Chernobyl 03 OPEN WIDE, O EARTH PT.1 reaction

[@samworf6550]

these are the first reactors i've seen who realize that the couple in the bar were KGB testing Legasov

[@nicholasdubendorf6824]

Thats facts, ive watched pretty much all of them sadly 😂

[@maksphoto78]

There was another reaction video that guessed it.

[@ScarecrowZP]

The windup flashlights from the start of the episode are a creative liberty on Craig Mazin's part. He didn't want pitch-black shots in the series. In reality, the three plant workers, after their flashlights died, *in complete pitch darkness* went through flooded tunnels under the burning reactor by touch and by memory alone. And did it.

[@jaanaiasbjrn7929]

It's kinda amazing how much history you just aren't taught. Events and details that break your heart.

[@boristurovskiy351]

"If these worked... you would be wearing them" Well, it's 2020.

[@bakedsoupwithcakes5025]

😄😄😄

[@DavidMacDowellBlue]

Ludmylla did not in fact touch her husband. It didn't make much difference in the end.

[@SuperEarth_ArmedForces]

The three volunteers in the beginning actually survived that ordeal, and were rewarded for it in 2018, with two of them showing up in person (Boris Baranov, the third diver, had died in 2005 due to a heart attack, with his reward being given posthumously). Barely anyone even knew who they were until that ceremony because the Soviet News Agency was still hiding secrets even after the USSR dissolved, with the three being reported to have died and buried in lead caskets. Goes to show that these men were, by all means. Built. Different.

[@jimboslice2498]

Hey guys! Stumbled accross your channel, a truly human reaction to this series so far! I've been to chernobyl on the tour and just unbelievable to think of the sacrifice that those men and woman gave for the rest of Europe to be here today. X

[@kyuujinreacts]

Welcome! :D Chernobyl is such a hard series to go through without crumbling under all the emotion o.o I never got to go, but I'm sure if I were to, I'd just start crying...

[@jimboslice2498]

Yeah I cried a few times, so much respect!

[@ravennight1018]

I was born in Gomel Belarus only 70 miles from Chernobyl. Very sad day. No one left until it was to late.

[@lezard2102]

As many have stated in the commen section, there were many liberties taken in the adaptation. One really harmful one though, is the misconception that people who were irradiated are dangerous. This is mostly untrue. Yes they were dangerous when they arrived in the hospital at Pripyat because both their clothes and bodies were covered in radioactive ash from the fire. But once the clothes were removed and they were properly decontaminated they no longer posed a threat to others. Once radiation enters an organic being it can only leave: 1) through decomposition, which is why the dead were buried in concrete as we see in a later episode 1.2) through ingestion (this is technically an accelerated decomposition), which is why they had to kill all animals within the exclusion zone and raze the ground. 2) if the organic being itself starts irradiating, ie. if they had decided to burn their death, which is why they didn't. The reason why the firefighters were kept behind a safety bubble was not because they were dangerous to others, but rather everyone else was dangerous to them due to their immune system shutting down. This misconception about the dangers of people that were exposed in Chernobyl had some really serious consequences as orphans from Pripyat were often not adopted due to fear of them being dangerous.

[@KULAK510]

Immediately put a like without looking. You are sincere in your feelings girls. Not like some people-they look with stony faces.

[@kyuujinreacts]

Thank you n.n I don't get how people can watch this without showing some sort of emotion D: this is such an emotional show!

[@barrymiller3385]

Wooo hooo! Finally! I shall be watching both parts later.

[@ziggyzap1]

I had a thought, I wonder why they never used tanks to help the situation, at this time Soviets had tanks with NBC protection. ("The T-72 has a nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) protection system") from wikipedia

[@SuperEarth_ArmedForces]

Because it likely would've caused panic. Plus, i don't think the tanks would've helped any more than being in that control room.

[@pilgrimageintothepast6086]

I like the series, but from a historical accuracy standpoint some aspects are pure Hollywood. One example from this episode is that miners being ordered to Chernobyl at gun point. It makes good TV, but it is very unlikely to have happened like that. The USSR may have been a repressive regime, but this was 1986 not 1935, the purges were long in the past and while there were punishments for opposing the regime, but civilians being held at gunpoint is extremely unlikely by this period.

[@JawadBhuiyan]

Kinda ironic since in ep. 4 a character criticizes dramatized war films.

[@sergeityrrellp3496]

It's because there’s a lot of agenda behind this show. Miners’ real recruiting process was mostly like one with divers in episode 2, but much more pompous, with endless speeches about heroics of ancestors and tons of applauds. But it doesn’t fit the message. And it wasn’t KGB who obstructed the awareness of RBMK faulty design, it was Legasov's fellow scientists, like Alexandrov, president of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, who was one of RBMK creators. “We will have our heroes, we will have our villains” - screenplay writer.

[@sohaibshehzad2052]

Yes you're rite. That didn't happen. If for any segment in society miners, factory, ship builders works were the most protected segments in Post WW2 USSR. They were the party's most active cadres.

[@krytosis566]

iirc this was likely done- at least in *part*- for more western audiences that may not fully understand the culture/fear/atmosphere of obedience there at the time? More of a quick, visual way to show why more people didn't just refuse orders or something? Or why it was particularly brave to do so? (I'm probably butchering the way it was explained, apologies in advance)

[@TheMinarus]

To be fair there were some experts in radioactivity who evaluated some of the scenes and deemed it inaccurate explaining radiation is not like an infection, you don't get it by being exposed to someone who's been exposed to it, only suffer when close to the actual radioactive source...

[@JawadBhuiyan]

I read about this somewhere. Not sure how true. But apparently most people didn't know back then and avoided touching the victims. But Khomyuk not knowing is inaccurate since she's an expert.

[@capricornus9307]

Radioactivity is not contagious, you cannot "catch it" from someone. You have to be irradiated by a radioactive source. In this case, they kept ARS victims behind the curtains, because their immune system was no longer existing, so anybody from outside posed a risk for them. On the other hand, these firefighters were irradiated so heavily and they had also inhaled and swallowed radioactive dust particles, that they themselves emmited radioactivity. That's why they were burried in concrete tomb. In real life, USSR doctors invited a specialist from USA - Dr.Robert Gale; in 1986 during Cold War! He tried to transplant bone marrow from Vasily's sister (Vasily was againts it.), which didn't help him and left his sister's health damaged forever.

[@Cassxowary]

The thing is, people are told do/don’t do this, but not told why, and the thing with the Soviet rule/the Soviets is, there was set rules and laws but there was a lot, and they were just told to follow that without being told why, so if they thought a rule or law was stupid they just went around it, which is what happened with her and her husband, especially because he looked like he was getting better (she didn’t know anything about the effects)...

[@Silver-rx1mh]

The episode that takes the remains of your heart, throws them on the ground and stamps on them...:(

[@kyuujinreacts]

This one and the next episode D: we just watched it and I wasn't expecting the tears, but...yep!

[@amydubuque2894]

@@kyuujinreacts the next one gets me so damn badly.

[@kyuujinreacts]

One of my cats was sleeping in my arms, purring the whole time, the episode was so hard to watch D:

[@amydubuque2894]

@@kyuujinreacts awww I'm sure that made it even harder.... When i watched it my dog was lying next to me and put her head on my lap cuz I started crying so hard. I cry at so many shows... But anything with animals and kids REALLY get me.

[@tjs.8334]

Brace yourself for the next episode. It's the toughest so far. Well for me anyway. Always appreciate your work

[@kyuujinreacts]

Thank you n.n we actually saw the next episode yesterday and oof D: you're right

[@sohaibshehzad2052]

The character depiction of the Minister of Coal Industries is false and unfair. Minister Mikhail Shchadov, was an engineer by training and himself worked in coal mines. He was known to jealously safeguard rights and benefits of coal miners & energy workers in the USSR. He was widely adored among the coal & petroleum trade union community. He never aimed guns at the miners nor did the soviet state behave with workers like that in the Post WW2 USSR. The miners were flown to Chernobyl, not trucked or bused. Secondly the burns on the radiation victims in this series are dramatization. Apparent conditions are loss of hair and bodies becoming severely weak, not burns. Just thought you should know. Where are you both from ? Just curious.

[@kyuujinreacts]

Thanks for the info n.n we're from Quebec, Canada :D

[@sohaibshehzad2052]

​@@kyuujinreacts There are other major factual inaccuracies in this series (which was brilliantly made). The helicopter (a commonly used Mi-8) crashed not because of radiation but because its rotors collided with a metal cable suspended from a construction crane. Every victim and relief worker was taken cared of. USSR had universal free healthcare. The Soviet Govt did however conceal a lot of facts of this accident. I just finished watching your reactions. Loved your vides. I am from Lahore, Pakistan.

[@sohaibshehzad2052]

@@kyuujinreacts Oh and the baby absorbing all the radiation and saving the mother is good fiction too. It doesn't work like that. Radioactivity isn't like COVID19 where a contaminated human infects another human.

[@reyk3524]

Dude, thank you for telling the truth 👍

[@merely_aida]

Oh man, I would agree but you lost me in the end. Read Aleksievich's book, "the voices of Chernobyl", in particular, Lyudmila's testimony. The stuff shown in the TV show was dramatically toned DOWN.

[@reyk3524]

8:34 This is not true, there was no armed guard with him. The miners respected Schadov, because he was also from a working-class family of miners, and he also held coal with his hands, and here the creators want to tell the viewers that evil commies were sending people to work by force. Yeah, of course. And yes, Shchadov was already an elderly man, but here he was shown young.

[@kingofrivia1248]

In real life there were actual arms falling off during the trial - believe me the injuries were worse than shown

[@lezard2102]

Source on this? I've read nothing like this

[@fixxxer200072]

Episode 4. All I can say is be careful. It can get worse.

[@Krishnan.V]

Was waiting for your video. You are sincere in your feeling. The series does justice to the people involved in the disaster. Lyudmilla's experience is one of the many such oral voices which are available in "Voices from chernobyl" book by Svetlana Alexievich. Another particular story that has stood out in my mind, is that of a father who along with their family had been relocated from their village, but his daughter was going to die, the father did not know what to do, so he went back to the village, to bring a wooden plank (Parapharasing this) as it was a family tradition to take the deceased in that wooden plank. (I am only mentioning a broad picture of this story, not remember the exact details that were described in the book). You should also watch "Chernobyl 3828" youtube video avaiable at kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJenkmuqh5doms0. It is the video story of the cleanup effort. By the way Episode 4 brings out all the emotions of human being. disgust, anger, fear, SADNESS, self preservation

[@bogdanbogdan3459]

Привет с Киева)))