The wreckage of the reactor was removed by soldiers. Briefing by General Tarakanov.

[@tominnenPL]

I thank you soldiers. You did great work for all of people in your country and rest of Europe. Greetings from Poland.

[@DoyPac]

He damn should solve the problem because they created it! Soviet Union had idiot leaders thats why has disintegrated

[@DerDop]

@@DoyPac leadership, but common russians and ukrainians are not like that...

[@63Limar]

@@DoyPac he didn't say "thank you, soviets"

[@thedude9024]

5:49 "And because of this you failed to fulfill the norm."... No judgement, no bias, no shouting, no punishment.. the perfect man to describe in a short time what the man perceived and based quick conclusions. He doesn't chastise nor insult. He bases his opnion because of a subjective account given in a small time because time is essence and moves on, he understands the tedious nature of moving heavy radioactive blocks but he doesn't put down drag on because of the objectives, he moves on to engage the work group to engage in a sincere manner whilst maintaining military objectives. General Tarakanov embodies the soul of leadership.

[@b3j8]

Natural leader and looks to have been a damn fine soldier! Seeing this I immediately liked the General. I'll bet those serving under him there felt similarly.

[@brendaechols2228]

Brave men. Takes special people to do this work. Especially knowing its a death sentence. God Bless you for your sacrifice. Lots of love from the United States of America.

[@MinscS2]

"Nikolai Tarakanov, 85, told how the deadly radiation left his gums bleeding for weeks after the meltdown - and is forced to take a grueling regimen of drugs to just stay alive." FeelsBadMan. :/

[@franekkimono7012]

Tarakanov recalls that soldiers were exposed to something about 7000-8000 Rem/h. 100 Rem = 1 Sv, so 7000-8000 Rem/h = 70-80 Sv/h. It's ~1,3 Sv/minute. Radiation sickness can occur after receiving 1 Sv of radiation. 50% chance to die after acute radiation sickness is something about 4-5 Sv. Those soldiers going on the roof for 1-2 minutes were receiving something about 1 Sv per run. It actually depended on the place they worked on (there were specific spots more or less radioactive) and kind of radiation they were receiving. It also depended on their natural resistance, body mass, equipment they were wearing and protection against dust that they could inhale to their body and leave the roof with it inside them being still exposed to high levels even after leaving the power plant. On overall scale, those trips on the roof were one of the few ways to deal with this disaster which worked. On individual scale going on that roof was not worth a single penny and all that took part in it have shortened their life and health greatly.

[@lordfabulous6198]

They most definitely did not receive 1 sievert, or everyone there would require medical treatment and would not be able to have kids. They received, on average, 100 millisieverts, though.

[@carlblaskowitz7817]

Tarakanov and Antochkin... generals who lead from the front.

[@dado500]

Do not forget General Pikalov

[@noeldown1952]

@Freddy H Have you even listened at the beginning when he's describing having to send soldiers up the second time because they were scared and disobeyed the orders?

[@noeldown1952]

@Freddy H Do you speak Russian? I do. He says verbatim at 0:30 "We don't accuse him of being too scared, we tell him - you still have to obey the orders! Because they come here under orders. And he goes there the second time, overcoming his fear and the sense of danger."

[@noeldown1952]

@Freddy H What are you, 12? SMH

[@ComradeHugo]

@@AmethystNote Evacuation of Pripyat was started on the morning of April 27, which means that the decision was made already on April 26 to prepare everything for evacuation of 50 000 people. Swedish scientists at Forsmark detected high levels of radiation on the morning of 28 April. So the idea that "there is never be an evacuation even the citizen are dying from the radiation if radiation had not been found in other countries" is just a LIE. And this is just one example of the manipulations and lies in this series.

[@MOTOFLIXGARAGE]

Real life heroes who saved the world

[@krashd]

General Tarakanov was played by Ralph Ineson in the TV show.

[@ДимаШухов-х9ъ]

No, in HBO series have been general Pikalov

[@krashd]

@@ДимаШухов-х9ъ It says on IMDb and Wikipedia that he plays Tarakanov and every decision he makes in the show is the same decisions that Tarakanov made as head of the military attachment to the accident.

[@Mills-jw9nc]

Chris Finch bloody good rep

[@naveenplystore]

4:23 view of Chernobyl reactor 4 chimney in details

[@Irish_1916]

Thanks for these!! Very interesting..

[@1jeffr]

50 Rubles equals less than 1 Dollar in today's exchange rate. For their sake, I hope a Ruble was worth more in 1987.

[@fuffoon]

Exchange rate has little meaning. Purchasing power is everything. In 1986 USSR, there was nothing much to buy.

[@Yamthief]

1 ruble before the fall of the USSR was a lot closer to $1.50. You can't try and compare it with the current exchange rate! Additionally, communism was still a thing back then, so the value of the money was affected quite massively. Regardless, putting a monetary value on the high likelihood of health issues later in life was a strange 'bonus' to offer the young men who were unwillingly collected in the hundreds of thousands by the military.

[@rossmum]

Depends what you're buying. The planned economy meant prices didn't really compare to the West, and if you wanted certain luxury items typically brought in from the West the prices would be far inflated over what they would be for us. The same price to buy a pair of jeans could pay your rent for months. 50 rubles would be similar to 2 weeks' pay for a typical Soviet job.

[@januciavieirademeneses5139]

I thank you for vídeos , Greetings from Brazil

[@paco_rider]

How is possible that the camera was allowed to record and interview??? That was almost a secret operation

[@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire]

Simple, it was internal proof that people actually did things. Plus, there were over half a million liquidators, this wasn't secret at all.

[@verenturnil9510]

@@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire but only 3800 went to the roof

[@valdasmiskinis1173]

They where working on the roof stepping all over that graphite and everybody was bringing some of it on their boots back to that workstation. How contaminated it was after hundreds of them going back and forth the whole day, week? Terrible..

[@roxydzey]

o daaar viens lt. privet

[@valdasmiskinis1173]

@Muh boi Well, if you go back from playing with other kids from outside many times? And you dont leave your shoes outside. How would your mums carpet would look like? Do you think they left their shoes outside? They stepped on the graphite dust, maybe some wet graphite mash.. many many times...

[@valdasmiskinis1173]

@Muh boi Not to that level as at their work station. That was one of the worst work assignments at Chernobyl. Cheers!

[@n1nj4sp4rt4n]

Wow the show is so similar to the real footage! Huge effort

[@sajuente8235]

50 rubel and death letter...

[@tobywongitsme]

TODAY 50 Russian Ruble equals 0.73 United States Dollar

[@GetToHellOut]

@@tobywongitsme it's a different currency from a different country and has nothing to do with modern ruble of Russian Federation.

[@qbasic16]

@@tobywongitsme you also forgot to adjust for inflation

[@perez9619]

Shlomo PilpulStein 33yrs ago, not "almost" 40yrs ago.

[@63Limar]

@Shlomo PilpulStein ruble back in a day was also much bigger compared to the current one, not only by inflation.

[@snowflakemelter1172]

Lot was cheap in the glorious workers paradise.

[@DerDop]

yeap. socialism mate, life doesnt matter. only state aparatus.

[@krashd]

@@DerDop Odd thing to say "life doesn't matter" when capitalism is where you have to pay for medical treatment because your health is a privilege and not a right...

[@DerDop]

@@krashd depends on the capitalist country. In Europe you don't pay. In communism healthcare, at least in Europe and Russia, was free and backwarded.

[@watkinscopicat]

incredible bravery

[@MrDormammu]

damn those guy are just lifting that shit up with their hands to throw it over... definitley didnt end well for them.

[@Irish_1916]

Jesus they're throwing the blocks over using their hands.

[@xandr13]

@@Vkat696 Lead plated or not - most of those guys died in their early 40s.

[@Live.Vibe.Lasers]

4:33 one of the lunar robots or possibly Joker

[@benjaminsantelices7353]

That's Joker, you can tell it apart because of the yellow paint.

[@Thijs_NL]

How much was 50 Rubel worth in 1986? Today it is worth EUR 0,67.. that can't be right?

[@STEVELILLEY011117]

1 Soviet Rouble was around 1 US dollar then.

[@type2523]

at the end they got 800 rubels wich was a lotttttaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa money

[@type2523]

Thijs something like 40-50 euros

[@type2523]

Superpureeliteful yes , obviously they didn't do it for the money they done it for the world.because they were communists , the did care about each other ,unlikely today where they would only do it for money

[@type2523]

Superpureeliteful USA has 5000+ nuclear weapons sooo ....who is insane ? By pressing one button they can destroy the whole world

[@jcthefluteman]

4:33 I spy Joker!

[@melancholymonk7883]

they threw graphite blocks off the side by hand?!?!?! :O

[@radofficial4672]

How much would they have been exposed to.. would they have died from that?

[@andrewmeyer8783]

Sources I've found say 8000 rontegen/hour. Enough to get an entire year's worth of background radiation in 90 seconds.

[@radofficial4672]

@@andrewmeyer8783 So they probably survived 👍

[@andrewmeyer8783]

@@radofficial4672 Well it wouldn't be enough to immediately give anyone radiation poisoning. But there were thousands of soldiers who did this procedure, and cancer is a statistical phenomenon. It is certainly possible that this much radiation caused some of the soldiers to develop cancer later in life, but it would be impossible to causally attribute it directly to these 90 seconds. Also keep in mind that some of these guys probably got significantly more radiation by chance-- accidentally breaking protocol, picking up an unusually hot chunk, or getting dust stuck to themselves for hours afterwards could all be life-threatening in this situation. All in all, these guys were a serious bunch of badasses.

[@geoffrey10040]

In advance of the operation a team of dosimetrists surveyed the area and made a map of radioactivity levels. That’s how they knew how long the soldiers could stay there. They also plotted routes to get to the debris, etc. Technically the soldiers were not supposed to go above 25 rem, and officers were responsible for ensuring the limit. However, it’s possible that mistakes happened. The soldiers had individual dosimeters on them but the readings could only be read by a special device. Officers took readings after the end of the task.

[@kevin42]

Andrew Meyer actuly more like 12k

[@fillup40]

Did they ever really receive the money?

[@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire]

Yes.

[@BigStou]

How many did you throw away, none I shoveled some stuff and am still living .

[@salazar1104]

50 rubles for such a thing....

[@xbvl349x]

It was almost half of the average monthly salary

[@naphackDT]

@@Peter_739 Then how much would you pay? You are essentially paying half a month's salary for a minute or two of actual work. If you look at the amount of man hours needed to clear that roof, there is only so much budget that can be allocated to the task. The compensation for work needs to have some sort of relation to the value of the work. And liquidator on the roof is far from the worst job in the whole cleanup progress. Helicopter pilots during the sand drops or miners digging the tunnel under the reactor had it far worse. A short exposure to a massive dose of gamma and beta radiation is far less damaging to your long term health than ingesting isotopes with alpha decay, even if they probably felt like shit in the weeks after getting hammered by that radiation.

[@geoffrey10040]

xbvl349x I believe it was closer to a monthly salary. As far as I recall, my mom was getting 60 rubles for her work as a medical nurse. It may have been 1.5 full time employment, too.

[@podmizje]

instead od lunar veichles and men, why didnt the put a bulldozer or tractor with front loader on the roof

[@thomasjohnson3841]

too heavy

[@kristianmuhlenberg9531]

@@thomasjohnson3841 Radioactivity in the Area destroy the electronic and circuits in no time without proper shielding. Lunar Vehicles most likely have shielding because of cosmic radiation and stuff. -K

[@budasardi4701]

The roof can not bear such a weight.

[@podmizje]

@@budasardi4701 put štore404 with front loader on. its light and strong. it would have to be somehow manualy turned on cuz of electronics

[@lukandros]

Beyond the weight and the not protected electronics, the bulldozer is too big to maneuver over the roof.

[@JesseReinosa]

I serve the Soviet Union

[@TempoImpetuoso]

there's not Graphite

[@rockytucker7480]

Cuz their lives in half for 50 bucks wow

[@Palikroked87]

You don't see feminists fighting for this job

[@yn-uj2ov]

r u disabled?

[@IRFSI]

@@yn-uj2ov feminist only fight for office jobs

[@yn-uj2ov]

sounds like your complaining about third wave liberal "feminism" which i would agree is retarded For them, all their "feminism" amounts to is pretty much "more women CEOs!" But its a misconception that third wave feminism is the only feminism though, there's plenty of men and women who identify as feminists who are trying to improve a lot of low wage women sweatshop workers, who try to support and shelter exploited and vulnerable girls forced into prostitution. etc What your talking about is western third wave feminism, which if you ask me isn't meaningful feminism at all.

[@yn-uj2ov]

but you'll probably just call me an SJW and the conversation will end there

[@dark_paradise27]

I'm a women but this is so funny!

[@MrAndrjuha]

vilazite polniju sjomku,a to paru minut tolka ot celovo 4asa

[@liamramsay6922]

Any taste metal

[@Digmen1]

Wow this is amazing, and so sad. The filming at 4:25 is so moving it shows the guys moving around on the roof. I just wish they could have used prisoners, or some other low lifes!

[@coolname545]

How about you?

[@ptnhloooooo]

Писят вечнопадающих ублей в обмен на здоровье. Выгодный обмен)))

[@63Limar]

В советах курс постабильнее был. Отчасти из-за чего экономика и дошла до критического состояния развала, в отличие от текущего рубля, который в говно сдулся и засчет этого от санкций/кризиса не так плохо экономике как таковой.

[@петрпетров-х3м]

@@63Limar ебать мамкины экономисты....в Советском Союзе рубль был обеспечен золотом, а не как сейчас любая валюта в мире просто красивая бумажка ничем не обеспеченная.

[@63Limar]

@@петрпетров-х3м в советском союзе просто "все шло по плану", держали курс рубля в ущерб экономике

[@петрпетров-х3м]

@@63Limar ну я и говорю же, мамкины экономисты...

[@63Limar]

@@петрпетров-х3м мамкины совки я бы скорее сказал