Chernobyl. Cleaning the roofs. Soldiers (reservists). 1986.
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"Telecon" documentary film studio is disclosing unique film archives on elimination of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident.
Not all heroes wear capes, some wear weird soviet anti radiation clothes.
@@chomperzzs4588 euhm...? So you also mean anti-radiation clothes? Lmao
@@chomperzzs4588 you really thought you did something lmao you wanna argue? Trust me i know everything about it
@@brankojovic1056 whats your problem dude no reason to be as petty as you are lmao
@@michaelrosa9593 @Branko Jovic
Why do you use lmao in every sentence? It's not something funny
@@Joxat_ I did it ironically
when I have a ¨bad¨ day at work I think of this
it definitely helps to put things in perspective sometimes
When women think they're in a worse position in society than men, they should think of this.
@@Frobbl so true man
@@Frobbl Exactly.
Does it count for people that actually work at nuclear power plants?
The most important 90 second of their lives
@@crazybastardo9452 LMAO!
You're done comrade...
No worse than a chest x ray, comrade
3.6. Not great, not terrible.
Wrath the good dosimeter is in the safe
Wow.. HBO really nailed the accuracy of the roof cleaning.
Are you stupid?
The way the giger counter screams is just so awful I couldn't imagine how that would feel.
But...in the serial, they claim that all robots failed because high level of radiation. How it is possible that this video exist? How it is possible that this camera worked?
@@tomasslintak2028 I imagine it's much easier to shield a camera from radiation than it is a robot with moving parts.
@@tomasslintak2028 Well the Roboters did fail but not instantly like in the series. The series is pretty accurate but also dramatises parts of it.
I'm actually surprised there's footage of this.
me2 wtf
Well, governments have been sending reporters and photographers into actual war zones since forever. I'm not surprised they would document this.
@@srrv7396 lol you missed the point entirety. They mean: how the fuck could someone record in that extreme radiation
Jesse Reinosa the camera man died 1 year after filming. He did it on his own accord as the Soviet Union didn’t say how truly radioactive the site was.
этих видеосъемок очень много,до выхода сериала не были популярными
My grandfather was one of those man, died in 2014 at the age of 74. God bless those heroes ❤️
May he rest in peace, he was an absolutely hero who saved many others ❤️
Thank you to your Grandpa!
He was a hero
God bless, the world is forever indebted to such selfless heroism xx
@Pricey 25 rad only increases the risk of cancer by 1.5%.
That camera man is a hero too.
He ded now
Yes those who sacrificed their health and lives to document the events as it unfolded are truly heroes.
06:42
@@Darnokk15 dead* fucking idiot.
@@andrew881000 in the meme world, he could spell it "daed" for all who cares.
That's the same roof that six firefighters spent over 30 minutes on immediately after the explosion - with no protective equipment - putting out fires that could have spread to Reactor 3. Not surprisingly all six were dead within two weeks, dying the most gruesome and agonising deaths imaginable.
I watched a video in which one of the firefighters was telling a story about chernobyl, and if I recall correctly they said that those men have gone to the roof, but didn't come back actually
@@smudgecat5941 I have also read the phrase you are talking about, in a few articles about Chernobyl. The firefighters all came back physically, just not literally, from the perspective of the speaker. What the speaker meant was that he never ever saw them again after that night, (because they were the ones that died within hours in Pripyat, or were flown to Hospital no. 6 in Moscow and died within weeks.
I dont understand why the scientist didnt warn the firefighters…it remembers me of the explosion in libanon, as soon as the firefighters opened a gate to extinguish the „fire“ nearly 3 tons of Ammonium nitrate explode, because of the sudden oxygen rise…they were all sent to die
The protective clothes that they are wearing is like holding a place of paper up against machengun fire
It was improvised by taking pieces of led from the walls.
@Anton Varismäki *lead
@@fredrik999z You would need about a 1.3 foot thick piece of leaf to stop the radiation, which I don't think they had.
Actually the clothing protects against alpha and beta radiation which is just as deadly as the gamma, however this clothing would not have protected against the gamma
Taylor Kind True, Gamma is the most penetrating.
those men saved the world.
sadly that is the truth
Not the World but areas next to there
Weekly podcast and other stuff they saved the europe
Scientists already said whole world was saved. Educate yourself fool.
Argue with experts and scientists....not us. We only say what scientists and experts said.
Here are the real heroes. not from comics.
06:42 - Aww he credited the one who shot this film. These people saved our world.
You do realize he was in the roof as well ?
@Richard Hayes Thanks Richard :)
Puneeth zone of endless?
They saved Europe, not the world.
The best, yet saddest part is at the end where you see all those young, smiling faces. And you wonder, how many died early from the consequences of those days.
From what I heard most of them actually survived. The first responders, firefighters and the like, well... let's just say they pulled the shorter straw.
@@benceklock4831 I know I've read several received very high doses of radiation compounded by their making repeated trips over the core to dump whatever onto the pile. But this may have been those during the earliest days. Perhaps the danger lessened, abit anyway, as more and more material was added.
@@benceklock4831 Yeah, firefighters weren't instructed or trained for this at all, while here they were still using human labor but still knew what they were dealing with at this point.
You can realize they still cared about the human lives, or else they could've just told these workers to stay up there and work. All roof would've been clear in half an hour, way before any one of them realized that they're going to die.
@@benceklock4831 surviving is one thing, having a shorter lifespan with significantly reduced quality of life is another. I think they were probably all affected.
The man who comments this video says that he is in blue overalls at 5:24
It's amazing how innocent it looks. I mean it's the last thing on the planet you'd want to pick up with a shovel. Hero's, everyone of them.
These men deserve our greatest respect. To see such courage and selflessness renews ones faith in humanity.
R.I.P. Heroes
yea );
Most of them died of old age
Really ??
My grandfather was one of those man on the roof, died in 2014 at the age of 74. God bless all those heroes
The thing that shocks me the most is that the soldiers are smiling and joking around in such a terrifying scenario. Absolute heroes.
Well they need something to keep them from panicking
because they don't understand the consequences
@@deonex4993 I think they expected that the worst case scenario is that they'll get nauseous - not that their bodies will literally start melting.
what else can you do while staring death in the face?
That's all you can do at that point
They are not called biorobots.
They are heroes
nobody called them biorobots. in the USSR there was not even such a word.
it's a director's invention
Sorry. i don't speak english
'Liquidators' or 'cleanup' or 'reservists' etc, definitely heroes of not just USSR/Russia, but global heroes.
@@K2-2478 it said biorobots in the mini series
@@Player_Review why global? lol its not like world would have ended because of chernobyl
@@ivvan497 I meant it in the context of the modern day hyper-fascination with pollution. The world would indeed continue to do fine regardless. Glad they cleaned up their mess instead of making others do it though. Russia, USA and France recently worked together to relocate and contain nuclear waste that was spreading radioactive pollution into France from the direction of Kazakhstan or Russia. The international group of scientists moved the offending material into a mountain complex. So, things can get global sometimes, but Chernobyl was definitely more of a regionalized contamination.
“Comrade, you’re done!”
At that moment, you are screwed forever
I was dissatisfied because that seen is not here!!
Absolutly mindblowing that they did the whole roof in just 2 days! Just like that, 90 seconds each group... Incredible
It breaks my heart that these poor guys were even ALLOWED to put their lives in so much peril and sacrifice so much for the stupidity of superiors that didn't give two shits about them. They are all true heroes of humanity and we all owe them a HUGE debt.
Pretty much the defense against (actually the utter lack of defense against) Operation Barbarossa all over again.
I cannot believe I'm writing this but I'm gonna have to correct you a little. This job in particular required moving a lot of debris in lots of radiation, work suited for robots and helicopters. These were both tried, helicopters couldn't get close enough and the ridiculously high gamma radiation on the roof broke the circuits on the robots. The options were limited to people--the USSR's usual fallback. Otherwise, excellent comment, couldn't agree more.
Look at those faces... Smiling. Those folks have a heart of a Lion. Their sense of duty is astounding!
who's here after watching chernobyl
My jaw hit the floor at 5:43 when I realised how accurately they replicated everything in the show. The above video looks almost fake it's so hard to believe that's how it actually happened
I am. I timed the group that goes out in that video. at exactly 90 seconds, the captain calls them back in. But that meant they were out there for 102 seconds....
Me
Me :)
@@BlueShift815 I was thinking the same. It was toooo accurate!
Thank you to these brave men who sacrificed their lives to prevent further deaths.
Most of them probably didn't want to do it. They were told to do it.
@@cameronburke8002 they were soldiers
Even if they drafted
They still feel this " i serve my people " deep in their heart
You only had to explain what kind disaster awaits if no one clearing that roof, and they will-no matter if they living with cancer as the result of this job-do the job
Thank you Chernobyl TV series for bringing me here.
They were not just heroes, they were angels :)
me too after series
Sounds like some commie gobbledygook.jk
@@eerievibes6854 I said 'they' , not the fu*k*** system.
1:30 is heartbreaking. It's looking into the soul of an innocent man who knows that his life is being shortened each second he stays.
Yes may he rest in peace 🙏
Thank you gentlemen for all you did during those dark days!
"That roof is the most dangerous place on the planet."
"Yeah, I'd say so."
"We want you to get some nice footage on the roof."
"Come again?"
r/holup
Its the 2nd most radioactive place in the Power plant.
The Reactor Core takes the first place (Obviously, its the center)
public service announcement: turn on the subtitles, everyone.
Shit! I've finished watching and now learning this.
Petition to make this the top comment:
I know Russian so I don't need it, but thanks anyway :)
One of them is the dude whos watching it.
I don't think those men fully understood what they were getting into.
That is more than a safe bet.
They had to protect people of their country. That’s not even a question whether they understood everything or not.
Pretty sure they were nearly clueless. Reality about the soviets is even worse than the series. Juts to give you guys some notion: when the Soviet army came into Eastern Europe, they took lot's of people away to the gulags, where most of them died. What they told all those men who they asked to get on the trucks, what they kept repeating, was "malenkij robot" which roughly translates to "short work", basically meaning that they need some men for short temporary work near the villages/town. Nobody eve saw those men again.
Actually the thing about it was they were straight forward. They didn't lie or sugarcoat they told them they had 90 seconds, if they tripped they could die, if they looked over the rails into the reactor itself and fell they'd die, they knew their life expectancy would be lowered. But here's the thing it's best this happen in a communist country because they're willing to sacrifice one for the collective. That's something our society doesn't have we have health and safety laws and things that mean this wouldn't happen. If the Soviets didn't do things as quickly as they did basically all of Europe would be uninhabitable and most Europeans would of died.
@@cakes4494 in contrast if they'd have done things properly in the first place! As per politicians all over the world whether Communist or not, getting innocent people to die in cleaning up their atrocities.
real heroism here .
Whoever was filming must have got a huge dose.
Oh yeah most of the camera dudes died pretty quickly
Hjembrent Kent Igor kostin was The only One who survived tho
Camera guy died 6 months i think after filming this. Or so I read years ago when i saw this footage.
Yuriy Bordakov is the man who filmed this footage, and he died a year after of cancer. There's a Nytimes article from 1987 detailing it free on the internet with a quick google search of Yuriy's name.
@@coryboy345 nah hes 74 this year. hes alive but i wont go as far as saying "and well" ..
The bravery of these men is overwhelming, I cannot even begin to imagine the fear as they slowly climbed those stairs to the roof. Unsung heroes that we will never know, each playing their part to contain this horrible disaster.
These men are getting their lives cut in half, yet they are laughing and smiling at the end of the footage. Truly they were heroes.
Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
Marcus Aurelius
All this work and people falling ill with radiation poisoning due to 2 people arguing and flaws in the reactor design...now people suffering for many years to come...these men are the real heros of chernobyl
For those who are crying about some inaccuracies in the series, remember, they had only 5 episodes ie, 3 hours 20 minutes. They had to cram everything in there and still not have to be boring.
I'm surprised at the quality of the footage from back then, they really used cameras ahead of the time for this
For those who don't know... These blocks with the hole in the middle are the tips of the Bor-rods. They are made of graphite that is the most radioactive thing there besides the reactor. If you touch it, you'll probably die with guarantee
No, those are the fuel channels. Graphite (which is the material its made of) surrounded the fuel elements in order to slow the neutrons down.
@@doxielain2231 yeah, my bad, I got those mixed up
Say what u like about the russian/ Ukrainian people, u can’t deny they have a steely courageous toughness rare in any other nationality.
RESPECT from 🏴
Who else here is a nuclear expert because they have watched HBOs Chernobyl?...
FUCKING LOADS OF THE (“experts”) PRICKS ARE COMMENTING
I'm starting my new job at my local nuclear power plant tomorrow
I haven't watch HBO's Chernobyl but I don't need to be smart for understande all of them is death after this ...
@@scampiscampai well, most of them are still alive
The whole HBO show is a bunch of lie, bias, stereotypes, distortions and political propaganda.
What's scary is this is real footage.
Yes
No shit
What is even more scary is that people believe in this crap!
@@MrProvinspoul Believe in what?
@@MrProvinspoul whats even funnier is you won't reply lmao
Thank you for your service and sacrifice. 💙
I'm in my Thirties, I remember doing research projects on Chernobyl many many years ago. They did Dramatize the show a bit, the female scientists wasn't just 1 individual - it was a group of over a hundred scientists working together. The "3-4 megaton" for the Steam explosion, was poorly communicated - it may have had the radioactive effects of a Nuclear weapon of that yield but the initial explosion wouldn't get that big. The superheated steam as well as free Hydrogen would have potentially created enough pressure to blow it apart - but the main issue wasn't this steam explosion, it was the Core material that would have been ejected throughout the area, many many miles away you could find fine dust and chunks of core material emitting enough radiation to drop you in an hour.
As quoted "it was feared it could have created a serious steam explosion that would have ejected more radioactive material from the reactor. It became necessary to drain the pool." From Wiki, Citation is beside this statement so you can see its source.
That reactor Uranium can't go Nuclear, its what, less than 10% Fissile? Whereas nuclear enriched U235 is 90% Fissile.
You can perfectly see all the graphite at 5:50 ... crazy
What where
@@anntolov8387 Those rectangular blocks is what held the uranium rods.
that't not graphite bro, you are mistaken
@@jimboTTT that is..
@@mariyas3645 I was responding to julain saying that it is graphite cause he thinks otherwise.
The moment when one of the men was walking over a large part of debris and slipped a little, I instantly visualised the scene from HBO chernobyl when one of the soldiers tore his shoe.
Thank you guys. You saved the world.
it is quite heartbreaking to see the smile on the warriors' faces. They are the savior of the world
Thank you eternally for what you did for the world! Without you, we would not be here! RIP for all those who gave their lives for this!
Its our duty to never forget those people. At least i will never!
this video makes me sick to my stomach. It's hard to fathom the incredible danger these men faced.
The Soldiers and the Firefighters are Hero's.
The poor Man's lost her Life for another Life's.. RIP
I watched for 6min of this before i realised i could just turn the captions on.......
Because of your brave sacrifice, i only spent five minutes without captions.
Thankyou for your service.
Thanks for everything ... you have saved all humanity. Thanks thanks thanks.
They are the real heroes...Love and Respect for them from India !
When u have bad day at work just think of this brave people and this hard work
Salute for these heroes. Thanks for saving the world
saved Russia and Europe. Africa and south America would have been fine.
@@malikleighesq.forwatsonlei8695 and arabians too
@DeathtoJapanLOL they saved the lives of MILLIONS. You're acting cool and not caring and one day you're struck by some disaster like this and you realize you were never untouchable, just fortunate. These men saved our world, and that's enough for me to call them heroes.
@DeathtoJapanLOL you seem to be the clueless one. Have you never poured water on melting plastic? It causes the flames to expand in a way similar to an explosion. What you're on about is a theory about how Chernobyl was not a big deal but USSR wanted to make it look like a big problem. Unfortunately for this little conspiracy, the risk of a geothermal explosion was real. It's like trying to argue that the world is not round.
@DeathtoJapanLOL yeah, so screw them for trying to actually do something. Since they ended up not actually saving people we should just write them off as useless idiots and move on. Damn, that's some nice logic right there. And the last line is the cherry on top of the cake. "The disaster was not the explosion. The disaster was dealing with its consequences."
If this video were about some sexual abuse, I'd expect you to say "The psychologists were useless. All their attempts to help her get over it were in vain, so fuck them. The disaster was not the rape. The disaster was dealing with the mental scarring."
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The disaster was THE EXPLOSION. Without it, there would've no radioactive material spreading across the country and the people who tried to help SHOULD be remembered as heroes since they risked and gave their own life trying to save countless lives. Whatever your reply, this is the main point and nothing you'll say will erase the fact that innocent people died. I'd still honor a man who gave his life trying to save a drowning kid even though he didn't know how to swim. That's what this is all about. The intention to help others.
Thank you telecon for uploading that footage. You should have many more viewers.
I was four years old when the accident happened and though I was quite far away in Germany I remember that time as dark and threatening. I wanna thank those who sacrificed health and life in order to save millions of other people. They are heroes and everybody should remember them.
Cameramen in movies: I am invincible!
Cameramen in real life: possibly risk their life.
I will translate what the guy with the glasses was saying
"This sucks...you just cannot believe how much this blows....my balls are glowing in the dark"
No matter how many times I read this, I cant stop laughing.
Yeah.. Its fun to make fun if this.. Isn't it?... Grow up
@@Ricy013 No, not "fun" at all. But WHERE THE FUCK would we be without comic relief?
@@QQ-og3ui Its funny but sad and shut up
Only Amercans can make stupid jokes like that!
His face at 1:33 just gives me chills. The face of having nothing to lose. The dead eyes of knowing inevitability.
I knew a man who was a reservist. The reservists in Chernobyl were men over 35 years old with two children. But he was not on the roof, he worked on the bulldozer.
Very cool. Glad he was there to help contain the radiation.
RESPECT TO THESE COMRADES❤
And the Oscar goes to.... The cameraman who had been exposing himself constantly to radiation
💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
These guys will always be heroes, I really hope they are never forgotten.
I can't believe, people that were responsible for the biggest disaster in history, got only 10 years in prison. How ridiculous is that
It was a fault of whole soviet system.
@@farrukh8827 it was a fault of construction of the reactor
they were not responsible, design of the reactor was flawed
1:31 The eyes of "Im fucking sold.."
"Comrade soldier, you're done."
I'm amaze to see ths old video coverage from a very long way back ..
After watching the series, I came here to see this. I can't believe that this happened in real life.
Респект и уважение към г-н Стародумов и всички ликвидатори!!!
"You're done"
My mother worked with children from the evacuated zones 620kms away. This is haunting. The greatest heroes are those often unsung.
The very definition of real men....
Anxiety just by watching this RIP
Bizarre to see this and the fact that there is footage of it
The faces of soldiers at the end are heart breaking!
Wow that was incredible, I can't believe they got it on film!
I had no idea Chernobyl footage existed. This is crazy.
There's a whole documentary consisting entirely of actual footage. Look up "Chernobyl 3828"
It was all recorded on beta cassettes and nobody's bothered to watch them until now.
there are many videos all over youtube.
Also wasn't public until 2016 from what I can tell
There are a lot of them. The whole HBO show is a bunch of lie, bias, stereotypes, distortions and political propaganda.
This is HAUNTING. Every one of these men is a superhero. I'm grateful for their sacrifice.
Who's here during covid 19 and thinking that it could be much worse while watching these poor guys on their most heroic mission?
Not sure how these guy got around up there with such large balls.. R.I.P
they had egg baskets. tho
I feel sorry for those Heros!
my grand father brother was there ); he died );
Andreas Pärna he was in the roof with them?
I find this one of the most fascinating recordings in human history.
Gnarly that they have this footage and in such good quality, despite the radiation.... Crazy 💯
Also remember the 3 men who went into the tank knowing about their certain death.
2 of them still alive
Radiation can be more lethal than any gun
This footage still gives me chills
Absolutely incredible footage
Yes
I ALWAYS ask myself if the shovels had to be that tiny and whether or not, for some reason unknown to me, the biorobots had to be that seemingly inefficient at what they were doing.
Rip. These are the real heroes not the fake ones. Rip
those men experienced the painfull tragedy of literally fading away from existence
In the unedited version, they polished off a few bottles of Stoli before suiting up.
Thanks heroes THE BIG RESPECT
✋🏻🎩
They are very calm compared to “the most important 90 seconds of their lives”
Edit: Also, I’m glad to see the guys at the end laughing and smiling
those smiles...they had absolutely no clue where they going :S
Molnar Peterjozsef they had stoicism.
Knew but not realized
They knew where they were going. Smiles are a defensive reaction from fear
Thank you for bravely service.