Chernobyl | Official Trailer for the HBO Miniseries (HBO's got another one)

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Suzanne Massie taught President Ronald Reagan this important Russian phrase: 'Trust, but verify'
The year was 1984. It was the height of the Cold War and Russian historianSuzanne Massie will never forget the moment she got a call from the White House.

President Ronald Reagan had read her book, Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia, and invited Massie to the Oval Office to brief him on the Russian worldview.

That first meeting, in January 1984, was the first in a series of closed-door meetings that would continue until 1988 — through some of the tensest moments of the Cold War.
from ep 3 when dude is talking to the KGB
 

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Footage of the soldiers clearing the roof
throw on the subtitles

here's some footage from the event... a lot of the stuff in the show is the same or damn close to what happened. The news broadcast, the fire dept call






HBO nailed this

Spot on. :wow:

Wild to see how happy a lot of those guys in the first video were about being on the roof clean-up crew.
 

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That speech Boris gave about "doing what must be done to save millions" when he needed 3 men to go into the water had me like :wow:

" You'll do it because it must be done. You'll do it because nobody else can.
And if you don't, millions will die. If you tell me that's not enough, I won't believe you.

This is what has always set our people apart. A thousand years of sacrifice in our veins. And every generation must know its own suffering. I spit on the people who did this, and I curse the price I have to pay. But I'm making my peace with it, now you make yours. And go into that water. Because it must be done."
:wow:
 
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This series mastered the art of :francis:

Old girl won't leave her farm :francis:

Pavel, who can't even load a rifle, gets turned into a dead eyed dog killer :francis:

Lie to people trying to help you about how bad the disaster is. :francis:

Nice boots, comrade. Be a shame if they ripped open :francis:

Give birth to a baby that survives four hours because you didn't listen to the doctors :francis:

Just an individually gift wrapped L handed to every single character, every week:francis:

A Chernoby' L' :francis:
 
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800 rubles...

Idk what it was worth at its peak.. but imagine getting paid even 8000 Euros for that shyt:picard:
The equivalent of roughly $12.00 today to face certain death. That’s a savage proposition. :hamster: Imagine the American government coming to your doorstep with that offer! “Need you to go and kill yourselves to save the country. Don’t worry...we’ll send a $12.00 check to your family for their grief..”:picard:
 

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Brehs... just listened to the podcast. :wow:
I'm telling you, you get an even greater appreciation and understanding by listening to the show creator/writer talk about the actual events and how they showed it on the show and then real things that happened, they shot the scene but in the end they felt it was too much for viewers.
Like dude described a scene based on a true story and they shot the scene but he felt the episode was heavy enough as it was he felt he'd be abusing the audience.
HINT: Had to do with killing the puppies:mjcry:
 

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Pavel, who can't even load a rifle, gets turned into a dead eyed dog killer :francis:
You can NOT be familiar with a type a riffle and still be a good shooter. :manny:
When i had my SKS i had to learn how to load the shyt from the person i got it from. But i had been shooting M16s for years, tho. Hell the first time i ever shot a riffle i was way better at it than i anticipated being at first. Granted the dogs Pavel shot were in close range and werent moving. As for the rest, you're right.
 

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The equivalent of roughly $12.00 today to face certain death. That’s a savage proposition. :hamster: Imagine the American government coming to your doorstep with that offer! “Need you to go and kill yourselves to save the country. Don’t worry...we’ll send a $12.00 check to your family for their grief..”:picard:

That's why I said "at its peak"

Cuz the shyt ain't even worth .25 cents right now..
So I'm jus goin to say at its PEAK... that's what? MAAYBE 500-1000.. and I'm stretching that high end..
Knowing you got Cancer in the Batter's box waiting on its turn at your thyroid..

Crazy shyt is the hunters got 1000 rubles and vodka for their role
 

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You can NOT be familiar with a type a riffle and still be a good shooter. :manny:
When i had my SKS i had to learn how to load the shyt from the person i got it from. But i had been shooting M16s for years, tho. Hell the first time i ever shot a riffle i was way better at it than i anticipated being at first. Granted the dogs Pavel shot were in close range and werent moving. As for the rest, you're right.

Fair enough.
I didn't mean dead eye as in a good shot, though - i meant it as in the vacant 1000 yard stare while he smokes a cig like :francis::mjcry::to::sadcam: contemplating what he's become..
 

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Man this was a hard episode to watch. Jesus those dogs man...That stupid firefighter girlfriend killed her unborn child like I knew she would and that roof clearing scene had me
:damn:
Ol boy boot ripped and the other telling him “You’re done”....
:deadmanny:

He really was man. That cat probably died or will die within a day or 2. This show is unbelievable and has me going through too many emotions.
 

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Fair enough.
I didn't mean dead eye as in a good shot, though - i meant it as in the vacant 1000 yard stare while he smokes a cig like :francis::mjcry::to::sadcam: contemplating what he's become..
Yeah in the podcast this morning the show writer/creator was telling how those stories were much worst than he showed. He mentioned a scene where a puppy was shot and thought to be dead. Turns out it was still alive as the cement was being poured. The guys felt bad about burying it alive but... they were all out of bullets...:sadcam:
I'm sure being part of those hundreds of thousands of people that did the cleanup changed them cats almost as bad as being a war veteran
Man this was a hard episode to watch. Jesus those dogs man...That stupid firefighter girlfriend killed her unborn child like I knew she would and that roof clearing scene had me
:damn:
Ol boy boot ripped and the other telling him “You’re done”....
:deadmanny:

He really was man. That cat probably died or will die within a day or 2. This show is unbelievable and has me going through too many emotions.
I addressed the dogs above.

As far as the "You're done" comment, i had misinterpret it the same way you did until i listened to the podcast this morning. He didnt mean "YOU are done" as in that soldier is screwed. He meant "You are done with your mission" because after being exposed to that amount of radiation for 90 seconds those dudes were completely removed from that evacuation zone because within a few seconds they got hit with more radiation than they should for a lifetime. So they should be removed from that area completely.

Hourly logs are kept for People that work in radioactive environments. They limit how much exposure you can take within a week or a month using these "films" that indicate how much radioactive exposure you've had. Once you reach a certain limit you need to be removed from the environment.
 
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Maybe I missed something, why were they having to clean off the roof of graphite? Was it so it would fall into the core and help stabilize it?
 

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Yeah in the podcast this morning the show writer/creator was telling how those stories were much worst than he showed. He mentioned a scene where a puppy was shot and thought to be dead. Turns out it was still alive as the cement was being poured. The guys felt bad about burying it alive but... they were all out of bullets...:sadcam:
I'm sure being part of those hundreds of thousands of people that did the cleanup changed them cats almost as bad as being a war veteran

The whole thing strips characters down to their last shred.

All the complex solutions they could think up basically end up boiling down to - "We're gonna have talk a bunch more people into committing suicide by radiation poisoning to make this happen :francis:"

Pavel's commanding officer promised he would kill him if he let the dogs suffer, while wearing a lead jock strap to protect his nuts from radiation.

All he had left were his balls and his word. :wow:
 
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