*CHERNOBYL* Episode 2 'Please Remain Calm' REACTION Video!

[@AffanReacts]

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[@sophiepalmer-doran344]

Based on other reactions and translations the public announcement told the people to not worry pack only what you need and head to the busses and that it is only temporar

[@charlesbarnes6912]

Gorbachev was quoted as saying that the Chernobyl disaster is what brought down the USSR.

[@boboca20]

20:03 I swear man, that Geiger counter sound it's way scarier than any horror movie I have ever seen

[@МихаилТурчин-н9д]

At Chernobyl they said was 3.6 roentgen, but in Minsk, 400 km away it was 8 MILI-roentgen

[@Zebryachok]

Regarding dramatization and manipulation... By second episode - we can say that Ulyana Khomyuk - as a character - was the personification of several dozen of all the nuclear physicists who worked for Legasov during the liquidation of the catastrophe. P.S. The untranslated recitative at the very beginning is a classic soviet poem about patriotism and sacrifice. P.P.S. Evacuation announcement - original audio recording. Therefore left without translation. For authenticity.

[@AprezaRenaldy]

18:32 1 rubel= 2usd. At this time.But because the Soviet Union's economy was not connected to the world this comparison was actually useless. In usa 1986, median income was $972,5 per month.And now median income in usa 2024 is $3.685.41 per month As reference ln the Soviet Union. Minimum wage 70 rubel per month . The factory worker's salary is 150 rubel per month. The salary of doctors and scientists is 200 rubel per month. The salary of the factory director and mayor was 300 rubel per month. And the highest is the president's (general secretary) salary of 800 rubel per month. This low salary is because Soviet very much have Lots subsidized like = Free house , Free health care, Free education up to college ,free child care, Paid maternity leave, Pay parental leave.Large subsidies on public transport and bread . bus ticket 5 cents and 1kg/2,2lb bread only 10cents.Telephone calls within one district are also free of charge.

[@GeraldH-ln4dv]

One thing the show gets wrong is the idea that people can be radioactive. Once they have been thoroughly washed and their contaminated clothing removed they are no longer a danger. Radioactive particles that have inhaled or ingested will only harm them, from the inside. At the time most people didn't know that, including many doctors and nurses. The people evacuated from Pripyat and other nearby towns were mistreated by people in the areas they were sent, because of this belief that they were dangerous.

[@jlerrickson]

That's something a little confusing about the show: it reflects the general knowledge and beliefs of the time of the accident. It's great for putting you in the mindset of the people at the time, but terrible for education.

[@GeraldH-ln4dv]

@@jlerrickson Good point.

[@iKvetch558]

However, if a person is subjected to a high enough immediate dose, it is possible for their bones to become radioactive...at least that is what I have seen reported. So the makers of the show may not be entirely wrong, because it is possible that some of the firefighters and plant workers may have received dosages high enough for them to be actually dangerous to somebody else. The whole presentation of those elements is very unclear and easy to misunderstand, and you are definitely correct about the way people mistreated the evacuees.

[@GeraldH-ln4dv]

@@iKvetch558 But most of that radioactivity won't make it out of their bodies. By far the most common form of radiation from isotope (radionuclide is another word for it) decay is beta radiation. That is just a high energy electron (or positron). Beta radiation can only pass through a few layers of skin and won't make it out of the affected person's body. The second most common is gamma radiation which is extremely high energy photons. This can pass through several feet of lead shielding, but the amount coming from someone exposed to an acute dose of radiation would be undetectable against the normal background radiation we all receive constantly. The other types of radiation from radioactive decay are not a consideration. Alpha radiation is a particle composed of 2 protons and 2 neutrons, basically the nucleus of a helium atom with no electrons. An alpha particle can't even pass through a sheet of paper. All of its damage will be internal. Neutron radiation is high energy neutrons which are unlikely to strike other atoms. This is why we need to use moderators in nuclear reactors to slow (decrease the energy) of fast neutrons so they will strike other atoms and release more neutrons for the chain reaction. The last type of radiation and very rare is neutrinos, which don't interact with matter at all (there is an extremely small chance to interact statistically. It takes a detector the size of several football fields to detect neutrinos.) We are all radioactive to this minimal extent naturally. Our bodies contain lots of carbon and all carbon contains a small percentage of radioactive carbon-14. Which is what allows carbon-14 dating to be used on all living things. We also have lots of potassium and so our bodies contain small amounts of potassium-40, a radioactive isotope of potassium. Several other elements in our bodies are similar. The increased internal radioactivity inside a person with an acute exposure is basically undetectable against our normal amount.

[@iKvetch558]

@@GeraldH-ln4dv True...relatively little of the radiation leaves their body, but it is enough to expose someone to a health risk if they spend too much time with that irradiated person. Also, if the irradiated person coughs or sneezes or excretes or secretes in almost any way, that substance coming out of them would be much more radioactive. Just wanted to add a little more context to the discussion.

[@Scotdod24]

I remember when this happened. I was 15 and living in Scotland. My parents made my sister and i stay indoors for a month when we weren't in school even though they said there was no danger for us in our country..

[@iKvetch558]

At 5:26, "that one who was ready to listen" was playing Mikhail Gorbachev...just so you know. In this episode, there were a few things the makers of the show changed for various reasons. For one thing, the character who said that they should close off the city in the first episode and is evacuated in this one, did not exist...he was added for dramatic purposes. Also, the helicopter crash did not happen so soon after the explosion...it really happened months later in October, 1986, and had little to do with radiation. As I mentioned in my comment to episode 1, once you are done with the series, the History vs Hollywood article on the show is a must read.

[@myphone4590]

You just camp these to discredit it, don't you? The makers did a podcast about each episode, which is here on youtube on hbo's channel. They comment on their own dramatizations and why they did them, that's way better than some random third party "trust me bro, I know better than the people who did it because my show us by ME." Sigh...

[@iKvetch558]

@@myphone4590 YT sends them to me, so I post on them...not my fault that YT's algos love to create feedback loops and bubbles. Plus, my comments support the channel, so there is an extra benefit to the creator from my posts. And not everyone has time to listen to the whole series of podcasts...so I let them know about a quick and easy to read article where they can get a somewhat similar block of information about the things the producers may not have gotten right in the show. I do not shit talk the show, and I recognize that it is one of the best TV series ever made, whether based on history or not. History vs Hollywood also does not shit talk the show, and covers a lot of the stuff that the producers got right and not just the stuff they got wrong.

[@DavidMacDowellBlue]

03:50 In episode 1 the phone lines to Chernobyl were cut. That is why she cannot get through. 04:11 Gloves would have made zero difference. These are health care workers who are immediately acting to save lives, putting their own lives in danger. This is admirable, especially since anti-radiation gear was rare and expensive. Still is. 07:44 Boris operates in the upper reaches of the Soviet government, and his instincts are honed to those power games. But--he is far from unintelligent and he LISTENS very carefully. This becomes more and more obvious with every episode. 10:12 That officer was a veteran of Stalingrad. He did not scare easily. 11:21 Interestingly, this show defames Dyatlov quite a bit. He was not at all the obnoxious, cruel villain he is portrayed as. He was one of the first who realized the reactor had exploded, and simply sought to contain the damage. 13:27 You are correct. The helicopter blades hit something, but the entire crew died soon after from radiation poisoning. And that level of radiation can indeed interfere with electronics, shredding circuits the same way it does to DNA. 15:43 Boris has a problem--he has to justify everything he does to his superiors. 18:39 400 rupels is enough to buy a high end automobile. 19:07 These series is telling the stories of HEROES, thousands and thousands and thousands of them. Most of the characters we meet will be heroes worthy of the highest awards of valor.

[@theirishslyeyes]

Looking at the poster over your shoulder, "Hakuna Matata"- this show is the opposite, it means, all of the stress for the rest of your days!

[@Usernamenottaken2k]

Jared Harris is such a good actor. That reminds me, you should watch The Expanse! It's a really good Sci-Fi TV show.

[@sophiepalmer-doran344]

Based on other reactions and translations the public announcement told the people to not worry pack only what you need and head to the busses and that it is only temporary.

[@cherylsims5636]

I wrote you long comment under episode 1. i just fond your series. The Russia translation is baiscally ""An Unpleasant level of radiation has been detected. You must lead. Take documents, medicine , food for a week."" They people never returned. The next episode is worse. They have hand cranked lights.

[@myphone4590]

milli means 1/1000th. 8 millirontgen is .008 of a rontgen.

[@Steve19055]

One tip: enjoy the show for what it is before you check for facts. Or else you might spoil something.

[@AffanReacts]

Yes that’s always how I go about it, I’ve completed the show already, so it’s all good, you can mention stuff.

[@frufruJ]

@@AffanReacts There's a little dramatization, like the fallen helicopter or the "bridge of death" or the depiction of radiation sickness as contagious, but not much propaganda. I was born on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain (though luckily not in the USSR), so I know a bit about it 🙂 What this show does best is depict the ineffectiveness of the system, and the more modern take on propaganda (which is happening in Russia now) - diffuse the truth in so many lies that people give up. That's what Legasov says, "What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all."

[@PUARockstar]

15:02 Ukraine. Chornobyl NPP is in Ukraine

[@blissfull_ignorance8454]

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was supposed to be a paradise on Earth for the workers of the world, the most perfect and the best system of governance ever existed. That is, according to the State manufactured propaganda. So why on Earth they would need any safety protocols or equipments, let alone telling people about the dangers of nuclear power? Nothing could ever go wrong in that utopian society, and even hinting so would winn you a ticket to the land of not living, sooner you were able to utter "Karl Marx".

[@aranerem5569]

Hello

[@reyk3524]

The series has nothing to do with reality at all, do not take it seriously. It is a fictional series and there is no more than 40% truth in it.