This clip-on a different channel- was the first video i saved on you tube. every year on our anniversary i wake my wife by playing it at her

0:15 to 0:20 The body language acting is absolutely breathtaking. You can literally see in his eyes the moment of realization why the rover failed. The minuet movements of the face, it’s just incredible.

Man you gotta feel for Shcherbina. I think this moment was symbolic there was no turning back. He knew he was going to die already, so he decided he didn't care what the party bosses heard him say.

OK fine I'll watch Chernobyl again.

Honestly can you inagine being a head of state to the USSR... You have whole armies of burocrats and politically appointed members of state... Gorbachev knew that the whole thing was going down even before being selected for the job, perhaps around Chernobyl crisis he really felt it...

They said the very same thing about serial killers in USSR.

Comrade, explain how an RBMK phone explodes.

They were all under so much pressure at that point that when Boris walked out dragging that phone, they might have laughed at the sight just because of its absurdity. But nobody was laughing. After that shouting match, everybody knew not to say a word, and even cracking a smile could have been dangerous.

It's almost amazing that Boris figured out what was going on instantly. He knows the game too well.

do keep in mind that telephones of the era made in the soviet union are least as durable as any modern mbt. there is a verry good reason why its not visible excatly how he managed to beat that phone to fall apart. as for the knowledge humanity has in 2024, there is no force known to even just scratch those things.

When you watch the Dolphins play calling lmfao

Magnificent, outstanding performance by Stellan Skarsgård

nevermind nuclear meltdown, boris was pissed off enough to melt stars.

Watching this in 2024 reminds me of the last 6-7 years of democrat-run media.

Better than the Hitler meme.

Microsoft support line.

Finchy! Bloody good rep!

This series was the highlight of the entirety of the history of television.

I wonder what the KGB were thinking when they heard Boris having a bigger meltdown than the reactor?

HERE AGAIN ANOTHER CRAP VID OF WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT Chernobyl

The scary thing is that this culture of distrust and lying has never gone away in Russia. Everyone lies, no one trusts each other because honesty is seen as a weakness. People lie to look better to secure promotions or to cover up failures. The surviving seamen lost in the Russian submarine Kursk could've been saved if Putin had admitted that an accident had occured and that they needed help. But no. The West was told that there was nothing wrong and everything was under control. By the time Western help was accepted and on the way, the remaining men had all died. The entire Russian society is sick to its core with distrust that poisons everything. It's what makes waging war in Ukraine with little to show for it except hundreds of thousands of dead Russian sons and fathers possible. Fear and lies.

legendary scene

Did Stellan win awards for this role? He was brilliant in this.

The Soviets didn't realize that Propaganda could only carry them so far. They relied on it too much, and their people paid the price. Funny, that the same thing is now happening here with Political Correctness, CRT, and other 'Woke' ideals that are just not possible in reality.

Chris Finch, bloody good rep

"Of all the ministers and all the deputies, the entire congregation of obedient fools, they mistakenly sent the one good man."

@0:53, it's like me when I took my modem outside and lit it on fire when I couldn't speak to my (now) wife. That was back in 2006 or 2007, good times. I told the internet provider that the modem had been damaged "beyond repair", which was a true statement.

Scenes like this helped me understand how they could mess up the invasion of Ukraine as badly as they did.

The person on the other end of the phone probably went deaf.

"we need a new phone" = "we need a new country"

lol well when you assign a man to clean up a nuclear disaster and the scientist he is sent to help tells him that they likely will all have cancer in 5 years, then that man may be a bit more honest…

Our 33rd anniversary today! I remember this song from way back! Glad I found this excellent link.

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Comes out dragging the phone. “We need a new phone.”

Shcherbina matures greatly during this narrative until he finds himself 1v1 against the faceless Bureaucracy, and finally he is pushed across the line, as they all will be in the end. And in that end, even Gorbachev is derided. Good on Boris. In a world that God gave to Satan, that is likely the best that any of us can do. Here in the US in 2024, we see the self-same malignancy growing, and those that would stand up already are far too few to count on. Would that we, the People, would value the honor of the Shcherbina's of the world in the here and now, before it becomes necessary here that so many would die so unnecessarily. This is the Evil cycle of the Species, Man against the Power that eats Freedom, and it is unchanging in Millennia of generations. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. All for the want of a phone that could truly communicate.

Reactor 4: Nothing can match my meltdown. Boris: Challenge accepted.

I remember how my father was in Europe, and my mother and parents were in Ukraine in 1986, on TV in early May we were advised (as always) to go out for the May holidays, "the sky would be clear, the sun would be warm", but no civilian in the USSR knew, which was carried through the air in those days, some got radiation poisoning, I heard those days. My dad called from Europe to Ukraine, that's how fe find out that our station in Chernobyl had exploded, the severe radioactive clouds might be over Ukraine and that we needed to go away to the village of our family friends the furthest one from the northeast direction. Watching and listening what is happening in russia now, they are still not alerted if something terrible happens, as always, nothing changed. USSR changed the name to russia

Ive always been curious if the Russians had given the Germans the correct number of 15k roentgen if it was even possible to build a robot to withstand that at the time.

Yes.

Possibly a vast right wing conspiracy against the USSR

The actor asking the director: How far do you want me to take it? The director: dude, go nuclear. The actor: I can do that. /A personal meltdown ensues.

That is the best "losing one's shit" moment I have seen in a show. Especially at 0:16 when realizes what's going on and his head is about to explode.

39 anniversary for me today. Guess what song I woke her upto

"We need a new phone..."

What is eith all these videos that didn’t have captions now all having em?

just not good enough

Puas lihatnya anaknya di manksa 😅😅😅

That might be the best "I don't give a fuck!" ever committed to film.

I watched this mini series as I went through 7 weeks of radiation to my neck and chest. I'm still kicking 5 years later (70gy). I've also been radiated twice with radioiodine which did not work (100mci and another 150mci). Plus the couple dozen CT scans and PET scans later it's a wonder I'm not glowing.

It’s our 17 wedding anniversary today. We always listen to this song. I grew up watching the Flintstones and remember this episode. Never in a million years would I have thought that this song would be what I listen to each year!