☢️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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60,000 people's used to live here…
Now it's a ghost town
Nice animation
The show Chernobyl was an indictment of communism. Watch it and compare to where our country is heading
3:44 Of course there's a vodka bottle next to a teddy bear.
They are called Protective Masks, not Gas Masks. These just have a carbon filter for chemical agents. True Gas Masks have a Gas supply, such as oxygen for breathing. And currently, only the screwballs of the Military are Chernoblyed and assigned perimeter duty there.
There’s a really cool game on steam that lets you play as a liquidator and it portrays there jobs really well
1 that surcofucus is the 2nd one .2.it was a melt down
Thank you for the video! The moment od silence at the end is really touching.
It was said moving around the terrain was incredibly hard since there massive balls keep weighting them down
The radiation is so strong that robots can't function but somehow humans can?
During the review, I mentioned the medals awarded to the liquidators. One of them was left to me by my father's godfather, who took part in it. And I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the same medal at the end of the video.
Everybody gangsta until he mentions group 935
Ah it was only 3.6 Roentgen tho.
Not great, not terrible.
Could have been even worse without these heroes.
interesting
Probably my favorite video of your so far
Can you make a video about the Myrak Power Plant?
we’re their families or them compensated after?
What's up with the 6 add rolls on a 8 minute video?
really awesome, but where are the subs?
Subtitles, please.
Hahaha that's cute.. do Fukushima next
Love your vids man
Hate the wording for this video. So 21century lol.
Omg this is horrible!
It was only 3.6 Roentgen. Not good, not terrible.
My father was near Pripyat on this day (about 130km)
The bravery and sacrifice
that 90 seconds scene from the Chernobyl series is the first thing i thought about when i saw this video
Salute for the brave firefighters
Twitter soyboys of today won't last a second doing clean up of radioactive waste.
Me who watched Chernobyl series: ah yes history