Chernobyl | Sitnikov looks into reactor | 4K HDR

He is looking in hell itself

"liberals get the bullet too" remember that democrats

russians are careless

It was an execution.....

I’m genuinely surprised he didn’t just ask for the bullet. Unless he did it to take the soldiers with him to the grave out of spite.

He died about a month later. Brave man.

The shot with Sitnikov approaching the breach and peering down into the reactor, black smoke billowing from the core completely dwarfing his silhouette is absolutely hair-raising.

I lived through those times in '86. Since we were never warned by the USSR about the nuclear cloud that approached us here in Scandinavia... I still feel radioactive.

Homie would have had to just shoot me if I knew what he knew

That black smoke probably is radioactive to kill you alone

You can see his face starting to show signs of burning seconds after he turned around!

I don't understand why diatlov lied about graphite on the ground. Maybe he thought they could cover the whole situation or he was just not thinking right

Chronic fucking chills from watching this.

I don't understand this? Why did he need to look into the reactor????

A walking dead man

>industrial revolution

They weren't sending him to gather info, they were executing a witness.

He had to have known what would happen if he obeyed... he should have just said no. A bullet would be much better than what he was asked to do

That the man who knew he was is already dead is in a silent scene with "managers"...

The poor unaware soldier

He came back with visible signs of fatal radiation dose and he was yelled anyway. I wonder what did they say him..

3.6 roentgen how bad can it be, buddy?

I would have at least told the soldier that if we go anywhere near that roof, we'll both be dead in a few days/weeks. Maybe the fear of dying horribly and needlessly might sway his loyalty to the Party.

russian culture at its finest, born and breed passive slaves, spread worldwide througth the religion of communism.

Gah this show was soooooooooooooooooo good

His face is instantly cooked….

he basically see his own death at the moment

Whats most disturbing about this scene, is that the URSS deliberately forced to believe everything was okay and everything was just a made up by the engineers, and forced not only Sitnikov to approach into the core , but forced a whole city to celebrate a parade despite the radiation levels were way up to the skies, the KGB even forced Boris and his family to celebrate this event, and when they found out they left into safety , officers brought them back and forced the man and his family to be in the parade with death threatens.

If it wasn’t for this event. The Soviet Union could very well have lasted another few decades if not more. This event exposed the lies and cover up the Soviet Union was willing to commit to preserve their pride and image. Even in the face of certain death and the grim prognosis to all of Europe, the Soviet Union STILL chose image over truth. The epitome of rather watching the world burn than take truthful accountability. The Soviet Union crumbles over the next five years and this event sped that process up.

If offered, I'd have taken the bullet.

I would absolutely choose the bullet.

Could it be Dyatlov knew the core exploded but treated it like a bad dream and aggressively denied it hoping it wasn’t true? He knew that was graphite on the roof. Feel bad for him here as he knew the reality was hitting him in the face.

The whole series made you feel how an exposed nuclear reactor is the closest thing to a portal straight to the deepest pits of hell that humanity will ever see

The gates of Hell opening up

honestly if i were him i would have strangled him if he told me to check the roof, dead either way.

Radiation is so damn scary

That subtle static/fizzling of the radiation adds so much to the horrific atmosphere.

The amount of arrogance and dismissiveness displayed by the three men in charge when delivered eye witness accounts is beyond comprehension.

What are they saying (yelling really) at the end to him?

Ain't communism great

"You'll be fine, you'll see" *gets 3000 grays in a millisecond*

The sheer resignation on his face the whole time really hits me. He knows exactly what's going to happen to him the moment they tell him to go up there, but he doesn't plead or beg, just marches to his death. In real life, they didn't even need the guard escorting him. People were trained their whole lives to passively follow orders, even if they knew they would only end in disaster.

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you".

Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844-1900)

(Not the same, but in allegory yes)

Lo bueno, (si fué realmente como muestran las imágenes), es que los dos capullos que le obligaron a mirar el reactor destruido, seguramente morirían poco después, en su ignorancia, contagiados de tal cantidad de radiación que desprendía el tecnico. Tuvieron lo suyo seguro.

You know that Nietzsche quote "If you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back."? It's so much more terrifying visualized like this.

How are they not dead from the intense radiation?