in the series. Excellent research by the team, they managed to emphasize the scale of the tragedy and human sacrifice.
it must have been incredibly hard to research this documentary on youtube, hats of to HBO
There's a Podcast for every episode with the writer and creator of the show and he mentioned that those words were like a prayer and he wanted to have them word by word in the show because they were so important to him.
There are a lot of lies in the series.
@@strobbedelutz hahaha. You are such an idiot!
Get a grip you clueless spoiled nutcase.
Ever tried physical demanding and dangerous work?
Sitting on your ass as journalist is as comfortable as anything imaginable!
Ohhh my feeeelings, this is sooo demanding 😨😂😂
My limbs are out worn, I need a wheelchair for the rest of my life 😵
@@indycoon define LIES
The world owes these men, not just Ukraine and Russia. A toast of vodka to them, in remembrance, in thanks.
Worst damage was done to Ukraine, Belarus and only after Russia
Soviet fuckup, clean your fuckup.
britiw
Today 20% of Belarus is an exclusion zone. Belarus suffered most.
These people had balls of steel. Heroes we should never forget.
the events of the Soviet period we do not divide into peoples and nations, we call the Soviet people, Soviet, it is a little uncorrected
imagine watching these men die heroicly, knowing the dangers and the costs, recorded as their lifespans were cut by years, and the viewer getting tiktok ads about making coffee.
Why did this make me laugh.. I'm sorry if that was a bad thing but that thing about making coffee got me like 😂😂😂
I love your post. It's so true
Based comment
There are no words to describe the bravery and courage these men showed. Nothing but respect and love for these men. Thank you
Damn episode 4 of the miniseries is so accurate it’s crazy
Facts
All 5 are.
The part with the helicopter that fell from the smoke was not accurate
@@hardcorasapotinazaret1959 ua-cam.com/video/ICOu7KksgUA/v-deo.html
@@viceralman8450 It was visually accurate, but in reality, it did not happen while putting out the fire, it happened in October.
They ended up picking up big chunks of reactor core with just their gloved hands too. Scary shit.
Let's be honest. These guys were real heroes. I have litteraly no words. They touched graphite from the core with bare hands, just to save lives.
These guys, with the one who stopped the third reactor to avoid the explosion of the whole power plant and the three guys who swam were heroes.
And they should be seen as real heroes forever. We have to thank them for what they did.
Oh trust me they're not the only heroes that vollunteered to help save europe from the huge steam blast
@@somebodystolemytoast5885 they are not the only ones, and he never said that. But they are, no doubt, heroes
It was only 3.6 roentgen, theres no need to worry...
@@stevepalpatine2828 no,this is a false parameter. There are more and more roentgen.
@@stefanopassetti6852 I heard it's the equivalent of a chest x-ray, so...
Some really brilliant writing and dialogue in this documentary. Very powerful and insightful.
Shoveling the remains of a nuclear reactor from the roof of a destroyed power plant, yeah...the bravery of these people can not be overstated.
Ye...just terrible to think how high The radiation was especially for those who were among the first to go there....If it really was 8000 roentgens per hour....so what some 80 sieverts per hour, More than 1 sievert in minute....just enough for them to stay alive after working there for a minute or two but with shortened Life and likely many health issues afterwards. Its hard to find solid facts, but in my understanding many of them have since died and some of them were even quite young, men at their 20's....
Let's be honest: Liquidators are some of the greatest heroes of our era. To those who gave some or all: thank you. Your infinitely valued, honorable, and courageous sacrifices can and will always live on in the hearts, minds, and voices of those who witness(ed) your merits and achievements; this knowledge and reverence will be etched into the histories by those who those that Lead and Teach. Like radiation: undetectable and unnoticed without the proper equipment, your sacrifice will echo for all eternity as a beacon of hope, strength, courage, and nobility, for all of humanity to learn and strengthen themselves from. From the bottom of my heart, and countless others: Thank you.
David Pendleton there lives were thrown away by a corrupt evil regime that was the USSR and little has changed today under the criminal Putin.
David Pendleton but truth is they take everything from them in Russia even free bus pass , they like regular citizens here, Putin and his friends full of corruption
@@TheFreshman321 Huh another butthurt Westerner 😄
1:02 - There's the man, right there. Thank you for all of your hard work, Doctor. Really wish you were still alive today. May you rest in peace. If not for you, millions more might be dead today.
1986 , challenger and Chernobyl , i was 9 yo and remember this like it was yesterday!
Pray to God that something like this never happens again. I was 10 when Fukushima happened. Still remember that one, and not hearing about the Meltdown until weeks after that Tsunami occurred. Crazy to think that area is still abandoned to this day!
I bow down in homage to all those 'liquidators' in the 'biological conveyor' and the cameraman.
Brave, brave men, thank you.
Seems like they started out with improvised protective gear and ran out of that and just found whatever clothing was available.
@Frank F Kling u probably wont be typing this comment if those 18 yo were not "forced" to do that.
Sometimes its neccesary to abandon the rights of a personnel for a greater good of humanity.
@Frank F Kling if certain things were'nt forced ,things would be entirely different,u would'nt die stupid.
U would become a tumor in ur father's ball sack even if ur father was in peru.
Well,i get that,lack of secondary education in science induces these types of arguments.
In awe of how accurate this is represented in Episode 4 of the mini-series.
@Youri Pretty much all the comments here are about the show, idiot.
@Youri idiot
@Youri be happy that the show is raising awareness. Non-Europeans doesn't seem to know a lot about it so it's good that the show was made.
@@herbertsdottir9223 Yeah but they presented a lot of caracters wrong.
@@joshualogan6655 Yeah not enough black people i think netflix would have done it better
I salute you, all legends in my book!
Thank you so much for uploading this piece of history. This is something everyone around the world should watch.
Like who is here thanks to the new HBO series
Underground DriftBG ON FUCKIN FOE NEM
@Underground DriftBG real guys are here from the book Roadside Picnic.
Yup, I just finished the first episode and looking forward to the next one. I must say, it really is disgusting how their upper management tried to downplay the significance of the situation.
I'm here for the popcorn. I heard it was hot and fresh.
gtfo. each video about Chernobyl with this stupid post.
Amazing how even Robots are disabled by Radiation.
Radiation will mess with electronics. Im not sure of the terminology for the process.
High Voltage magnetic field can throw off electronics as well.
W ' sure the illustrations were taken into account as well as when building new circuits...you now m experience a more durable...
This would the first sign of a nuclear attack. Everything electrical will go dead. They call it an electromagnetic pulse or an EMP. When an air strike takes place, we won't know it outside of our electronics being suddenly disabled.
@@tristezzalamentoluciano265 Next time my phone battery dies, I'll assume the worst ☢️💀
Alexei Ananenko, Boris Baranov and Valeri Bezpalov was the names of the 3 volunteers.
Lip bEzpalov*
@@koala.justakoala4287 thank you.
Two of them are still alive
Ashen one how do you know?
@@exmachina3426 True, there's not much information though, but it looks like one of them died in 2005, others are still alive and one of them even works at the Chernobyl power station today (the station is shut down but there is a lot of maintenance work exist).
Incredible and gut wrenching footage. Thanks for uploading.
These *MEN* were dealing with something that has never occurred on this planet before...
men*
The sad part is that it had happened before at Mayak with the Kyshtym disaster in 1957, but that was, of course, completely covered up by the USSR.
Fei Li MEN caused the problem.
@@centfifty8127 stfu
@@skyhager5953 same thing didnt happen lol it was completely diffrente
Bio-Robots, Such a horrific term. The thing that makes it so apt and so horrific is that the word robot is of Czech origin Robota meaning Enforced labour/slave.
Mr Karel Capek's "R.U.R (Rossum's Universal Robots)"
It’s like they’re not even humans
Thank you for writting this! I'm czech and it always annoys me when foreign people dont know the real meaning of the word.
George Devol
In 1954 George Devol invented the first digitally operated and a programmable robot called the Unimate. In 1956, Devol and his partner Joseph Engelberger formed the world's first robot company. In 1961, the first industrial robot, Unimate, went online in a General Motors automobile factory in New Jersey.
@@sarahk7232 they were humans, actually it was men who again stepped in saving others lives!
No wild screaming Feminazis engaged in saving the world?
Unbelievable!
Ever since I started seeing UA-cam videos on Chernobyl because of the HBO series (although I knew about it prior to the series), the UA-cam recommendation is full of Chernobyl videos. The series is amazing and really does a wonderful job at capturing a frighting atmosphere for the incident. I didn't know there were sacrifices and this series deserves praise for its effort to show what the people went through with this incident which I think many people don't know much about.
We older fucks know. We were actually - almost - there.
You are the clueless schoolkid.
This information has been available for free since ages...
22:02 monumental moment, graphite was transported with hands.
It's horrible.
A question from my ignorance. How dangerous is graphite?
@@Bers18855 you ever smelled the tip of a pen? thats graphite, put it in your eye and you can lose it
now hold radioactive graphite in your hand, burning radioactive graphite and you will lose your life
@@Bers18855 Graphite in this situation is dangerous due to the fact that it was in the center of the reactor, rods with nuclear fuel were located between the graphite blocks, so after the explosion this graphite became incredibly radioactive.
@@Y4WNOk, thanks for answering, I didn't know that.
I remember that in that period of time, I was working for an Avionics Maintenance squadron for B52 bombers, We had to deal with nuclear payloads, prepare secret briefs on unit readiness reports. They brought us into a room and showed us classified video and photos of this disaster. It shook us. We give great honor to those who sacrificed to save so many lives.
I'm an anti-smoker. But if I'd find myself at a work like this, I too would light one at the first ocasion.
that just makes you a non-smoker
yawn.no one cares tough guy
@Fella Caligula true that man i hate people like him fucking swab
@Fella Caligula Who? Me?
Cigar gives cancer, pls don't smoke
They were dealing with something, that has never occurred on this planet before....
What did they do
heHe?he - the Chernobyl disaster...
What comrade? It's only 3.6 roentgen, from the feed water. Not great, not terrible.
@@ausaskar yeah... "one xray"
“Gurkha, flying a swift and powerful vimana
hurled a single projectile charged with the power
of the Universe. An incandescent column of
smoke and flame, as bright as ten thousand suns, rose with
all its splendor.
It was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic
messenger of death, which reduced to ashes the entire race
of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.
The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable.
Hair and nails fell out; Pottery broke without apparent cause,
and the birds turned white.
…After a few hours all foodstuffs were infected…
…to escape from this fire the soldiers threw
themselves in streams to wash themselves and their
equipment.” - The Mahabharata, a several thousand years old indian text.
did it really never occur before?
The accountability and responsibilities all these volunteers gave to this situation is an echo of humanity. Something our governments clearly have forgotten about as they just played the blame game and left it to civilians. This is our world and it's up to us to do the best we can to learn from and fix our mistakes.
10:38 - Always gives me chills
I remember watching it 6 years ago and wondering how scary it is - to run from an enemy you can't see, hear, smell and even feel, but it kills you on microscopic level cell by cell.
Ironically, you're more right than you may realise. Smokers are exposed to 160,000 microsieverts more radiation annually than the average person, because the tobacco contains radioactive elements such as Radium and Polonium. For comparison a US radiation worker is allowed to receive a max of 50,000 microsieverts annually. The dose from the radioactive elements found naturally in Tobacco is 1000X higher than what you would get from exposure to the radioactive Ceasium-137 that was absorbed by leaves after the Chernobyl disaster.
Drinking self made booze in a highly radioactive environment: "To your health!"
#goals
Only in Russia
At the time, and to some extent still (among stupid people), it was widely believed that vodka cured radiation. It "flushed the system", probably because you sweated and pissed more.
Naturally despite being known to be bullshit this theory was encouraged by the Soviet government, since it allowed them to skimp on radiation safety measures while pointlessly improving morale. It's always easier to ride into hell with a good buzz on.
Nostrovia
@@orangejoe204 It was pretty much guaranteed death to anyone who worked on cleaning it up on site. If they hadnt it would have spread contamination to this day. Guessing they were fully aware of the risks and that death was inevitable. Fake hope better than nothing i guess.
I am so glad these unsung heroes are finally having their story told. The bravest and most selfless of men.
As an American Army veteran I would gladly raise a glass to these brave Soviet veterans who dedicated their lives to save us all
Well, you've got Alex Jones as your profile pic, so we all know you'd raise a glass to Putin on any day that ends in "y" anyway.
@@mangos2888 I bet those who have a Biden's pic as their profile usually raise a glass to the children and how cute they are.
@Denis Palchak No, that's qanon and christians who do that
@@sturmx96pretty sure that's trump walking into underage pageant changing rooms actually
Мне как человеку который живет за 140 километров от Чернобыля. Очень интересно читать мнения людей которые живут на другом конце планеты Земля. 🌍🙂
God bless these poor souls, hero is not the word, they were angels
saved hundreds of millions of lives. god knows what could have happened.
" "the heroes who saved the world" the newspapers would write in a
pathetic manner. a few years later the heroes will no longer be
remembered, and then they will be completely forgotten.." Salute Heroes
Of Chernobyl .I will never forget them !!!
The more I learned about Chernobyl, the more intriguing it became, so much so that I have just returned after doing a private tour of the zone.
"the Chernobyl claw" was just incredible, the bottom claws still measure 451.25 μSv microsievert per hour, 33 years after the disaster.
The men in this film are remarkable, the saved hundreds of thousands of lives and allowed 99.9% of Europe still to be habitable.
To the 991 dislikes to this film, you have no heart, no soul, no respect and no place on this earth, go back to your pit of darkness.
It's more like 40 microsievert, which is like 4 dental x rays over an hour. That's from a measurement in the middle though, I haven't seen a reputable source for what the actual radiation at the tips of the claws are. Much higher than 40, no doubt.
damn, no soul for a dislike? radical af
Ehmm..Could you not say the same about you...Are you not showing no heart yourself ????
Andrew you have no authority to speak on the dislikers. Zero. You are telling people they have no place on this earth? Laughable. Look in the mirror.
@@REALBanannaman exactly no place on earth
Thank you for this precious clips. Thanks for saving others 🙏🙏🙏
More dangerous than Afghanistan AND Iraq COMBINED. Much more likely to kill you or at least disable you. These men are true heroes and their sacrifice should not be forgotten.
what's with the war comparison? are you stupid? Also this is the Soviet Union I seriously doubt that they volountered
Cc Cro Napravili su sranje i neko je to morao da počisti. Da li bi ti u tim uslovima (uvjetima) i u to vreme odbio taj posao? Ja ne bih.
Rej Komfort ne bis odbio ici u radioaktivno podrucje di znas da ces 100% umrijet u roku od 5 godina? ja bih rado odbio
Cc Cro Pa neki od tih biorobota ili likvidatora su još uvek živi a oni nesrećni su uglavnom umirali od srčanog udara, što je posledica stresa a ne radioktivnosti. Neko je morao to sranje počistiti. Nije bilo izbora. Možda je trebalo poštedeti mlađe ljude (one između 20 do 30 god.) a slati starije što su kasnije i činili kada su shvatili (priznali sami sebi) da je radioaktivnost na krovu preko 10.000 R/h (što je astronomski mnogo).
Cc Cro I'm sure you are the first one to run away if you were there.
My first to third grade teacher's husband (1991-1993) was one of the 3828
Tell us more!
He is a hero.
Rip
That's how soldiers serve their country, not by invading Libya, Iraq, Syria....
Correct
Death to islam
@@deplorablepatriot8697 death to Zionist