The thing that impresses me to this day is the vehicle graveyard. Where all the anti nuclear vehicles both ground and air was just parked and left to rot due to all the deadly radiation they was exposed to.
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Four is more intense than three? The firefighters go from playing cards to ending up in lead caskets just like that. I'd like to know how radioactive they were and how it effected others who came in contact.
It’s kinda heartless IMO, but very good. Told my wife she should not watch 4.
3 is intense, and see above. Not sure how many Greg.
Yep, mine had to leave the room a couple of times, during 4. Jesus, what a complete shit-eating detail to be assigned to.
Yeah, not sure I could do what they did even given the situation.
I don't think I could've done that even if I knew it needed to be done. It was hard enough to watch.
If there was an event that triggered the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union then I agree with other that have said this was it. What an utter catastrophe.
And still is. I for some really odd reason would like to go there, don’t really know why Tony. This stuff fascinates me.
That's the true hell of it, though: this was unnecessary. Most domesticated dogs don't live more than seven years. The dogs had already eaten most of the livestock animals, and were turning on each other. And a domesticated dog going back to the wild won't usually last more than three years. It was dumb, pointless, and ruined the guys they sent in to do it. But it was in a rule book, somewhere, and so they did it. Or else the KGB would have regrettably informed them that their families had died in tragic automobile accidents. Communism was so effed up in SO MANY ways.
I enjoy history but never did a deep dive on this subject until now. I'd like to go on a tour too and from what I've seen on YouTube it's pretty common.
I agree, and we shouldn’t give away spoilers for that have balls to watch 4.
Yeah, I’ve fascinated for years and have read a ton on it. I’m kinda odd, but, growing up where I did, and doing what I did, I’m sure I was exposed to crap you shouldn’t know about. I may elude to that later.
I'd love to visit there, also. I got to see Russia in 1981. The big news then was they were bogged down in Afghanistan, but still at the height of their perceived power. One look at Moscow, and even as a dumb 18 year old kid, I knew they were folding, knew they couldn't keep up the facade forever. Moscow was a giant stinking shithole, and it was their capital city. Their cops were dressed in rags, the buildings were visibly crumbling, their biggest downtown Moscow grocery store was not much more than 7-11, and people lined up for hours before it opened to make sure they got something before the shelves were bare, which didn't take long.
And everywhere there were the Zampolit, the "Political Officers." Their job was to listen to what everyone was saying, watcvh what everyone was doing, and correct them as needed back into serving the State. They were obviously the most pernicious little shit-heads you ever saw. Everywhere, somehow, under the Soviet system, shitweasles somehow ended up being put in charge of everyone else who actually did or made something.
At the end of our tour, one of the "Tour guides" came on the bus, ordered our teachers out, and said, "Now that you have had a chance to see, with your own eyes, the wonder of the workers paradise of the Soviet Union, if any of you want to defect, now is the time. Just raise your hand, we will not make a scene, we will contact you later, these things can be arranged. The Soviet Union is an open door to all who truly wish to live in freedom!" We were young and dumb, if we knew better, we wouldn't have, but we did: we laughed. Laughed our asses off. After two weeks in the Soviet Union, this was the most ridiculously absurd thing any of us had ever heard. Somehow we still were allowed to leave. But I will never forget how happy I was when that airplane lifted off from Russia.
I struggled to get through 3 and 4; very hard to watch.
I won't even sugar coat it. I couldn't....end of story.
Still fascinating though? Seeing what really happened.
Morbidly fascinating, yes. The Soviet Union as a whole has always fascinated me, from Chernobyl to the Red Fleet submarine base in Murmansk, to Kiev and Vladivostok, to the Kremlin and the Politburo. It's amazing to me how such an enormous country in a geographic sense, a country that achieved so much in science and exploration, could be such a colossal failure in a social sense.
IMO e4 focused too much on a certain thing rather than what I thought would be the prominent fixture.
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The firefighters wife lost the baby due to radiation. That's was sad.
Family of dogs... WTF
Same here. I worked with open sources for non-destructive testing (x-raying welds). Radiation is a nasty, indescribable feeling when you are getting a healthy dose--but you know something is happening and it's not right.
Have any of you seen the Modern Marvels (or maybe Impossible Engineering) on the new canopy over the reactor? This isn't the one I was thinking of, but still good:
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