Chernobyl |

[@KatSonny]

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[@chernobyl-explorer]

Kat & Sonny React thanks guys!

[@michaelkarnerfors9545]

Hey Kat and Sonny, you might want to know: I have referred to you guys in a little Quora article on the series and how people reacted to it. www.quora.com/How-true-is-Chernobyl-2019/answer/Michael-Karnerfors

[@KatSonny]

Thank you! That article is very good! Good job 👍🏻

[@michaelkarnerfors9545]

@@KatSonny Thank you kindly. :)

[@darthken815]

@Kat & Sonny React You should also check out the article: Chernobyl Useful Notes on TVTropes.Com. Its very insightful. Ive been interested in the Chernobyl incident since I saw it on the news at the age of 4 back in 1986.

[@koppe74]

"This is our moment - to shine!" Considering the amount of radiation, probably quite literally!

[@ramiabdo5953]

Grim Reaper Incarnate right here, making puns and shit.

[@thepsion5]

I mean, the air was already shining to be fair

[@spacewalrus909]

There were some jokes among liquidators when they called guys with big doses of radiation "your grace" and "your excellency". It doesn't make sense in english but in russian these titles derived from words "light" and "shining"

[@StealthDiablo]

This whole just pisses me off, but a remarkable show.

[@LMBraun]

I think something that we have to keep in mind with the old man is that, given his apparent age in 1986 (assuming the casting is fairly accurate), he would have lived through Stalin and possiblty even the purges of the 30s. He likely has learned that following the state and keeping one's head down when not absolutely necessary is the way to stay alive, move forward, and to be rewarded, in that order. Not that it's an excuse for the choices made, but it helps to frame the mindset that would lead to that sort of decision.

[@SARGEHALO666v2]

Reason for denial: IF the core did explode, all of them are dead men walking and no one would want to accept that.

[@lapeciq]

And also they would lose their well paid jobs, privileges, reputation and essentially sentenced for prison which is not fun in Soviet Russia.

[@noi6786]

Hi guys, I know it's hard to say something after watching this episode. But If you want to know what happened that night you should understand how the Soviet Union worked in 1986. I'm from Hungary and I would like to tell some information about this. Hungary was one of the countries that belonged to the Soviet Union. Inside this area there was two conception: the communism and the socialism. It means you have to live the way what they say. From 1986 to 2019 many people died in cancer what Chernobyl caused. The official policy was that an RBMK reactor couldn't explode. The people, who live in this area in Belorussia, Ukrain, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia , Lituania don't know they have no idea what happened that night. My grand-grand father died in cancer because when the radioactive clouds arrived at Hungary, he was on the field. The Soviet Union caused number of pain and Chernobyl was one of this pain and disaster. Thanks to this series the world can know how extremely dangerous was the Soviet Union and feel the pain what they feel. Thank you to share your reaction and watching this fantastic series.

[@ragdaj]

not only that - if the core did explode, there is nothing, they can do. So there is sense just to check other options, where they can do something.

[@snetmotnosrorb3946]

The level of ignorance was huge. Even among Western scientists and engineers many believed that there could be no such thing as a meltdown before the Three Mile Island, and even then many believed there could be no explosion. There is not one design flaw in RBMKs, the whole concept is inherently unstable. The benefit is that it can use very lowly enriched uranium. Thanks to EU, Lithuania's RBMKs was shutdown. The site was actually used for filming this series. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignalina_Nuclear_Power_Plant

[@malslslb5394]

You guys should keep in mind, that we are judging these people’s actions from the position of modern age and modern understanding of radiation and much of this understanding came after Chernobyl disaster. Back then those people were told that the roof of the power plant is on fire and they didn’t know enough to understand the horror of the situation. That lack of information costed so many lives and influenced actions of many people, who thought that there loved ones were just burnt by normal fire. Of course, scientists understood, but the fact that government did’t explain the situation to people (even not telling all the horrifying detailes to avoid panic) really is the reason why so many lives were doomed.

[@KatSonny]

Оксана Курбанова Thank you, you are absolutely right. We actually had about this in our "Theory of Science and Ethics" course (I have no idea what it is called in english) at the university, how we read so much of our current knowledge into a time where the knowledge was very limited. We have learnt a lot since, of course, but I still think there was some serious catastrophical management issues and safety violations that cannot be defended by lack of knowledge. / Kat

[@danielmarshall4587]

Yes good points. Also there was, I believe a fundamental flaw in the design of the reactor, that led to the "problem" as it began to over heat it went into a kind of runaway state, and this was kept secret even from the people who worked at nuclear plants. However as you point out the Soviet system at that time was a different world. To my knowledge everyone was brought up to think a certain way, sad sad time. As someone who lives in the UK I am indebt to the people... the "rank and file" (as we say here) who were there at the time and did what they did to stop this being far worse.

[@KatSonny]

@@danielmarshall4587 Yes! I won't go into detail about what lead to the whole explosion, because I don't know if it will be explained in the later episodes, and I certainly don't want to spoil anything for anyone 😊 / Kat

[@danielmarshall4587]

Thank you, also your comments about the show being in English and not the local language with subtitles I feel is a good point. Sadly the producers need to be able to sell the show to a wide audience.... who I fear are largely English speaking, AND lazy, I include myself into that group... But every success and happiness to you both, and thank you again.

[@ella_komiya]

Daniel Marshall - Listen to the HBO podcast. It explained the producers, director and creator all made a decision after the first lot of auditions to not have accents or languages because of over acting the accent and it would lose the audience (which you pointed out). The actors would be able to be more passionate when speaking in their native accent. Plus as the video states it was made for the western audience, it is HBO (American) and Sky (British) after all. It’s just the case of the internet which allows people from all over the world to watch these shows.

[@КирилЦанков-в2з]

The communist government of my country kept the Chernobyl disaster a secret from the people for over a month after the explosion. Watching this series was hard for many of us in former communist countries.

[@murciadoxial8056]

The worst part is that they could have been completely open about it, not keep any secrets, and they would have had to take pretty much the same steps they took to fix it, the evacuation of the towns around the reactor, the killing of the animals, sending all of those men to masha to clean up the debris... Truly horrible indeed.

[@КирилЦанков-в2з]

@@moccamocca2136 I'm not Russian, and I'm not talking about Russia. My parents were on a Communist manifestation on the 24th of May when famously "radiation rain" poured over their unsuspecting heads. The government informed the public of the radiation threat in the next few days.

[@Andizu1]

@@murciadoxial8056 based on what people know if they would've shared the the news with the nuclear community they could've evacuated Pripyat much sooner and urge others to take preventive measures. The outcome would have been much different. The sarcophagus would have been built sooner so there would've been less radiation poisoning the land. Less 'chernobyl children'.

[@zzip0]

@@КирилЦанков-в2з I was on that same manifestation under the rain. In Bulgaria we were just incredibly lucky that the wind was not in our direction and the radioactive cloud passed all around Europe counter-clockwise before reaching Bulgaria. Nevertheless one of my first girlfriends passed away from leukemia at the age 16 few months later. Couple of my friends have issues with thyroid to this day. I am now almost 50 and hope very much this has not hit me....

[@user-qj9en1kp1m]

My mom was 21 at the time. Living in Romania, she told me that it was mandatory to take iodine after they learned about the disaster.

[@florianfrueh3282]

"he hung himself" "oh poor kitty" ....priorities

[@TheFlowerofSpades]

florian frueh LMAO

[@katyb6979]

florian frueh As a slave to two cats, I was happy that he put loads of food and water out for the cat. Tbh my first reaction, after omg he's hung himself, was the cat had lost its human 😿

[@itsokay2606]

Kathryn Bell did you watch following episodes?

[@florianfrueh3282]

@@katyb6979 well i read the story and he had to apear at some place the enxt day so they would have wonderd where he is...so i would say the cat wouldnt be that hungry before he or she was found.

[@katyb6979]

florian frueh From what I understand of the actual story, he hung himself to make a point, and to make the powers that be actually take some action, because he was frustrated by their lack of progress. However, in real life he had a wife and two children, that aren't included in this series.

[@6simser6]

'If I heard a powerplant was on fire' -'And they worked with radioactivity...' 'Yeah I would just get the fuck out of there'. But that's the thing. They didn't know. They stood on the bridge of death (that's how it's called), to look at the fire cuz it had pretty lights'. Thats the most horrible part for me. People got themselves killed without knowing at that time. Like that could happen again....

[@Jay-ln1co]

Fun fact, the guy asking for the cigarette survived.

[@olegpetrovskiy4874]

Yes, but he died from cancer in early 2000's when he was only 48

[@ILaunchNukes]

That guy who was hemorrhaging from his leg?

[@marcusc9931]

@@ILaunchNukes yes. The door shielded his torso, so he still had some working kidneys at least

[@ok-jt1ts]

He is Sasha yovchenco I think

[@pramathkelkar7230]

@@ok-jt1ts yea

[@mariosvos7323]

I was a little boy in Greece when Chernobyl explosion happened. I remember that eating vegetables and drinking milk was forbidden for quite a lot of time and in the kindergardens and schools the teachers were keeping us inside the buildings, not letting us to play outside. Also all the population was advised to avoid rain cause it could have been acid rain. If these measures were taken in my country which is thousands of Kms away, I can`t imagine the consequences of this catastrophe in Ukraine, Belarus and the neighbouring countries...

[@TheNismo777]

Cloud came as far as Sweden & Finland. Even today you can find radiation from the mushrooms and berries at forests here in Finland. Its gonna be around long after all the living is gone from this planet :]

[@jari2018]

In sweden we didnt do s h i t e ,nothing -it were same freedom a with the corona now -if you die its up to you....

[@fai-pe7oq]

*Man’s face is melting off* Soviet Union: It’s not good, but it’s not terrible. No different than an x-ray. Radiation: *Am I a joke to you?*

[@ramiabdo5953]

In Soviet Union, radiation upgrades you!

[@theflame5919]

Ха-ха-ха Кайф! Точно

[@ЕгорКапырин-л2ю]

Don't stop memeing! Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon! like it

[@shlepkovac3759]

You surely never had and x-ray in soviet union. Face melting just a minor drawback

[@raven22at]

Just 3.6 roentgens

[@TNTales]

The really disturbing moment with Dyatlov is in the beginning when he's looking out the window after the explosion. He's looking out the broken window and there is graphite on the ground.

[@epheusikay]

Regarding the accents, Craig Mazin (the creator) explained in the podcast that they started finding actors that could do good Russian accents, but after many many readings, he realized that people were acting the accents, not the character. So he then switched and tried having them speak in their own native tongue and it came out much much more organic and fluid. I personally found this to be a great idea. I did not feel like they broke any illusion. I felt like I was right there in Pripyat during the explosion. They paid SOOOOO much attention to detail regarding everything else. The environment was totally authentic. Every tile, every miscellaneous item, wallpaper, machinery, vehicle, article of clothing, etc.

[@lucianaromulus1408]

Exactly, I just interpret it like it's my native tongue and sounds no different

[@NativeSonDC]

"We need to start making our way to the roof." Reaction: no no no no no no no no no no no no

[@ancientloredude]

I remember watching the news about Chernobyl. The Soviets were denying everything, but photos and analysts were able to see the severity. Also, the increasing radiation levels were something you couldn’t hide. The show is so well constructed. The situation gets worse but the episodes stay engaging. You will find out how bad it could’ve been if not for the courage of volunteers.

[@DanielleTinkov]

The room where they talked was a meeting of the local party committee. This is the equivalent of a city council and there ware several reasonable people, however, back in those days, seniority was important and the senior leaders decided to follow the recommendations of the plant manager and workers. It's portrayed a bit sensationalistic in the series, but to be honest, nobody suspected that the managers are lying through their teeth. They probably made a rational decision given the faulty information that was given to them.

[@elbruces]

Plus the old guy, anyone in the USSR who was old enough to have served in WWII was considered a hero and everyone listened to them.

[@staceypiper3319]

This is as scary as any horror movie

[@TheRock4ism]

it's even scarier cause it actually happened

[@jonatassilva2605]

As Nevaron said. It's worst. And Radiation is one of the worst ways to go. Depending on the dosage, you are DEAD from the moment it happened, you just don't know it yet!

[@Hodoss]

It turns you into a real life zombie, rotting alive, skin turning dark blue.

[@BigKnecht]

12:10 You don't just 'quit' from a position like this in a moment like this in the soviet regime.

[@elroysez8333]

Exactly.

[@ShadowFalcon]

Although, knowing what ARS does to you, I think I'd take that bullit if it was me.

[@Zac_Frost]

@@ShadowFalcon Same. Every story I've heard about radiation poisoning is scarier than any horror movie.

[@Abrams1985]

What is amazing is that it is in large portion true to real story, except for few things that were changed because it would be difficult to present on screen... there’s HBO podcast with creator of Chernobyl series explaining artistic choices, really interesting.

[@Abrams1985]

FuranDuron who was killed in minutes? You know, collapsing is not equal to dying ;) anyway, with radiation what matters is its intensity and exposure time. And radiation spreads in straight line, like light (essentially the same thing), so if you are partially covered from the reactor core, you might receive different dose, only from radioactive debris for instance.

[@GabrielNicho]

Dude, tons was changed, series is quite ridiculous.

[@Zac_Frost]

@@GabrielNicho Many people who lived through it have noted how surprisingly accurate it was.

[@GabrielNicho]

@@Zac_Frost Ehh no lol. They all said it was ridiculous. The firemen said it was an american western. The miners stated they were all volunteers etc.

[@Zac_Frost]

@@GabrielNicho This is kinda far from an american western lol. The ones who have disputed it where communists in Russia who of course would dispute it. Simply because the show points out how stupid communist governments are.

[@MrTech226]

As you seen those citizens standing near the bridge man with his baby - they are doomed! That bridge in the city near Chernobyl is known as "The Death Bridge" because of heavy dosages of radiation aiming at them at full force.

[@evilchipmunk4090]

true--this is now known as the "Bridge of Death" :(

[@3Murderers]

In fact the Death Bridge is a kind of a legend. Nobody was gathering at that bridge, it was 2 a.m., everyone was either sleeping or watching the fire from their balconys. But it was a good decision to make this scene to get more drama.

[@evilchipmunk4090]

@@3Murderers Many people were awakened by a minor explosion--they were KEPT awake by sirens that rang through the city for HOURS! Some of them went to a bridge over a railroad to see, because the clearing of trees gave them their best view of a "fire" in the distance. The explosion happened, and countless heroes kept it from being worse than it ultimately was. But the bridge happened, and several families died because they wanted to see better. Pretending that it didn't happen does not make this historic and tragic event any less sad than it already is/was/will be.

[@GabrielNicho]

@@3Murderers No, ppl were gathering, but the death thing is a legend. The only one that died early from that gathering was the baby, and she had asthma or something.

[@bloodymarvelous4790]

@@GabrielNicho Making up stuff doesn't make you cool or anything.

[@oleggeek1838]

Hello from Kiev. In 2019 we still remember about it. I was 4 wen it happen, and I had a lot of problem with my health till now. Remember about peaceful atom.

[@noelle3551]

Sorry to hear Oleg, a friend of mine from Dnipro has problems related to it also!!

[@oleggeek1838]

@@noelle3551 Kiev, Chernigov, got it all. But the status of victims on it was given, because too much aggrieved. Very much got to Belarus, the wind then blew in their direction

[@noelle3551]

@@oleggeek1838 I am very much aware of this even as far as Bryansk where a lecturer friend monitors the area even now unfortunately!! I have been hoping to visit Pripyat but my partner is Ukrainian and she will not go and I understand why! Я сподіваюся, що краще мій друг!!

[@oleggeek1838]

@@noelle3551 Thank you friend, such events have an impact on all of humanity.

[@noelle3551]

@@oleggeek1838 I hope some day HBO will take it upon itself to document the Holodomor!!

[@Toxiccc6666]

I live in eastern Europe and fortunately I didn’t live in 80’, but my parents did. They told me some stories about Chernobyl. That disaster was mainly caused by lies and propaganda of USSR.

[@mwilsonUT]

Really powerful stuff. Glad you two are reacting to this, even if it is incredibly tough viewing.

[@olegpetrovskiy4874]

Hello, guys! Thank you for your reaction. Greetings from Russia! I think, this series is not only about Chernobyl, it is more about all the ideologically-based political systems.

[@weisthor0815]

the man who held the door actually survived until 2008. the other three who went through the door (yes, three) died fast. all the firefighters were dead within weeks.

[@KateDenthimamai]

The guy who held the door survived but he had major health problems throughout his life, for example he had to have skin grafts constantly.

[@Tortuosit]

Hodor.

[@TheTuubster]

Looks like "Chernobyl" is this generation's "The Day After".

[@Nukenado-dr9nz]

TheTuubster yes and I love it

[@nekolalia3389]

Does that make the Russian 'it wasn't that bad' production in response to the HBO series this generation's The Day After Tomorrow?

[@anufoalan]

Obviously my comment will be on the late side, but the two plant workers who had the cigarette in the rubble, Boris Stolyarchuk (guy with the glasses and moustache who was actually in the control room when the accident happened) and Aleksandr Yuchenko (the bigger guy who was holding the door) one of the few people who got extremely close to the core, survived, as a matter of fact Stolyarchuk is still alive at current time, unfortunately Yuchenko passed away in 2008 from acute leukaemia.

[@RenegadeSamurai]

The Bridge on which the people were standing is called "The bridge of death" for obvious reasons...In that Night the radiation reached up to 500 Röntgens per hour on that railway bridge and people who were standing on the Bridge to get a better look got very high levels of radiation. Many died in the aftermath, others had the "luck" to survive.

[@KaNoMikoProductions]

The aftercredits say that no one who stood on the bridge survived.

[@ashleighelizabeth5916]

@@KaNoMikoProductions that's been proven to be a myth. There have been many interviews with people who were present on that bridge in the years since that night.

[@axx27]

I was born in 1985, very close to Chernobyl. After the explosion we moved out to Saint Petersburg. I’d like to thank HBO for showing the truth, and all the brave men, who sacrificed their lives for a safer future. Rest In Peace all who passed away and long live all who survived. True heroes

[@marctheprobo655]

Do you happen to know where all those people in Pripyak were removed to? They were 50.000...

[@axx27]

Marcelo Probo mostly Kiev. We had relatives in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad) so we moved there.

[@Hodoss]

You didn't see graphite because it's not there! BLEEEERGH!

[@leemullen433]

I can’t recommend the companion podcast enough. Lots of interesting insight into the production as well as background on the incident itself.

[@Maks_Morkovkin]

The voice of operatior and one who call fireteam while you saw red text on the screen was historic record of real call.

[@invinciblecucumber]

How did you convinced Nicole Kidman to do a react with you? Great show btw!

[@john-1174]

I was thinking Deborah Ann Woll.

[@Asylum07MasterMadman]

Deborah Ann Woll and Fergal Devitt do a reaction video.

[@Saranda4787]

*Reaction

[@LampleCZ]

Your reactions were one of the best I've seen. And I hope the comments won't evolve into a shi****storm, because that what I have experienced on various forums about this series. Living in somewhat of close proximity to a nuclear powerplant, I appreciate this series enormously, because it raises awareness about nuclear power and it tries to portrait the mood, the situation and so on... And what's the most important, it's not a documentary.

[@epheusikay]

You guys *MUST* watch the accompanying podcast for each episode. The host interviews the writer of this series, Craig Mazin, and he gives an incredible amount of detail and backstory/exposition to each episode. If some of the character choices are confusing the shit out of, the answers are probably contained within the podcast. It's very entertaining.

[@mexa_t6534]

You know, they did something pretty interesting with the medical side of things. There’s a lot of inaccuracies, but this series was based on a book titled “Voices of Chernobyl”, which was based around real people’s experiences with the event. So back in those times, people believed a lot of things that happen on this series (accurate or not) were actual effects of radiation. The guy that suddenly started bleeding? That doesn’t actually happen, but people thought it did. Same as with people being permanently contaminated; once their clothes are removed and they’re thoroughly washed, they’re completely safe to be around, but then again, people didn’t know. I know some people that have actually bashed the series for those inaccuracies, but that’s the point, they’re based around people’s fears and beliefs of the effects of radiation that weren’t fully understood at the time.

[@kingbrutusxxvi]

Hey, guys. Interesting (maybe) fact but I watched a documentary about the boxing Klitschko brothers a year or two ago and they spent quite a bit of time talking about Chernobyl. Their father was a Soviet Air Force General and, after the disaster, he was one of the people in charge of the cleanup. Vladimir talked about how his father sent the family away from the site to protect them because he knew the Soviets were lying about the aftermath and the radiation levels. Their father later died of cancer. Very sad. On that note, have a great weekend. ;-) Cheers.

[@rx7dude2006]

I watched the same documentary, my favorite boxers and yes very sad for their father.

[@wysiwyg2006]

That scene where they look into the destroyed core is still insane and I watched it over 5 times. The sound design and effects highlight the power the radiation the pure hell

[@all_things_history_9115]

-"He's in shock. Get him out of here" -"the lid is off! the stack is burning i saw it" -"comrade perevonchecko what youre saying is physically impossible" *Hes delusional*

[@lxFacexl545]

the first 15 seconds of this vid are the only time Kat smiles throughout all 5 episode reviews LOL. The rest of the way is pure Chernobyl doom.

[@marcquestenberg8385]

I live in Saxony and with us is the food of meat of wild boar only after control allowed. In Bavaria is still forbidden in some areas the eating of mushrooms

[@bubithebear3690]

7:26 Thats all good, but under the soviet regime, it was forbidden to think, it was forbidden to say what is not "official".

[@Grottgreta]

The people watching from the bridge all died. To this day it is called the Bridge of Death

[@michaelkarnerfors9545]

The Bridge of Death is a myth. The citizens of Pripyat fared quite well because the plume went south of the town and not over it. The average dose contribution for them was 20 mSv which is the regulation limit for people working at nuclear power station. This is why Lyudmilla fared so well: she was never actually exposed to any kind of severe radiation. But when she had a miscarriage - which is much more common than people think, starting at 10% up until age 25 and then increasing pretty much linearly to 50% at age 45 - the doctors did not want to just say "Spontaneous abortions are a reality and there is nothing we can do to prevent it... sorry, but [stuff] happens". So they told her "Your child died from the radiation while protecting you".

[@evilchipmunk4090]

the looks on your faces at the end of the episode, as a bird falls from the sky! #same

[@sna1466]

What? The look of blandness, like they didn’t give a shit about what was going on on screen and just wanted the money? Yeah, that reaction face was #same. Fuck these guys.

[@evilchipmunk4090]

@@sna1466 "...just wanted the money?" What money, do you think they are getting? "Fuck these guys?" If you're going to be a troll, PLEASE at least have a sense of humor!!!

[@Alexander-tp9wy]

Soviet incompetence and paranoia is a bit exaggerated in this series. But in general, yes, it was that bad. For example, Kyshtym disaster, third worst nuclear accident in history after Chernobyl and Fukushima. It happened in 1957 but was kept secret until 1976. They just relocated people without explanation, fenced the area and made it a "nature reserve" :-)

[@letecmig]

Paranoia is definitely not exaggerated. I remember story of my Czech friend who trekked in Altai mountains in Russia in the 1980s. Beforehand he got a detailed map of the area from a west german friend. (as they knew they are not available in the USSR) In Altai,they asked some soviet policemen about directions pointing to the map and policemen were like: "you can´t have this detailed map, its state secret, you must be a spy". Friend replied ,smiling, something like:" this is a map published and sold in West Germany, how could it be a secret?" Nevertheless, they spent night at the police station until some higher ups came to their senses. The obsession with secrecy was absurd in the USSR. They even did not have telephone directory(yellow pages) to prevent ´enemies´ figuring out who lives where and recruit spies:)

[@glebkozhevnikov785]

@@letecmig i remember from childhood, that in USSR it was analog of yellow pages and it was in the city that was closed for foreigners before 1989

[@KaNoMikoProductions]

Definitely not exaggerated.

[@letecmig]

@@glebkozhevnikov785 "i remember from childhood, that in USSR it was analog of yellow pages "-I might have been wrong about this. checked this now: they published first public Moscow telephone directory in 1973, although there were just 50k copies published for a metropolis of 7+ million and they write it did not contain complete list of phone numbers: books.google.cz/books?id=63_obglArrMC&pg=PA642&lpg=PA642&dq=telephone+directory+moscow+soviet+secret&source=bl&ots=6m7WUHcVE8&sig=ACfU3U1n24p9rVyrhwff8w8-3ClI1mgk4A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjE15rp2tjiAhWB_aQKHc4RAooQ6AEwEHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=telephone%20directory%20moscow%20soviet%20secret&f=false

[@GabrielNicho]

More than a bit lol, just look at Dyatlov. Series was basically bs from start to end.

[@buxadonoff]

Just quit ? Do you guys even understand this is the soviet union ? It's not that simple. You don't simply contradict what the state says, that's why everyone's trying to blame each other and not trying to contradict what's being said.

[@Tortuosit]

Awesome choice, I was 14 when it happened. Last scene with the bird just crushed me, really depressing. Great performances by all actors! Really Really feel the itch to play Stalker again 😊

[@jpxmoz6026]

the state just wanted to keep the people dumb , the less they knew the better..so they didnt know what to react to it

[@KaNoMikoProductions]

There wasn't allowed to be a problem in the Soviet Union. There being a problem could be worse than the actual problem.

[@rx7dude2006]

There are 5 Game of Thrones actors in Chernobyl. Donald Sumpter(Maester Lewin of Winterfell),Josef Altin(Pypar or Pyp),Ralph Ineson(Dagmer, a sailor from the Iron Islands.),Michael McElhatton(who played Roose Bolton) and Laura Elphinstone(civilian mother, who is trying to save herself and her daughter from the warth of Daenerys Targaryen).

[@joshuajeremyvillaflor92]

also Jamie Sives, Jory Cassel in Got and Sitnikov here

[@berserker2.0]

6 actually, the actor who played Commander Mormont is also in the show and (SPOILER) He was one of the miner that said "Now you look like a Minister of Coal".

[@vladasm76]

The film was filmed in Lithuania in Ignalina sity.

[@woodwyrm]

>tfw you realize the horror isn't the catastrophe, but how the staff at the plant and local administration botched the handling of it >bois, I-i don't know where we are anymore!

[@lilychris811]

Hooked from the first episode ~ kept shouting at the screen "get out get out get out!!" Very intense and scary. Thanks for reacting to this!

[@patriziosailor]

Sonny's are you kidding me face, can only be matched by Kat's WTF face. You two are wonderful.

[@thestudentofficial5483]

People's knowledge about radiation back then was as much as people's knowledge about tsunami in 2004

[@elzachavira4743]

Have been watching from the start, amazing work and incredibly sad story!

[@steven03048]

If somebody wondered: The thing with "tasting metal" is triggered by radiation starting to damage the brain.

[@keithnphx63]

Excellent reactions from you two. This show is fantastic. Should be nominated for and hopefully win a bunch of awards.

[@VonRichtburg]

Thing is, back in the days most people didn't know anything about radiations. That and the fact that it was the Soviet Union.

[@buxadonoff]

They did know somethin about radiation, they just didn't think much of it. You can't know the danger if you don't know what you are seeing. The concept of something like radiation is foreign to most people. Who would know that black rock was dangerous ? That was graphite from the core itself, touching it was the equivalent of having 4 million x rays.

[@VonRichtburg]

@@buxadonoff Thing is, apart from being unaware of the potential dangers, they were also unequipped to face such an event. Firemen had no protection whatsoever, not only on site (they believed they had been called to put out an electrical fire) but also on a more general long term: their barracks had no radiological protection equipment. Hospitals of the region had no iodine, though in proximity to a nuclear power plant. And even later, during the cleaning and liquidation operations, a large majority of the personnel were not issued any protection. They had to strip the lead shielding of the power-plant to craft improvised protections. Another aspect to keep in mind is that kind of nuclear, RBMK, was "believed" to be safe and possibly the safest in term of nuclear technology. But it was only believed to be so because reports on previous incidents (Chernobyl being the ultimate outcome) had been suppressed and classified as state secrets. The Soviet Union relied on its perceived power to establish itself toward foreign powers (this was the Cold War) and one of these fields of proficiency included nuclear energy.

[@buxadonoff]

@@VonRichtburg i agree completly, they were very unprepared...

[@noone1704]

Growing up in comunist Romania just a few hundred miles away from were this happened I can say this show is so accurate in showing the comunist mentality just follow orders out of fear even if you know it's wrong!

[@mcflysdougie]

Don't believe his lies.

[@evilchipmunk4090]

@@mcflysdougie go to bed, little boy, it's late

[@patrickdunn7804]

that literally has nothing to do with communism. the USSR was never communist ever

[@genosse_dyatlov3349]

3:19 Valeri Perevozchenko 4:10 Nikolai Gorbachenko 4:28 Victor Degtyarenko 4:30 Aleksander Yuvchenko

[@psbrayshaw]

Great video guys. I just finished episode 5. Chernobyl was the best TV show I've ever seen.

[@KatSonny]

Hi guys! Just for good measure - please keep the discussions civil. We absolutely love to hear your opinions, as long as they are respectful. Any comments with either heavy political nudging or (personal) insults will be removed. Have a great day, and thank you for watching, friends ❤️

[@draganmarkovic491]

Banning free speech? :D

[@KatSonny]

Dragan Markovic No. We're just kindky asking people to think about what they want to write and then take a little bit of responsibility and treat others with respect ☺️

[@draganmarkovic491]

@@KatSonny Just joking

[@WolfPriest_Leon]

Kat, they would not speak Ukrainian there, only because it was happening in Ukraine SSR, dont forget it was a Soviet Union, people lived and worked there were from all over republics + or -, I love ukrainian language much, but not a lot of people outside central and western Ukraine know it very well, even nowadays. They would speak basic russian to understand each other, but with a lot of dialects. It is impossible to normally translate such many language colours, so creators made a good job just let the actors concentrate on their acting, saving their own accent, and there lots of english accents, and it works, it give you a feeling that people came from all over the places. Imagine how hard would be for an native english actor try to play russian (with ua, belorus, armenian and others accents), then separately clear russian, ukranian, belarusian.

[@Twiska]

I get what you are saying but the show its self is political in some regard with the way the state censored the spread of information resulting in many preventable deaths.

[@Spartanz1170]

Their is an interview of Anatoly Dyatlov on youtube where he talks about his actions and what he did that night. Its amazing he was able to tell his side of the story before dying in 1995.

[@theivory1]

This is easily one of the best mini series ever made. It looks incredible, the story is incredible, the way it was filmed is unique. It has it all. I have watched it 6 times since it's release.

[@tamarakuklinski4240]

The absolute blatant disregard for the people of Pripyat and surrounding areas is madness. Keep everything a secret no matter the cost. What an aweful government.. We have that happening in the U.S. right now.

[@hansenbee123]

Poor people on that bridge, had no idea what nuclear radiation was at the time...or how dangerous it would be... " it is beautiful " ...

[@michelmorio8026]

But there are some people living in Chernobyl; all the soldiers, physicians and technicals still there guarding and maintaining the containment zone! Prypjat, the town next to the power plant is the „wasteland place“ which is in great parts radioactive

[@Yggdrasil42]

That's true, but these days you can actually visit as a tourist. You can walk around Prypjat, even visit the control room in the power plant. The radiation dose is about the same as one x-ray per day. I've been looking at taking the trip as a three day trip out of Kiev.

[@WahajDrifter5598]

Great reaction, can't wait for episode 2..

[@KatSonny]

Thank you, we're currently working on it, as fast as we can!

[@Ne0ne]

This show is great! You really start to hate these delusional guys in charge.

[@keithnphx63]

@@D2jspOFFICIAL Yep.

[@jamesricker3997]

Gorbachev was not amused.They all got long prison sentences. A 300 billion dollars the song at Union had to spend cleaning up that mess contributed to its collapse.

[@GabrielNicho]

@@jamesricker3997 Yeah, and it wasn't even their fault lol. Dyatlov in the series is just bs. He was made a scapegoat. He didn't know about the flaws in the plants themselves.

[@StealthDiablo]

Awesome to see so many people interested in a subject that should have more awareness. Thank you for making this, I have faith it is a small step toward making humanity better.

[@sempernudus]

It gets more and more intence in next episod. And the scary part is all of it actually happened.

[@LPrussia07]

The dispatch call was real, word by word. They took the tape and placed in a series. God damn this series has respect for history

[@ErikWithakay]

I think the effects of radiation on the human body weren't as fully understood back then since something like this had never happened before. I think only nuclear physicists had an idea but maybe not the average nuclear plant worker and definitely not the average citizen. This is why the Chernobyl workers went to see the core and why the citizens of the town stayed despite there being an explosion at the plant. I hope that we as humans have learned from this and that something like this doesn't happen again. Scary stuff :O

[@Diraphe]

The physicists definitely knew due to various accidents in the past. For example the two criticality accidents that happened with the "Demon core" in 1945 and 1946.

[@rockCity777]

This was after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, after the Cuban Missile-crisis and after the fastest period of nuclear arms-race. People understood radiation, at least anyone with a second- or third-degree education. Kind of why there's Roengen-counters everywhere in the show. It's just not reasonable to expect everyone to be fully informed, even today, of *all* of the ways radiation spreads and all it's effects, since that isn't immediately useful information. Why the workers went to see the core, and why there was no immediate evacuation is explored further in the show (which is, by the way, a dramatization of real events and not exactly what happened). But it was not because they didn't think radiation was dangerous, rather they did not know what the radiation-levels actually were.

[@RachelG1979]

All those thousands of first responders had painful deaths. So sad so many were sacrificed.

[@drewtheleaf7712]

Hey stumbled onto your channel by accident, love the reactions! 😊😊😊

[@cpj83]

Kat’s insight influences her reaction and it’s great! Best, most informed reactors I watch. Thank you!

[@ЕленаПрайсс-ж3н]

Hello from Russia! Thank you for daring to watch the Chernobyl series. It was a truly terrible time. In fact, a lot of awful things in the series were not shown, and I am very glad, otherwise it would be unbearable to watch. There were even cases of mutations in animals and people. But how many diseases it brought, cancer in particular, cannot be described. After watching, I really want to wish you good health!

[@CorporateShill]

Man dies *poor kitty :(*

[@TheStruggleUK.]

Fantastic reaction guys! Can't wait to watch your next reactions 😊

[@Cnith]

First time visiting your channel --> Quickly went to check where you were from, as I heard you speak: Hej landsmænd! Looking forward to your reactions to this show.

[@KatSonny]

Hej ven! Fedt at du har fundet os 🦄

[@vanefreja86]

@@KatSonny Jep...den accent kan vi ikke helt løbe fra. Denne serie er fantastisk! Jeg blev født nogle måneder efter ulykken i august 1986. Min mor var bekymret for mig, men heldigvis boede vi langt nok væk i den rigtige retning.

[@MrSmithla]

Great to see our dear, sweet Kat back for another, just have to say it, depressing series. This whole series is, obviously, not just a cautionary tale on nuclear power but it takes an absolute sledgehammer to the Soviet system. We marveled in revulsion in ‘Why We Fight,’ for instance with how people could survive in the concentration camps system. It’s equally noteworthy and also depressingly so, how people survived the Soviet system.

[@Dan-gi6tf]

I stopped watching Dark for now because I’m sick and I don’t wanna miss anything in the show, but I really wanna watch your reactions (on Dark, but I don’t wanna get spoiled). So glad I found this reactions. This show was haunting. Great reaction as always.

[@katyb6979]

This series is by far and away the best series I have EVER watched. Even better than Killing Eve! Tragic, horrifying, terrifying because it's true and real people went through this. But compelling viewing all the same. Written, acted and produced perfectly and with immense respect to all those who died and suffered. And the undercurrent of USSR secrecy comes through loud and clear! Because of this series, I've done nothing but research and reading about Chernobyl ever since, to the point I was to go to Pripyat myself some day. Love watching people's reactions.

[@Owlmare]

Kathryn Bell My grandfather was one of the soldiers sent in to organise the cleanup operation, he survived, but 3 years or so after I was born he died from radiation induced cancer. He told my mother some of the most bone chilling stories, one of them was that they had to lower the acceptable time to only 20 seconds of full equipment exposure, not sure if true, maybe she’s missing some details, but if it is, the reason why is pretty obvious - soldiers were still dying to radiation poisoning.

[@Curtisnoctys]

This show is extremely well made! Great reaction hoping to see the rest soon

[@jannecapelle_art]

the chernobyl podcast is really good to find out more information on this, the creator of this series talks about certain things like how people back then just...didnt really know how radiation worked? like, normal everyday people? they thought, oh well its just a bit of fire and we're standing all the way over here on that bridge, its not like we're in danger here! when in fact, like half of europe was very much in danger, danger of getting radiation sickness but also being in danger of just being blown the fuck up if the people in charge didnt do the right thing, soooo...these people living near a nuclear power plant with a pretty major design flaw didnt know shit sadly.

[@liveforever141]

10:28 welcome to communist system, where only thing that matters is presenting yourself as most loyal to the party and its interests, so you could climb higher in the system no matter the cost.

[@pierreo33]

Not saying communism is any good, but isn't that the case with every ideology... the ideology may be good, humans are not.

[@mrgoob76]

what this show did in 5 episodes is that it created more horror and suspense then ANY horror movie has attempted to do in the last 40 years, and TRULY scary part.... this is reality and this REALLY happened....and humanity STILL doesn't know HOW to deal with the radioactive waste since we split the atom in 1945, 74 years later truth is ALWAYS scarier then fiction will EVER attempt to be

[@Funnysterste]

How almost everyone was deniying reality. "3.6? That is not too much." If this weren't based on real events, I would call it stupid writing, because no fictional character can be that stupid, right?

[@KatSonny]

Funnysterste Yea! And then Jared Harris' character (the effin' expert) is like "but 3.6 røntgen is significant, consider evacuating..." Yea sure, just ignore the expert 😂

[@timothygibney159]

That's because the meter only goes up to 3.6 :-)

[@Funnysterste]

@@KatSonny ø = ö

[@KatSonny]

Funnysterste Danish ö = ø

[@futuregenerationz]

Finally I get to see you 2 again. Another great series.

[@hpcrank]

The name of the "cigarette guy" who opened the door of the reactor room is Alexander Yuvchenko. He survived the Chernobyl disaster, he died in 2008.

[@ЕвгенийОрловский-ц2л]

Первая реакция прикольня. Парень: Блин жаль мужика … Баришня: Бедненькая кошечка …

[@fionn7134]

I remember Chernobyl. For a time we were not allowed to play outside in Germany at my school. No plocking flowers, berries or mushrooms was allowed. The adults were all really scared.We kids too.

[@bloodytroll9626]

You guys don't over exaggerate your reactions,you don't talk too much and your opinions are geniune. And you DON'T talk OVER the characters. Yours is the best reaction I've seen to Chernobyl.

[@Graffitisticks]

Cant wait till you get to the 4th episode!

[@TessaxMusic95]

In love with your background!! 😍

[@killuanatsume]

0:55 his sons are too have you seen IT?! The interpretation of his son in IT was amazing in the second too.

[@EduardoDiaz-mh6wo]

I was waiting for this !! Keep it going

[@AdamBorseti]

Ah, the Soviet Union.... where "not causing a panic" is infinitely more important than the truth. Under the circumstances, perhaps a panic would have saved millions of people.....

[@murciadoxial8056]

Not really, they might have saved a few hundred people from the fallout, at best, but the deaths and the damage would have been pretty much the same, not to mention that all the steps taken to handle the aftermath would have been pretty much the same either way

[@AdamBorseti]

@@murciadoxial8056 Yeah, you're right. They handled it perfectly.

[@murciadoxial8056]

@@AdamBorseti That's not what I'm saying, what I'm saying is htat the situation didn't really offer many solutions, take for example the cleaning of masha, even now we don't have the technology to create a robot that could endure 12000 roetgen, so the only option to do that cleanup is, still, using a bunch of soldiers for 90 seconds to clean it all up, by hand, the only thing the USSR could have done better is to evacuate people earlier and tell the world how bad things really were pretty early so they could handle the contamination of their air better and avoid a lot of cancer and a lot of birth defects, that's it, because a disaster like that doesn't really give you many options.

[@evilchipmunk4090]

@@murciadoxial8056 so, "Ah, the Soviet Union.... where "not causing a panic" is infinitely more important than the truth."--as stated by @Adam Borseti is correct, then?

[@AdamBorseti]

@@murciadoxial8056 okay, fair enough. I misunderstood you.

[@tamarakuklinski4240]

Is anyone else watching these episodes over and over? I am. Still enthralled by this series

[@takticus]

Honest reaction. Waiting for next video.

[@davidmarsden192]

Great video! I'm very interested to see this show now! (I recently saw a video about the making of this series, and they mentioned that they originally tried to get all of their wonderful actors to do Russian accents - but it just sounded horrible and made it come off like a farce. So they just said 'we'll stick to the British accents and hope that people will just ignore that aspect of the show when they watch.) :-) This show looks very, very intense, and I'm now even more curious to see it! Thanks for the wonderful vid!