Chernobyl 03 OPEN WIDE, O EARTH PT.2 reaction

[@ScarecrowZP]

When Homyuk says "His face was gone", she's not exaggerating. In reality, Akimov didn't speak when giving testimony, because there was nothing to speak with. He was giving it in Morze code. The one close-up of a picture a woman is holding at the funeral is of that one guard that led Sitnikov to reactor's roof in the first episode.

[@kyuujinreacts]

Oh god D: this is horrifying

[@stearinlys]

I thought that the photos were of the actual firemen that died?

[@Vlada-dm2oy]

This story is much about anger for me. Hello from Ukraine. I live in Kiev (160 km from Pripyat. )

[@Vlada-dm2oy]

By the way, Chernobyl is a small settlement near the Nuclear Power Plant and the name of the station itself. The town that was shown to us evacuated is Pripyat.

[@DavidMacDowellBlue]

I love you can still hear that young man's pride in the position he held at Chernobyl. He deserved that pride. He did nothing wrong. Most civilians did not understand much about radiation in the 1980s, not in the USSR nor elsewhere to be honest. Ludmylla later said she knew her husband had been poisoned but had no idea the poison could be "catching." Actually (and this is only of minor historical interest--like most of the trivia I share) it is unclear how many or to what degree the miners undressed. But the scene works and makes the point--these men were and are heroes, who in face of such a gigantic disaster did all they could and often paid the price. These were a few hundred out of many, many thousands of such heroes. That is what's important and deserves remembering. I have watched a fair number of reactions to CHERNOBYL and it is always rather interesting to see how different people react to the miners' nudity. The emergency shutdown was the reason everyone thought the reactor could not explode. This will be explained fairly well in Episode 5. In a nutshell, yes there was something wrong with the equipment. And no, it is just impossible to hit the wrong button. That is part of the design inherent in the controls. The AZ5 button was absolutely distinct precisely because it must be obvious for an emergency. Pretty much EXACTLY what happened is explained in Episode 5. One detail is wrong, but not an important one. It would have taken a little too long to explain with total accuracy is all. Brace yourself for the next episode.

[@remliqa]

Fans can be extremely dangerous in this situation. Agitated dust have radioactive particles in them and that can land in your lungs.

[@Markus117d]

Exactly, That's what the general meant when saying "not this dust" .The fans would seem like a necessity or kindness to improve the conditions, But would have made it much worse in the longer term..

[@ihuliige6776]

The part about the minister of coal and gunners was pure fiction though. People including ministers wouldn't just have soldiers with AK's around threatening to shoot everybody. The actual miners said they had normal, civilized negotiations with the minister and other officials, and that they knew what they were doing.

[@pilgrimageintothepast6086]

Well said, I just wrote a similar comment on part1!

[@soliopy]

The official podcast made by the showrunners talk about this btw. They're very upfront and honest about the fictional content, and the reasoning for this instance was specifically to show to the audience that the USSR coal miners were powerful enough to intimidate the officials. Like, Soviet officials constantly had to work around the miners and not the other way around, so that's the purpose of the scene.

[@maksphoto78]

A lot of this (brilliant and well-made) series is pure fiction, for the sake of drama. The scene with Sherbina and Legasov on the helicopter is absolutely crazy, there's no way a politician would threaten an academic like that.

[@marianemes72]

I remember that spring, my country is next to Ukraine. The authorities started to collect all the vegetables, fruit from the markets. All of them. That was the summer of no vegetables, no fruit.

[@davedahl4461]

Thanks for covering this show. It was easily one of my favorites.

[@turricanedtc3764]

1:40 - Leonid Toptunov graduated with a specialist degree in nuclear power plant engineering from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. He wasn't a genius, but he was well-educated, well-liked and competent. Unfortunately, he wasn't experienced, and it's likely that he made some mistakes as a result of the pressure Dyatlov was putting him under.

[@ScarecrowZP]

There is some stuff cut off with Dyatlov in his hospital room. Dyatlov was supposed to have some visions of his deceased son. As I mentioned before in the comments, he was working with nuclear subs before and survived a severe radiation poisoning. Some time during his work there, his son died of leuceima. Presumably because he liked to wear his father's jacket, which Dyatlov wore to work. As Craig Mazin seen it, one of the factors in Dyatlov's decisions and denial was not only arrogance of a suvivor, but an anger at and desire to control the atom that took away his son. He decided to not include the vision scene to keep the series more grounded, without any mystic elements.

[@Robo34]

yeah. important words: not this dust.....

[@ThePolarBearEST]

thanks for ur reaction, dont worry, u get all the answers why it happened from the last episode. ps! with last episode, be sure u react to ending scenes aswell, they show very interesting info/facts there.

[@SnaFubar_24]

Gorbachev, the Leader of the USSR at the time of Chernobyl was once quoted as saying the disaster was "perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union" It shined a big light on the failures of the Soviet Socialist system of govt. This series brings that to the forefront doesn't it? I love it!

[@kyuujinreacts]

This show is very well done, no doubt about it! It definitely highlights how their system was terrible in a time of crisis D:

[@pilgrimageintothepast6086]

@@kyuujinreacts That's definitely one take away. There are certainly aspects of the USSR that made the crisis worse/made it more likely in the first place. However it is also worth bearing in mind the amazing job many people did of cleaning it up, and doing what was necessary. There were all sorts of problems with the USSR, but I do think that blaming Chernobyl entirely on that regime isn't completely fair, especially when plenty of similar disasters have happened else where; Three Mile Island in the USA, Windscale in the UK, and Fukushima Japan, the response to these other disasters wasn't significantly different which shows at least that secrecy and poor decisions are not unique to the USSR. I mean a significant area of Greenland is contaminated by US nuclear waste, a fact that was kept secret for many years.

[@SnaFubar_24]

@@pilgrimageintothepast6086 That is true, the people were brave beyond belief, even when they were aware of the unseen danger they helped and sacrificed for each other.

[@maksphoto78]

Ignatenko's wife is still alive today. She had multiple strokes/heart attacks, but miraculously she had another baby from another man.

[@Silver-rx1mh]

Apparently the reason why the wife was holding her husbands shoes at the funeral was because at the end his body had become so bloated and twisted that they no longer fitted him. Yet another superbly made episode on the rollercoaster of misery that is Chernobyl. Lord the amount of what you see that could be overlaid with whats going on with current events is both staggering and highly depressing. Seem's governments never learn...:(

[@Sisterspike1]

@@jaysonb.6669 Nah, sorry, big business back seat driving todays governments is the biggest cause of corruption in todays world imo.

[@Silver-rx1mh]

@@jaysonb.6669 Nah, sorry......

[@Silver-rx1mh]

@@jaysonb.6669 *sigh* Whatever......

[@hamoudahmed691]

Sorry about what happening in Chernobyl .. very nice reaction i love your chanel ❤❤ thank you both of you 👍👍

[@BeautifulSenorita]

in real events Lyudmilla actually was nursing her husband's friends even after his death because many nurses there refused to deal with those patients

[@darchon5]

Great reaction as usual to an awesome series - you always have some insightful observations.

[@kyuujinreacts]

Thank you n.n

[@emberfrost8322]

Thank you

[@remliqa]

The funny thing is the The Minister Of Coal was one of the the miners, once . Before he got elevated to that position he was just a coal miner just like them.

[@hamoudahmed691]

Because i love your reaction and what you are talking about it i watch your video more than 20 times ❤❤ keep moving i love your chanel and thank you so much 😍😍👍👍

[@kyuujinreacts]

Thank YOU so much for watching :D

[@hamoudahmed691]

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[@hamoudahmed691]

@@kyuujinreacts i am from Arab country from Oman and i was watching your chanel long time ago but really i didn't see reaction like yours and understanding the show .. very very nice reaction i love your chanel thank you so much both of you 💕💕

[@emberfrost8322]

Thank you ☺️😁

[@hamoudahmed691]

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[@bloodymarvelous4790]

To me this was the most heartbreaking episode. The human suffering reaches its peak here. The suffering of animals in the next is what got to most people (which to me proves the human race is doomed, but that's a whole other thing). The best episode, to me, is the final episode. Explaining the complex mechanics of the accident in such a clear concise manner is evidence of great writing.

[@panzerwolf494]

For the most part the operators did do everything right. The reactor surged, the operators hit the SCRAM and the reactor should have shut down. Obviously it didn't. Where they went wrong was in the test and what Dyatlov demanded. The test was dangerous enough, and Dyatlov demanding rods be pulled to get the reactor up while having the emergency cooling system shut down to prevent it from reacting in case they needed to repeat the test

[@davedahl4461]

Favorite line? We’re still wearing the F**king hats.

[@emberparadox458]

Okay, so I know you guys (in the video) are all about bashing on the political asshats that royally screwed this up, and rightly so, but the whole issue with the miners not getting fans was specifically to PROTECT them. If they'd allowed fans, those fans would have kicked up radiation-infused dust and shoved it into their lungs by the mouthful every second. The reason why the fans were not allowed is because had they allowed it, every single one of those miners would probably have dropped dead within days, which of course would mean the deaths of all of those men PLUS they wouldn't be able to finish the job to save the entire country from the meltdown.

[@kyuujinreacts]

Yeah, I get that! A lot of harsh decisions had to be taken...things were already bad and they had to stop them from getting worse. This show is just really hard to watch without getting mad 😅

[@InfamousDominion]

We definitely got angry when we first watched this. Have tissues ready when you watch episode 4. I’m not spoiling anything with this information.

[@kyuujinreacts]

No worries, we saw episode 4 already....and yeah the tissues would've definitely come in handy D:

[@iiiDartsiii]

when the KGB asked "what are they going to hear" I would have answered, the vending machine is out of RED FREAKIN APPLES! problem solved.

[@snake0911]

She just loves her husband. If my wife is on her death bed, I would risk it to hug her one last time.

[@andyb1653]

Basically, the reactor's design was cheap, unstable, and unsafe. Even back then, the design would have been rejected by any other country on Earth. To make things worse, the plant operators were not told how unsafe the reactor was, in fact they were told the opposite.

[@45banshee]

As hard as these episodes are, the creators of the show actually spared from even more horrifying details. If you want to know what they are you can Google it or there's a podcast with the makers if this mini series but its tough. I don't know if you've seen the next episode already but the actual events were worse than what they show. Its hard to take in this actually happened to these poor people and animals

[@hulkbelowall9532]

Like Ignatenko used to cough up His decomposed Liver and bits of his lungs..and Lyudmilla used to pull that stuff out of his mouth so he doesn't choke on his own organs..he also (apparently) passed bloody mucus shits....TRULY HORRIFYING

[@johnstrong4089]

Putin got upset when we made this series and because he was a lieutenant in the KGB

[@johnstrong4089]

There is a reason why the Soviet Union collapsed and Chernobyl was that very reason why

[@sudonum3108]

I keep seeing people saying that back then they didn’t know about the effects of radiation. This is completely untrue. Teams of American scientists and doctors went in after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings specifically to record and catalogue the effects of the radiation immediately and then going on for decades after. I was aware, as a child, in the 70’s of the effects of radiation sickness. My parents told me not to try and survive a nuclear attack specifically because of the knowledge of radiation sickness. And then there’s the nuclear reactors. How can you build such things without knowledge of radiation and what it does to living tissue and what measures are required to prevent that?

[@kyuujinreacts]

Knowledge of the effects of radiation on people could've been vastly different from one family to another or from one country to another :/ I can only assume here, but I'm thinking people over there didn't know as much as they should've thanks to the heavy secrecy that surrounded anything nuclear or in any way close to the gouvernement

[@Markus117d]

It wasn't that it was not known about the affects of radiation, It's that the ordinary person on the soviet street wasn't informed or educated about it...

[@Uperfist]

It's normal to feel anger watching this show, don't worry ! It was the same for me ! So much wasted lives... for a pride of a nation (politicals). Damn... And you will be much more angry with the two next episodes :'(

[@zpitzer]

You react to a reactors exploding :) just have to say it.:). But to be serious here, you are right, it was "the system" that was wrong, not the individual people.

[@andyb1653]

Reactors reacting to a reactor that reacted wrong

[@hamoudahmed691]

Where is your cats i didn't see ☺☺😍

[@kyuujinreacts]

Sleeping behind the camera, probably xD

[@hamoudahmed691]

@@kyuujinreacts yaa good very nice 😀