Chernobyl: News breaks of disaster (1986) | RetroFocus

[@avidutubewatcher]

These clips are great

[@LOKSTED]

lmao they thought it was a leak when in reality the top of the reactor just peeled off

[@felix.e]

We thought we had a leak here in Sweden... tbh we are the ones who made Soviet Union confess and eventually disband

[@doopist]

@@felix.esweden? seriously?

[@AlonsoRules]

That was the moment the Soviet Union started to collapse

[@JJVernig]

Yeah, i've read somewhere that it costed the USSR at least 200 billion dollars (hard currency) to do the clean-up until 1990. There was no way they could implement an expansion plan for the economy like Gorbachov had planned.

[@UFCANT]

Yes it was. Gorbachov has said that quite often in interviews. I was in elementary school during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. It was the biggest thing on the news at the time. If they could only see this shit show today. The U.S. problems we had back then are laughable compared to this.

[@chimoRee]

is it me or they pronounced Chernobyl differently back in the days

[@XMysticHerox]

chimoRee it’s closer to the correct pronunciation.

[@emericdion]

chimoRee lets remember its 1986 and there is not a lot of people speaking ukrainian or russian in other parts of the world😂

[@Boris_V]

Chernobyl is very much known world wide now because of the disaster. Back then chances are big it was the first time anyone outside of the Societ Union had aer heard about it. So now everyone pronounces it the same way, back then reporters were probably like: "Tha fack is this town called?! How do you pronounce it?!

[@custosnocte1528]

Is it me, or does the news media ALWAYS pronounce certain locations different than the rest of the world in that smug Mainstream News type of condescending style. All my life Kyiv or Kiev, Ukraine has been pronounced Key-EV, like the chicken type. Now, these smart ass reporters pronounce the city as "KEEEV" I don't know whether to shit or go blind. I'm sure it's the Ukrainian people pronounce the name different than Russian folk. Either that, or the news people know EVERYTHING 🤣😭🤔 LMAO 🚫 *RUSSIA STOP NOW* 🚫

[@barbadoskado2769]

it was more recent back then and the event occurred there - so I would assume the name "appears on the map" for everyone and due to the fact that the phonetics of the word travel together with it, people tend to pronounce it correctly. after time passes, knowledge of the phonetics disappears and the written word is open to interpretation. i would argue that the most "natural way of pronouncing it" then establishes itself as a dominant way of saying it. hope its not too theoretical, but your comment made me think about it

[@leoberget750]

It was the worst nuclear disaster in history

[@Sleemopings]

thx bro didnt know that

[@leoberget750]

@@Sleemopings ayo dont do me like that

[@Sleemopings]

@@leoberget750 just playing with u bro

[@craigrichardson9022]

so far.....

[@sky-zc3uz]

hiroshima doesn't count right?

[@Antphoneigh]

Ah, back in the days when the Soviet Union was all secrecy.

[@SonicWizards]

It’s funny they mention two possibilities considered and in fact basically both happened simultaneously

[@Brick-Life]

0:28 YOOO love vremya

[@chefboy-ar-d6312]

Omfg i thought this was will farrel😆

[@eaglevision993]

The footage they show from the reactors are not RBMK reactors but VVER pressurized water reactors.

[@MiskoGe]

it seems that this was a pre-series VVER-1000 from novovoronezh npp

[@diesirae8422]

Cherno beale

[@tylerhutchinson7870]

I thought that there would be an evacuation

[@Cassxowary]

There was the next day (but announced the day it happened) in Pripyat and Chernobyl

[@companymen42]

If they only knew, it was 10 times worse

[@k0orbb]

Had to look this up after rewatching Markiplier video today.

[@natsu4605]

Imaginar que las personas que vemos ahi tal vez hayan muerto de ☢ 😔

[@bulgingbattery2050]

3.6 Roentgen

[@blazertracer1]

Not Great, Not horrible

[@adoptedegg_3392]

This clip was in the newest yes theory vid

[@AndrosBabheira]

Churn O Ville

[@popular_lyrics4012]

Holy

[@popular_lyrics4012]

Wow

[@YeeYee.Living]

This was a horrible disaster but it also was good to cause the abolishing of the soviet union