hifilover1979
Bigger than you...
That was a tough episode to watch...
Chernobyl
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Blackbeard's former bo'sun.
Agreed, but to a degree, they all have. Still, a riveting series and an important reminder.
Derek Wright
pfm Member
Is there a count of how many people the state sacrificed in bring the disaster under control. And how did they explain the loss of soldiers to the population. Perhaps they did not.
Mongeddavid
pfm Member
Just watched the Final episode amazing and touching
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Guest432
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It's all on wiki, think it was around 30 that died from radiation sickness.
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
That's only the deaths from acute radiation sickness (ie dead within days of exposure). The actual death toll is greater but given that it can take years for the effect to appear and it would be difficult to ascribe all illnesses in people who worked in / near Chernobyl at the time of the incident, estimates are all you'll ever get.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chern...and_health_effects_experienced_by_liquidators
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Guest432
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That's not what he asked, I answered his question.
Mongeddavid
pfm Member
Death toll estimates between 3000 and 93000
drummerman
pfm Member
Incredible cast and even locations, interiors as well as outside seem impeccable. I have since watched numerous documentaries on the incident and the set pieces were immaculately re-created.
This harrowing docu drama deserves imho every accolade it gets.
This harrowing docu drama deserves imho every accolade it gets.
farfromthesun
pfm Member
The performance of Jared Harris (Legasov) throughout has been incredible, but he was simply brilliant in the last episode, and the development of Shcherbina throughout the series - from a rather unpleasant and unlikable official to arguably a man with whom we can empathise the most - was masterful.
This will go down as a masterpiece in historical storytelling, and rightly so.
Sad it's over / glad it's over.
This will go down as a masterpiece in historical storytelling, and rightly so.
Sad it's over / glad it's over.
jackbarron
Chelsea, London
The epilogue at the end of the series is moving and shocking. For example President Mikhail Gorbachev thought the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl was perhaps the true cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Estimates of the human cost of Chernobyl ranged from 4,000 to 93,000 deaths.The official Soviet death toll is 31.
The three men directly behind the incidents which led up to the explosion, were only given 10 years hard Labour.
600,000 people worked in the exclusion zone. There are no official Soviet records of their fate, despite widespread accounts of sickness and death from radiation.
Valery Legasov, the inorganic chemist and chief of the commission investigating Chernobyl, committed suicide two years after the explosion. His death and the widely circulated audio tapes of his memoirs made Soviet officials finally admit the design flaws in the RBMK nuclear reactors.
"We're so focused on our search for truth," said Lagasov, "we fail to consider how few actually want us to find it. But it is always there, whether we see it or not and whether we choose to or not. The truth doesn't care about our needs or wants. It doesn't care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions. It will lie in wait for all time. This, the last, is the gift of Chernobyl. Where I once would fear the cost of truth, now I only ask what is the cost of lies."
Jack
Estimates of the human cost of Chernobyl ranged from 4,000 to 93,000 deaths.The official Soviet death toll is 31.
The three men directly behind the incidents which led up to the explosion, were only given 10 years hard Labour.
600,000 people worked in the exclusion zone. There are no official Soviet records of their fate, despite widespread accounts of sickness and death from radiation.
Valery Legasov, the inorganic chemist and chief of the commission investigating Chernobyl, committed suicide two years after the explosion. His death and the widely circulated audio tapes of his memoirs made Soviet officials finally admit the design flaws in the RBMK nuclear reactors.
"We're so focused on our search for truth," said Lagasov, "we fail to consider how few actually want us to find it. But it is always there, whether we see it or not and whether we choose to or not. The truth doesn't care about our needs or wants. It doesn't care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions. It will lie in wait for all time. This, the last, is the gift of Chernobyl. Where I once would fear the cost of truth, now I only ask what is the cost of lies."
Jack
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hifilover1979
Bigger than you...
What a fantastic, harrowing and sobering series...
Superb acting and sets; really gives you an insight into the bloody mindedness of the Ruskies
Superb acting and sets; really gives you an insight into the bloody mindedness of the Ruskies
yurivv
pfm Member
I've only watched two episodes so far. This is a high-quality show, one of the best TV shows I watched. I think the very high rating of the series is quite justified.
Unfortunately, there are some flaws jarring to the eye and ear, which reduce the authenticity. Considering that unlike all the American movies I’ve watched this one shows everyday life in the USSR quite accurately, this can be pretty annoying. But for the Western people all this is irrelevant.
Unfortunately, there are some flaws jarring to the eye and ear, which reduce the authenticity. Considering that unlike all the American movies I’ve watched this one shows everyday life in the USSR quite accurately, this can be pretty annoying. But for the Western people all this is irrelevant.