CHERNOBYL DISASTER: Valery Legasov's battle, part 2
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- Опубликовано: 21 янв 2011
- Valery Legasov, one of the Soviet Union's highly acclaimed scientists, headed the scientific group involved in the clear-up of the Chernobyl blast in 1986. He threw himself into finding what caused the disaster. He met a lot of difficulties in his path, which broke him: in 1988 he committed suicide.
Filmed in 2008.
He basically saved the USSR and possibly Europe from utter devastation by getting the fire put it. He also saved many lives in Pripryat as well. He sacrificed his own life for all of this.
Brett Vogel and got a wrist watch for his valour
Hero of the Planet and humanity.
What a Hero . hIs family should be proud . He helped save the world from accidential nuclear annihilation.
This was filmed in 2008. Some of the documentation has now been declassified, a lot more is known about the work of Legasov (and what happened at Chernobyl) now. He was a true hero, there's no other way to put it.
woopimagpie such as
'Given Europe's negative stance on the Chernobyl disaster...' That's one way of saying 'pissed off about being saturated with radiation'.
It is nice to know that someone else understands & respects the memory of Valery Legasov.. Shall we always remember & let us never forget.. Thank you for your reply
Let's all just be grateful Stalin wasn't still in power in 1986. Stalin would have simply said, "Oh well. Let it burn." And then he would've turned around and blamed Poland for something.
Bill B sorry but nobody cares of Poland
ukkowalski so what exactly did Stalin blame Poland for when he was alive? Would you mind giving his quotes blaming Poland? I’m really interested, not trying to argue or smth. thanks
Knowing how Stalin took care of "threats" to his regime (Moscow trials, nazi invasion), I think he would ve sone the exact opposite, like: "send there as many men as you can, call all scientists from vacation and fix the problem even if it means you all die there"...
Accurate
He is a Legend and the Government crippled him...may he rest in paradise
Chris Red something which even RT doesn't tell you because they still cover it's former USSR high-ranking people who still remained in many lucrative positions...
This woman should be really proud of his father, a true hero Vasili legasov
His name is Valerie legasov. Vasili was name of firefighter (Vasili Ignatanko husband of Lyudmila Ignatanko) who died from acceute radiation sickness.
@@Killjoy1204 yeah but his name was Valery not Valerie, anyway the man is a hero
The new program certainly shows Mr. Legasov to be a hero.
The HBO series? Or this documentary?
A Hero should be remembered
A Hero should not be forgotten
Sadly, I only got to know him because of the show.
I am utterly ashamed of myself
Legasov was posthumously awarded the Hero of the Russian Federation in 1996, the highest honorary title in Russia, he wasn't alive to appreciate it but at least the acknowledgement came eventually.
Saviour of Europe, we all owe his debt of gratitude. What a man!
A Great man that did the best he could with what he had been dealt...I post this comment in honor of Valery Legasov......September 1, 1936 to April 27, 1988
The world owes this unsung hero a great debt of thanks.
I stand in awe of man all should aspire to emulate. My greatest appreciation and gratitude to him, and the thousands of selfless human beings who made the ultimate sacrifice, for the whole of mankind. My highest respect for all these.
What a hero.
But so too are all the men who went back into that disaster to dig etc.
All their names should be remembered.
Not all heroes where capes. Bravo Valery Legasov👏👏👏
Legasov didn’t pull any punches. He told the truth and for that he was despised by the upper echelons but they could not ignore what was happening. Despite the many volunteers who bravely took on the role of ‘liquidators’, so many died as a direct result of their exposure to the radioactivity. Legasov carried the weight of the Chernobyl disaster and was still forbidden to reveal the whole truth. That would weigh heavily on anyone’s mind.
He was no doubt thinking about all the people he had killed; the helicopter pilots, the roof liquidators, and the miner's who nearly all died around 40 years of age. Their magnificent sacrifice came at his order.
Valery Legasov, true Hero
Legasov was indeed a hero & his selfless acts saved millions. RIP
Thanks to HBO, for providing us with a great series, so that we could at least know the name of the person, who sacrificed everything, & is still unknown to the unaffected people all around the world
The heroes of today in our society are sadly people like Niki Minaj, Kardashians and other trashy celebritites. That is just sad.
I was very emotional about him during the last episode....What a great man ... Sacrificed himself for the greater good ...
For someone who did something not because of fame and fortune must be honored and remembered.
Knowing the level of dangerous radioactive and ordering for immediate evacuation but throwing himself near the source of radioactive to find the cause of disaster is simply heroic and worth our deepest honour.
The creepy Donnie Darko music sprinkled throughout is a good touch
Thank you to Dr.Valery Legasov,.Even i saw a this document , i can sense his good willing for the people from his act.Save life is his goal rather fame of richness i believe.Million life save by him.
Legasovs name should forever be recognised as the ultimate humanitarian of our world, and as a man who put honesty above all.
One man made the difference. R.i.p.
“So that there would never be another Chernobyl…”
In 1957, there was the Kyshtym incident. 29 years later, Chernobyl. Chernobyl was a sequel not an origin.
Kyshtym incident was little different. In that accident actually it was storage of used fuel that blew up where Chernobyl was much worse because here partial core was exploded and exposed to the atmosphere and it was because of faulty rmbk reactor design.
well there was Fukishima...
And Leningrad 1975 and Chernobyl 1982 (reactor 1).
Watch his story on the HBO series Chernobyl
totally agree. I feel a great respect for this man since know about him.As you said: a great man.
“This boy will become a scientist or a politician”. I cannot imagine two occupations more different. Scientists are (or should be) primarily interested in finding the truth. Politicians are only interested in the truth when it assists them in gaining more power. Facts that are not expedient are either ignored or changed retroactively in the history books (in authoritarian societies ruled by autocratic governments).
Scientists today are only interested in finding a "truth" that will get them funding for research. If the truth won't make any funding source a profit they won't pay for research.
“Every lie you tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid.”-Legasov, Chernobyl
There was a terrible accident which occured there, and incompitence and denial ruled. But the heroic efforts of people like Legasov, the miners, all of the brave people that gave there lives to save the world should be honored. I thank every one of them.
Valery Legasov was a true hero! Great work done on this video. It brings much more of an understanding of this man. In spite of all that he was up against, he fought for change and got it! For all of us, not just in the Soviet Union.
This shows well the truth in the phrase "People are like crabs. Crab boxes don't have lids, because each time a crab tries to climb out of the box, the rest grab on to him and pull him back down again".
Romeo must die reference?
@@Andizu1 not intended, didn't even watch that one. can't remember where I learned this. fishermen probably invented the saying. =)
@@artzreal lol. I'm probably not the first one who learned some 'wisdom' by watching a chickflick :)
@@Andizu1 eheh and probably not the last one either. I just paraphrased, the text is slightly different.
Great man. Russia breeds them brave. Salut Valery.
Respect Forever , for all sacrifices for us !
Thank you Valery Legasov. If it wasn’t for you we would be in a terrible state.
That the Ignalina RBMK had come close to a melt-down in 1983 because of the faulty fuel-rod design was kept secret. That it had a high positive void coefficient (inherently bad design) meant it melted-down & burst into flames so quickly.That Soviet politics prevented the Chernobyl control room staff knowing of the problem was the cause of so many dead, so many damaged, so much destroyed.
So many 'biorobots' or 'liquidators' or whatever term is used. Legasov had to calculate the importance of the work against deaths. Amazingly, nobody was forced to take part. From the control room to the firemen to the miners to the divers to the helicopter pilots. The pragmatic 'for the greater good' was inherent in the people involved. That is a natural Ukrainian reaction. Worked with a team of them for 2 years. Even got credit in papers they published. Once you form a relationship with someone, you keep it.
I have a lot of faith in the people but considering that they are at war with Russia and NOBODY is even mentioning it says a lot about western media. The Soviets have 96 nuclear/thermonuclear weapons unaccounted for. It would be unlikely that their aren't a few in Ukraine. Forget the NORKs, some one uses a truck-bomb with even a boosted-fission and it's WW3......
Are there any info on incident in Ignalina 1983? i cant find anything
Are there any info on incident in Ignalina 1983? i cant find anything
@@marianmarkovic5881Here's one fact... the miniseries was filmed there at Ignalina due to it resembling Chernobyl.
@@robdotcom71 i heard that, i was just looking for some reliable source material about claim in post above
There are RMBK power plants that are still running in Rusia right now...
"so that there will never be a future Chernobyl" how ironic that less than 2 months after this video Fukushima decided to blow not 1 not 2 but 3 reactors... 3 times Chernobyl....
Fukushima did not blow. It melted. If it would have blown up, it would have taken half of Japan out and parts of Asia ;)
@@Andizu1 it is nice that you noticed the cores melted... (as did Chernobyl's) but they still exploded, feel free to go into reactor 1 2 or 3 and see for yourself. or watch the video where it shows them blowing up.
@@straightfaceguy7966 sorry, but there were no explosions, only meltdowns. Not sure what video you watched but it was not real.
www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/safety-of-plants/fukushima-accident.aspx
@ukkowalski lol? did I say the containment vessels blew? all 3 buildings exploded though 2 worse than the other, regardless they still exploded... and the core of 1 or 2 of the vessels melted through and are in the ground, as per the constant contamination in the sea, (and yes I know that rain water is getting polluted via the reactor buildings on its way to the sea hence why they are building an ice wall to try to stop it.)
@ukkowalski I watched the explosions at the time. Reactor 3 blew straight up which means it happened in the containment area. The other two were more shallow explosions.
Thank god for the heroic bravery of the Russian people! We sometimes disagree with our governments and leaders but the Russian people have always saved mankind from catastrophe! Every once in awhile their leaders may cause problems for the world, but without the brave people of Russia disasters of global magnitude would have occurred. I praise the heroes of Chernobyl the same as the millions of heroes of Stalingrad, Kursk and The Battle of Berlin! From an American, long live the memories of the bravery of Russia’s greatest generations!!!!
Been researching your father for the last eight years he was a great man only thing I couldn’t find was the conference at Vienna and he tape record all his research RIP my heart goes out to all the families and people affected by Chernobyl
I was under the impression that his tapes were destroyed. I would like to have heard directly from him how this all went down.
I believe all his research is still here somewhere I believe He’s the only man who had all the answers to all the questions been researching the accident since 2006 all I can say it was an accident but Is a lot more they’re not telling us to this day I find something that I didn’t know I don’t think it was a test they were performing I think it was something else just don’t know what
Brilliant heroic man, such a shame.
Many came and went, He stayed till he could .
Большое спасибо Товарищ Легасов !
Is it just me, or do you believe that he was murdered? The reason why I say this is because of the last part of this documentary which tells of him submitting a proposal to restructure the industry, but it was denied. He may have felt so let down that he committed suicide, but I think they killed him because they knew he wasn’t going to stop until change had been implemented. Just what I think!
Rest in peace hero
In awe!!!
Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine. Et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen.
Our Lady of Kazan, Holy Protectress of Russia, pray for him.
Legend!!!
Tragic story and what an un sung hero
Everybody was on vacation send in the next guy explains it all....Valery Legasov's apartment looked like a decrepit Moscow apartment on HBO but a luxurious place on this documentary....He was noble to a degree but still a cog in that machine.
Nothing can protect from human error.
This man is special.
Just watched the 4th episode of Chernobyl absolutely brilliant.and Mr legasov should been knighted gave his life to safe good knows how many..rid the world now of this evil nuclear power
There's a PBS documentary that shows the workers cleaning up Macha at the time. HBO did an astounding job of recreating it, it's pretty much identical to what really happened with none of the usual 'dramatic' embellishments. They recreated the whole site perfectly, I doubt anyone could tell the difference. It's almost a shame that it's only a 5 episode show, we need more like it.
nice soundtrack by the dust brothers
Hail Legasov!!
Leader of the truth!!
WHY WORRY ABOUT SOMETHING THAT WON’T HAPPEN?
Thats good. We should put that on our money.
Whats that mean?
@@dementedorkka398 That was the best line in the whole series
Pride always comes before the fall.
We live in a world of liars and lies.
A true hero. After what he went through.
He was a true hero, may God rest his soul, and forgive him! 👏🇺🇸🇵🇷⚘⚘⚘
What does the US and Cuban flag have to do with Legasov (who was born and died in SSSR)? Forgive him for what?! He was a hero who saved countless lives.
This comment makes no sense.
The flags are my nationalities, and I did not meant any disrespect. The piece says he took his own life. 👋🇺🇸🇵🇷❤
That's a Puerto Rican flag my friend
7:28 so the helicopter crashed because he's hit some ropes. In the HBO series it's open... but of course more feels like it happened from the radiation.
@@TK421ps Difference is, that this happened unrelated to how it was presented in the series
4:30. He didn't lie in Vienna? Wait. But didn't he reveal at the later trial of the men running Chernobyl that his testimony was false to save Soviet face?
The trial was fake.
@@Ravi-xf8dw explains
@@blaster915 He was not present at the trial. Yes the trial took place in real life but Legaslov was not present .
Did he win a Nobel peace prize or at least a posthemous one..
We remember this hero forever "Legasov" hero of Sovjet Union, not the "pride leaders!!!! There to pride to admite the system was very wrong......
It is ironic that in less than two months of this video being uploaded, the Fukushima accident occurred.The comments starting at 12:00 regarding nuclear power plant safety ring somewhat hollow. The RT segment was produced in 2008 though.
Melissa Andrews try to do your own research and you will find out more about accident in Chernobyl and it's effect on the whole USSR and eastern block. As Gorbachev's himself told , Chernobyl was star of the end of Soviet union, not only because they failed in delivering desillusional information but also the cost of the effor which the had to put into restoring thing relatively into normal and stable state after the accident creater even wider gap between USSR and western countries when it comes to standard of living...
I can remember old tv record from 80s where people have to wait several days for basic things like toilet paper, ketchup/tomato sauce, sanitary napkin etc... The regime was totally bad and not working for people but only for few high ranking. When they tell you that the regime elminated class differences they are right because everybody was similary poor / bored / had nothing more than stable job and amount of alcohol...
Such a great legend....Allah bless him 🤲🏼
A true hero
Imagine the same accident happening today in a private run reactor...
You can See exactly that in Fukushima. The state pays for the cleanup
@@sebastianfey8687... Who also payed to build the station...
The biggest change in nuclear energy today over the past is an effort to reduce costs to compete with natural gas by eliminating safety features. Tell me how that is going to work out.
Legasov did for Chernobyl what Feynman did for Challenger.
Well put.
Same 1986. Just like some sort of parallel universe.
terrible tragedy
he killed himself so he doesn't suffer
KGB approved video!
5:53 Is that Starcraft music??????
NOBODY TALKING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED THIS YEAR IN RUSSIA...SAME THING OCCURRED AGAIN OVER THERE IN AUGUST...15-16DEAD...
Man of honor
If we take one accidents per 15 years, we might and probably, with probability count, there will be another one. We almost had one in France 2003, but was prevented by strange circumstances of someone predicting it to occur by then, and it was taken seriously. So, when next one ?
If the fallout from a nuclear accident lasts for hundreds of thousands of years and we have one every decade or so, how long will it take for the ambient radiation to turn our world into a nuclear exclusion zone?
Some say he can still be seen at 12:24
The reactor was empty?!!!!!!!!
Then why they covered the destroyed building?
And why they covered the cover with the big dome?
If the core has no fuel then why they didnt clean the damaged reactor untill now?
I simply cant digest this statment
They covered the building to stop radiation getting out, then the cover started developing holes in it and had to be covered with the new sarcophagus that we see now
Wasn’t legosav home arrested
Did he really committed suicide or did "they" put him down?
No one will ever know.
He’d have to have been extremely depressed to kill himself.
He probably did it himself. He actually had three suicide attempts actually. One was at the hospital, the second one happened while he was at work and his coworkers and colleagues had to stop him, then the final one at his home where he succeeded. This thing only mentioned two when it was three. I think he legitimately did commit suicide and nobody was involved. After spending so long trying to argue with dummies at the top as to what happened and not being listened to, then being played the fool for speaking the truth, him getting radiation sickness doing all that knowing he was going to die, etc, that would take a mental toll on anyone. He went through a lot of bullshit.
I think there might have been 2 main motifs:
1. He might have felt (in a very depressed state of mind) that committing suicide was the only, most desperate (and, unfortunately irreversible) option left for him to make his fellow scientists (aka dummies) understand his points
2. He wanted to save his family from having to watch his suffering and deterioration utterly helplessly any longer
How amoral pile of sh*t one has to be to willingly destroy an already gravely ill person into suicide is utterly beyond me. 😢
Rest in peace, Valery Alexeievich. You saved this then-4-year-old from nuclear apocalypse.
Thanks Craig Mazin for teaching me his name.
If there was no fuel in the reactor, what made the elephant's foot?
The lead and sand they threw into the reactor to turn out the fire turned to lava which when cooled turned into the Elephants Foot..
@@joeymerk3706 So where does its radiation come from?
Joel Marksbury well it's very complicated, but the easy answer is the fire that was burning after the reactor blew up was a radiation fire not a regular fire..
The elephants foot is partly made out of fuel. Liquid fuel burned down under the reactor where it cooled down. There are many articles about it.
RT forgot to mention the kgb
Hero
Ah but along came Fukashima
kevin mccarthy fukushima is alot worse and nobody is talking about it
@@master_Blaster91 This is probably true
@@master_Blaster91 actually Fukushima is not that worse , because none of core exploded and exposed to atmosphere. Core meltdown is actually better than core explosion. And Fukushima is actually radiating the Pacific Ocean which so big and contains so much water therefore only some area near the Fukushima sight is getting unnatural radiation levels. And they have considerably lessened the radiation from 500 beq per day to 2 beq per day. And most of them is tritium not caesium because they have made 4 step filter project to absorb caesium from radioactive water.
Typical, the hero and good guy that saved many things from a worse time ended up getting killed through arrogance! Russia always believed it was perfect even though they new it was a failure ! 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
He was a hero. Scherbina was a dick though.. despite what the HBO miniseries will have you believe.
Is the same happening today with global warming..?
@ukkowalski ....but they're melting....
- How can they melt, Comrade, when there's no global warming..?
RT making china look good. lmao
Slava.
A3-5
Someone bought the starcraft 1 menu music :D
SC1 Zerg briefing room.
@@borntorice -_- i Thought that was kind of obvious..
Kolinda? is that you?
"no alternative"
yea everyone saves the world everyday because it was his job lol
What "Russia's name had been cleared" - excuse me. It was an appalling fuck up.
And Russia didn’t change a bit. Corruption, lies are still a way of life.
total propaganda , the reactors and build were crap
this vid is full of lies and bad info..its useless as history..just propaganda and lies
well it's RT aka Putin Television Network
@@PADARM its still just wacked..that they will lie about what the soviets did....when literally everyone in the rest of the world knows for a fact they are lieing....how dose this even help them...it contradicts what they themselves now admit.
@@autopartsmonkey7992 yes I know
Yeah, what could we expect from "Putins" television, former agent KGB and product of regime which was trying to silence the truth and objectivness... The worst thing about this is that many people would believe it and take other facts as just "western" propaganda. And this not the only story RT will change to be in the alignement with its interrests..
Heroes won't be honoured
It's a pity but it is a fact.
Communism does not accept individual achievement, not collective failure.
Sorry for them.at.least may they rest in peace.