Is *CHERNOBYL* a Masterpiece?! Episode 1 | Reaction/Review

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• DA

  @davidparker4199 · 2 years ago

  It’s crazy to me how many young people don’t know that Chernobyl actually happened that this is all real

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• TH

  @TheCac · 2 years ago

  guys you might wanna search up what the ussr is... there is no resigning 💀

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• SI

  @sikirer · 2 years ago (edited)

  I am Estonian. When this disaster happened, we weren&apos;t allowed to pick berries and mushrooms for several years following, and going out during the rain was heavily discouraged. Fyi Estonia is around 1000km (600mi) away from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.<br><br>Another tragic part was the generational aftermath. Since Estonia was under USSR occupation at the time, a lot of Estonian men were forcibly mobilized to clean up the zone. My neighbour was 19 years old at the time. He was sent to clean. A year later he had a baby with his wife, who was consequently born with deformed limbs most likely caused by radiation poisoning on the father&apos;s side.

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• _C

  @_carrot__cake_ · 2 years ago

  In USSR you don’t just simply walk away. You either cooperate with the state or end up dead.

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• 3T

  @3twelve206 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaHMiR8Jpfc&amp;t=477">7:57</a> “…the actual nuke has gone off.” I think we’re confusing a nuclear bomb with a nuclear reactor. Nuclear reactor aren’t housing nuclear bombs. Reactors produce energy and electricity. Hope this helps!

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• NO

  @nordiskkatt · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m.... fascinated and horrified by this reaction. It&apos;s certainly a sobering wake-up call, to realise that a lot of young people don&apos;t know ANYTHING about the Chernobyl disaster, and have no understanding of the political climate at the time either. So yeah, utterly fascinating viewing! Well done.

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• RA

  @RAZBRY · 2 years ago

  Chernobyl is goated. So is the netflix show &apos;Dark&apos;. The definition of S Tier.

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• JR

  @jrovel07 · 2 years ago

  I have to admit y&apos;all&apos;s comments acting as if the average person in that country at the time had a choice to do other than what they were told is kinda funny because it shows how little is taught about what Governments like this are like and how the heirarchy works. You can&apos;t refuse. You can&apos;t run, you can&apos;t resign, and if you go against the grain in your words or actions, you end up dead or in jail

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• KE

  @Kevc00 · 2 years ago (edited)

  In Ireland, which is an island at the far western edge of Europe, there was a massive spike in babies being born with birth defects along the eastern coast after Chernobyl. So even an island off the western coast of Europe, over 1,800 miles from Pripyat, we still felt the effects of the Chernobyl disaster just to show the scale of the disaster.

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• AG

  @agustindirisio2766 · 2 years ago

  this is one of those few shows that is literally 10/10 every episode

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• WI

  @wildfire6551 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaHMiR8Jpfc&amp;t=1295">21:35</a> the red forest, famously named that after most of the radiation got carried in that direction, still one of the most radiated places in Chernobyl to this day, not safe to walk into even tho the town is a tourist spot now and safe enough.

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• TH

  @thomasscott920 · 2 years ago

  Guys, having some background will help you appreciate the show. This took place during the final phase of the Cold War between the USA and the Soviet Union which had been going on since the end of WWII in 1945. This was when the threat of nuclear war was hanging over every major crisis. When this happened even though nobody knew it at the time, these were the last days of Communism and the Soviet Union. Like Russia today, many internal conflicts and struggles were hidden from the outside world. But in 1989 it all came tumbling down, the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union broke apart. That is when Ukraine became a separate country. Chornobyl is located in Ukraine near its capital Kiev and very distant from the power center of Moscow. Believe me, they would have acted faster and more effectively if it had been in their backyard.<br><br>In the Soviet Union, social controls were starting to ease up, in part as a way to stave off collapse by giving people a little more freedom, but there was no instant communication, no internet, or cell phones. Information traveled slowly and incompletely, and surveillance by the KGB was everywhere. Within living memory, the penalty for doing something that the state did not like would end up with you in a labor camp in Siberia, a dank and dangerous prison, or if you were unlucky on your knees with a bullet to the back of your head no questions asked.<br><br>That&apos;s what you need to know to understand the motivations of these people. First, they are paranoid that they will be blamed which is why there is a lot of denial and trying to shift the blame. Second, they are afraid their phones are tapped, they are being followed, or otherwise under surveillance. That is the cause of the secretiveness. This paranoia went from the bottom all the way to top officials.Within living memory, under Stalin&apos;s control, many powerful officials were tried and executed in short <br>order--Hero of the Republic or not. On a larger scale, the Kremlin was trying to avoid international embarrassment and condemnation. That is the reason it tried to keep things under wraps by not authorizing mass evacuations or otherwise calling attention to an enormous disaster that would show its weaknesses to the world. In fact, the outside world only found out when radiation levels suddenly started to rise in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe. That is when the whole world sat up and took notice.<br><br>I hope this gives you enough context to sit back and enjoy this great show without second-guessing why people act as they do.

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