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"I totally did not expect this to blow up. With that said, I would love to make another one." - the party officials involved in the Soviet nuclear program
I love the insane troll logic shared between Dyatlov, Bryukhanov and Fomin when it comes to trying to explain how the core exploded. It essentially boils down to "if you can't explain how an RBMK reactor core explodes, then it can't explode" lmao.
That line of thinking is actually quite common for individuals with strongly held beliefs. If you can't disprove their line of thinking, then you must be incorrect.
In Dyatlov's defense, he was told, according to official party paperwork, that it was indeed impossible. He worked for a government that was notorious for sending dissenters to pr.... education camps. Gorbachev, to his credit, was slowly trying to change the Soviet Union and was a lot more reasonable than his predecessors. He had a very short time to make a lot of decisions when the accident occurred, and he tried his best to act in a manner that would save the most lives. He was very supportive of the workers and the show downplayed the efforts of a lot of people on the ground at Chernobyl.
@@CaptanF0rever Except for when Gorbachev and the central committee lied about the radiation levels, causing the west to send a robot that would never work, wasting more time and ultimately more lives when they had to rely on humans to clean the roof instead.
To be fair to them, none of the people in that room had been close to the reactor after it exploded, so they themselves didn't actually see it. The control room was in a completely seperate building on the other side of the complex, amd I expect the conference room to be somewhere there as well. Both far away from the actual reactor buildings.
@@xxnightdriverxx9576 that’s literally not true at all. The control rooms were relatively *close* to the reactors. Which is why we see so much graphite on the ground from Dyatlov’s perspective in one of the upstairs corridors. If the control room was as far away as your comment suggested, then Dyatlov couldn’t have seen graphite from his position. The control rooms in RBMK plants were in the same buildings as their reactors.
@@dancingcarapace The five stages of grief: 1. Denial 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance The five stages of grief, according to Dyatlov, Bryukhanov, and Fomin: 1. Denial 2. Denial 3. Denial 4. Denial 5. Denial
The show doesn't do a good job explaining it, but in real life Dyatlov believed it was an explosion in a hydrogen tank that had blown open the roof, not the reactor core. In fact, everyone there believed that at the time.
Well, in reality it wasn't a toilet, I think, but he was rather making rounds around the power plant. When he returned to the 4th block's control room, the power had already dropped and Akimov with Toptunov were trying to rise it. He gave them his blessing to continue and continue they did. At least that was Dyatlov's version of events. You have to take it with a grain of salt, but the HBO series with the spoon of salt. It's American made series, after all. 🙂
This whole episode is so INFURIATING because you know those poor bastards being subjected to insults and ridicule are just trying to properly assess the GRAVITY of the situation and upper management’s only concern is to downplay it and prepare running “damage control.”
More like they all knew this special task was lunacy but they couldn't overrule the idiot who supervises them that only wanted it done no matter what the cost.
“Hey, maybe we should evacuate the city and inform people about the danger.” Old guy: “or, we can act like there is no problem and we don’t get in trouble.” “THIS MF SPITTIN!!!”
I swear I said it in class one time when I was 15 after a chemistry group project and was in charge to write the essay but since I suffered of imsomnia I hadnt slept for 2 days and fell on the PC exhausted so my mother took me to bed and so... "No one can blame me guys, I WAS SLEEPING!" (for one day and half right until the morning when we had to give it to the teacher).
@@friedyt thanks buddy I just LOVE how you emphatized to hilarious levels the skill of these guys to deny the clear absolutely disastrous reality. Plus, the actor which plays the manager/constructor chief of the VLADIMIR LENIN NUCLEAR POWER STATION (let's not call like a capitalist pleb would or they will cut our internet too...) has that kind of deep cigarette-crippled voice with a particular pitch that turns every said thing into gold. Let's don't talk also about the shoe factory worker in charge because that's just ART. Well... cheers comrad. *To the RUclips Red Banned Workers of the World...* * *FAT VODKA SIP INTENSIFIES* *
I actually wish he included the whole old man's speech. It starts with this slow "greatest generation, blah blah, we've been called on to mark hard choices" and being in the west you think this is going to end with some selfless declaration of doing the right thing and immediately working the problem...but hes an old-assed Stalinist so he immediately wants the phone lines cut and to hold the civilians in the toxic radiation zone.
Dyatlov left the room at the key moment because deep down he knew that something could be wrong (perhaps not as wrong as it went), which is why he could blame one of the workers if the worst happened. This is why his superior Bryukhanov was also conveniently sleeping at the moment, even though he was the one who pressed for the test.
the emergency calls chill me to the bone. i cant help noticing the abstract difference in competence between the emergency call operators and the 'management.'
The hell of it is Legasov knew the entire time, he knew not only how it was possible, but also the only chain of events that could have caused the reactor to explode. And then he arrives on site, the only man there who knows exactly how it happened, gets his opinion attacked by the fuckups responsible, and because of the government putting pressure on him he can't tell them that it's entirely their fault, that they broke every safety procedure in the book, and that as a result there will not be a single person born on the planet in the next hundred years that will not hear the name Chernobyl and shudder in terror at their magnificent lack of competence.
Well, that is certainly how the show portrays him. In reality, Legasov was one of the major figures responsible for (and quite successful in) the cover up the Soviet delegation to the IAEA fabricated. They made Dyatlov the scapegoat to distract from the Kurchatov institute's - responsible for nuclear reactor design and safety - fault.
Dyatlov comes back from work Dyatlov's wife: 'honey how was work" Dyatlov: not great not terrible Dyaltov's wife: YOUR SKIN IS FALLING!!! Dyatlov: your delusional
@@feeblemonster8174when they planned to take Kuwait, they took it. When they planned to take Afghanistan, they took it. When they planned to take Iraq, they did. When the Russians planned.... Oh wait, they didn't....
@@sjonnieplayfull5859 don`t discuss with loosers like him. Just think about how Wagner swept thru russia with 25.000 troops like a hot knife in butter. Russia is a joke.
Um, you aren’t correct there. They didn’t take Kuwait, the Iraqis did. Iraq wasn’t a victory because as soon as Saddam was removed it descended into sectarian and ethnic civil war which even the journalists in America and Britain feared would happen. Iraq if you haven’t checked lately is far worse than before we bombed it as was Libya. Afghanistan, if you consider your enemies taking back control of the entire country with capturing vast hordes of your equipment while fleeing the country with your tail between your legs and the Taliban restoring everything as it was before a victory then at least when Russia actually wins they do win. Hence, Georgia, Crimea and eventually Ukraine.
Sounds a lot like the Biden Administration right now “Supreme Court Justice nominee can you tell the definition of a woman?” Supreme Court nominee now judge “no I can’t “
There's everything wrong with that. You don't hire such people for posts like this. Under-educated, under-qualified factory workers are not material that is useful for anything other than their base jobs.
@@SyndicateSuperman Hell, first president in my life who not only didn't start any new wars, but also negotiated peace deals AND set foot in N.Korea(first since the armistice, technically we ARE still at war with them). At this point I'd say it sounds more like the other side.
you should've used dyatlov vomiting as the clip to signify when someone is talking bullshit. after every time they're like "how does an RBMK reactor core explode?" you just follow it up with dyatlov vomiting XDD
I think it’s been long enough to make jokes.. but I also feel the gravity of the whole situation and as a Russian myself, many family members were affected by it
The official position of the party is that a nuclear catastrophe cannot happen in the soviet union, so why the fuck would we need the opinion of a nuclear physicist? is this alarmism? are you stupid?
He was not anymore a worker shoe, he integrated the bureaucratic aparatus and as many of his kind he manages better political power than any science (its a maniere to mean is an idiot) Dont forget in soviet union the intelectual domain was separated from the manual domain and there was not separation of tasks etc...
They sent somebody from Moscow to Chernobyl and the engineer at Chernobyl couldn't be arsed to walk around the reactor building to see that there was graphite on the ground.
I see this kind of attitude everywhere. People, who think that they know more about any subjects than a professional, who studied the subject for years on a university and then published numerous peer-reviewed works.
@@CZpersi First of all, darling. If you know something, you know something. The state of having knowledge has nothing to do with how many articles you publish, in which corruption is a major factor, but it's bound to understanding and knowledge. Using credentials to justify shortcoming is not how real science works. Published articles do not make you an expert, a deep understanding of the problem makes you an expert. In this show, Legasov is an expert not because he's a professor or he published articles, he's an expert because he knows and understands the science. Do not confuse the two.
@markarmage3776 So, one does not need to be educated as a nuclear physicist? One does not have to pass tests, exams and write papers to become recognized and known as a nuclear expert? You can have all the knowledge in the universe, but you need to prove it first, if you want others to believe your advice. Otherwise, it is just your "trust me, broh". Diplomas and publications have many shortcomings and academia is indeed nepotistic and corrupted in many ways, but I will always prefer a properly educated nuclear physicist in charge of my nations nuclear power plants, thank you. I myself would rather prefer my surgery to be done by a properly trained and experienced medical doctor with qualification in surgery. But, what can I know? Perhaps somebody, who saw couple videos on RUclips would do it better? The freedom of choice is yours. Also, I am not your "darling". If you are unable to discuss politely, then you automatically lose the debate.
I put this in my presentation actually! The Russian troops exposed the radioactive dirt which the liquidators buried and increased the radiation in the exclusion zone by more than 10x.
@@friedyt week ago I read a report of Russian Docters seeing more radiation problems with those soldiers. It's actually a fear of those who bury the stuff that it will be found in some far future by people who have forgotten what it was Sadly, the far future was very near...
@@friedyt not too surprising: they were raised by people who got educated in the Soviet Union, by those who were told that the State does not make mistakes and there are no serial killers in the Soviet Union. Those people raised and trained these soldiers, and the last years they have only been told bad things about Ukraine so any truth should be ignored as much as possible. And then it hits them in the face like an open door hits a blindfolded guy
@@danielk5780 not really.. nuclear powerplant workers today are exposed to very little radiation. This movie and media has made it seem as though nuclear engineers just drop dead as soon as they enter a power plant.
sharp elbows. make sure to take a portion of the responsibility when things go well and avoid the brunt of the blame when things go bad, be hard on those under you, owners like that. for some reason it shows loyalty and leadership capabilities
They kicked ass at lower rungs of the ladder. A LOT would improve if the coorporate culture allowed for returning people who get promoted beyond their competence to return to the job they did well with no shame attatched to it.
How stupid are they they can clearly see the reactor hall blown open and they still think the control system tank blew up. I doubt a tank can create that much damage.
@viracocha Management constantly trying to cover their ass. Not telling people what they are doing at appropriate intervals or letting them examine plans ahead of time. Being against people asking questions. Hostile environment. The people at the top of the chain not being knowledgeable on their subject matter. Yes, most jobs, at least in the US, are exactly like this.
It infuriates me when clueless americans like you bagatelize how fkin horrible the communist leadership and the whole system were, where the only requiememt for any position of power was being the biggest bootlicker and snitch, no matter the expertise. This rot was in every corner of society, never knew who to trust, everybody could be a snitch, you could be jailed just for something your child said in the school because he/she heard it at home. you had to talk about anything “political” or anything that could be deemed as such (asically almost everything) in a hushed voice, never on the street, workplace, pub or you faced jail, loss of job, loss of education for your children, etc… everybody was afraid if everybody, this series depicts it solidly, but not in it’s full darkness. Yeah, just like in america🤦♂️
My biggest problem with the series was how it portrayed Dyatlov. Dyatlov with scapegoated but the people who worked with him had nothing but nice things to say about him with the exception of what was said at what was literally a Soviet show trial. During this incident, he went looking for Khodemchuk, and didn't leave the plant until he was ordered to do so.
I was thinking about that actually, The 2 have a lot of similarities in that they portray the Soviet Union, Use mostly British actors with varying regional accents instead of Faux Russian accents, and are somewhat comedic and portray the general events quite well, but specifics and the characters are inaccurate.
worked in a shoe factory ----------------> ( ' -- ' ) "and now I'm in charge. To the workers of the world" **fat sip** Brilliant. I loved every bit of it.
The sad part is that Dyatlov *was* kind of correct, the RBMK reactor wasn't supposed to have graphite. The designers cut corners and THAT'S why there was graphite. He wasn't in denial, he was correct in every way but one: it was a lie that he had no way of knowing of. He thought that he was the only sane man in the room.
Oh. No, he knew the cores were made of graphite, most Reactor technicians in the Soviet Union knew, but he was in denial because in any sane world, the SCRAM button WOULDN’T have caused an explosion. But it did. And he might not have known *HOW MUCH* Graphite there was. Dyatlov cannot be blamed for the design flaw. But he absolutely caused the meltdown with his incompetence and later caused the unnecessary deaths of other men by refusing to acknowledge that the core had indeed exploded.
Graphite was the moderator for the core, so he would have known about that. He was in denial because reactor cores don’t explode, so that graphite couldn’t have been seen outside. I think you’re confusing the graphite tips issue.
@@dancingcarapaceit’s funny, because he did not act as in the hbo series, hbo just needed a scapegoat/villain to make it watchable for stupid sheep who can not nuance
@@dancingcarapace Not really, once the core went critical pressing the az-5 only acted as a detonator, not pressing it would also lead to a meltdown but not explosion. He went by the book by the way and followed protocol.
As arrogant as Dyatlov yes its true he was supervising out of his ass but he always had the thought that if he it goes wrong the fail safe button will end everything safely, yes he was responsible for the accident but not entirely as there was a problem with the AZ5 button, he wouldn't have known the reactor would explode, he must face imprisonment clearly but the state should have delt a more serious charge, its sad that nothing changed until professor Legasov had to kill himself. He was true the hero, along with everyone involved and every person who sacrificed their lives and exposed themselves to the radiation. What a show.
The ironic thing is they were trying to do a safety test. The reactor is supposed to use its own power when outside power to the reactor fails. The test lowers power so they can see that that safety function is working properly. If they dont do the test maybe it never even happens.
I imagine similar scenes happening at Boeing management shortly after the whistleblower came out with all the cost-cutting on maintenance and quality assurance shenanigans back in 2018.
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"I totally did not expect this to blow up. With that said, I would love to make another one." - the party officials involved in the Soviet nuclear program
More of Chernobly please!
I would eagerly watch any heavy drama that you can make as funny as this, the editing here is absolutely perfect
Prolly should’ve expected it to blow up, in hindsight.
You did an excellent job.
I love the insane troll logic shared between Dyatlov, Bryukhanov and Fomin when it comes to trying to explain how the core exploded. It essentially boils down to "if you can't explain how an RBMK reactor core explodes, then it can't explode" lmao.
its the party logic
3 trillion IQ answer
That line of thinking is actually quite common for individuals with strongly held beliefs. If you can't disprove their line of thinking, then you must be incorrect.
In Dyatlov's defense, he was told, according to official party paperwork, that it was indeed impossible. He worked for a government that was notorious for sending dissenters to pr.... education camps. Gorbachev, to his credit, was slowly trying to change the Soviet Union and was a lot more reasonable than his predecessors. He had a very short time to make a lot of decisions when the accident occurred, and he tried his best to act in a manner that would save the most lives. He was very supportive of the workers and the show downplayed the efforts of a lot of people on the ground at Chernobyl.
@@CaptanF0rever Except for when Gorbachev and the central committee lied about the radiation levels, causing the west to send a robot that would never work, wasting more time and ultimately more lives when they had to rely on humans to clean the roof instead.
Titanic - "This ship is unsinkable"
Chernobyl - "This reactor cannot explode"
Any time you hear someone saying such things your immediate reaction should be to RUN, get as far away from that idiot before he gets you killed
Titan submarine: this sub won't implode
Not only this reactor, no reactor can be exploded.
US banking system- "It cannot fail"
He’s delusional
I love how they stuck with the feedwater story when they could clearly see the whole building blown open
If there’s one thing Dyatlov was good at it was _denial_
To be fair to them, none of the people in that room had been close to the reactor after it exploded, so they themselves didn't actually see it.
The control room was in a completely seperate building on the other side of the complex, amd I expect the conference room to be somewhere there as well. Both far away from the actual reactor buildings.
@@xxnightdriverxx9576 that’s literally not true at all. The control rooms were relatively *close* to the reactors. Which is why we see so much graphite on the ground from Dyatlov’s perspective in one of the upstairs corridors. If the control room was as far away as your comment suggested, then Dyatlov couldn’t have seen graphite from his position. The control rooms in RBMK plants were in the same buildings as their reactors.
@@dancingcarapace
The five stages of grief:
1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance
The five stages of grief, according to Dyatlov, Bryukhanov, and Fomin:
1. Denial
2. Denial
3. Denial
4. Denial
5. Denial
The show doesn't do a good job explaining it, but in real life Dyatlov believed it was an explosion in a hydrogen tank that had blown open the roof, not the reactor core. In fact, everyone there believed that at the time.
Lawyer: “Your honor, my client was in the toilet.”
Judge: “Take the cuffs off of him. He’s free to go.”
of course lol
Well, in reality it wasn't a toilet, I think, but he was rather making rounds around the power plant. When he returned to the 4th block's control room, the power had already dropped and Akimov with Toptunov were trying to rise it. He gave them his blessing to continue and continue they did.
At least that was Dyatlov's version of events. You have to take it with a grain of salt, but the HBO series with the spoon of salt. It's American made series, after all. 🙂
@@Eltanin25☝🤓
@@Eltanin25 ☝🤓
@Eltanin25 its true, the cia hijacked the reactor to make it seem like the ussr was at fault for the world's worst nuclear catastrophe
I swear this is how my managers run their teams.
so real
Worked for a company during covid was like this work environment
Sadly not surprising. I hope you don't work in a nuclear power plant, though.
"I need you here overtime, you're indispensable" _cuts your hours to part time_
All middle management is the same, regardless of country. The only difference is how much power they're given in any given economic system.
“Apparently our reactor core explo-“
*cutaway to explosion
That one got a laugh out of me
6:32. Dyatlov: "I was in the toilet "
6:35. "That is how an RBMK reactor core explode"
it's definitely how the pizza I previously ate eventually explodes into the toilet
🤣🤣😅
Did that on purpose LOL
Dyatlov's shit, both metaphorically and literally, caused Chernobyl.
@@aregmirzoyan869😂😂😂😂😂 underrated comment..
This whole episode is so INFURIATING because you know those poor bastards being subjected to insults and ridicule are just trying to properly assess the GRAVITY of the situation and upper management’s only concern is to downplay it and prepare running “damage control.”
More like they all knew this special task was lunacy but they couldn't overrule the idiot who supervises them that only wanted it done no matter what the cost.
Well hopefully no lunatics can make these kinda of decisions alone these days to his "reactor"
This is a bi-product of Marist regimes in which everyone is forced to conform and any form of decent is punished.
Yupp
This is like Mayorkas and democraps telling everyone U.S. border is under control lol
“Hey, maybe we should evacuate the city and inform people about the danger.”
Old guy: “or, we can act like there is no problem and we don’t get in trouble.”
“THIS MF SPITTIN!!!”
I wanted to make his eyes glow red in that part lmaoo
Stalinist Russians
Very Breschnjew here
And then you see him on a bus evacuating.
Boomer generation to a T
2:52 my reaction when a group project fail
I swear I said it in class one time when I was 15 after a chemistry group project and was in charge to write the essay but since I suffered of imsomnia I hadnt slept for 2 days and fell on the PC exhausted so my mother took me to bed and so... "No one can blame me guys, I WAS SLEEPING!" (for one day and half right until the morning when we had to give it to the teacher).
Pretty much every scene in this video could use that title lol
_"The Accident... I-i-i-is well under control!"_
* *K A B O O M!!!* *
Has me dead every time.
One of my favorite parts too
@@friedyt thanks buddy I just LOVE how you emphatized to hilarious levels the skill of these guys to deny the clear absolutely disastrous reality. Plus, the actor which plays the manager/constructor chief of the VLADIMIR LENIN NUCLEAR POWER STATION (let's not call like a capitalist pleb would or they will cut our internet too...) has that kind of deep cigarette-crippled voice with a particular pitch that turns every said thing into gold. Let's don't talk also about the shoe factory worker in charge because that's just ART.
Well... cheers comrad. *To the RUclips Red Banned Workers of the World...*
* *FAT VODKA SIP INTENSIFIES* *
Dyatlov: "he he.... Core goes booooom".
The slow zoom in on the old man telling everyone it’s fine just kills me 💀💀 excellent edit my dude
thanks!!
I actually wish he included the whole old man's speech. It starts with this slow "greatest generation, blah blah, we've been called on to mark hard choices" and being in the west you think this is going to end with some selfless declaration of doing the right thing and immediately working the problem...but hes an old-assed Stalinist so he immediately wants the phone lines cut and to hold the civilians in the toxic radiation zone.
Stalinist Russians
We'll cut off the spread of misinformation. Muahahaha.
Fkn guy is scarier than any horror movie character.
Dyatlov left the room at the key moment because deep down he knew that something could be wrong (perhaps not as wrong as it went), which is why he could blame one of the workers if the worst happened. This is why his superior Bryukhanov was also conveniently sleeping at the moment, even though he was the one who pressed for the test.
the emergency calls chill me to the bone. i cant help noticing the abstract difference in competence between the emergency call operators and the 'management.'
Yes exactly, they had no idea what was really happening until they died.
The hell of it is Legasov knew the entire time, he knew not only how it was possible, but also the only chain of events that could have caused the reactor to explode. And then he arrives on site, the only man there who knows exactly how it happened, gets his opinion attacked by the fuckups responsible, and because of the government putting pressure on him he can't tell them that it's entirely their fault, that they broke every safety procedure in the book, and that as a result there will not be a single person born on the planet in the next hundred years that will not hear the name Chernobyl and shudder in terror at their magnificent lack of competence.
Props to the explanation. It’s almost a shame the names of the incompetent aren’t etched in history as well
Well, that is certainly how the show portrays him. In reality, Legasov was one of the major figures responsible for (and quite successful in) the cover up the Soviet delegation to the IAEA fabricated.
They made Dyatlov the scapegoat to distract from the Kurchatov institute's - responsible for nuclear reactor design and safety - fault.
Lol should have shown the explosion scene right after Dyatlov says he was in the toilet
I totally should have haha
Loved how you showed the core exploding every time someone said something to the contrary, great work, thanks!
Dyatlov comes back from work
Dyatlov's wife: 'honey how was work"
Dyatlov: not great not terrible
Dyaltov's wife: YOUR SKIN IS FALLING!!!
Dyatlov: your delusional
Wife: there’s graphite in your pocket!
Dyatlov: she’s in shock, take her to the infirmary
Omg 😂
How "Superior/Client" is always right can cause a disaster.
Equivalent to "how an RBMK reactor could explode".
Yes indeed
Always right... in matters of taste. They can and often are wrong about anything else.
"No one leaves the city, cut the phone lines"... {Thunderous applause}
MAGA level stupidity
This was one of the best series I've ever watched. Thr attention to detail (such as the correct music on thr radio) was fantastic.
I totally agree
Except they showed Pripyat in midsummer. In April, it would be bare or just-budding trees.
I imagine meetings of the russian MoD are exactly like that.
Devil's advocate but I imagine that meetings in the United States Department of State are not far off from that also.
Not really, this is how the American and English government is lol.
@@feeblemonster8174when they planned to take Kuwait, they took it. When they planned to take Afghanistan, they took it. When they planned to take Iraq, they did.
When the Russians planned....
Oh wait, they didn't....
@@sjonnieplayfull5859 don`t discuss with loosers like him. Just think about how Wagner swept thru russia with 25.000 troops like a hot knife in butter. Russia is a joke.
Um, you aren’t correct there. They didn’t take Kuwait, the Iraqis did. Iraq wasn’t a victory because as soon as Saddam was removed it descended into sectarian and ethnic civil war which even the journalists in America and Britain feared would happen. Iraq if you haven’t checked lately is far worse than before we bombed it as was Libya.
Afghanistan, if you consider your enemies taking back control of the entire country with capturing vast hordes of your equipment while fleeing the country with your tail between your legs and the Taliban restoring everything as it was before a victory then at least when Russia actually wins they do win. Hence, Georgia, Crimea and eventually Ukraine.
"It's another faulty meter"
Youre wasting our time..
@@friedyt I apologize... 🤮
@@TheGreenReaper he has been around the feedwater all night
3:14 The zoom in on his eyes makes what he's saying even more horrifying than it already is.
He's got Joey Biden Eyes.
“I’m a nuclear physicist” “I worked in a shoe factory now I’m in charge”. The idiocy of the Soviet Union summed up perfectly.
@@cubankid1959He didn't listen because he was incompetent, that is why he should have stayed in the shoe factory, that's why his point stands.
Sounds a lot like the Biden Administration right now “Supreme Court Justice nominee can you tell the definition of a woman?”
Supreme Court nominee now judge “no I can’t “
Venezuela has a bus driver as President.
There's everything wrong with that. You don't hire such people for posts like this. Under-educated, under-qualified factory workers are not material that is useful for anything other than their base jobs.
@@Raven72 and the people there were eating the zoo animals to survive
now i know how the chernobyl reactor explode, ofc the az5 control was in the toilet.
One of the most amazing series and terrifying as well...
May the soul of those who have left us. RIP..
In a few minutes this will all be over … yeah that’s a good way to describe it
Well he wasn’t wrong
"Is it too much to ask that you all know what you're doing?"
"Yes, absolutely!"
Gets me every time
Hahaha
akimov actually meant, it was too much to ask for. lmao
This show is so well made, i love it.
Nice edit, thank you.
thank YOU!
"the toilet"
"THAT is how an RBMK reactor explodes."
So, Dyatlov is the main suspect. I'm blaming his gas for this catastrophy.
The American equivalent to all this would be:
"I ran a reality show. Now I am in charge."
Trump's Presidency didn't kill the amount of people that the Soviets did regarding Chernobyl.
@@SyndicateSuperman Hell, first president in my life who not only didn't start any new wars, but also negotiated peace deals AND set foot in N.Korea(first since the armistice, technically we ARE still at war with them). At this point I'd say it sounds more like the other side.
Exactly 😂
you should've used dyatlov vomiting as the clip to signify when someone is talking bullshit. after every time they're like "how does an RBMK reactor core explode?" you just follow it up with dyatlov vomiting XDD
Critical Drinker does that with the Tyrion clip a lot lol.
1:46 - Maybe the only irreproachable thing that Dyatlov said in the entire exchange with the control room staff.
One of the best series/pieces of content I have seen in years. TV show/mini series/movie - this is supreme.
"Contain the spread of misinformation"
Sounds eerily familiar, doesn't it?
Fauci at 03:21
*Mental sickness*
Put twitter logo image.
Antivaxxers think they are Legasov, but everyone else knows they're Dyatlov.
bro here thinks he's legasov while he explained that akchtually only 3.6 people died from Covid.
@@LaMarcheFutilé101 can't die of something that was made up, i'm sure they died of the flu though
I can‘t believe this guy turned a tragedy that is supposed to be serious and tragic into something u can laugh at 😂 Iconic .
Tragedies are supposed to be tragic? Lies!
I think it’s been long enough to make jokes.. but I also feel the gravity of the whole situation and as a Russian myself, many family members were affected by it
Comedy = Tragedy + Time
Dark comedy is kinda a Whole Thing.
Whose opinion is more valid?
1. A nuclear physicist
2. A shoe factory worker
Is this a trick question?
Doesn't matter, the shoe factory worker is in charge. To the workers of the world! *sips vodka*
The official position of the party is that a nuclear catastrophe cannot happen in the soviet union, so why the fuck would we need the opinion of a nuclear physicist? is this alarmism? are you stupid?
He was not anymore a worker shoe, he integrated the bureaucratic aparatus and as many of his kind he manages better political power than any science (its a maniere to mean is an idiot)
Dont forget in soviet union the intelectual domain was separated from the manual domain and there was not separation of tasks etc...
I prefer my opinion to yours.
I have watched this series 3 times now. It is brilliantly made x
The level of incompetency displayed here is literally criminal😂😂😂
Decades of lying to save their own asses. This was the end result.
They sent somebody from Moscow to Chernobyl and the engineer at Chernobyl couldn't be arsed to walk around the reactor building to see that there was graphite on the ground.
Why go to university when you can just work in a shoe factory and instantly be more knowledgeable
exactly. he gets it.
I see this kind of attitude everywhere. People, who think that they know more about any subjects than a professional, who studied the subject for years on a university and then published numerous peer-reviewed works.
@@CZpersi First of all, darling. If you know something, you know something. The state of having knowledge has nothing to do with how many articles you publish, in which corruption is a major factor, but it's bound to understanding and knowledge.
Using credentials to justify shortcoming is not how real science works. Published articles do not make you an expert, a deep understanding of the problem makes you an expert.
In this show, Legasov is an expert not because he's a professor or he published articles, he's an expert because he knows and understands the science. Do not confuse the two.
Or go to university, and end up with less wisdom than someone in a shoe factory. Not here, clearly, but it happens more often than you'd think.
@markarmage3776 So, one does not need to be educated as a nuclear physicist? One does not have to pass tests, exams and write papers to become recognized and known as a nuclear expert? You can have all the knowledge in the universe, but you need to prove it first, if you want others to believe your advice. Otherwise, it is just your "trust me, broh". Diplomas and publications have many shortcomings and academia is indeed nepotistic and corrupted in many ways, but I will always prefer a properly educated nuclear physicist in charge of my nations nuclear power plants, thank you.
I myself would rather prefer my surgery to be done by a properly trained and experienced medical doctor with qualification in surgery. But, what can I know? Perhaps somebody, who saw couple videos on RUclips would do it better? The freedom of choice is yours.
Also, I am not your "darling". If you are unable to discuss politely, then you automatically lose the debate.
My man Dyatlov dropping on hell of a bomb in that toilet - "thats how a RBMK reactor explodes"
I wasn't in the room, I was on the toilet
That's how an RBK Reactor explodes.
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4:11 i love his face expression, when djatlov starty shouting. :D he is like "aaaand here it comes..."
2:14 "fuck the phones and fuck Khodemchuk."
An absolute abhorrent remark considering Khodemchuk had just died. Not that Dyatlov knew, but still.
He would still have said that if he knew
@@visionist7
The real life Dyatlov was not as entitled as the show portrayed. He was willing to help
Rip Khodemchuk, but that line is so damn funny
After watching that Chernobyl guy I do think the series does a bit of a character assassination on dyatlov
Anyone who has ever spent any time working in IT has seen similar behavior.
*Benvenuti nel bel paese.*
These people are so infuriating. All the workers wanted to do it by the book but the people who are supposed to be the important ones wouldn’t listen.
In 2022, Russian troops were digging trenches in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. It was all forgotten.
*2022
I put this in my presentation actually! The Russian troops exposed the radioactive dirt which the liquidators buried and increased the radiation in the exclusion zone by more than 10x.
@@friedyt week ago I read a report of Russian Docters seeing more radiation problems with those soldiers. It's actually a fear of those who bury the stuff that it will be found in some far future by people who have forgotten what it was
Sadly, the far future was very near...
@@sjonnieplayfull5859 Very sad indeed. And many of the soldiers got ARS - many didn't even know the history of Chernobyl, surprisingly.
@@friedyt not too surprising: they were raised by people who got educated in the Soviet Union, by those who were told that the State does not make mistakes and there are no serial killers in the Soviet Union. Those people raised and trained these soldiers, and the last years they have only been told bad things about Ukraine so any truth should be ignored as much as possible. And then it hits them in the face like an open door hits a blindfolded guy
I swear I used to work in a spot just like this...
Well, the fact that you haven't died from radiation poising makes you one of the luckier former employers of your old workplace.
@@danielk5780 not really.. nuclear powerplant workers today are exposed to very little radiation. This movie and media has made it seem as though nuclear engineers just drop dead as soon as they enter a power plant.
@@friedytthey made it seem that way cause this particular one exploded lol
Government bureaucracy at it's finest, every level of government trying to cover it's own failures.
I've seen this in corporations as well. Corporate, government, it's human bureaucracy.
@@Blashmack the difference is t he at corporations can't deploy the military to cover up a monumental fuck up like this the government can
@@Blashmack When a corporation fails, it eventually ceases to exist. When government fails, it can go on failing forever.
Can you provide an example of the US trying to cover up a disaster that occurred in front of millions?
@@jshepard152not true.
Apparently, sources claim that Diatlov was a completely different person from what we'd watched in the series. 180 degrees.
Yeah, he wasn’t a completely horrible person. There are a few reviews you can find on RUclips from when he was still alive
The toilet to blame then and not the graphite though!!!😁
Yes, of course it was in no way his fault :)
This is basically any modern day corporation, I’ll never understand how most VPs and above to the CEOs get into their positions.
sharp elbows. make sure to take a portion of the responsibility when things go well and avoid the brunt of the blame when things go bad, be hard on those under you, owners like that. for some reason it shows loyalty and leadership capabilities
true, now imagine those retards have control of full aspects of your life lol
Bluff, bluster, 'self-promotion', manipulation, opportunism. Don't EVER take your 'boss', 'supervisor', 'manager', 'CEO' seriously.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver nor your president
They kicked ass at lower rungs of the ladder.
A LOT would improve if the coorporate culture allowed for returning people who get promoted beyond their competence to return to the job they did well with no shame attatched to it.
How stupid are they they can clearly see the reactor hall blown open and they still think the control system tank blew up. I doubt a tank can create that much damage.
6:32 that voice sounded familiar, and indeed he was also in The Siege of Jadotville, he played the general.
I didn’t know that, cool!
... Or much more famously, he played Roose Bolton in Game of Thrones.
I mean this is what any job is like.
Nuclear catastrophe is like any job?
@viracocha
Management constantly trying to cover their ass.
Not telling people what they are doing at appropriate intervals or letting them examine plans ahead of time.
Being against people asking questions.
Hostile environment.
The people at the top of the chain not being knowledgeable on their subject matter.
Yes, most jobs, at least in the US, are exactly like this.
It infuriates me when clueless americans like you bagatelize how fkin horrible the communist leadership and the whole system were, where the only requiememt for any position of power was being the biggest bootlicker and snitch, no matter the expertise. This rot was in every corner of society, never knew who to trust, everybody could be a snitch, you could be jailed just for something your child said in the school because he/she heard it at home. you had to talk about anything “political” or anything that could be deemed as such (asically almost everything) in a hushed voice, never on the street, workplace, pub or you faced jail, loss of job, loss of education for your children, etc… everybody was afraid if everybody, this series depicts it solidly, but not in it’s full darkness.
Yeah, just like in america🤦♂️
"Is this it? Have we achieved full communism yet?"
"Oh hell no. Things are gonna get a lot worse!"
Real Communism has never been..🤣🤣 can't even type that shit lmao.
We need Gordron Ramsay here to tell him that he's in Denial
My biggest problem with the series was how it portrayed Dyatlov. Dyatlov with scapegoated but the people who worked with him had nothing but nice things to say about him with the exception of what was said at what was literally a Soviet show trial.
During this incident, he went looking for Khodemchuk, and didn't leave the plant until he was ordered to do so.
I love how 'Extra' Dyatlov was in this show.
Super great actor for sure
When comrade says the situation is under control, that means the situation is under control. No doubts about it.
If "Chernobyl" had been written and directed by Armando Ianucci instead of Craig Mazin
Fun fact, Boris Shcherbina and I share birthdays.
Makes me want to watch the entire thing again. Amazing tv series.
"....i was in the toilet" - "...and thát is how an RBMK reactor explodes!"
Well done boys. Great piece of work.
Thank you!
i imagine this as a spinoff of death of stalin
I was thinking about that actually, The 2 have a lot of similarities in that they portray the Soviet Union, Use mostly British actors with varying regional accents instead of Faux Russian accents, and are somewhat comedic and portray the general events quite well, but specifics and the characters are inaccurate.
At the rate they were smoking, radiation would be the least of their concern.
"How can i be responsible, i was sleeping."
Looks at reactor, turn's around with red face.
worked in a shoe factory ----------------> ( ' -- ' )
"and now I'm in charge. To the workers of the world"
**fat sip**
Brilliant. I loved every bit of it.
Thank you, this was one of my favorite moments to make haha.. i actually reversed a little bit of that stare so it was awkwardly long!
The sad part is that Dyatlov *was* kind of correct, the RBMK reactor wasn't supposed to have graphite. The designers cut corners and THAT'S why there was graphite. He wasn't in denial, he was correct in every way but one: it was a lie that he had no way of knowing of.
He thought that he was the only sane man in the room.
Oh. No, he knew the cores were made of graphite, most Reactor technicians in the Soviet Union knew, but he was in denial because in any sane world, the SCRAM button WOULDN’T have caused an explosion. But it did. And he might not have known *HOW MUCH* Graphite there was.
Dyatlov cannot be blamed for the design flaw. But he absolutely caused the meltdown with his incompetence and later caused the unnecessary deaths of other men by refusing to acknowledge that the core had indeed exploded.
Graphite was the moderator for the core, so he would have known about that. He was in denial because reactor cores don’t explode, so that graphite couldn’t have been seen outside.
I think you’re confusing the graphite tips issue.
@@dancingcarapaceit’s funny, because he did not act as in the hbo series, hbo just needed a scapegoat/villain to make it watchable for stupid sheep who can not nuance
@@dancingcarapace Not really, once the core went critical pressing the az-5 only acted as a detonator, not pressing it would also lead to a meltdown but not explosion. He went by the book by the way and followed protocol.
Dyatlov did not tell anyone to press the AZ5 button, which is what blew the reactor.
As arrogant as Dyatlov yes its true he was supervising out of his ass but he always had the thought that if he it goes wrong the fail safe button will end everything safely, yes he was responsible for the accident but not entirely as there was a problem with the AZ5 button, he wouldn't have known the reactor would explode, he must face imprisonment clearly but the state should have delt a more serious charge, its sad that nothing changed until professor Legasov had to kill himself. He was true the hero, along with everyone involved and every person who sacrificed their lives and exposed themselves to the radiation. What a show.
0:15 is unironically one of the funniest edits I’ve ever seen
Damn, that was an excellent edit. Superb, actually. Made my whole day.
Thank you so much! This means a lot to me ❤
YOU DIDNT BECAUSE ITS NOT THERE-dyatlov said calmly
Judge: How did the reactor exploded?
Dyatlov: Simple, I was in the toilet.
Judge: Makes sense, not guilty.
this supercut is amazing....and absolutely hilarious hshshshs but you have done it justice....
Thank you so much :)
The zoom on old man Zharkov's eyes and then the whole room clapping has me in tears 😭😂😂
“Another few moments and it will all be over…explosion”…. Nice
“The situation I-I-I-is WELL under contro-“ BOOM
The ironic thing is they were trying to do a safety test. The reactor is supposed to use its own power when outside power to the reactor fails. The test lowers power so they can see that that safety function is working properly. If they dont do the test maybe it never even happens.
You didn't see graphite, because it's NOT THERE!
brotha was fumin
Shoe factory guy, turned bureaucrat was the best edit. 😂
5:19 **SLURPS LOUDLY**
Russian nuclear employee: I have never done this before.
Russian nuclear supervisor: shut the fuck up and do your job!!!
Dyatlov should have gotten the death penalty for what he did
Most of us know a Comrade Dyatlov at work.
They should have made the plant managers and everyone in that control room shovel graphite for 8 hours a day off of the roof
I imagine similar scenes happening at Boeing management shortly after the whistleblower came out with all the cost-cutting on maintenance and quality assurance shenanigans back in 2018.
My hero in these scenes is Sitnikov,all my respect paid to him
It's safe and effective. Where did I heard this before?
Every time the reactor is shown exploding it’s gets funnier. Well done.
This edit was great!
Thank you very much :)
In a few minutes it’ll all be over 😂
Absolutely loved this series
We all did!
Chernobyl is God facepalming at the idiots he accidentally created.
The endless rounds of ass-covering and under-bus-throwing is horrifying all by itself.