Chernobyl Ep.1

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WHAT IS THE COST OF LIES?
The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
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[@davidmichaelson1092]

A friend of mine I worked with at UCLA was from Minsk. He was in Minsk when this happened. He died from a very rare form of thyroid cancer that is fairly common among people exposed to the radiation from Chernobyl. He was killed by this event eventually.

[@kyleshockley1573]

_"It was the same with criminal activity as it was with malaria. It was simply announced one day that it no longer existed in our country, and from then on it became impossible to treat it or even to diagnose it."_

[@kyleshockley1573]

_"...Once in 1946 on a summer evening in the minicamp at the Kaluga Gates in Moscow, a thief lay stomach-down on the windowsill of the third floor and in a loud voice began to sing one thieves’ song after another. His songs carried easily over the gatehouse and barbed wire and could be heard out on the sidewalks of Bolshaya Kaluga Street, at the trolleybus stop there, and also in the nearby section of Neskuchny Park. These songs glorified the “easy life’-of murder, burglary, assault. And not only did none of the jailers, instructors, or guards on watch interfere with him, but it didn’t even occur to anyone to shout at him. This propaganda of the thieves’ views, it seemed, in no way contradicted the structure of our lives or threatened it. I sat there in the compound and thought: What would happen if at this moment I were to climb up to the third floor and from the same window in as loud a voice sang something about the fate of the Russian POW, such as “Where Are You, Where Are You?,” a song I had heard in counterintelligence headquarters at the front? Or what if I myself had composed something on the fate of the humiliated and trampled front-line soldier? What an uproar there would have been! How fast they would have come running! And right in all that hustle and bustle they would have run up the fire ladder to get me, not waiting until I was surrounded. They would have gagged me, tied my hands, and pasted a second term on me! Yet the thief went right on singing, and the free Muscovites listened-as if that were the most ordinary thing in the world. "_

[@hebijirik]

What seems to confuse younger people and especially westerners seems to me is that they have little idea what it was like if you were brought up in the Soviet Union (or its satelites like here in CZ). You do not speak up. You do not openly question something declared by a superior. You follow orders and hope you are not in a bad place at the bad time so you would make a good scapegoat. Safety culture is impossible in such environment. Even good people will try to say that something is wrong only very carefully and only once if the superior immediately shuts them up. Combine this with the fact that they were all led to believe that getting an RBMK type reactor to blow up is physically impossible and you have everyone in that night shift more affraid of displeasing the higher ups than they are affraid of the reactor. Even Dyatlov's denial is largley a fear of having to report a problem more than a fear of the problem. You can see it in that meeting room where he tries to do a little blame shifting immediately with the "...ran the test exactly as chief engineer Fomin approved..." when starting to explain what he thinks happened. I showed this miniseries to my parents who grew up in communist Czechoslovakia (I was born 1982 so I didn't get to live through that era much). They were blown away by how accurately the hierarchy interactions, shifting blame, making sure bad things get downplayed etc. is portrayed here. They said that is exactly how it was in a communist country. I see people from the West struggle to believe it could be that way but it really was.

[@marleysmovies]

I definitely believe it, it just feels unbelievable I guess (to me) as it’s so different to what I’m used to. I am interested in it though, so I am glad you commented ☺️ I actually would love to read some historical non-fiction of this era but I just never seem to have time but I find it fascinating. Thank you for watching!

[@seanmcmurphy4744]

Great point. The attitude toward free speech in the Communist countries was almost exactly opposite to what it is in the US today. Today most of us get our information from platforms that encourage outrageous controversial speech, and completely shield influencers from any consequences for telling lies, even if they hurt people

[@nadiap.5900]

Sadly, it's true. Peace)

[@frufruJ]

Hello, fellow Czech! 🙂That's what amazed me probably the most about this series - the way how a Westerner was able to convey the atmosphere of the late Soviet Union, and the core of Russian propaganda - the biggest problem with it is that people are no longer able to recognize the truth from the lies. We see that nowadays with Russian trolls operating in CZ and other countries - they're just trying to muddy the waters so that people don't see the truth.

[@proosee]

Sadly, every year there are less and less people who remember how terrible Soviet Union was. Not so long ago under another reaction to this show I had a little argument with a youngster who thought USSR was cool and this show was just exaggerating things - it was a bit unsettling to think there are people like him.

[@cathyvickers9063]

Intense radiation is stopped only by lead. From its shape, the graphite the fireman picked up was from one of the channels the control rods pass thru. It's highly radioactive. The fireman was dressed for a thermal fire, not an exploded reactor. He wasn't wearing lead.

[@mikelautensack7351]

When governments start talking about misinformation... pay attention!

[@salto1994]

but the states doesn't make errors remember ;)

[@ivanandroniychuk8509]

My parents were married and lived 11 hours away in west part of Ukraine, with 4 kids. Chernobyl was center north part of Ukraine, kids/people in our village were loosing hair a few months after the explosion, very scary. All they said to anyone who lived there was to close your doors and windows and don’t go outside, but by that time the damage was already done. Once the Berlin Wall fell and Soviet Union collapsed, there was a very big migration in the early 90’s of people who left these surrounding countries, even more so in Ukraine, going to America. But if you are 1st generation of people who left Ukraine, you know many people who died from cancer, everyone had at least 1 or more person dying from their family because of cancer, very sad.

[@marleysmovies]

That is so sad! And yes I can imagine, they told people far too late!

[@efricha]

The story is accurate in broad strokes, only in details. The Soviet Union was really like that. They did seal off Prypiat. The smoke was added. Dylatov was really an asshole to work for, but was remorseful for his part. The suicide was not to the second and the tapes were not hidden. The firefighter and his wife's story is actually downplayed for TV it was too grim to show. Fomin was even in more denial and panic than shown. ...you get the idea. In broad strokes, accurate.

[@johngingras]

This series is incredible. The tension really builds and gives so much anxiety. The acting is great. If you hate Dyatlov now, just wait until end of the series. I was a kid when this happened, and I remember hearing about it on the news. There is a piece of news footage that they play of Peter Jennings on ABC news relaying info on the accident. I remember seeing that exact broadcast.

[@marleysmovies]

Oh no, does he get worse? 😒 …wow I can’t imagine how scary it must have been for people because I suppose it’s going into the air too isn’t it? I’m looking forward to watching the rest!

[@WaywardVet]

That hate rose for me like a wave of anger where it finally broke onto a reef of disgust.

[@captainofdunedain3993]

I was a little kid at those times. Early 90's. Ppl were talking about it was safe that drinking tea on TV. Then thousands of ppl got cancer entire northern region of Turkey.

[@marleysmovies]

😮 wow !!! That’s so scary!!! I had no idea it could spread that far!!!

[@captainofdunedain3993]

@@marleysmovies tea fields on north east part of Turkey yeah. Even the minister of Industry drank tea at the TV channels that tea is safe. What a propaganda!

[@lukebarton5075]

It spread very far indeed. Even reached us here in the UK. Welsh sheep farmers had radiation effecting their sheep for at least a couple of decades after the event.

[@philshorten3221]

There are some minor technical issues. If you visit a person suffering from radiation exposure, you will be told "stay behind the plastic" In the show, it's stated as protecting the visitor from the patient. However, the patient will have a severely damaged immune system. So you have to protect the patient from germs carried by the visitor which could be fatal to the patient. The patient, will have had any radioactive particles or dust washed off them. The patient may have breathed in, radioactive dust and this will be a source of radioactivity, however, this is now inside their lungs, acting as a shield for the visitor. An additional thin sheet of plastic will make virtually no difference at all. To protect yourself from a radioactive source, you need:- 1. Stuff, as much matter between you and the source as possible. (Lead is lots a atoms very close together, that's lots of "stuff" plastic is next to useless) 2. Distance, the inverse square law applies, so get as far away as possible. 3. Time, spend as little time as possible near the source.

[@marleysmovies]

Ooh that’s really interesting!! Thank you 😊

[@davidmichaelson1092]

Thank you. I usually point this out. There is another one later related to this one. But more on that later. I have also heard that the rapid effects to the workers in the plant was speeded up, but I don't know if that is true.

[@Gonzalo_Almendra]

Hello Marley's, How was your weekend, everything okay? Chernobyl is the best series in the history of HBO and on Max. Also in my country the series is available in all the languages ​​of the dubbing available on Max! Also that series was very critical of communism that I won't say anything about spoilers so you can see the series and reactions 😨

[@marleysmovies]

My weekend was lovely thank you! Hope yours was too? I am very intrigued about where the show is leading and enjoying it a lot so far!!! Thank you so much for watching and supporting my channel 😊

[@Gonzalo_Almendra]

@@marleysmovies I am very glad that your weekend was wonderful ☺️❤️ My weekend was very good and happy, I was at the cinema and I enjoyed the movie very much 🎞️🎥🍿

[@iKvetch558]

Here is a sort of standard comment I have posted on a lot of the reactions to this series that I come across...hope you don't mind me copy/pasting it here. One thing I will add, is that the more I learn about the history of the RBMK reactor and of the Chernobyl power plant, the more I feel that a lot of context is left out of the show, and it could have been more accurate if it had revealed some of that. This a really good series...one of the best ever made...but the producers did get some things wrong. Some things were changed intentionally for the purposes of storytelling, and the makers of the series put in a series of notes at the end of the last episode of the series explaining some of them. They also have a podcast that they put out along with the show in which they talk about other things they altered from the history and why. However, I do recommend you check out the History vs Hollywood article on Chernobyl when you are done watching the whole series, so you can find out about the other things that the producers got wrong that they do not admit to. Definitely wait until you are done with the series so you do not spoil anything for yourself.

[@johndeere4516]

Мой дядя ликвидатор аварии в Чернобыле, умер в этом году 26 апреля, в годовщину аварии.

[@charlesbarnes6912]

This one is rough to watch beautiful 😢

[@marleysmovies]

It’s really tense so far but something tells me it’s going to get a lot worse!

[@maksphoto78]

Nice to see a new reaction to this mini-series. Please keep in mind that it's a dramatisation and not a documentary. They made Dyatlov look like a complete asshole, but it wasn't like that in real life. No one that night could know that the reactor had exploded. They could look at the instruments and see that something horrible had happened and there's no water in the core, but no more than that. It was the operators' sacred duty to pump the water into the reactor no matter what, which is what they were trying to do. The two guys sent to the reactor hall couldn't get there, all they saw was rubble and twisted metal.

[@cherylsims5636]

Yes the series is Historically accurate

[@Victoratify]

The series is a complete lie from beginning to end.

[@-MeatsOfEvil-]

Why?

[@Victoratify]

@@-MeatsOfEvil- It would take too long to list all the facts of lies. It's a pity that you don't know Russian. I would then recommend you a review of this series from the Red Cynic. Although I'm thinking about finding the time to make English subtitles for it. Well, I’ll just show you a few facts offhand. At night, in secret, under the surveillance of the bloody KGB, Legasov records his words on audio tapes. Doesn't the KGB really know how to secretly bug an apartment? Are the authors of the series sure about this? Moreover, Legasov did not hide the tapes anywhere. They are in the public domain. Moreover, the film’s script in many points contradicts Legasov’s words on the audio recordings. Next, in order to hide the tapes, Legasov pretends to take out the trash. In an apartment building with a central garbage chute!!! At 2 am!!! Right under the noses of KGB agents who see nothing suspicious in this!!! Why didn't the writers go further with their wild fantasies? Legasov comes straight up to the KGB car, knocks on the window, they open the window for him and he says: guys, can you tell me how to get to the library? Because I want to read so badly that I have nowhere to hide the cassettes. Dyatlov sees pieces of hot graphite from the window (in reality this did not happen) and refuses to believe that the reactor core has been destroyed. And he behaves like a fantastic idiot. This movie character has nothing to do with the real Dyatlov. All living witnesses say and write that he was a very well-mannered, polite, but professionally erudite and very strict and demanding leader. I would like to note right away that Dyatlov conducted his own investigation and wrote the book “Chernobyl. How it Happened.” Dyatlov, unlike the movie hero, did not convince himself and everyone that everything was fine, but personally inspected the entire station after the accident and received severe radiation exposure. He subsequently died from this. The mythical "bridge of death". In fact, there was no one on this bridge because it was the dead of night. Immediately after the accident, a thorough radiation survey of Pripyat was organized. At the time of the accident, there was no radiation or radioactive ash on the bridge yet. A slight increase in background radiation began much later. But by this time the entire population of the city had been evacuated. But the screenwriters need more blood, more deaths, more suffering - after all, this is a film about the bloody Soviet Mordor.

[@Victoratify]

@@-MeatsOfEvil- It would take too long to list all the facts of lies. It's a pity that you don't know Russian. I would then recommend you a review of this series from the Red Cynic. Although I'm thinking about finding the time to make English subtitles for it. Well, I’ll just show you a few facts offhand. At night, in secret, under the surveillance of the bloody KGB, Legasov records his words on audio tapes. Doesn't the KGB really know how to secretly bug an apartment? Are the authors of the series sure about this? Moreover, Legasov did not hide the tapes anywhere. They are in the public domain. Moreover, the film’s script in many points contradicts Legasov’s words on the audio recordings. Next, in order to hide the tapes, Legasov pretends to take out the trash. In an apartment building with a central garbage chute!!! At 2 am!!! Right under the noses of KGB agents who see nothing suspicious in this!!! Why didn't the writers go further with their wild fantasies? Legasov comes straight up to the KGB car, knocks on the window, they open the window for him and he says: guys, can you tell me how to get to the library? Because I want to read so badly that I have nowhere to hide the cassettes. Dyatlov sees pieces of hot graphite from the window (in reality this did not happen) and refuses to believe that the reactor core has been destroyed. And he behaves like a fantastic idiot. This movie character has nothing to do with the real Dyatlov. All living witnesses say and write that he was a very well-mannered, polite, but professionally erudite and very strict and demanding leader. I would like to note right away that Dyatlov conducted his own investigation and wrote the book “Chernobyl. How it Happened.” Dyatlov, unlike the movie hero, did not convince himself and everyone that everything was fine, but personally inspected the entire station after the accident and received severe radiation exposure. He subsequently died from this. The mythical "bridge of death". In fact, there was no one on this bridge because it was the dead of night. Immediately after the accident, a thorough radiation survey of Pripyat was organized. At the time of the accident, there was no radiation or radioactive ash on the bridge yet. A slight increase in background radiation began much later. But by this time the entire population of the city had been evacuated. But the screenwriters need more blood, more deaths, more suffering - after all, this is a film about the bloody Soviet Mordor.

[@darirolxarniic6319]

@@-MeatsOfEvil- probably because russia good, west evil or in other words it cant be what should not be

[@Victoratify]

@@darirolxarniic6319 History will judge who is good and who is bad. But this does not change the fact that this series is a collection of myths and lies. General drunkenness of soldiers under the supervision of a huge number of officers, including dozens of generals, as well as a lot of representatives of the CPSU, senior government officials and journalists. And this also happened during the anti-alcohol campaign of 1985-1987! Yes, it's fantasy.