The Chernobyl Liquidators

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  • čas přidán 27. 11. 2020
  • ☢️April 26, 1986 was the date of the worst nuclear disaster in history. ☢️
    What was supposed to be a standard safety test, ended up with the explosion of reactor number 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine, in the Soviet Union.
    Once the fire was extinguished, and the danger of further explosions eliminated, what remained was a complete mess.
    It was a mess that someone had to clean up.
    Around 600,000 people were recruited by the Soviet government for the job.
    They were known as Liquidators.
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Komentáře • 4,2K

  • @Pulpet-mt9le
    @Pulpet-mt9le Před 3 lety +2633

    My grandfather was a one of this Heroes he died in October. He was 72 years old.

  • @timothypryor7952
    @timothypryor7952 Před 3 lety +9520

    They didn't just protect their country, they protected the world.

    • @smokyblackeyes3615
      @smokyblackeyes3615 Před 3 lety +383

      we should be thankful.

    • @brettbush7491
      @brettbush7491 Před 3 lety +271

      Sadly very few of them knew of the terrors to their health

    • @Thomas-jp1ni
      @Thomas-jp1ni Před 3 lety +196

      After they fucked it up.

    • @k1Llas
      @k1Llas Před 3 lety +110

      Their effort led up to nothing after the old sarcophagus was leaking, but thru the decades the radiation weakened. The new safe confinement indeed did it's job. The diver's job was to open 3 valves in the basement to prevent the fuel from reaching the water and making another explosion destroying everything in a 30KM radius.

    • @comradekenobi6908
      @comradekenobi6908 Před 3 lety +139

      @@Thomas-jp1ni you know nothing Thomas

  • @textmachine09
    @textmachine09 Před 3 lety +2401

    "This is the price they paid for serving and protecting the country."
    I think he meant the WHOLE WORLD.

    • @thuviqua5320
      @thuviqua5320 Před 3 lety +27

      Still the price is too high :((

    • @taxfraud1212
      @taxfraud1212 Před 3 lety +77

      @@thuviqua5320 No price is too high to save billions

    • @coffee4682
      @coffee4682 Před 3 lety +37

      @@taxfraud1212 the world? only Europe/parts of Western Asia.

    • @benparr7310
      @benparr7310 Před 3 lety +22

      @@coffee4682 still important

    • @feelx.5875
      @feelx.5875 Před 3 lety +25

      Just most of Europe and parts of asia. America wouldn't get touched. But still, without that part of the world, the world would be in danger.

  • @flaggboi
    @flaggboi Před 3 lety +1091

    Never forget the 3 divers who saved the entirety of europe. 2 of them still live till this day. They and all of the helping hands in this tragedy, are the only reason you can live in Europe. Be grateful. May the lost souls rest peacefully.

    • @flaggboi
      @flaggboi Před 3 lety +52

      @Omar 11112They survived because they didn't inhale, drink,eat or get radiation into their system any other way. This means only strong radiation traveled thought their bodies, but not harm them enough to be harmful.

    • @flaggboi
      @flaggboi Před 3 lety +53

      @Omar 11112 they prevented a second explosion which would make europe inhabitable

    • @reb7373
      @reb7373 Před 3 lety +16

      @@flaggboi But their suits were made out of lead, stopping the gamma radiation.

    • @Hackerackerackeracker
      @Hackerackerackeracker Před 3 lety +5

      @Omar 11112
      Yes. It would have. You know what radiation is, right?

    • @coffee4682
      @coffee4682 Před 3 lety +63

      @Omar 11112 Yes.
      Sand was dropped into the core and melted into lava, which would eventually melt through concrete into two water tanks.
      The steam explosion would be equal to 2-4 megatons of TNT, blowing up in a 30 KM radius. It would scatter radioactive dust all over Europe and irradiate millions of people, causing millions of mutations and deaths from cancer/birth defects.
      Yes, it would have been disastrous.

  • @raypod5964
    @raypod5964 Před 3 lety +7068

    RIP for those men that helped reduce the radiation from further spread, true heroes.

    • @jonathansotelo4877
      @jonathansotelo4877 Před 3 lety +182

      How many also gave their lives in the initial explosion to buy time for the others? I remember hearing about a team of engineers working the plant had done that rather than evacuate.

    • @datuhuginn5079
      @datuhuginn5079 Před 3 lety +22

      Love your profile picture

    • @milicajac689
      @milicajac689 Před 3 lety +6

      Well they made it they are responsble for it

    • @archosauropre-historico8708
      @archosauropre-historico8708 Před 3 lety +14

      F

    • @vachulak7737
      @vachulak7737 Před 3 lety +36

      @@milicajac689 not actually true, if you want to more know about the explosion watch Chernobyl 5th episode

  • @noble9864
    @noble9864 Před 3 lety +2576

    "Fifty thousand people used to live here. Now it's a ghost town."

  • @TrueMobster
    @TrueMobster Před 3 lety +2620

    Brave men 🙌🏼

  • @magicplayer84
    @magicplayer84 Před 3 lety +621

    Emergency service men always made the ultimate sacrifice...
    No matter who they , where they from, i had only respect for them

    • @caturix4541
      @caturix4541 Před 3 lety +5

      had? so you dont have it anymore? :D

    • @nakajima4058
      @nakajima4058 Před 2 lety +2

      I hope there will no kid that says: aNd WOm3n ToO

  • @2xtoo145
    @2xtoo145 Před 3 lety +2118

    Shoutout to the people who found out that the elephant’s foot resisted drills, but found out that they could damage it with a Kalashnikov rifle

    • @Y10HK29
      @Y10HK29 Před 3 lety +482

      Soviet problems require soviet solutions
      -some guy on r/historymemes

    • @quintonrobson6180
      @quintonrobson6180 Před 3 lety +378

      "drill breaks for the 10th time" Soviet solider: CYKA BLYAT *grabs AK

    • @Someone-jz5pl
      @Someone-jz5pl Před 3 lety +210

      @@quintonrobson6180 "wait,ivan,do it again"

    • @caro7048
      @caro7048 Před 3 lety +83

      Such is life in the Zone

    • @R.0513
      @R.0513 Před 3 lety +62

      7.62 Just breaks to rough things!

  • @sergeantsalad1883
    @sergeantsalad1883 Před 3 lety +3843

    The autopsy table where they placed the fire fighters' bodies is still highly radioactive to this day...

    • @aprilrichards762
      @aprilrichards762 Před 3 lety +449

      So are the firefighters' uniforms in the basement.

    • @yazmanhamidyazman673
      @yazmanhamidyazman673 Před 3 lety +125

      @@aprilrichards762 i think it is still there.....try look at the documentary

    • @aprilrichards762
      @aprilrichards762 Před 3 lety +155

      @@yazmanhamidyazman673 I watched a guy who went into the hospital and into the basement in 2019, I think.

    • @justsomedumbassontheintern6987
      @justsomedumbassontheintern6987 Před 3 lety +241

      They where buried in zinc coffins and under concrete. So for billions of years there bodies will be under all that. Rip

    • @flyingplatypus7272
      @flyingplatypus7272 Před 3 lety +116

      @@justsomedumbassontheintern6987 imagine hundreds of thousands of years in the future, what could happen if they got uncovered

  • @maximnaumov3391
    @maximnaumov3391 Před 3 lety +704

    My uncle was a liquidator and he dies with cancer. He was very good man. 🙏

  • @GenScinmore
    @GenScinmore Před 3 lety +2954

    "Voluntary" is being a bit generous to conscripts.

    • @lettuceman9439
      @lettuceman9439 Před 3 lety +195

      Not really most of those who joined came due to the high payment offered by the soviet Government.
      However Some are conscripted specially at the late stages of the clean-up.

    • @blakevannest5893
      @blakevannest5893 Před 3 lety +3

      Lol

    • @Someone-lr6gu
      @Someone-lr6gu Před 3 lety +146

      A lot of the people were volunteers, because someone had to do it. There were regularily recruited people though. My grandfather was supposed to be sent as a liquidator, but he wasn't since he had 3 kids.

    • @thegamingspiffo8711
      @thegamingspiffo8711 Před 3 lety +4

      Well... why are you here

    • @michaelg492
      @michaelg492 Před 3 lety +150

      My family member was a volunteer, he was not forced by anyone and neither was he paid anything. He flew in from Latvia to help with the clean up. People weren't forced to do this, being selfless is something you western people don't understand

  • @jesusmartvya
    @jesusmartvya Před 3 lety +5559

    There's a monument in a town near Chernobyl NPP named: "For all those who saved the world"
    Edit: Pripyat is the city where workers at the ChNPP used to live with their families.

    • @metalheadblues
      @metalheadblues Před 3 lety +190

      That's beautiful and tragic at the same time

    • @reb7373
      @reb7373 Před 3 lety +85

      It's about the list the Soviets made, 31 direct deaths. some firefighters, and workers.

    • @reb7373
      @reb7373 Před 3 lety +29

      @@jesusmartvya Of course they were included in there too.

    • @moderncombatbricks9264
      @moderncombatbricks9264 Před 3 lety +47

      The City called pripyat

    • @vitaliiyakovlev2264
      @vitaliiyakovlev2264 Před 3 lety +23

      There is a bell held by two hands monument with inscriptions honoring the liquidators in Bataysk

  • @tei3340
    @tei3340 Před 3 lety +3000

    the fact that this was a safety test just makes it more terrifying

    • @KaiserStormTracking
      @KaiserStormTracking Před 3 lety +98

      Mhm. Ukraine must still be wanted reperations about it from the Russian goverment

    • @user-bw4ec4bm2t
      @user-bw4ec4bm2t Před 3 lety +19

      I think it was something else

    • @bryanhernandez1829
      @bryanhernandez1829 Před 3 lety +137

      @@user-bw4ec4bm2t nah it was a safety test, but they fucked up alot

    • @BosnianDragon
      @BosnianDragon Před 3 lety +68

      Should have pressed that F5 button to refresh the rods.

    • @microwavedlemon5642
      @microwavedlemon5642 Před 3 lety +20

      The fact that there was a guy that killed all those pets is also sad

  • @thepaperfootballleague2313
    @thepaperfootballleague2313 Před 3 lety +255

    “Are you daft, stay out of the radioactive areas” CPT.-McMillan

    • @damonleaphart1464
      @damonleaphart1464 Před 2 lety +4

      "50,000 people use to live here.... Now it's a ghost town"

    • @michaelwittmann3479
      @michaelwittmann3479 Před 2 lety

      @@damonleaphart1464 not actually but yeah only small amount of people didnt leave

  • @The-Plaguefellow
    @The-Plaguefellow Před 3 lety +273

    *Something-something S.T.A.L.K.E.R. reference.*
    In all seriousness, these guys must've had balls of frickin' tungsten to do as much as they did.

    • @spacecorpse3212
      @spacecorpse3212 Před 3 lety +16

      deadly anomalies, dangerous mutants, and bandits none of them will stop duty on its march to save the world from the zone

    • @Ari_Drwz
      @Ari_Drwz Před 3 lety +6

      Stay Calm
      Because
      Such Life
      Is in
      The Zone

    • @spacecorpse3212
      @spacecorpse3212 Před 3 lety

      @@Ari_Drwz words to live by

    • @Jay-mq2ng
      @Jay-mq2ng Před 2 lety

      As thick as lead as heavy as tungsten and they still standing tall

    • @cheedam8738
      @cheedam8738 Před 2 lety

      the world collapsed under the weight of their tungsten balls

  • @RivadoShido
    @RivadoShido Před 3 lety +2262

    I honestly cant keep thinking how cool "liquidator" name is. As cool as their heroism and bravery

    • @D87ify
      @D87ify Před 3 lety +72

      The heroism is what makes there name cool.

    • @ehanoldaccount5893
      @ehanoldaccount5893 Před 3 lety +25

      Pretty sure that was the name of certain SS units, for ughhh.. other reasons..

    • @arnowisp6244
      @arnowisp6244 Před 3 lety +12

      There and look and name reminds me of a cut half life 2 enemy.

    • @thebluebrain8114
      @thebluebrain8114 Před 3 lety

      wdym?

    • @Thlormby
      @Thlormby Před 3 lety +3

      @@arnowisp6244 cremator?

  • @greenthunder1000
    @greenthunder1000 Před 3 lety +786

    When you reach your 50 year energy goal in 0.3 microseconds

    • @eltonjohntubola3212
      @eltonjohntubola3212 Před 3 lety +5

      How much energy was release in 1 swcond tho?

    • @Salemchevy
      @Salemchevy Před 3 lety +2

      @@eltonjohntubola3212 to much and to fast to count. We only know the start and the finale number

    • @Governor2310
      @Governor2310 Před 3 lety

      @@eltonjohntubola3212 the plant could only handle 3,300 megawatts per hour. Before the plant explode it was at over 33,000 megawatts. That may not have been the end number because the reactor exploded.

    • @guegaming4722
      @guegaming4722 Před 3 lety

      @@eltonjohntubola3212 IDC

    • @supermemerboi1587
      @supermemerboi1587 Před rokem +1

      “Man, the population of the Soviet Union is expanding pretty rapidly, how are we gonna keep up with their energy demands?”
      *1 picosecond later*
      “Aaaaaaaand we’re good”

  • @almaz.8802
    @almaz.8802 Před 3 lety +711

    Prepare your balls , the comment section is going to be filled with HBO Chernobyl, COD 4 , and Stalker references

  • @ivankrasnov2766
    @ivankrasnov2766 Před 3 lety +468

    "Stay tuned for part 2 where we'll discuss the daily life of a stalker in the zone years after."

    • @michaelboyd395
      @michaelboyd395 Před 3 lety +28

      CHEEKI BREEKI WHERE'S STRELOK

    • @ashleymessing9174
      @ashleymessing9174 Před 3 lety +19

      A NUU CHEEKI BREEKI IV DAMKE!

    • @dtey6720
      @dtey6720 Před 3 lety +10

      Only men of culture here i see
      Good hunting stalkers

    • @peaveyst7
      @peaveyst7 Před 2 lety

      @@michaelboyd395 skadovsk

    • @not7170
      @not7170 Před 2 lety

      Get out of here stalker

  • @sirendude
    @sirendude Před 3 lety +4739

    Honestly these guys should've gotten a lot of praise. They cleaned up everything and risked their own lives.
    Edit: Can you guys just ignore the 2nd reply? I know the guy is stupid, but he's just a troll. You're just falling for his bait.

  • @ju.h_man
    @ju.h_man Před 3 lety +1579

    "He's delusional. Take him to the infirmary"

    • @ju.h_man
      @ju.h_man Před 3 lety +47

      @@stc3145 it's not 3 roentgen. Its fifteen thousand

    • @peaveyst7
      @peaveyst7 Před 3 lety +20

      @@ju.h_man "what does that number mean"

    • @a.r.aproductions1569
      @a.r.aproductions1569 Před 3 lety +27

      @@peaveyst7 lt means the core is open

    • @BosnianDragon
      @BosnianDragon Před 3 lety +16

      @@a.r.aproductions1569 Fomin: *surprised pikachu face*

    • @gyurto
      @gyurto Před 3 lety +8

      They tested if it was safe or not, it turned out to be not

  • @-emeedee-
    @-emeedee- Před rokem +25

    Not all heroes wear capes, they wear OP-1M protective coats. Rip to these awesome people

  • @johnh.jr.6970
    @johnh.jr.6970 Před 3 lety +425

    “50,000 people used to live here, now it’s a ghost-town”-Cpt.McMillan

    • @The-Big-Boss
      @The-Big-Boss Před 3 lety +14

      the correct quote is "50,000 people used to live here now it's a ghost town"

    • @g3lo218
      @g3lo218 Před 3 lety +4

      @@The-Big-Boss nice i was gonna correct that qoute but you did it already

    • @johnh.jr.6970
      @johnh.jr.6970 Před 3 lety +2

      @@The-Big-Boss thank you so much I just have not played in so long I forgot lol

    • @The-Big-Boss
      @The-Big-Boss Před 3 lety +2

      @@johnh.jr.6970 no issue you gonna edit the comment?

    • @johnh.jr.6970
      @johnh.jr.6970 Před 3 lety

      @@The-Big-Boss Yeah thanks

  • @davidreddington4381
    @davidreddington4381 Před 3 lety +1350

    Leaving aside the politics and possible human errors that could have caused the disaster. These people were and will be heroes, they deserve recognition and respect.

    • @deeperthantheabyss624
      @deeperthantheabyss624 Před 3 lety +19

      Who knows what would happen if they failed

    • @flovanhoorn5444
      @flovanhoorn5444 Před 3 lety +6

      Amen.

    • @SIK_Mephisto
      @SIK_Mephisto Před 3 lety +19

      indeed, we often let political standings get in the way of remembering heroes but these at their core were simply men and women protecting their family, friends, and neighbors, even if it meant giving up themselves in the process. regardless of where or why these values are commendable and its truly awe inspiring to think so many willingly helped and over-shifted for this task.

    • @Gravity_studioss
      @Gravity_studioss Před 3 lety

      *Salutes *

    • @jok6inas944
      @jok6inas944 Před 3 lety

      they were forced to do the job there wasn't a sentence i don't want to

  • @blackstone1a
    @blackstone1a Před 3 lety +1409

    If anyone deserves the title of “Giga-Chad”, it’s these guys.

    • @dorayak8051
      @dorayak8051 Před 3 lety +8

      Still need to be 6 feet above bruu

    • @dzombaj_ga
      @dzombaj_ga Před 3 lety +39

      No they deserve title of Terra-Chad

    • @NiCoNiCoNiCola
      @NiCoNiCoNiCola Před 3 lety +1

      Pizdeckiy-Chad

    • @coffee4682
      @coffee4682 Před 3 lety +3

      why are you calling Soviet men from '86 giga chads, they do not speak your language and they do not care, most have died of thyroid cancer by now

    • @NiCoNiCoNiCola
      @NiCoNiCoNiCola Před 3 lety +3

      @@coffee4682 you must be fun at parties. Shame nobody wants you there

  • @rejvaik00
    @rejvaik00 Před 3 lety +30

    "A real hero is one who plants trees knowing full well that they will never sit beneath them"
    Mass respect 👍 liquidators

  • @andrei01918
    @andrei01918 Před 3 lety +100

    "The Sarchophagus" **proceeds to put a drawing of the New Safe Confinement** C'mon I expected more from you.

    • @cherissesinclair284
      @cherissesinclair284 Před 3 lety +3

      Should've removed the reactor from chernobyl and dispose it

    • @konfu_ion
      @konfu_ion Před 3 lety +12

      @@cherissesinclair284 And where do you suppose they disperse tons of radiation? Even moving it is far too dangerous to take a risk, there isn't anywhere for it to be disposed of. Building an enclosure around it is quite possibly the best case scenario.

    • @cherissesinclair284
      @cherissesinclair284 Před 3 lety +2

      @@konfu_ion probably bury it in a confinement

    • @olivierquetel8204
      @olivierquetel8204 Před 3 lety +5

      @@konfu_ion they should put it in a massive rocket and send it to space

    • @kishtarn555
      @kishtarn555 Před 3 lety +5

      ​@@olivierquetel8204 Kinda hard to do that, bc the size of the rocket should be way too big. It would be very expensive and difficult.
      There are tons and tons of contaminated material.
      Even if it were possible to create such rocket, moving radioactive material is dangerous bc it releases dust. And moving it around may cause another reaction, explosion or critical-accident.

  • @Wiener-Fag
    @Wiener-Fag Před 3 lety +1307

    _"Hey, is that red light supposed to be beeping?"_
    -Chernobyl scientist

  • @jaywilliams9294
    @jaywilliams9294 Před 3 lety +2073

    The people who dislike this video are in shock get them out of here

    • @BosnianDragon
      @BosnianDragon Před 3 lety +120

      Get them to infirmary. They're delusional.

    • @eVieww
      @eVieww Před 3 lety +12

      yea I'm in shock why this video doesn't mention any of the most important things to know about this case. But then again, its simple history I guess.

    • @Whatamievingdoing
      @Whatamievingdoing Před 3 lety +17

      @@BosnianDragon no no no this is where we need a gulag

    • @TheDrewker
      @TheDrewker Před 3 lety +5

      @Fire Extinguisher IT'S BOTS.

    • @folkdom_1236
      @folkdom_1236 Před 3 lety +28

      @Fire Extinguisher probably Australians trying to like the vid

  • @joshuaeruela5274
    @joshuaeruela5274 Před 3 lety +76

    "What are the cost of lies?"

  • @bryson.7990
    @bryson.7990 Před 3 lety +29

    2:07 that’s the best damn animation I’ve ever seen

  • @DV1287
    @DV1287 Před 3 lety +265

    You gotta give them credit. These people risked their lives to contain a huge radiation disaster and succeeded in containing it, with an enormous price of their life.

    • @Gameprojordan
      @Gameprojordan Před 3 lety +6

      I always use chernobyl as a prime example of the average mediocrity and carelessness of soviet leaders when faced with issues

    • @nou4360
      @nou4360 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Gameprojordan yes, it was especially idiotic and incompetent during it's last years.

    • @ronniegriffith4361
      @ronniegriffith4361 Před 3 lety +2

      @@nou4360 they didn't cause the disaster on purpose they pushed the cool down button to the fourth reactor and the steam building up and then exploded.

    • @ronniegriffith4361
      @ronniegriffith4361 Před 3 lety +3

      @@Gameprojordan the disaster was unexpected and they couldn't predict it from happening.

    • @lorden3657
      @lorden3657 Před 3 lety +1

      @@ronniegriffith4361 perhaps it was too late to cool down,the steam inside may have gotten too highly presuarised,rip to brave comrads

  • @TheBestPybro
    @TheBestPybro Před 3 lety +20

    I believe one of the military staff in charge of organizing the clean up was interviewed and recorded saying "Someone had to do it." A pretty accurate statement... A special thank you to those brave men and women

  • @OnyeNacho
    @OnyeNacho Před 3 lety +90

    6:50 - Think I found where Half-Life 2 got their inspiration for the Combine masks.

  • @gloriousphantom7905
    @gloriousphantom7905 Před 3 lety +277

    Those few 15 year olds that helped:
    Sorry Ivan, I cannot hang out after school this Wednesday.
    Why not?
    I’m helping my dad clean up a nuclear disaster.
    You too?!

  • @itzzzleo8921
    @itzzzleo8921 Před 3 lety +475

    exploded during safety test.
    *ironic*

    • @nibwit4650
      @nibwit4650 Před 3 lety +20

      They tried to experiment with the reactors in a test. T R I E D

    • @GermanPest
      @GermanPest Před 3 lety +13

      Its not safety test
      Its *DANGER* test

    • @NotEvenDeathCanSaveU
      @NotEvenDeathCanSaveU Před 3 lety +3

      It wasnt a safety test tho..

    • @soldierorsomething
      @soldierorsomething Před 3 lety

      Well in Soviet Russia safety means danger!!

    • @kdrapertrucker
      @kdrapertrucker Před 3 lety

      Not if you are familiar with soviet nuclear reactor history. The communist party gave absolutely no F@#ks about their own people. They cut corners on absolutely everything.

  • @iggyster.
    @iggyster. Před 3 lety +299

    Chernobyl: *explodes*
    USSR: *tries to keep this incident a secret*
    Sweden: CHERNOBYL EXPLODED!!!!!
    Europe, Americas, and Asia: O_O

    • @lenin4074
      @lenin4074 Před 3 lety +24

      cringe

    • @mohammedhersi5774
      @mohammedhersi5774 Před 3 lety +4

      Sweden had to snitch. -_-

    • @Crucisphinx
      @Crucisphinx Před 3 lety +18

      @@mohammedhersi5774 It’s not technically snitching if you’re neutral

    • @taxfraud1212
      @taxfraud1212 Před 3 lety +10

      @@mohammedhersi5774 I know people up in northern sweden that got permanent radioactive damage, it was for the better

    • @chrisheard5727
      @chrisheard5727 Před 3 lety +6

      @@taxfraud1212 Which was for the better? People getting radiation damage or Sweden telling the world?

  • @astrobot3000
    @astrobot3000 Před 3 lety +25

    2:43 that isn't the sarcophagus, that's the arch that was built to cover the sarcophagus that has been decaying over time

  • @FuriousHellHound74
    @FuriousHellHound74 Před 3 lety +531

    "Chernobyl liquidators" sounds like a Red alert unit

    • @kaiserkiefer1760
      @kaiserkiefer1760 Před 3 lety +54

      Unit ready:
      Unit lost: died from radiation.

    • @ExeErdna
      @ExeErdna Před 3 lety +29

      TRAINING.... UNIT READY! "Meltdown!"

    • @shaider1982
      @shaider1982 Před 3 lety +7

      Yup, like a special version of the RA2 unit.

    • @ottovonbasedmark
      @ottovonbasedmark Před 3 lety +8

      @@shaider1982 just what I thought

    • @shaider1982
      @shaider1982 Před 3 lety +13

      @@ExeErdna "there goes the neighborhood"

  • @nematolvajkergetok5104
    @nematolvajkergetok5104 Před 3 lety +187

    According to liquidators, the hunting squads were a myth. While the soldiers did shoot a few pets left behind, but they didn't go after every single one of them, as it would've been impossible, and even if they did, there were still scores of wild animals and birds who carried radioactivity.

  • @Welshman2008
    @Welshman2008 Před 3 lety +10

    4:26 "Comrade Soldier! You're done."

  • @scpfoundation1065
    @scpfoundation1065 Před rokem +11

    RIP to the fallen liquidators. Your loss was for a good cause, and we are thankful for your service to us.

  • @smokeyplane3285
    @smokeyplane3285 Před 3 lety +301

    Man, I think that the firefighters were some of the bravest in that event, even if they didn't know it.

    • @mikeuy5450
      @mikeuy5450 Před 3 lety +6

      They be like: Send it

    • @takitachibana1267
      @takitachibana1267 Před 3 lety +1

      Like in the series 1 held a graphite block (you know, where the reactor control rods house in) Yeah, must have been very very painfull indeed.

    • @wifispotter
      @wifispotter Před 3 lety +1

      read about the firefighters in 9/11 raw bravery

    • @tentuva
      @tentuva Před 3 lety +13

      You shouldn’t make it into contest. Serves zero purpose and dishonors heroes in 9/11 and Chernobyl.

    • @jebsie861
      @jebsie861 Před 3 lety +1

      @@takitachibana1267 that has actually happaned irl too.

  • @AfterFridayPL
    @AfterFridayPL Před 3 lety +1620

    *Roses are Red*
    *This quote is unbearable*
    *3.6 Roentgen*
    *Not Great, Not Terrible*

    • @Giraffe69420
      @Giraffe69420 Před 3 lety +14

      yes

    • @baconpower3472
      @baconpower3472 Před 3 lety +20

      Just a random Robloxian did they use the good dosimeter from the safe?

    • @AfterFridayPL
      @AfterFridayPL Před 3 lety +23

      @@baconpower3472 it maxed out, 200 roentgen

    • @joemamaobama6863
      @joemamaobama6863 Před 3 lety +14

      youre delusional

    • @mrbisshie
      @mrbisshie Před 3 lety +19

      At least the Soviet Union met their 5 year power plan, in a few seconds!

  • @isaaclee3271
    @isaaclee3271 Před 2 lety +22

    We're lucky this isn't the Marvel universe otherwise we'd have a whole bunch of Hulks running around due to all the people exposed to gamma radiation

  • @ceu160193
    @ceu160193 Před 3 lety +16

    My dad was there, 10 days after disaster. Still alive and well.

  • @daustin8888
    @daustin8888 Před 3 lety +497

    "You're dealing with something that has never occurred on this planet before"

    • @monolithza7159
      @monolithza7159 Před 3 lety +8

      Damn Right Legasov.(I think Thats How You Spell The Name)

    • @generalmits
      @generalmits Před 3 lety +8

      If you think that is true look up the kishtym disaster

    • @beareble-lion4446
      @beareble-lion4446 Před 3 lety +6

      I believe past society's were as or more advanced than current society's.

    • @theemperor-wh40k18
      @theemperor-wh40k18 Před 3 lety

      @@beareble-lion4446 how come?

    • @zenoblues7787
      @zenoblues7787 Před 3 lety +6

      @@beareble-lion4446 Depends on one's definition of advanced. As an example plumbing has existed for at least 2000 years in the form of aqua ducts, but kept being lost due to the expertise required to create and maintain them. On the other hand computers are a comparatively much more recent inventions with transistor computers being invented in the mid 50's. There is essentially no comparison to previous methods of computing and calculating mathematics. With computers we can preform calculations that would be almost impossible for human mathematician to calculate. These calculations can be preformed far faster then the human brain and are statically less likely to contain errors.

  • @andrewmontgomery5621
    @andrewmontgomery5621 Před 3 lety +127

    Captain McMillan:"50,000 people used to live in this city now it's a ghost town."

    • @tableentertainment7644
      @tableentertainment7644 Před 3 lety

      Nope he didn’t copy, he commented as soon as the video came out witch means he wrote it without knowing there were other ones.

    • @wolfstudios4297
      @wolfstudios4297 Před 3 lety

      No I don’t want to

    • @squirrele.1266
      @squirrele.1266 Před 3 lety

      “I’ve never seen anything like this”

  • @Chicken_Enthusiast1
    @Chicken_Enthusiast1 Před 3 lety +233

    Radiation: *Exists*
    Chernobyl liquidators: imma about to end this mans whole career

    • @zamlightning7341
      @zamlightning7341 Před 3 lety +21

      Chernobyl Liquidators: about to end radiations whole career
      Radiation:I’m about to end their cells whole career

    • @zamlightning7341
      @zamlightning7341 Před 3 lety

      @@user-tv3ik9qi9x Stops both radiation and humans

    • @UnitedNationsSecretariat
      @UnitedNationsSecretariat Před 3 lety +5

      Radiation: Exists
      Liquidator: imma about to end my whole career

    • @user-wh9jj8ym5m
      @user-wh9jj8ym5m Před 3 lety +1

      They cleaned not the radiation but graphite pieces and radioactive dust left from the explosion.

  • @swarnalathasrikrishnan5403

    They saved all of us but any of them barely survived

  • @garfieldman2380
    @garfieldman2380 Před 3 lety +217

    "I was in the toilet."
    -Anatoly "Not great, not terrible" Dyatlov

  • @xeanderman6688
    @xeanderman6688 Před 3 lety +203

    My mom always tells me that on the 1st of May, they were forced out to the annual Communist March and it has rained that day. She says that our family suffers from cancer ever since then. I just hope we all stay safe until we find permanent treatment.

  • @TheBozz346
    @TheBozz346 Před 3 lety +6

    I have so much respect for every single man and women, fireman, nurse, doctor, miners, pilots who flew right above the reactor and ever one who helped cleaning this mess up.

  • @AshFurAshFur
    @AshFurAshFur Před 3 lety +5

    Thank you for that moment of silence at the end, it really does send home the message against other videos, it induces a solemn feeling but one of respect for those that put themselves in danger to protect what would’ve been the world from paying the price.

  • @ender_banditabondonedchann1164

    Honestly give praise on the persons who volunteers to clean up the mess

    • @DuckDelicious
      @DuckDelicious Před 3 lety +1

      no one volunteerd, all was forse to do that!

    • @zik336
      @zik336 Před 3 lety +10

      @@DuckDelicious Nope, there were volunteers. I don't understand why foreign people (Excluding ex-Soviet states) really hate USSR/Russia, both sides (USA and USSR) are guilty in Cold War, none of them technically won it, or would ever win it. MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) is what could've happen in case of full-blown nuclear war. I'm a Russian person and I'm watching quite a lot of historical content, in both, English and Russian. Now, explain why you'd think that they all were forced to do that.

    • @calebemotta8107
      @calebemotta8107 Před 3 lety +1

      @@zik336 maybe because it was a very authoritarian state? There were a lot of volunteers, obviously, but none of them were forced? Are you sure?

    • @zik336
      @zik336 Před 3 lety +4

      @@calebemotta8107 I did not say that there was no people that were forced. People were serving their duty by being liquidators at Chernobyl, if not them, world might've been way different from what we know it right now.

    • @DuckDelicious
      @DuckDelicious Před 3 lety

      @@zik336 Well I am from Latvia an USSR where killing lot people and forsed to go to the cernobile.

  • @Asgoga
    @Asgoga Před 3 lety +40

    Thanks for making this video! My own uncle was Liquidator, he was called to go there as a Lithuanian - Soviet Army soldier. He died 5y ago from a horrible intestine cancer, which is attributed to his work in Ukraine as Liquidator

    • @markfryer9880
      @markfryer9880 Před 3 lety +5

      May he now at last be at peace! One of the many who paid the price for this disaster.

  • @pawansharma27
    @pawansharma27 Před 3 lety +20

    Salute sir🇮🇳🇮🇳 from India you saved so many innocent lives

  • @OrigenalDarkMew
    @OrigenalDarkMew Před 3 lety +33

    0:13 Man boogies his way on out 😆

  • @MCPOSJ117films
    @MCPOSJ117films Před 3 lety +106

    Homer Simpson was working in Reactor 4 that day.

    • @srujan00
      @srujan00 Před 2 lety +3

      It was Frank Grimes' day off.

    • @Vin_solo
      @Vin_solo Před 2 lety +3

      Now Homers now suffering from PTSD

  • @greensocks5721
    @greensocks5721 Před 3 lety +535

    0:14 this dude hitting the quan wtf?

  • @SSG64
    @SSG64 Před rokem +2

    I went to the Chernobyl in 2016 before they rolled on the new sarcophagus. Went to both the destroyed reactor and the city Pripyat. Was picked up in Kiev by a guy and was given a geiger counter.
    In Kiev the radiation was 0,16 units. When i got to Pripyat it was 20,35 units and the geiger counters alarm went off like crazy, especially when i was inside the old hospital where the firemen had been treated. Their clothes are still in the basement and are highly radioactive.

  • @shacus945
    @shacus945 Před 3 lety +4

    My father got cancer because of it but he is well now. I'm proud of him. Thank you for the video.

  • @CheddarMannn
    @CheddarMannn Před 3 lety +39

    I guess you took too much from HBO's show
    - They weren't even allowed for 90 seconds. It was around 40
    - Firefighters weren't mostly aware of the danger; here's a quote:
    " *I saw a black brick on the ground. Misha asked: "Is that graphite?" I kicked one piece, but other firefighter picked it up. "It's hot" he said.* "

    • @ImPedofinderGeneral
      @ImPedofinderGeneral Před 3 lety +1

      there is no problem to pick up interesting reactor parts if you going to suicide mission anyway

    • @supertrinigamer
      @supertrinigamer Před 3 lety +2

      @@ImPedofinderGeneral they didn't know what it is

    • @supertrinigamer
      @supertrinigamer Před 3 lety +7

      I agree. People watch it then think they're an expert on Chernobyl

    • @comradekenobi6908
      @comradekenobi6908 Před 3 lety +4

      @@supertrinigamer and then make annoying quotes from it 24/7 everytime someone makes a new Chernobyl vid X(

    • @supertrinigamer
      @supertrinigamer Před 3 lety +1

      @@comradekenobi6908 That's the worst part!!! "3.6 roentgen" We don't know for sure if djatlow said that, and people think they're some kind of nuclear engineer

  • @slavyori2140
    @slavyori2140 Před 3 lety +76

    My mother was but a kid when the catastrophe happened, and all she remembers of it was “we were simply not allowed to go out” and that’s it.

    • @SovietCharlie
      @SovietCharlie Před 3 lety

      Thats actually the best you can do on a nuclear disaster xD

    • @splizzex
      @splizzex Před 3 lety

      your mother has something to hide

    • @awetistic5295
      @awetistic5295 Před 10 měsíci

      I was two months old and playing outside when the radioactive cloud passed by. There was no warning from the gouvernment, they didn't consider it a health risk. I always wondered if it has caused at least some of my health issues.

  • @coruscantguardclone4796
    @coruscantguardclone4796 Před 3 lety +8

    Who here thinks that the PBF Gad Mask looks like a combine helmet from half-life 2? That could be were they got the inspiration.

    • @hildaalone2232
      @hildaalone2232 Před 3 lety +1

      The PMG gas mask is the inspiration

    • @MD_Films
      @MD_Films Před 3 lety

      @@hildaalone2232 both are, and maybe other mask.

  • @lorddaquanofhouserastafari4177

    Thank you firemen and all the people who cleaned up that mess

  • @mustafahassan3584
    @mustafahassan3584 Před 3 lety +128

    Keeping in mind that this was the first time such thing had happened, they had done a good job.

    • @generalmits
      @generalmits Před 3 lety +3

      Look up the kyshytm disatser

    • @jakubslavik5595
      @jakubslavik5595 Před 3 lety +4

      That's not true. The disaster of Chernobyl is just the most known.

    • @orangecat504
      @orangecat504 Před 3 lety +2

      @@jakubslavik5595 true but also the worst on the nuculear disaster scale tied now with Fukushima

  • @izanagi711
    @izanagi711 Před 3 lety +66

    I've always loved the brief moment of silence at the ending. Such a simple and brief moment of respect for these people.

  • @Paul_Sergeyev
    @Paul_Sergeyev Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you for the video! The moment od silence at the end is really touching.

  • @popadelic2719
    @popadelic2719 Před 3 lety +94

    Ah it was only 3.6 Roentgen tho.
    Not great, not terrible.

  • @PhongPilot0402
    @PhongPilot0402 Před 3 lety +141

    "There's nothing sane about Chernobyl"

  • @lynlewis8606
    @lynlewis8606 Před 3 lety +132

    "It isn't harmful it's just like a chest xray"

    • @thekhans2823
      @thekhans2823 Před 3 lety +6

      That is what many said, right after the accident

    • @admiralversio
      @admiralversio Před 3 lety +2

      @@thekhans2823 r/woooosh

    • @leadpiper
      @leadpiper Před 3 lety +14

      @@admiralversio shut up

    • @lynlewis8606
      @lynlewis8606 Před 3 lety +2

      I've never got this many likes on this channel thx guys ;)

    • @vincezockt127
      @vincezockt127 Před 3 lety +2

      @@admiralversio r/igotreddit

  • @Koalalari
    @Koalalari Před 3 lety +4

    These men were truly heroes, brave men who knew the danger yet went in many times voluntarily.

  • @zachfrancisco8185
    @zachfrancisco8185 Před 3 lety +23

    "Look at this plays 50,000 people used to live here now its a ghost town"

  • @RangerSidewinder
    @RangerSidewinder Před 3 lety +280

    Last time I was this early Chernobyl was intact.

  • @DSMCasual
    @DSMCasual Před 3 lety +114

    Liquidiator: Should we clean the Foot?
    Liquidiator 2: No.
    Liquidiator: Why?
    Liquidiator 2: Cause it Glowing.
    *Both staring at the Elephant Foots*

    • @lasombra1469
      @lasombra1469 Před 3 lety +9

      Boy those two are going to die after being to close to the elephant foot

    • @DSMCasual
      @DSMCasual Před 3 lety +2

      @@lasombra1469
      And I always been wondering how can the “Elephants Foots” be removed? 🤔😬

    • @mrslinkydragon9910
      @mrslinkydragon9910 Před 3 lety +7

      @@DSMCasual it wasnt, its still there

    • @malaya1950
      @malaya1950 Před 3 lety +1

      @The Rational Rifleman how radioactive can mess up camera?

    • @vincezockt127
      @vincezockt127 Před 3 lety +7

      @@malaya1950 the Gamma,Beta and Alpha Rays distord the light of the sind and other Things that's why the camera was distorded

  • @mathiasenevoldsen3583
    @mathiasenevoldsen3583 Před 3 lety +13

    Source: HBO miniseries: Chernobyl

  • @s34nn35
    @s34nn35 Před 3 lety +5

    0:58 "50,000 people used to live here, now it's a ghost town"

    • @pyana_bilka
      @pyana_bilka Před 2 lety

      Я живу не дуже далеко від Чорнобиля

  • @kaplox
    @kaplox Před 3 lety +265

    I own one of the liquidator’s medals. I often wonder what the recipient did in their service to get the medal.

    • @lorenzoeli2939
      @lorenzoeli2939 Před 3 lety +19

      How did you get it

    • @OneLekgolo
      @OneLekgolo Před 3 lety +111

      @@lorenzoeli2939 he liquidated the guy

    • @kaplox
      @kaplox Před 3 lety +53

      @@lorenzoeli2939 Military surplus websites sell them, but you can buy some on amazon and eBay (although these may be fakes).

    • @jahseh_onfroy8952
      @jahseh_onfroy8952 Před 3 lety +4

      cool

    • @phantom-sj9lk
      @phantom-sj9lk Před 3 lety +68

      If its real
      you better clean it

  • @alanwestmoreland6152
    @alanwestmoreland6152 Před 3 lety +254

    *after the robots malfunctioned, they had to be replaced with humans, the bio-robots*
    Never change, soviet union.

    • @xninewxw7559
      @xninewxw7559 Před 3 lety +18

      Actually, the robots got stuck in molten debris.

    • @kraigisboss
      @kraigisboss Před 3 lety +33

      @@xninewxw7559 That was part of the problem but the radiation literally cooked the receiver and transmitter on the robot plus destroy the motherboard or the equivalent of it. The radiation level it was rated for was far too low for the area of operation.

    • @lalchhandama3805
      @lalchhandama3805 Před 3 lety +2

      @@kraigisboss didnt the soviet union told the builders to make the robot stand against radioactive but sent the anthem instant

    • @supertrinigamer
      @supertrinigamer Před 3 lety +17

      They had no choice... stop trying to vilify the USSR

    • @hzllnut4381
      @hzllnut4381 Před 3 lety +8

      @@lalchhandama3805 soviet union told the robot producer a propaganda number not the real number/rate of radiation

  • @UnionPacific3977
    @UnionPacific3977 Před rokem +1

    You wonder why those suits are so heavy?
    They have to hold up the giant balls of steel of the liquidators.

  • @lexo6987
    @lexo6987 Před 3 lety +17

    I only have one thing in the mind when i see the suits S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

  • @khanglogan2932
    @khanglogan2932 Před 3 lety +65

    7:48
    50.000 people used to live here.....Now it’s a ghost town!!!!!
    COD flashback...

  • @terencestark8044
    @terencestark8044 Před 3 lety +110

    *"Deadly anomalies, dangerous mutants, anarchists, and bandits! None of them will stop Duty on its triumphant march towards saving the planet!"*

  • @user-jy2sj6md9y
    @user-jy2sj6md9y Před 3 lety +29

    We have a monument for liquidators near our university (a lot of physiсists were recruted from our uni in Dolgoprudny).
    Вечная память!

    • @user-kt2il5cx9d
      @user-kt2il5cx9d Před 3 lety +3

      Хоть кто то руский,и да весная память!

  • @syos1979
    @syos1979 Před 3 lety +39

    Never forget the Chernobyl Liquidators. True heroes, all of them,

  • @mikhailkalashnikov285
    @mikhailkalashnikov285 Před 3 lety +114

    "50000 people used to live here....now it's a ghost town"

  • @porchofgeese_crockpot
    @porchofgeese_crockpot Před 3 lety +2

    Love the Geiger counter clicking in the background

  • @lez6442
    @lez6442 Před 3 lety

    Probably my favorite video of your so far

  • @BP25600
    @BP25600 Před 3 lety +75

    Heroes, takes guts to be able to willingly expose yourself to that much radiation

    • @forteastro6996
      @forteastro6996 Před 3 lety +2

      Funny how I recall seeing a job handling nuclear waste for $12/hour. Stupidity at its finest.

    • @BP25600
      @BP25600 Před 3 lety +3

      @@forteastro6996 if no one did anything a lot more would have died

    • @yomama6761
      @yomama6761 Před 3 lety

      @@forteastro6996 if you are coward at least not brag about it, you will die either way living like rabbit or living like a man

    • @user-kz8ti3tv1r
      @user-kz8ti3tv1r Před 3 lety

      @@yomama6761 So throwing your life away taking dumb decisions is living like a man? such as handling nuclear waste for 12 a hour
      Sounds pretty dumb to me

    • @DutchGuyMike
      @DutchGuyMike Před 2 lety

      They did not even know about radiation or what it does to you, they weren't even properly told it was dangerous or unhealthy.

  • @LinkofHyrule1996
    @LinkofHyrule1996 Před 3 lety +315

    Notice how these animations were recreated from HBO's Chernobyl miniseries.

    • @daniellap.stewart6839
      @daniellap.stewart6839 Před 3 lety +4

      Good job figure out lugia you're so smart (irony)

    • @LinkofHyrule1996
      @LinkofHyrule1996 Před 3 lety +35

      @@daniellap.stewart6839 No need to be sarcastic, who wouldn't want to do that after how great the miniseries was. P.S. your grammar and English needs some work.

    • @haydongunn7948
      @haydongunn7948 Před 3 lety +15

      @@daniellap.stewart6839 no need to be rude Lugia just made comparison

    • @harrisonreber6936
      @harrisonreber6936 Před 3 lety +1

      Yes

    • @galvatron0810
      @galvatron0810 Před 3 lety +2

      I like when they're running on the roof

  • @jfiles640
    @jfiles640 Před 2 lety +1

    "serving and protecting the world" there is no borders to fight for when it comes to a nuclear disaster.

  • @libzbond
    @libzbond Před 2 lety +1

    "Comrade soldier, you're done."

  • @viper6022
    @viper6022 Před 3 lety +95

    Chernobyl disaster: exists
    Writers, game developers, film directors: Stonks

    • @mrquocviet6479
      @mrquocviet6479 Před 3 lety +5

      All Ghillied up

    • @viper6022
      @viper6022 Před 3 lety +2

      wow someone replied me after a minute

    • @nore5992
      @nore5992 Před 3 lety +14

      The Entire S.T.A.L.K.E.R Community : *Heavy Gas Mask Noise*

    • @jesusmartvya
      @jesusmartvya Před 3 lety

      @@nore5992 *dosimeter ticking intensifies*

  • @user-fi2vc7ei8v
    @user-fi2vc7ei8v Před 3 lety +185

    Nobody:
    The people who live in Pripyat: “Ahh this again, seems like Dimitri forgot to use the reactor correctly again.”

  • @pumpkin91ful
    @pumpkin91ful Před 3 lety +5

    "Ubi dolor ibi vigiles"="where there is sofference there are fire fighters" motto of the ancient romans fire fighters .

  • @DarthVader-ig6ci
    @DarthVader-ig6ci Před 3 lety +9

    The greatest heroes I've ever heard of. Salute to all those brave people.

  • @josephstalin364
    @josephstalin364 Před 3 lety +52

    There are only 3 survivors who were on shift during the Cherynobyl disaster. Their names are:
    Yuri Korneev
    Boris Stolyarchuk
    Igor Kirschenbaum

  • @yakumoyukari4405
    @yakumoyukari4405 Před 3 lety +67

    4:16 thats a modern sarcophagus completed last year, not the one build in end 1986/start 1987.

    • @gh0streduxXgaming
      @gh0streduxXgaming Před 3 lety +7

      yeah thats what I thought too, the original one was just cement poured into the reactor and very unstable

    • @yakumoyukari4405
      @yakumoyukari4405 Před 3 lety +2

      @@gh0streduxXgaming its not only cement, its complex, but yeah its unstable because it was made in high rush and its already old

    • @bananskalsvensson
      @bananskalsvensson Před 3 lety +2

      This. Don't get why you don't have thousands of upvotes, don't get how they could actually animate the current one when making a video about the disaster?

    • @gh0streduxXgaming
      @gh0streduxXgaming Před 3 lety +7

      @@bananskalsvensson sometimes their videos are inconsistent. the animations differ from the script to a point where I think the animators don't really know much about history. they upload these really fast and make some mistakes here and there.