The credits indicate Lomonosov Moscow University Library. But the screen shows Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kiev
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@johansmallberries98745 жыл бұрын
"We keep impeccable records. You can't actually SEE any of it, but trust me, it's impeccable."
@TimoRutanen3 жыл бұрын
You mean impregnable
@matthewriley78262 жыл бұрын
Yes and they’re being handled by “top men”.
@johnnymaximum38282 жыл бұрын
"the best records, people tell me they love my records"
@josephastier74212 жыл бұрын
"We have a perfect public access record for these documents. Zero"
@zdude11 Жыл бұрын
-The Vatican when asked about their library.
@illustrious15 жыл бұрын
That spooky guy that was working at the library now works for youtube.
@IvanHernandez-gx4rt5 жыл бұрын
Of course! What else can do? Only censorship!
@koboDresden5 жыл бұрын
Worse, he is an algorithm now.
@jayazathoth85304 жыл бұрын
In what is KZbin like the former Soviet Union?
@EddyTee994 жыл бұрын
I'd like to upload these videos to KZbin: "t̶o̶p̶ ̶t̶e̶n̶ ̶v̶i̶o̶l̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶f̶i̶g̶h̶t̶s̶" "b̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶e̶n̶s̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶j̶o̶k̶e̶s̶" "a̶l̶e̶x̶ ̶j̶o̶n̶e̶s̶ ̶v̶i̶d̶e̶o̶s̶" "cartoon ponies and unicorns"
@tbd-14 жыл бұрын
He's the guy who goes through all the Chernobyl videos and posts the same quotes from the show.
@Ghost88890REAL4 жыл бұрын
His face literally shows "Yeah we're hiding a lot of shit from you"
@adid.85263 жыл бұрын
More like "You and I both know this censorship is killing people, but if you complain about it, you go to jail"
@chriskelly94763 жыл бұрын
I actually thought he was helping her but trying to hide it. Letting her have that one document because he knows it's the one she's going to need. I think she knew it, too. That look on her face when she glances down at 2:12, its sort of a small smile and the 'Thank you, Comrade' sounded sincere to me.
@adid.85263 жыл бұрын
@@chriskelly9476 Just a reference to the censorship and the desperate attempts at hiding the disaster. There is no way a KGB agent knows more nuclear physics than an actual physicist.
@chriskelly94763 жыл бұрын
@@adid.8526 no, but perhaps he simply knew that something wasn't right and that negligence was a factor
@shelbynamels9733 жыл бұрын
Did he know about what had happened at Chernobyl? At what point in the timeline did this scene take place? If he was just a political commissar working in a library, how did he know which material to strike? Maybe he felt he should have crossed out the entire list, and then figured he'll toss her a few crumbs so it doesn't totally like censorship, which might have made her REALLY suspicious.
@ToolsWithAdrius5 жыл бұрын
"The KGB is a circle of accountability."
@johnkepa22405 жыл бұрын
Standard practice across all government agencies Regardless of country
@rascallyrabbit7175 жыл бұрын
Trust but verify means the opposite
@Fragindragon5 жыл бұрын
Dr. Jimes Tooper circle of lies and secrets.. this is why their is no more USSR..
@brad99564 жыл бұрын
More like a circle jerk...
@brandondaniels94713 жыл бұрын
@@brad9956 So, you'll be accountable for the circle jerk???
@Impersonal665 жыл бұрын
So basically every soviet library had its own KGB komrad sitting in a closet
@infroma67455 жыл бұрын
They're gays
@josephastier74215 жыл бұрын
@@infroma6745 Unlikely. Working for the KGB would have subjected them to additional scrutiny to get the required security clearances. Gays in the Soviet era would have had common jobs, a circle of trusted friends, and kept a low profile.
@USAF-mt1tu4 жыл бұрын
@@josephastier7421 r/wooosh
@USAF-mt1tu4 жыл бұрын
You don't have a KGB agent in your closet
@josephastier74214 жыл бұрын
@@USAF-mt1tu How would someone know? (jk, I get what you are saying)
@bbenjoe3 жыл бұрын
The guy delivers perfectly the "I hope you don't get us shot" face.
@berjaboy3 жыл бұрын
A huge university library and not a book, magazine, paper or pamphlet in sight. Just their reference cards. Now the state knows not only what's being taken out, but even what's being looked at, and by whom and for how long.
@warrenstemphly5756 Жыл бұрын
Like google and your internet searches
@matthewriley7826 Жыл бұрын
And God help you if you have an overdue item…
@ferrari2k11 ай бұрын
@@warrenstemphly5756More like the NSA.
@Flix-f6q3 ай бұрын
Same with ebook library.
@MomMom4CubsАй бұрын
@@Flix-f6qWhich so didn't exist during the dawn of dialup Internet, when these events are supposed to take place.
@pbdye16073 жыл бұрын
Gotta love how the Librarian's eyes turn into saucers when she hears "permission only," but relaxes when she's given the "permission slip" from the Central Committee.
@toomanyaccounts9 ай бұрын
it just means she will not be disappeared. the one with the permission slip is fair game
@spikespa520826 күн бұрын
If she really is working for the Central Committee , why is there any hesitation? Seems that would give her some serious clout.
@concidius13 күн бұрын
@@spikespa5208 It is why she was allowed one on the list.
@josephastier74215 жыл бұрын
Did all institutional buildings in the Soviet Union have that same sinister green paint scheme? It works great to convey feelings of utter despair.
@whynot-tomorrow_19455 жыл бұрын
Да.
@danielsand13655 жыл бұрын
I believe that type of architecture is call Brutalist. Very inviting.
@paulgarrett16225 жыл бұрын
In some places the colours have not changed.
@josephastier74215 жыл бұрын
@Lazar Živadinović I had not considered that the familiarity of those places could be comforting to some. I guess if someone were born in a prison, then were freed at a later time in their life, they might see that place with fond memories of their idyllic youth. Interesting.
@airzorne5 жыл бұрын
Yes. Communist architecture is grey concrete on the outside, green and brown in the inside. I grew up a decade after the fall of Communism before all the renovations and I can tell you every government institution looked like that.
@uditisinha3054 жыл бұрын
"Thank you comrade" "👁️👄👁️"
@vitcermak77373 жыл бұрын
this is the best acting of the typical russian state of " not sure if this guy is just creepy, or so drunk that it's a miracle he's still standing"
@qorxmazveyselov51632 жыл бұрын
👁👃👁 👄 ☝️ ssss
@Chiszle3 жыл бұрын
My favorite part of the whole series, you can come to ask the question. Was he a bad guy keeping secrets, or did he allow her that specific document because he knew that was the one that would give her the answer?
@santiagocarreno58813 жыл бұрын
It was because your momma was reading the rest of the material
@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns3 жыл бұрын
I never thought of the second part.
@SpinachLeaf3 жыл бұрын
Maybe it was a bit of both the others led to secrets probably on other facilities she didn't need to know. And the specific document he did let her have would give her the answer she wanted without revealing any more secrets/problems of the Soviet nuclear program.
@yko7873 жыл бұрын
To think that "comrade" was actually allowed to read any of the files he was guarding... Common, he is just a young tool, proud of what he is doing like a dog. It is the loyalty that is valued in secret service, not the smarts. Being too smart or curious would get you killed.
@ConnorJScholten3 жыл бұрын
Initially I thought it was the former but the later episode of her talking about the couple page retraction about the warning of the graphite tips. That made me think back to to this guy pointed her straight to the document to see the retraction and suggestion of a cover up.
@GeoffreyBronson5 жыл бұрын
People these days can wave the hammer and sickle flags, wear it on their t shirts and sing the praises of it loudly but THIS ladies and gentlemen is what the Soviet Union was like for the ordinary person. Oppressive, shadowy and frightful.
@IK-nv9yq5 жыл бұрын
been born there -to me hammer and sickle is the same as black swastika in white circle -all of these people make me sick -any utopian ideology is based on lies and hypocrisy and most important of all -as the final argument always remain barrel to the back of your head words from Gunars Astra (In 1983, he was arrested for the second time and sentenced to 7 years imprisonment. This time he was accused of possessing and distributing anti-Soviet literature, one of them being George Orwell's 1984.) final statement: "I believe that these times will disappear like a nightmare does. That gives me the strength to stand and breathe here." -these words resonate till this day and makes me wanna spit in face of anyone who rocks these symbols of mass murderers oppression and lies
@GeoffreyBronson5 жыл бұрын
@@IK-nv9yq I may be a Brit but I understand completely. Nazism wasn't the only example of human horror. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Herod...the list goes on. The cruelty of mankind is indifferent to ideology.
@joeyboedeker72055 жыл бұрын
The kids think it's "cool"
@mr.normalguy695 жыл бұрын
@@joeyboedeker7205 I don’t think millennials are "kids".
@joeyboedeker72055 жыл бұрын
@@mr.normalguy69 they are younger than me by 20 years, therefore,they are kids.
@Spartan5363 жыл бұрын
We might mock this scene today, but this was very real according to many accounts during the 1980's USSR time, especially after the Chernobyl disaster, the CCCP ordered all books relating to anything nuclear to be removed from the libraries all over the communist block. Vanity Fair actually got one of the medical personnel that was a 1st responder to Chernobyl to talk about this, and she said this scene is accurate regarding the restriction of knowledge and information, it was best for the government to decide what the people should know. Joke about this all you want, but it can happen to you if you let it.
@spectre1112 жыл бұрын
Here they don't restrict information, they just bury it under so much irrelevant nonsense that even the experts can't tell whats real and what isn't anymore.
@jhonfamo84122 жыл бұрын
It happens here in the west 2. Not the same methods but the results are similar.
@mencken8 Жыл бұрын
There is no “if,” there is only Zuul. Instead of what is shown, we have “redaction” to “protect” people. But it’s always the same thing…..
@mahguvnah7403 Жыл бұрын
It’s already happening to us in the west. Amazon censors more books today than either ww2 Germany or Cold War Soviet Union.
@SixDovahkiin Жыл бұрын
Considering what that old communist said to the council of Prypjat, when they was deciding if evacuating the city, and he insisted saying that people should be kept to ask and now things that could be against of their own interests...
@killer3000ad9 ай бұрын
The tension in this scene, the drab depressing decor of the library, the worried expression of the desk lady, the scowl of the 'comrade' who doesn't even acknowledge her 'thank you', it's all masterfully done. I've seen big budget action movies that fail to get any reaction from me with their big explosions but these short scene in Chernobyl was masterfully written and filmed.
@denysantipov18563 жыл бұрын
In case you are curious, the library shown in the series is located in Kyiv, Ukraine.
@topherh50932 жыл бұрын
But the female protagonist is completely made up no such woman existed
@piano_master_52462 жыл бұрын
probably bombed by now
@hajjdawood2 жыл бұрын
Kiev not Kyiv you shill
@RawFish2DChannel2 жыл бұрын
@@piano_master_5246 actually no
@josephastier74212 жыл бұрын
@@topherh5093 The HBO series is a dramatization of historic events, but is *not* a documentary. Those have already been made.
@hazbaska14 жыл бұрын
Goddamn that ominous music throughout this entire show had me on pins and needles... and I loved all of it
@82ghall3 жыл бұрын
X-Files feel
@RussianSevereWeatherVideos Жыл бұрын
The sound designer was recording the sounds of an actual Soviet nuclear power plant and re-mixing them to get that dark industrial vibe.
@turtlemouth3 жыл бұрын
In Soviet Russia, library checks you out.
@michaelnotigan77963 жыл бұрын
"Comrade, I know you've heard stories about us. When I hear them, even I am shocked. But we are not what people say. Yes, people are following you. People are following those people. You see them? They are following me. The KGB is a circle of accountability. Nothing more...." Comrade Charkov, Head of KGB What a paranoid, dysfunctional society.
@N4SP922 жыл бұрын
it was just the archetype of every single country nowadays, it's just that today they don't need agents following you to know where you are, who are you with, what you are doing or saying.
@spectre1112 жыл бұрын
@@N4SP92 Makes me think of Coulson on Agents of SHIELD "between Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, people are putting themselves under surveillance."
@einsteinboricua2 жыл бұрын
He tried explaining what the KGB was in a romanticized way. The problem with that “circle of accountability” is that it could get you killed even if you were right about something or uncovered a serious problem.
@nfspbarrister56812 жыл бұрын
Like USA does not do it too. :V McCarthy and Hoover rings a bell?
@David-bl6yg2 жыл бұрын
@@nfspbarrister5681 NSA and Cancel Culture too, same thing, different assholes or is it the same assholes? I can't even tell anymore
@shelbynamels9733 жыл бұрын
Watching this clip reminded me of the recently uploaded news footage of the first McDonald's opening up in Moskow in 1990. Everybody was freaking out that the employees there were being friendly, helpful and smiling. Now I know why.
@southernfriedmedia39683 жыл бұрын
the dudes face said it all...neither malevolent or compassionate this was just a job for him and he had his orders to follow
@maarekstele29982 ай бұрын
That honestly makes him scarier
@ileiad3 жыл бұрын
2:17 he looks like the kind of guy who would sell you dope, hash, mescaline, downers, and a cadillac with a pink slip on the side.
@fd01983 жыл бұрын
are you talkin' to me?
@BlaneNostalgia3 жыл бұрын
@@fd0198 "look at that"
@munrana3 жыл бұрын
I knew I couldn't be the only one who saw the similarity!! Also who'd call you a jackass if you carried a magnum in the street without a holster 🤣
@StopFlaggingVideos3 жыл бұрын
@@BlaneNostalgia isn't that a little honey?
@luisgalvan27932 жыл бұрын
Just finished to Watch taxi driver and damm you are right
@andreyvolkov98544 жыл бұрын
This is not a "political officer". Political officer is purely a military conception - it is actually an army officer that has undergone special ideological training. Guy represented here is an actual KGB officer working in so-called First Departament - part of any institution or public facility that contains sensitive information - universities, libraries, RnD and production plants, state managing facilities, etc. First Departaments were in charge of acces and distribution of such an information that requires permission level (there are three of them - third for sensitive, service only and secret info; second for abovementioned and also totally secret info; first for all abovementioned and also extremely sensitive info), and were subordinate directly to KGB instead of facility management. Fun fact: they still exist in Russia, and there is nothing basically changed in heir methods of working. In technical universities, on some programs you are granted with level 3 permission right on your admission, for example.
@The_10th_Man Жыл бұрын
I feel like the American way has worked much better, make everyone so dumb they would never even think to ask the question in the first place.
@Cinncinnatus Жыл бұрын
@@paulbarclay4114 Put down the hate speech pipe bro, ya making a fool of no-one but yourself.
@Cinncinnatus Жыл бұрын
@@paulbarclay4114 Given the fact that I dont know a single person that cant read, write or do math. Only hater, troll and source of bullshit information here, is you. And yes its hilarious you getting mad someone called you on your hate speech. 1 2 3 AAAAWWWwwwwwwwwww..... PS. I was 15 when this happened do the math...
@nongremlin1755 жыл бұрын
This isn’t the actual MSU library, but it’s equally soviet nonetheless (Moscow resident here)
@columbus8myhw3 жыл бұрын
It's not always easy to film in the places you want to film in
@nongremlin1753 жыл бұрын
@Ss B well, yeah, the current FSB is a lot softer and more discreet. We don’t really fear it in our everyday lives, unlike our grandparents did with the kgb, so it’s just a government agency like the fbi. Most of that fear has now been passed onto the lower levels of the police, like for example the national guard, whose entitled-ass officers patrol every part of the city and have the ability grab you at any time. They are especially violent when it comes to protests and rallies as they can hit women, children and anyone else in the crowd, regardless whether that person was even participating. We’re kinda used to it by now, so these guys aren’t THAT much of a problem, but life sure would be nicer without them on every damn street in the city center.
@CalebShimomura11 ай бұрын
1:22 The framing of this scene is so interesting when we meet the KGB agent. In contrast to the librarian, who looks constantly terrified, we have the faceless KGB agent. He comes in like some shadowy figure who must not be approached or even seen... like the face of God, it seems that seeing his face would mean death. He enters from off-camera, and leaves off-camera. Like some unknowable arbiter of fate, he comes and goes at his pleasure. The camera does not follow him, further reinforcing his mystery and terror-inspiring presence. The outsider professor can do naught but wait as her sentence is decided, helpless behind the plexiglass barrier. When he returns, the list is forcefully placed on the counter, the hand appearing from off-screen like the hand of God. There is mercy. Every book has been crossed off, save one. And as the librarian gets up to retrieve the book, relief apparent, the camera pans up to the KGB agent. He has a face. He is just a man. And then the camera switches to the professor. Still behind the barrier, but no longer completely shut out. Her face and torso are framed by the opening between the panels. There is still a bit of distrust, as symbolized by her right shoulder being obscured by the panel frame, but she has made her way in, just a bit. I am not a film buff, and I would never claim to be. I don't know if I've watched more than 5 films this entire year. But even I can recognize that there is some intense symbolism going on in this scene. You could probably write an essay about this scene alone without an issue. Wonderful storytelling.
@benlangham88058 ай бұрын
i never reply to comments but this is a masterful representation of this scene. underrated comment for sure.. well done
@88manta887 ай бұрын
@@benlangham8805 genius comment
@williamaperrow6363 жыл бұрын
"I'm a nuclear physicist you worked in a shoe factory." "Yes but I'm in charge. To the workers of the world."
@theproplady4 жыл бұрын
I've just noticed that this scene doesn't have that shakycam thing going on where the camera just kind of wavers. It makes the scene seem more cold and mechanical.
@ramzanladak4 жыл бұрын
"The State must protect it's secrets" - Dyatlov
@EddyTee993 жыл бұрын
Do you dare suggest otherwise? *KGB has entered the chat*
@MATomaso2 жыл бұрын
*its secrets
@ericscottstevens3 жыл бұрын
It funny he had this all crossed out in 15 seconds, a feat that is attainable when you have nothing else to do all day. Yet I think he has a whole stack of pre crossed out refusal lists ready to give to any and all library patrons.
@josephastier74212 жыл бұрын
If all you do for your entire career is cross things off of lists, you get really good at it.
@neardarkroad1347 Жыл бұрын
@@josephastier7421 kinda like students who frequently uses library. You don't even have to use the pc anymore, you knew where the shelf for the books you are searching for
@ebbaemilia83994 жыл бұрын
Just discovered that I own the exact same dress that the librarian is wearing.
@Sparky53 жыл бұрын
So do I. meh heh heh...
@josephastier74212 жыл бұрын
Not surprising. That dress was standard Soviet issue during that era, one of three outfits women could choose from. The others were a wedding dress and work coveralls.
@Vikingr4Jesus59194 жыл бұрын
That spooky guy is about as pleasant as Chernobyl itself.
@frenchsoldier84854 жыл бұрын
The KGB agent?
@Vikingr4Jesus59194 жыл бұрын
@@frenchsoldier8485 I think so.
@frenchsoldier84854 жыл бұрын
@@Vikingr4Jesus5919 That's about right
@horseradish40463 жыл бұрын
The KGB guy looks exactly like the arms dealer from Taxi Driver (1976) who sells Travis the gun
@vinitvsankhe11 ай бұрын
Not everyone understood the brilliance of the scene. At first it looks like they don't want her to have the information by striking out all the entries from the list, but the comrade actually gave her exactly what she needed by striking off irrelevant ones!! Notice the relief on her face when she says thank you in the end.
@toomanyaccounts9 ай бұрын
it means she will not be executed that day. it was a preapproved list
@KingOfOnes8 ай бұрын
What? It's not like he personally has reviewed every single book, and has a deep understanding of the current situation in Chernobyl, and put together that that book's non-redacted index would give her the necessary clue. It looks more like the officer looked through the list, cross-referenced it with a list of books that had been redacted, and allowed her the one book that they had gotten around to censoring. The point of this scene is to show how the knowledge that educated people could use to make a difference is being kept under lock and key by bored, arrogant, ignorant political officers. What I like about this scene is the setup of this officer as some sort of imposing presence, the quaver in the librarian's voice when she calls him, the camera being panned down so you just see this silent, black-suited man. You're left in suspense as to what his reaction was upon reading the list, the long seconds as he takes it behind a locked door. Then upon his return and verdict, the camera pans up to reveal a twerpy bored teenager. It shows that this opposition to freedom of knowledge isn't enforced by a grim and august organization but rather a paranoid, ignorant, and incurious one.
@toomanyaccounts8 ай бұрын
@@KingOfOnes people don't seem to understand that censurers make mistakes or are incompetent. many people don't seem to know what a index or faq is. so guess what the index wasn't redacted when it should have been
@KingOfOnes8 ай бұрын
@toomanyaccounts why are you telling me the index wasn't redacted like I was saying it was? And why are you acting like no one here knew what an index or FAQ is? How is an FAQ even relevant in this thread? Thanks for the revelation that the censurer made a mistake and forgot to redact the index, not like the show specifically stressed that exact thing.
@toomanyaccounts8 ай бұрын
@@KingOfOnes I was stating that people were creating some elaborate nonsense about the scene when the unredacted index is just reality of the banality human nature. .
@billygrey80873 жыл бұрын
That spooky guy looks like a younger version of the guys that owns twitter.
@nickheredia13413 жыл бұрын
He honestly looks like the same actor that plays Nick in Fear the Walking Dead
@rogerodle87503 жыл бұрын
Except a foot taller... and no nose ring.
@frop4652 Жыл бұрын
I agree, looks exactly like Elon Musk
@renatodias70355 жыл бұрын
Soviet Union is Matrix.
@kristinaant97475 жыл бұрын
Actually Matrix was about capitalist countries. But it was also about totalitarian so was Soviet.
@AudioAndroid3 жыл бұрын
One day GOOGLE Search engine is going to say "You can have that one"
@LeonArgent3 жыл бұрын
Google already is doing that, just that many dont notice. Look at the reform to the law they are passing in usa to limit it.
@attilathechump94583 жыл бұрын
It already does, comrade. Compare the search results on any hot-button topic with Google and another search engine, one of the smaller ones. The difference is chilling. Heck, even Bing is less biased.
@HarrisonHollers7 ай бұрын
The subtle eye movement. The emphasis on the expected eye movement. The jarring request for resources and response of only a single accommodation while the others are all denied with noticeably considered uses of strike-through. Wonderful series!
@dannyzero6923 ай бұрын
This library is so horrifying, you don’t actually get to pick a book or encyclopedia you want to read but you have to pick its name from a card. After picking the name you have to had permission to see it, the right status to see it and of course the state knows exactly what you read, when and where down to the minute.
@Vans894 жыл бұрын
480p, what is this comrad moreno? Do you even work in the central committee?
@leopardhunter994 жыл бұрын
"Hey comrade, it's me, Easy Andy! I can get you a brand new Cadillac with the pink slip for two grand!"
@musicByJake3 жыл бұрын
Underrated comment
@theTF2sniper3 жыл бұрын
Hahaha sadly i dont think many will get this reference, although as Jakery said its a very underrated comment
@cockmcsteel60833 жыл бұрын
Travis would have just said: "Not interested..."
@BlaneNostalgia3 жыл бұрын
"look at that"
@kiddankula54802 жыл бұрын
Easy anatoli
@MerleUnchained4 жыл бұрын
“Thank you, Comrade.” *Etiquette is bourgeois*
@rolimiranda9291 Жыл бұрын
2:17 me after explaining to the customer that they will not get any refund
@TheGorkLzrv4 жыл бұрын
0:01 This is the National Library of Ukraine (in Kiev)
@cromania1004 жыл бұрын
Well they obviously didn't get the filming rights for Moscow did they
@urosmarjanovic6633 жыл бұрын
@@cromania100 They could've actually do exterior shoot in Warsaw. :D :D :D
@CaptainAhab1174 жыл бұрын
Some people said that the man in this clip is supposed to be a young Putin. He was working for the KGB in East Germany at this time.
@8964TS3 жыл бұрын
This is Ukraine, not East Germany.
@82ghall5 жыл бұрын
nice place to work ..
@crimony3054 Жыл бұрын
Of the five requested, he approved the only one she needed. But, for the record, concluding that those in the Chernobyl plant hadn't seen the redacted parts is faulty, because no one who made that conclusion was cleared to know everything that a plant operator would be cleared to know. They were professors.
@MontyQueues4 жыл бұрын
there’s an ashton kutcher behind every soviet library
@MontyQueues4 жыл бұрын
@john smith eh id say he looks more like ashton than evan peters
@jemore203 жыл бұрын
I hardly notice that in a UNIVERSITY LIBRARY there are no books , only files You cannot take a book freely, you ask for it and they decide if they give it to you or not.
@wildblue-ey2gi Жыл бұрын
In a lot of ways, this reminds me of how the Vatican operates their research library (can't remember what it's called exactly). Basically, if you wish to do research on a particular item or book, you have to know exactly what item you are looking for. They don't allow you to just browse around. Even after you request said item, they may or may not allow you to have it. It is a very controlled environment with a lot of procedures.
@Wayoutthere5 жыл бұрын
Being a librarian is one thing, being one in the USSR must be a dreadfully boring existence.
@josephastier74215 жыл бұрын
Right? The whole library might have had one book.
@frenchsoldier84854 жыл бұрын
Librarians are already dreadfully bored
@davidlamb11073 жыл бұрын
@@josephastier7421 and you're not allowed to read it.
@charlessutherland2743 жыл бұрын
@@frenchsoldier8485 Actual librarian here. I've never felt bored at my job! I often have to pull double duty as a social worker and overworked cop.
@charlessutherland2743 жыл бұрын
Librarian here. I wonder what it would be like to be a librarian in the Soviet Union.
@geronimozarza84953 жыл бұрын
I know he isn't really Putin (he was an KGB agent in GDR at that time, not in Ukraine SSR), but I wonder if they wanted the actor to look like him.
@GoldenTV3 Жыл бұрын
And that is why James Madison made the first amendment the first.
@freakingabagool35102 жыл бұрын
The worst part is, this scene makes Soviet bureaucracy look like child’s play
@peterlohnes12 жыл бұрын
Whats especially sad is having someone with no qualifications deciding what someone with qualifications can see.
@akoniloki3 жыл бұрын
imagine if my university library was like this.
@dorkmax70734 жыл бұрын
I do my fair share of criticism of my country, but one must appreciate the openness of information. There is no "permission only" in a library. Hell, even the New York Public Library only has a Restricted Section for their antique books, and you can come inside if you knock politely.
@frenchsoldier84854 жыл бұрын
There are reasons for why it was like this, not good ones but they existed
@LeonArgent3 жыл бұрын
you really think that? There was a debacle when wikileaks made public what dark dealings the government was doing. That you can see all the books in your library dont mean you have free acces to information in your country. Just like this scene, you are allowed a part of it, just that the dont make it as obvious.
@chrisperrien70553 жыл бұрын
try the National Archives
@adid.85263 жыл бұрын
@@LeonArgent The fact that leaks happen is a sign you have freedom. In communist countries you would see the empty shelves, then the TV would announce the abundance of fresh produce in the markets and if you complained to anyone, chances are you'd get a visit from Stasi/KGB/etc. I'd rather take a shady government that is 24/4 under the scrutiny of the media and people rather than a shady government that doesnt allow ideas that contradict it.
@LeonArgent3 жыл бұрын
@@adid.8526 you think so? How did it go for the two dudes that leaked important information? We see leaks, yes. But when the real stuff gets under the light the government acts similiar if not exactly the same as the soviets did.
@GZA0363 жыл бұрын
looking up things in libraries used to be insane
@bezimiennyziemniak3 жыл бұрын
"Yeah, I will give you what you need, but don't expect to go abroad anytime soon".
@Afalstein Жыл бұрын
Sometimes, when people talk about how the US is a fascistic dictatorship or how we're all living in fear or some such, I think about depictions like this. It's hard for us to imagine, today, the sheer terror that even the humblest official could feel at something like this--the fear that if you screwed up in the slightest way, you could end up getting shot or tortured without even understanding why. That archives lady is absolutely terrified. Either she ticks off the rep of the central committee, or she doesn't keep the secrets properly. Or maybe she does, but the secrets end up being destructive anyway, even if she's done her job properly. She's at the mercy of someone else blaming their mistake on her.
@HeadsFullOfEyeballs Жыл бұрын
The KGB wasn't really in the business of torturing and shooting librarians in 1986. 1946, sure, but not 1986. In 1986 they're more likely to get you fired and blackballed, like they do with Legasov on the show.
@red297711 ай бұрын
I doubt she was at any risk at all. All she does is call for the guy who decides what gets turned over. She didn't have any independent say.
@shalashaska99463 жыл бұрын
If you need permission to go into a library, there's something wrong with your society
@Kontorotsui3 жыл бұрын
Well, some libraries are not open access even today (like the Vatican).
@mikehoot3978 Жыл бұрын
Welcome to communism! ☠
@dictator24265 жыл бұрын
Legend says that it was Putin at that time worked in KGB , was the young man , staring at her 😁😁
@niceguy25275 жыл бұрын
Her didn't exist. There were only men working on this at the time
@paulwartenberg84795 жыл бұрын
Putin was a librarian?! (shudders)
@jamesfrank32135 жыл бұрын
Putin was assigned to Dresden, East Germany from 1985-1990.
@ddd65165 жыл бұрын
Reckoning she was used to represent the team of scientists
@himanshu71033 жыл бұрын
She wasn't real she represent the ladies workers help in the mission
@Srfkful5 жыл бұрын
He give her look dont bother this other one, this is that you need
@nl-oc9ew Жыл бұрын
Well that guy nailed the dead eyed stare of a KGB agent.
@gianlozano1022 жыл бұрын
Wes Anderson had a rough job in the 80’s
@matthewriley78262 жыл бұрын
I’m guessing an overdue item would get you a one way ticket to the Lubyanka….
@brbrdeng9122 Жыл бұрын
Or Vorkuta.
@mssedmebich16218 ай бұрын
You sign up for the KGB and go through all the cool spy training but, end up screening access to books at the local library. No wonder he looks so depressed.
@chrisperrien70553 жыл бұрын
It is best to have your own book library already.
@patwiggins69695 жыл бұрын
James Caan going to the library in rollerball. I really don't expect most people to know what I'm talking about
@josephastier74215 жыл бұрын
Nailed it.
@HawaiiKnut3 жыл бұрын
Got something to do with Misery?
@patwiggins69693 жыл бұрын
@@HawaiiKnut nope.
@patwiggins69693 жыл бұрын
@@HawaiiKnut rollerball. The 1975 version
@ezekielbrockmann1144 жыл бұрын
Such a great actress. Really.
@shlokamsrivastava6782 Жыл бұрын
I want to go to this library now!
@goranpavlovic42895 жыл бұрын
Does anyone know the tittle of Volokov article from 1974/1975?
@mercedesCH3 жыл бұрын
That would be Vladimir P. Volkov. But i could not find a article from him about the incident at Leningrad in 1975. And i somewhat doubt there was one. Here:(www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7175960/) is stated that he wrote messages to his superiors about the design flaw. "From 1976 onwards, Vladimir Volkov, head of the reliability and safety laboratory at the Kurchatov Institute, sent numerous memoranda to his supervisors about calculation errors in the design of the RBMK, and gave suggestions for their improvement. He mentioned the positive SCRAM effect, defined as a localized increase of activity in the bottom of the core of a nuclear reactor during emergency shutdown." One article where he was one of the writers is cited often (But i could not find this one, so i have not read it): A. Ya. Kramerov, V. P. Volkov, G. I. Savvatimskii, and V. V. Gorshkov, “Analysis of loss-of-coolant accidents in nuclear power plants with RBMK-1500 reactors,” Report No. 33.471184, I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy (1984).
@goranpavlovic4289 Жыл бұрын
@@mercedesCH i dont know how i didnt see your comment, thank you for your reply. Im starting the search for the article and if i find it, ill share. Thank you for that paper you sent me
@rogerw38188 ай бұрын
Those two actors absolutely NAILED the essence of the bureaucratic system at it's most extreme.
@mencken83 жыл бұрын
Information must be protected by layers of security, because information may lead to knowledge, and knowledge may lead to the truth- and we can’t have that, now, can we?
@slevemcdichael52742 жыл бұрын
Yes, that’s why every major socialist/communist nation eliminated illiteracy and broke down all financial barriers to university education
@silvy30473 жыл бұрын
He has that look on his face all the time because his parents named him comrade
@ziggy8253Ай бұрын
“Komrad, I need to see the latest James Patterson novel.”
@andrewpiltenko9432 Жыл бұрын
0:00 this is actually Vernadsky National Library in Kiev, that's where it was filmed.
@easygoing24793 жыл бұрын
That library Committee guy in the library reminds me of Mr. Bookman, the library cop from Seinfeld (first or second season).
@sumaranggg3 жыл бұрын
is it only me that it kinda has an asmr feel to it? lol
@knutritter4613 жыл бұрын
I wonder that the person that spooky guy gave the sheet of paper to was a professional of nuclear engineering and such stuff being able to decide which info was critical and which was not.
@rufuspub3 жыл бұрын
No, this is a political officer monitoring internal activity. He would have approved and non-approved lists on hand. He would note who asked for materials and send a report to central authority. There was a similar test and failure at another power plant a few years prior to Chernobyl that was safely averted. The KGB covered it up to hide from anyone outside the USSR from knowing. The problem is it kept anyone within the USSR from knowing either. The redacted list would likely have been reports on that earlier incident. The KGB knew that the emergency shut off did not work, but hiding state secrets, even from the central committee and nuclear scientists, was more important than the people's health and safety.
@louisazraels7072 Жыл бұрын
@@rufuspub did the central comittee have power at all, was the KGB basically rogue?
@dimitrisg.45043 жыл бұрын
''If you ever try to come here again I 'll make it seem like an accident!...''
@mikeholley56623 жыл бұрын
What a sad state of life. The proud Russian people, with their tradition of true intellectualism, reduced to asking permission to read a book.
@josephastier74212 жыл бұрын
And getting denied.
@unelectedleader64943 жыл бұрын
It’s 1980s Jack Dorsey! I knew he was A. a former librarian. B. kgb
@Nighthawke70 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if the libraries at Pripyat are still there....
@USSResolute3 жыл бұрын
Even the soundtrack in the library is creepy...
@andrea_202211 ай бұрын
Konrad scared the heck out of me.
@BlackBarney2 ай бұрын
Was that Alison Janney in a cameo??
@hairytentacle39243 жыл бұрын
To be honest, "comrade" was an official appeal. In 80's it was a little too much official. One hadn't use it for an informal gratitude. Even worse, it would be bombastic and appear like a sarcasm.
@Pianoman9992 жыл бұрын
Seems like a happy place
@ericcrabtree62452 жыл бұрын
Leave it to the Soviets to take a vast repository of knowledge - then make it a place of bleakness, depression, and dread.
@vortecmob11685 жыл бұрын
is that the gun salesman from taxi driver?
@yawgmoth65685 жыл бұрын
no lol
@lanceshelton50245 жыл бұрын
He can get you a brand new Cadillac with the pink slip!
@johnnypatrick8252 Жыл бұрын
Is this a scene of a Junior High School library in Florida?
@brendonnashcaАй бұрын
Holy crap! So much effort to check out Go Dog Go.
@Antimanele1043 жыл бұрын
The guy at 2:08 looks remarkably similar to the guy who sells guns to Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver.
@MrNintoku Жыл бұрын
Would be hilarious if the most powerful person happened to be that desk clerk.
@whatsgoingon074 жыл бұрын
Is that easy Andy from the movie Taxi Driver
@MrLoew-bf2he Жыл бұрын
He like young version of no country for old men
@johnnymaximum38282 жыл бұрын
i wonder if his name is "Comrade" in the credits
@wolfenstien133 жыл бұрын
The Librarian did not tell the Information Officer that she is working for the Central Committee. It's like she had her request scrutinized after stating her benefactors.
@rickm60763 жыл бұрын
She didn’t say because the KGB outranked the central committee in reality when it came to most internal affairs. As soon as she said working for the central committee the librarian knew she didn’t have a right to see squat.
@Revkor3 жыл бұрын
@@rickm6076 yet thanks to the KGB their *precious* iamge was utterly destoryed
@jamesw76093 жыл бұрын
Although she never existed in real life, she is my fav character in this show.
@daynonweaver2927 ай бұрын
She did so exist. What, you gonna say Chernobyl never happened? What next? WTC? DWH? How offensive! 😠
@Kokuyous3ki11 ай бұрын
One would think that such a system cannot exist, people would revolt... except there are so many that revel in petty bullying that they just love having that tiny power and as such you have no end of personnel that would help keeping the system as is instead of changing it to something better.
@SJM6791 Жыл бұрын
The dehumanizing is subtle but an important part of this clip. Notice how he never addressed the woman who requested the books. He only addressed the librarian. What does the look he gives her in the end mean to you? I take it as “I know what you’re trying to do and it won’t be allowed.”
@B1SCOOP Жыл бұрын
Or it may be typical indifference of someone working in Soviet bureaucratic apparatus. Job is guaranteed by the state, nobody will fire him for acting arrogant towards applicant.