Chernobyl

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#76
This show is great though. What I really like is it covers something I remember as a kid but, like most non commies, we never knew the full impact. While this is a dramatization I'm willing to bet a few shekels it more closely resembles what actually happened that what we were told by the Russians.
 
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#77
No joke, they give tours to Chernobyl now. Several years ago I stumbled upon videos on Youtube of people taking tours to Chernobyl. They give you dosimeters and tell you explicitly not to leave the paths.

There was a show I saw on maybe Travel channel where they went in to study the wildlife in the exclusion zone and how certain species of birds have adapted to the radiation levels. Totally weird stuff.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Coal Pollution Likely Kills More People Annually Than Will Ever Die from Chernobyl Radiation
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May want us to rethink the so-called dangers of a nuclear power plant event.

In its 2008 review, the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) noted that emergency and recovery workers and some children exposed to radiation were at higher risk. However, the vast majority of exposed people experienced radiation levels for a short time that were comparable to a few times higher than background radiation. The UNSCEAR review concluded, "Lives have been seriously disrupted by the Chernobyl accident, but from the radiological point of view, generally positive prospects for the future health of most individuals should prevail."
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
Last episode was rough..I also have to say this, I have no words to express my admiration of the Soviet people..I use Soviet because I know they are all mostly Slavic, but not all Russian...but the Soviet government, the communist apparatchik system they had was just...wow..I don't even know a word to describe the pure monumental stupidity from top to bottom..šŸ˜– The world is lucky those stupid fools didn't kill us all somewhere along the line, and no I'm not talking about just this incident.

I hope I never live to see the day we give over all our rights to a government like that..I would rather die first.
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Have you been paying attention at the things going on around you right here in The Good Ole USA?
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
I think the show has already shown numbers of soon to be dead that far exceed what were reported. 400 miners? Dead. All those soldiers? Dead. I believe they only said a few hundred died initially. I would assume its in the upper thousands if you count all the most likely cancer related deaths.
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You think so? Really?
 
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Coug said:
No joke, they give tours to Chernobyl now. Several years ago I stumbled upon videos on Youtube of people taking tours to Chernobyl. They give you dosimeters and tell you explicitly not to leave the paths.

There was a show I saw on maybe Travel channel where they went in to study the wildlife in the exclusion zone and how certain species of birds have adapted to the radiation levels. Totally weird stuff.
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It's really not all that weird. If you got a dosimeter flying it would read higher than it would on that tour. The exclusion zone is an animal sanctuary because humans are a much greater threat to wildlife than low levels of radiation.
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
Have you been paying attention at the things going on around you right here in The Good Ole USA?
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Yes..it is..well I don't really have a word to describe the level of unease it is giving me. I hope I die before it goes completely off the rails...I know it is coming, but I don't have any hankering to see it with my own eyes.
 
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tvolsfan said:
I think itā€™s a 9/10 for me. I have to ding it for the fact that basically nobody in the show seems to be Russian/Ukrainian/Soviet in any way, shape, or form.
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I'm glad they aren't trying to do that thick slavic accent, most of the time it gets butchered and sounds cartoony. I get what you are saying, but for comprehension purposes I like it better this way.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
I'm glad they aren't trying to do that thick slavic accent, most of the time it gets butchered and sounds cartoony. I get what you are saying, but for comprehension purposes I like it better this way.
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I read that they wanted the cast to focus on acting and forcing them to do accents would take away from that, so I certainly understand it from that point of view. I also agree that if they werenā€™t going to make the entire thing in Russian/Ukrainian, Iā€™d rather they not fake accents because it would probably sound more insulting than anything (the same way some ā€œSouthernā€ accents in movies and TV sound absolutely terrible).

That said, it does feel a little jarring, particularly when they are talking about Soviet pride and loyalty. It would be like making Narcos with a British cast.
 
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#92
It's perfectly fine. Everything else in the world is in Russian Cyrillic, and keeping the actors use their normal voices/accents adds to it IMO.
 
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