Side By Side Comparisons Of The Real Chernobyl Vs. The HBO Version Of It (20 pics)

A great deal of truth was not provided though like what happened to not just the soldiers, miners and liquidators but also to the entire population of Kiev whose 3 million citizens were either not informed or forced (if they knew) to take part in a huge holiday labor parade thereby getting even more exposure to high levels of radiation as the wind had shifted and a radiation cloud was over the city AND what happened to all the 1 million babies born after their mothers were exposed... not just the deformities but also how the poor little things were cared for throughout the rest of the days that they were alive!! (Many were put in mental institutions even if their mental capacities were unaffected!!) Russian government officials didn't bother to keep records of any of these outcomes and I am sure that was on purpose in order to avoid as much accountability as possible!!

And the perfect dress

Only different time (it happened 6 months after the explosion) and it fell because it hit a crane, not becasue of malfunction caused by radiation or anything, like the show seemed to imply.

Bored panda is wrong. There was a six wheeler robot. https://youtu.be/aLUzbAzdBPc @13:45

Most likely to capture his facial expressions.

Maybe in the show, they've decided to have the actors not wearing the masks so they could talk. Idk.

Usually this is done so the audience can tell who is who.

Basically it's the Game of Thrones effect. Clearly, medieval soldiers wore helmets. GRRM insisted on it. What warrior wouldn't wear a helmet. But for TV, you can't see their face, so D & D left the helmets off in most cases. Exactly the same reason here. Who wants to look at the main character through a mask. You wouldn't even be able to tell who it is in some cases. Let's just assume for the brief 3 second clip, he took his mask off.

When you're paying so much for an actor, you want their face on screen! Also: audience recognition.

I believe the truth of the wearing or not of the masks was summed up in a line by the Mine Crew Chief - translation - if the masks really were doing any good they would be wearing them. At near Ground Zero - the masks were of minimal to zero affect. And it's better for the viewer to see the faces of the actors...emotional impacts can be better perceived - the money shots are the ones where you can see the emotions cross the actor's face.

because you couldn't hear the dialogue clearly

Most of them didn't wear any cause they didn't have time to put it on. They just did their job to save others. Check the Wikipedia article about the disaster 👍 It's creepy and sad at the same time.

True! Watching the series is catch myself barely breathing. I guess it was just subconsciously knowing they were actively being poisoned. Even the Ari they were breathing. Everything they touched. Killing them. Uncomfortable, fascinating, horrifying and so so very sad.

they had no clue what they were facing and most of them died very soon after deployment (mostly following day or one more day after).

But his kids had five arms each, so we're better at the family business.

There's been a few of them on Discovery Channel, many times.

I hope you're being sarcastic.

Peter Jennings died in 2005.

me too.....I cried when he reported the plane crash in PA on 9/11

yeah, those that had to 'volunteer' and go on the roofs were royally screwed.

Well we all know how that would've ended

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Grow up!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_disaster

no most of them died within the first year.

It's 31 but yeah they still keep to that number.

If it's any consolation, all of the thyroid cancer cases caused by the radiation were successfully treated.

But this is a comparison article, what were you expecting?

They raised the red flag as a symbol of finished work there. So it was the same act as raising the flag on Ivo Jima or on the moon.

They exposed more people to radiation posoning just to put showing-off flag up there. They should have made politicans put it up there if they wanted to celebrate something.

As I read, it was just the silly idea for nothing. They actually let in students of some university to clear the way for people with flag, you may google this story.

I actually read that it was really stupid and people who were ordered to do it suffered from the radiation (

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right one actually could be true for some cars depending on the engineer who's after it. The Russian technique is very tricky at that point - a rough/strong and decent-minded (also - often - creative) person is all it needs. Plus, the driver's devotion matters a lot too - he could go slower and push the engine closer to the limit but it would take more time - but people haven't been educated or at least told that it would do huge impact to threat (which was also kept in secret from public for a long time)

Don't forget he is also the Father of Alexander Skarsgard the most beautiful man on the Planet. Ed

He's an incredible actor. People have no idea how many things he has done to perfection. He's one of those "hey, it's that guy" actors that blows you away when you look for him in a certain role in imdb and see ALL the great roles he's had and nailed.