CHERNOBYL REACTION | EPISODE 4

[@gdlmao]

6:48 - for the show they are just spraying water, in real life they used a very sticky and nasty-smelling liquid called "bourda", a waste byproduct of industrial alcohol distilling, basically molasses. It would stick to the radioactive dust and when dried it could be scrapped off or rolled up like fruit leather, then sealed up and buried for disposal.

[@dgrmn12345]

22:27 - He's struggling because according to survivors, the heat above the roof was stifling and the amount of radiation made them dizzy. Disoriented. Its like being in an alien world and it terrified them.

[@Brandawn69]

Especially the character she’s talking about, he has a dosimeter strapped to him and constantly clicking in his ears, on top of that he’s on a radioactive rooftop that he has only 90 seconds to clean as much. Any normal person with no training would be extremely disoriented and do worse than what he did.

[@michalkuban9888]

Don't forget about the weight of radiation protection they used, lead vest is extremely heavy and the graphite chunks were pretty heavy too. Insane conditions + heavy power output needed.

[@CapitalExpression]

the actor who plays Bacho is named Fares Fares. He's maybe best known for the game A Way Out he nails any role he does

[@Zaburino]

Also a technician in Westworld Season 2

[@yomama629]

Also played a CIA field operative in Zero Dark Thirty

[@Norbert_Sattler]

Don't feel bad for the animals. They caught just as much radiation as the Humans and their bodies react in the same way ours do. By being shot they were spared a much more painful and slower death in the long run. Those killings were not only necessary, but a mercy, heartbreaking as it might be to do or watch.

[@internetsideshow]

The way Bacho looks out for Pavel is so heart warming.

[@Diegesis]

It really is. He's basically the standard for how tough love should look

[@internetsideshow]

@@Diegesis That is what non-toxic masculinity looks like

[@Rokhan91]

fun fact: batcho is ukrainian for dad

[@JenyaIsJustChilling]

@@Rokhan91 fun fact 2: you made it up. First of all, "father" in ukranian is "bat'ko" and "tato". Second of all, Bacho (the character and the actor too) is not ukranian, and not even of any slavic nation.

[@mohammedashian8094]

@@internetsideshow news flash: it’s toxic behaviour no such as toxic masculinity

[@Alte.Kameraden]

Opening of this episode is a masterpiece. The Red Revolution, Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler. Ukraine did not have a happy history during these times.

[@jacklarkson4505]

she skip the WW2 and only mention about great war,she said she is 82 means she was born in 1904,how she can remember all those things in such young age.

[@Alte.Kameraden]

@@jacklarkson4505 She didn't, she said then the Germans came at one point.

[@airsoftsniperm40a33]

I am 36 years old, my first memories are since I was 3....my grandpa remembered events from since he was 3, as well

[@NoOneOfImportance904]

Ukraine still does not have a happy history with Putin wanting to conquer that country.

[@robertcornhole5197]

Don't look over the edge. To paraphrase Nietzsche, if you look into the abyss it gazes back.

[@LEADERwithSHAME]

Diegesis- “ I’m tired of this grandpa” Her viewers- “ well that’s to damn bad”

[@lawman977]

YOU KEEP WATCHING!!! 🤣

[@Diegesis]

She just saw princess bride so she's probably referencing that

[@LEADERwithSHAME]

@@Diegesis that is from the movie Holes

[@Diegesis]

Oh got it but I was wondering why she said that in the first place and that's the best I can come up with.

[@Chicaneist]

Fun fact: The actor (Jessie Buckley) who played the pregnant lady is an amazing singer & has done a collaborative album called "For All Our Days That Tear the Heart" with Bernard Butler.

[@AdhamOhm]

21:33 Each one of those "clicks" represents a tiny, electron-sized bullet hitting the dosimeter at the speed of light. Now imagine your body being hit by those bullets.

[@Elmarby]

Yup. Specifically, it explains why he appeared so confused. The radiation was playing pinball with his brain.

[@lethaldose2000]

Maple, you did much better than I expected. I have to say though. The animals were contaminated and they had to go. None of the cleanup humans wanted to be in this situation same as the animals. So I feel sorry for the human sacrifice in this situation a bit more than the animals. All around its gut wrenching indeed.

[@ScarriorIII]

I've said it before many times. The majority of reactions ive seen get more messed up by the animals than the people. It is a sad state of affairs when we don't feel as much as empathy for a person as we do a dog. She handled it better than most.

[@lethaldose2000]

@@ScarriorIII I said in another comment that people today don't experience the loss of life that many of our parents and grandparents experienced. With few human deaths in our lives, we have turned our empathy to animals.

[@ScarriorIII]

@@lethaldose2000 I suspect that situation will change rapidly in the near future. Whether our empathy increases as a result, i cannot say.

[@matthewy2j]

Thank you for keeping the scene in with the elderly woman and the cow. Considering the war in Ukraine it's very symbolic of the historical struggle their people face under the various occupations.

[@leleprtk]

Saddest episode of all time of anything ever, I felt so incredibly sad for both the animals and the men who had to put them down. I can’t imagine the trauma.

[@Diegesis]

I've watched every reaction video of this episode I could find just to cry with someone else again lol maybe the best episode of television ever

[@leleprtk]

@@Diegesis me watching your Return of the King video 10 times just so someone would cry with me

[@daved2352]

I once had a job working for the local authority driving around collecting old appliances from elderly peoples houses and clearing away fly tipped rubbish, but also part of that job was removing the corpses of animals hit by cars, peoples pets laying dead in the road. This episode of this show makes me think of that job. Glad I don't have to do it anymore.

[@GregArnott]

Fun fact about the music - it was made up completely from samples of recordings of decommissioned nuclear power plants, such as metal doors opening on rusty hinges. The eerie sounds of the music through this show about nuclear power plants comes from the eerie sounds from within shutdown power plants!

[@thomaschristopherwhite9043]

I love this show. In the beginning you think it's heartless of Jon Snow's friend to shoot that cow. But as the episode goes on you realize the animals in that area are all radiated and letting them roam free is a national health risk. So all he's trying to do is evacuate the old woman and getting rid of the affected livestock.

[@alexspindler1]

I work with animal control and this is almost the only human and positive view of animal control and it's heartbreaking. But only for the pets but for the people who have to do it. Thank you for your reaction Maple. As always, a great perspective!

[@papa_xan]

Back in 1986 I was a teenager and remember seeing on the news that there was an nuclear accident in Russia and that it was bad, but because of the lack of information it wasn't until I was in my 20's that I, and many others, found out just how bad it had been. This series is a masterpiece in story telling and really puts a face, or faces, to the horror of what went on there. Can't wait for your reaction to the finale!

[@TomaszDK]

I was 8 when it happend, I lived in Denmark, and I can vividly remember not having to go to school for about a week, so me and the neighbor kids played all the days in my parents sun room, which was quite big. That's why I remember it cause it was so much fun. We were never told why we could not go to school or play outside. I also remember the skies being overcast and slightly yellow, but that might be a false memory. The days off from school was for sure real.

[@Ander01SE]

@@TomaszDK Sweden here (Hello neighbor). Mom didn't want me to be playing outside in the garden. Sun was about to set as it usually did when we got home from kindergarden, normal day except it wasn't. It was a strange feeling. :)

[@Elmarby]

@@Ander01SE Dutchman here. I recall having to stay indoors for a few days. Couldn't play in the grass field out front until the municipality mowed it. They did, quickly, but I distinctly remember being puzzled that the cut grass was gone too.

[@Ander01SE]

@@Elmarby Yeah it's funny, even if most of us were kids and probably didn't grasp it 100%, we still memorized it :)

[@NZBigfoot]

Was 8 years old myself... living on the other side of the world in NZ, even down here once the event became known there was that feeling of dread, even for an 8 year old me, I had feels about it. Thank god it didnt go the way it could have... world would be a very different place.

[@jimmygreer2140]

The last episode & this episode are without a doubt the hardest to watch. It is sad about the animals. But you saw the alternative....so it's absolute mercy what these guys did. Just thinking about the alternative makes me wanna cry.

[@alinac5512]

This is by far worse than the ending, imo. Seeing the animals killed made me wanne throw up the first time I saw it.

[@holl0918]

You mentioned the music several times now... you're going to be shocked when you see what that "eerie, surreal" sound actually is in the ending credits of the last episode.

[@CloudJLaw]

We must keep in mind that they were wearing lead shielded suits which is the reason he struggled.

[@Mordred86]

"That's fucked up" Is basically the best one sentence descriptor of the entire disaster.

[@biswojyoti1]

the animal killings were mercy killings

[@CloudJLaw]

I wouldn’t say he was sick. The animals were contaminated, which they had to be (as the previous episode put it) destroyed. More of mercy killing especially since they absorbed more radiation than humans.

[@Marcel_Germann]

This happened when I was 4 years old, I grew up in West-Germany in the suburbs of Frankfurt. In the Kindergarten we were told that we can't play outside "because of the clouds". I looked out of the window, no clouds, sky was absolutely clear. "There are no clouds!". "They're out there!!!" Actually the milk was probably highly radioactive, the cows are usually out at that time of the year the accident happened. They eat the contaminated grass, and their milk becomes radioactive. And that contamination reached until Germany. Milk at that time had 5800Bq/kg, three times of the maximum permitted value (defined by the European Community back then). The milk was dried for transportation, more than 5000 tons of powder. Then hydrated again and cleaned with a special ion exchanger. The exchanger, contaminated with Caesium-137, was disposed in the old Gorleben salt dome that is a storage for all kinds of radioactive waste. Even today you still can measure traces of that radioactivity here in mushrooms or venison when using a very sensitive probe.

[@TheUlf]

One of my favorite episodes of any show, ever. So impactful, such a gloriously damning statement on the human condition, and yet, humanity endures and overcomes. It really drives home the idea that a whole nation had to go to war with a hole, with the fate of the world in the balance. And such powerful performances from Bacho and Pavel.

[@scottieb1]

First time watching this show I had to bail during this episode. The animals get me every time. The whole thing is so tragic but it's the animals that put me over.

[@brachypelmasmith]

they really showed how pavel changed just with his face and eyes

[@Sodapop-rd5ku]

21:00 everybody gangsta till they gotta get on the roof

[@markkettlewell7441]

They are spraying an adhesive similar to Elmer’s glue. It binds radioactive particles together for easier removal by vacuum systems. It’s surprisingly effective 😅

[@lethaldose2000]

I think because the world has become much safer in many places and human atrocities have been curbed quite a bit. We don't experience the loss of life that many of our parents and grandparents experienced. With few human deaths in our lives, we have turned our empathy to animals. Indeed the world has flipped from human empathy to empathy for animals. I'm not saying it's right or wrong it's just an observation of the shift in the way we view animal companions. When my parents grew up, the pet was lucky to be with us. Today many people feel lucky to have their pets to comfort them. So their loss is infinitely more intense. This is why I think these episodes hit so hard for so many. Just my 2 cents.

[@lethaldose2000]

So many awesome yet vicious lines in this series. GReat writing. "Ask the bosses what you want and you'll get the lie. And I'll get the bullet."

[@IMFLordVader]

Killing is not so easy as shown in movie. Even tiniest animals. I remember one winter day when I was a child. I picked a stick from the tree and was happy to stab the ice of our lake. On one point I realised I stabbed a frog which lied beyond the ice. First I impaled it and then pulled it out of the iced lake. Fatal damage. But I couldn't end it. I felt so guilty. I don't remember the year but I was around 10 or 11 years old. Please don't judge this boy who couldn't shot the dog first but didn't make it to kill it. He is me like the frog. I guess something deep into your soul must have died that you can kill even if you tell to yourself it is necessary. In my case it was an accident. And that accident repeated twice while I was driving. I killed a rabbit and a rat. Both makes me feel sad.

[@richlisola1]

The men we saw had gotten used to killing, we didn’t see how difficult it was for them at the beginning of their mission-But through the boy we learn how hard it is

[@Cinema_Fiends]

“Well that’s to damn bad” -Holes

[@gaborkiss650]

I think many people don’t understand the weight of “Tell fuckin Gorbachev!” in a phone call the KGB was listening to. By this point Boris really wasn’t giving no fucks.

[@Diegesis]

Yeah at this point boris was right there with legsov. All the time before he was always telling him to mind his manners and now he was equally fed up

[@NZBigfoot]

He was a dead man anyway... if you know that you're time was near, better to speak your mind in the hopes it could change something, than try and save your own life.

[@twoheart7813]

Todays news 8/2 The U.N. nuclear chief warned that Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine “is completely out of control” and issued an urgent plea to Russia and Ukraine to quickly allow experts to visit the sprawling complex to stabilize the situation and avoid a nuclear accident.

[@Diegesis]

Nice...

[@kirosmatavastros]

You are the only reaction channel I know that hasn't skipped through grandma telling compact Ukrainian history of 20th century

[@Diegesis]

oh that's sad. Popcorn in Bed and Imon Snow kept it in

[@johnstrong4089]

The Chernobyl disaster was the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union

[@skipperg4436]

Yes. During that time plenty of people still believed in ideals of Soviet Union. After Chernobyl however... a lot of people lost their faith in Communism.

[@gaborkiss650]

“Still not good.” Understatement of the century.

[@DigitalDNA]

In the beginning, he killed the cow as per orders. Gramma was milking a radiated cow.

[@inquisitive6786]

Reactor: Is having a meltdown Boris: Hold my phone

[@t.b.5115]

Years ago i worked the bolt at a freezing works. Had to give it up after a week because i would feel like a piece of shit everyday and i started getting the worst nightmares I've ever had.

[@dabe1971]

The reward for getting through this episode is the courtroom scene in Episode 5. It's excellent and explains what happened SO well.

[@cliveklg7739]

Should read up on how the music for the series was created. Pretty interesting.

[@bigpictureguys8415]

If it’s any consolation dying of radiation would be much worse.

[@JackOiswatching]

"Ready for episode 4!" - No one is ready for episode 4.

[@prollins6443]

Don't let them suffer And yet we are inexplicable drawn to people watching episode 4

[@shag139]

We’ll see what Maple is made of in this one.

[@markkettlewell7441]

No animals were hurt in the filming of this episode 😅

[@sirimity]

Gotta, I absolutely love your commentary style. Watched your Good Will Hunting reaction and had to watch some more contentment. Subbing for you, I’ll see if i like the rest lol 😂

[@markkettlewell7441]

Reality is far more brutal than fiction 😢

[@daletaylor5589]

It’s like their need for power and control is really doing them a disservice instead of fixing the issue….. a lot of that going around these days.

[@CloudJLaw]

Yes. We must keep in mind how arrogant and secretive the Soviet State was..

[@spacewolfvtmedia]

The soilder taking about the shadow that was explained in Carl Jung which everyone had the capacity to do evil you have to recognize it or you will be consumed by the shadow and forever you'll walk a dark path.

[@billynair]

I'm not a fan of TV series, but there are a few really good ones. The guy who plays Bryukhanov, bureaucrat in episode 1 who leads the table discussion, one of the 3 on trial in the final episode, plays Blackbeard's first mate in "Our flag means death" a comedy based on Stede Bonnet, a real life pirate that un-ironically might have been the most comical pirate EVER (actually the reason why anyone knows Blackbeard) one of those shows that you either love or think is stupid. Made by Waititi, (Jojo Rabbit, what we do in the shadows). Check out the first episode, see if you like the comedy

[@Leon108]

After the abysmal finale of Game of Thrones, this miniseries singlehandedly redeemed HBO as a content producer.

[@Jargolf86]

This is by far the hardest Episode. I get depressed and sad every Time i watch it. But i have to watch the Series at least 2 Times a Year...

[@Diegesis]

One of the best openings AND endings of any episode of television

[@thestokes91]

the character actors in this show are incredible: the grandma, the afghan war vet... just incredible acting

[@Diegesis]

Could not agree more. High high impact characters for such little screen time

[@andrelara5819]

If you like the music and the ambiance please check Death Stranding

[@lethaldose2000]

Hey Maple, I thought it would interest you to see the Lyrics to the Cossack folk song. Played for the animals burial scene at the pit. "BLACK RAVEN" Why do you circle over me? You won't have your prey, Black raven, I'm not yours! You won't have your prey, Black raven, I'm not yours!

[@3cho_dimension285]

Chad thank you for capturing Maple's management style. " WHY IS DOING SUCH A BAD JOB?" 🤣

[@timchristensen2522]

"Nah nah nah. We're BINGE-WATCHING" Respect

[@gregpeacock5497]

Love your reaction to this incredible series. You are past the hardest episode to watch. The men who had 90 seconds to clear the roof received more than a lifetime's worth of radiation in that time. I've read that older soldiers would would sneak back into the queue so that younger men would not have to face the radiation. Please consider doing a separate video of the full epilogue.

[@chri2453]

When a piece of rock is a better villain than the Night King (stolen from another KZbin comment, but sums it up perfectly).

[@bigpictureguys8415]

Did ya stop reacting to Chernobyl?

[@MrBellsa61]

seen the series a few times, but this episode maybe only twice. as a pet owner this shit is a hard watch.

[@Diegesis]

The ending with the poor widow who lost her child having to sit in a room of newborn babies always gets me even more than the animals. The animals gotta go and would suffer in their own way if not but that woman doesn't need to hear the newborns crying

[@clawz90]

Fucking great watch, nice a fuck snuck into it too at the end! I cant beleive how much stupid YT wants to censor stuff when you can buy and watch all these things on YT!! Even editing out the sweary subtitles its stupid but you guys do good work!

[@eolsunder]

pretty sure with them spraying and cleaning up the areas its just water. They are using water to wash off the radioactive dust that is on everything. The larger fallout closer to the plant they physically just pick up and put in containers, but the vast area is just radioactive dust that blows over everything so they go around with water hoses to wash off all the dust and stuff. Of course this doesnt' do much for the environment since the radioactive dust/material just gets washed into the ground, it isn't eliminated or anything. More contaminated areas they have to just bull doze over and cover with concrete. There wasn't anything back then that you could just spray everywhere to eliminate radioactive material. So, its just water.

[@voiceofraisin3778]

If you spray with watr it keeps the dust down, thats less airborne radioactive particles to get breathed in by the workers. Anything that goes down drains is going to be inside the exclusion zone and fairly well irradiated anyway.

[@PlutozReal]

In some places yes they sprayed water, but water dries and dust is released again. They also sprayed a thicker binding agent to trap the radioactive dust, allowing it to be scooped up.

[@Ybw420]

this series made me deathly afraid of communism

[@lukebarton5075]

Don’t be scared. Communism isn’t coming to get you.

[@TheLuc224]

I would be a shit reactor. The puppy scene has me sobbing all the time

[@Diegesis]

That would make you a good reactor.

[@user-tb2jy9lu3d]

Maple is just the cutest lady. Love her reactions. This was not the first accident that Dyatlov was involved in. He had an issue with radiation exposure working on a sub's nuclear reactor, as well. 800 Rubles in 1986 was a significant amount of money. When you consider the average income of a worker during that time, this was over ten times their salary and for a person earning a good salary (200 rubles), this was four times what they earned. Those in the positions of the top level in companies would earn more, about 500 rubles monthly. Still not worth their lives.

[@XeonAlpha]

I was installing new lights in my ceiling while watching this episode. Just listening broke me. I love this show so much but this remains the only episode I cannot sit down and watch in its entirety.

[@madmardagan2059]

This episode does require a certain grim determination to get through.

[@gene7887]

Coming here before watching the vid. This is going to be tough, and I already saw this a few years ago.

[@gene7887]

Have to add, Stellan Skarsgard's (Shcherbina) outburst on the phone is one of the best acting performances I've ever seen. Lots of actors can yell and scream and make a scene, but the mix of desperation, rage, helplessness, and anguish is possibly the most heartbreaking moment in a series full of them.

[@michaelmills34]

The best series that I've seen. I'm glad you are experiencing it.

[@rootfish2671]

Please react to the movie Freddy Got Fingered

[@aldenallen28]

Hayyyy Maple :)

[@Poss1]

Good morning. Does sharing a painful, inescapable reality create a bond or alienate? Hmm. We'll see. Emotionally devastating mercies. This one is difficult, even among the horrors of the whole. In a story full of "How did it come to this?" - this one is hard. So... Hi. See you later.

[@daveb9920]

This episode more than any other was excruciatingly difficult to watch. My hats off to all of those who watched this mini series and stuck thru it. Yes, it was dramatized, yes there were some loose interpretations of the actual facts, but still you get the general point about how bad this actually went for all of those unfortunate people. ❤️

[@randallarcher3085]

Maple is such an adorable little brat

[@mrchainsaw4139]

Sorry you had to watch that awful shit Maple, you did really well. All those animals had to be destroyed, there was no choice.

[@Fantomex.]

Ha! I got to feed off of some pain. It is delicious 😋

[@markkettlewell7441]

But pups are innocent and go back to the great godhead. We humans know good and evil and thus we have to answer for our actions 😮

[@LordGRIM22V]

The hobbit please react the hole trilogy of the Hobbit

[@Diegesis]

It's just not that good brother I'm sorry

[@LordGRIM22V]

Then you will never understand the hole LOTR story after all The Hobbit trilogy is the prequel of the LOTR it's about the journey and travel of Bilbo Baggins in the red book. If you don't watch The Hobbit then don't watch the upcoming The Rings Of Power

[@Diegesis]

We're gonna watch Rings of power but thanks for telling me what to do on my channel?...

[@Diegesis]

Also the hobbit trilogy is not the prequel. It's massively expanded over the children's story which features no love triangles. If anything maple would be better serviced watching the cartoon. Don't be a gatekeeper. It's creepy and annoying.

[@LordGRIM22V]

So not even the first dwarf and elve falls in love