Chernobyl Episode 1 Reaction
Added 2024-06-03 00:02:54 +0000 UTCChernobyl Episode 1 - '1:23:45' | Reaction
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I was 13 when this happened. The animals really didn't need to die. They just didn't understand at the time. Much of what we know now (speaking as a radiological engineer) was due to the events that occurred during Chernobyl. But they didn't know this then, so it seemed like a good idea at the time to kill animals that could track radioactive contamination from point A to point B. But the area was so contaminated already...bottom line, killing the animals was unnecessary.
Jared Smith
2024-06-30 15:32:48 +0000 UTCI work as a radiological engineer, we have to extensively study Chernobyl and Fukushima in part of the training. At the time of the accident. Much of the information we have now regarding what happens during extremely high radiation doses is because of what was learned by the poor souls of the liquidators. Of course this information was not immediately available in the west because at the time, the Iron Curtain was still a very real thing and they did not want to share information with us. (Germany was still East and West Germany at this time). The people just didn't know how to respond to it.
Jared Smith
2024-06-30 15:26:42 +0000 UTC"Why are they in so much denial".... because if they weren't they'd have to admit The State screwed up. And when you're a communist hellhole like the Soviet Union, the truth becomes very very inconvenient when it runs counter to the narrative of The State knows what's best for you
Johnny_Raincloud
2024-06-29 04:08:26 +0000 UTCI live in Scotland, and wasn’t born when this happened. Yet even after I was born in 94 I still seen and heard of the impact it had. Something like 1.5 million animals had to get slaughtered due to the radiation. There was also tens of thousands of cancer diagnosis that have been directly liked to Chernobyl, even decades later. Aswell as an incredibly high increase in child mortality rates. Something like 200 children died before their first birthday. We are like 350km away from each other. That’s like 1 side of Australia to the other.
Jamie Maclean
2024-06-12 14:09:43 +0000 UTCI don’t think emergency services back then knew enough about radiation to be prepared for it properly. I don’t think the firefighters had any idea what they were getting into, not in slightest. Just like the firefighters responding to the fire in the Lebanon warehouse before the massive explosion. Those people are legit heroes. Also, I’m pretty sure the dude who’s leg started bleeding, after pressing against the blast door, actually survived miraculously.
Aaron Scarborough
2024-06-10 09:20:26 +0000 UTCI was 6 years old when Chernobyl happened. I live in the Netherlands. We watched BBC. I remember the news reporters talking about 'the plant' and how it was somehow dangerous what happened there. And how my parents where nervous about it. I did not understand at all until years later, but I remember thinking how a 'plant' (thinking green, with leaves) could be so dangerous and concerning to us all the way over here in Europe. (Its only 2000 km between Amsterdam and Minsk)
Robert 'Jemimus' Kloosterhuis
2024-06-09 17:42:32 +0000 UTCGreat reaction, guys! It is quite interesting seeing your reactions since you’re pretty much going in blind. I’m Swedish, so I grew up knowing about Tjernobyl (as we spell it). It had, and probably still has, an effect on our nature. I’ve seen a few reactions to this show, and people always praise the writing, acting, music, etc, and with very good reason. What I find a bit odd is that none of the reactors I’ve seen have mentioned the director (Johan Renck). Usually the director is one of the first who is brought up. IMHO Renck did a fantastic job with this show, but obviously it’s a team effort. It’s clear that everyone involved was very passionate about the project, and gave it their very best. The best acting performance in this episode, IMHO, was the guy forced to go up to the roof. The look on his face when he turned around really told a whole story, no words needed.
Tingeling
2024-06-08 20:46:31 +0000 UTCI went to public school in Chicago in America and we didn’t learn about Chernobyl either, so don’t feel bad!
AvatarJordy
2024-06-07 12:46:01 +0000 UTCPudgey- you asked what would be the consequences of owning up to their mistakes? Of that magnitude in the former USSR? Eventually, execution . ‘Manning up and taking your punishment’ in the former Soviet Union would mean either death or the Gulag.
Becca
2024-06-06 13:24:31 +0000 UTC😔 I hate that kids have to worry about shit like that on top of just the many trials of just growing up. *hugs*
Becca
2024-06-06 13:17:59 +0000 UTCThe crazy thing is- the way to remove radiation is with soap and water (assuming you aren’t as close as these people are. But those further away should wash in soap and water. ) That’s the only cleanser we have for it. WTF!?!?!? Soap and water!
Becca
2024-06-06 13:06:17 +0000 UTCwe did bits and pieces, we did a bit of both but not deep enough to really grasp the scope of it all
CpaSpartan Pudgey
2024-06-05 11:40:51 +0000 UTCIn regards to the emergency dispatch call in the beginning, my understanding is that it is the actual recording and not recreated.
Kyle Sundstrom
2024-06-03 20:49:11 +0000 UTCThink of nuclear radiation like a combination of invisible fire and invisible poison hanging in the air and on surfaces all around the source point. The people who went close to the broken core experienced immediate vomiting, burns, bleeding, etc. because they were directly exposed to a massive amount of radiation. Whether it’s fast or slow (depending on amount of exposure), it’s a very excruciating and nasty death.
DominaZeta
2024-06-03 16:27:03 +0000 UTCThe line "Leave matters of the State...to the State" is very important. If you know anything that would reflect badly on the image of the Soviet Union you better STFU and keep it to yourself or you might find yourself imprisoned ( or worse ) for the rest of your life. There was NO freedom of speech there. Every news medium was censored, and they fed the same propaganda to their own that they did to others outside the bloc, most knowledge of this type was classified and it was up to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of State Security to make sure secrets stay secret. Leaders were not concerned with how they lead their people, they were looking closely behind themself for people coming up trying to be a threat to their position and the people slightly above them whom they wished to be a threat to. Admitting fault was basically political suicide it was to be avoided at all costs. All they cared about is staying under the radar of their oversight committee and completing their assigned quotas so they would be left alone, their work would look good on reports and hopefully, an opportunity would arise for advancement. I can see how foreign this kind of thinking to you guys but as you will see this is how that society worked. The city near the plant was Pripyat, a city of nearly 50.000 people was about 2 miles from the power plant. It's a brand new city that was established about 15 years prior to house the construction workers and later the personnel who worked in the plant. It was considered a very modern and high quality residential area. This is a brilliant TV show often very grim and harrowing but this event and the following effort was not any different. Super high quality writing, phenomenal acting ( casted perfectly btw ) and tells a very coherent story in just 5 episodes. It gets really dark at times but it is very enjoyable. Cant wait to see the rest. :)
neutchain
2024-06-03 07:46:44 +0000 UTCThere was not stepping out or not following orders in the Soviet Union if you didn't want to end up in a goulag or worse
Chris C
2024-06-03 07:09:20 +0000 UTCBut, regarding the history teaching in Australia, how much is covered from modern history, starting from 1900 or WWI? I'm just curious, how deeply are WW1 and 2 covered, and the Cold War following it? I'm from Europe, so obviously, there's a lot of material taught to us, at least 1.5 years focuses on this period out of the 4 years in HS.
Cs Zoltan
2024-06-03 06:36:22 +0000 UTCI wasn't alive then, but my parents were. They told me, that lots of people were afraid to even go out, eat fruits/vegetables, drink milk etc. They also gave iodine tablets to children in kindergarten. We (Hungary) weren't part of the soviet union, but the government was a puppet government linked to the Soviet Union, so the news was heavily kept back or sugarcoated. On youtube there's a news report from the summer of 1986, where the reporter says, it's all ok now, the people are moving back to the villages, so it's all over...My only memory as a kid from the 90s is, that we used to joke about something/somebody being deformed, that they must be from Chernobyl. Kids can be cruel
Cs Zoltan
2024-06-03 06:20:02 +0000 UTCBasically their own "Red Scare", but I guess it's more of a "Blue Scare".
Jonathanese
2024-06-03 06:18:10 +0000 UTCBtw, the guy who made this show (Craig Mazin) is the co-creator of The Last of Us.
M. Gideon Hoyle
2024-06-03 06:06:32 +0000 UTCS and P need to know how repressive the Soviet system was/is... Telling the truth about disastrous situations could ruin your professional existence and shorten your lifespan considerably.
M. Gideon Hoyle
2024-06-03 05:57:13 +0000 UTCLove that you guys started watching this! I would highly recommend watching the HBO post credit scenes as they explain a lot of what happens during the episode, both historically and contextually.
Vladimir Martirosyan
2024-06-03 04:12:39 +0000 UTCI totally thought about that during the intro! Lol.
Carrie Smith
2024-06-03 02:41:40 +0000 UTCAlso funny we have the Soviet Union as antagonists on 2 concurrent shows now with Chernobyl and Stranger Things.
carl houlihan
2024-06-03 01:56:30 +0000 UTCJust as a FYI Chernobyl is in Ukraine not Russia but Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union at the time.
carl houlihan
2024-06-03 01:47:31 +0000 UTCSoviet Union. Pass the blame down the line to the guy beneath you. Admit nothing. Nothing can fail in the USSR. They will not have that kind of bad PR that would show Russia as weak to the West.
Greg Amor
2024-06-03 01:34:25 +0000 UTCWow! That's crazy that Australia has no history on Chernobyl. As a child in the US in the 80's during the Cold War with the USSR, I remember hearing about it, but I was of course, too young to understand the seriousness of what happened. I have heard that the part about the people going to the bridge was an urban myth. A lot of GoT and a HotD cast member in this!
Carrie Smith
2024-06-03 00:10:07 +0000 UTC
