Rare Chernobyl Clip - Vladimir Shevchenko

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Where'd That 6th Toe Come From?
This film shows the terrifying images captured by the Russian filmmaker Vladimir Shevchenko on scene at Chernobyl those dreadful days in April 1986. Shevchenko later died suffering from the radiation he exposed himself to. Although his name is not among the official casualties of the accident, this last tragic film of him keeps his name alive forever.
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I havent seen many clips that actually show you material from the day of the accident, very interesting.

R.I.P
Shevchenko
 
Extremly powerfull film. Just shows that even though nuclear power is very nice and stable supply of electricity, when it goes wrong the price is higher than usual.
 
Thanks for the link. I had never seen this stuff. Loxley's right, this is a powerful vid. Especially the helicopter scene.
 
Thanks for posting it. Quite disturbing thinking what possibly happened to majority in the video.
 
It's horrible that those folks went into that hell without knowing what was going on.

Were their families compensated in any way, or is that a joke?
 
I think most of the people who died any time after the day of the leak , did not count as victims of Chernobyl. The ones who did die on that day witch was "only" a few thousand i belive, and the victims families did get some compensation, many years later tho and it was very little.

Im not sure about this but this is what i have read somewhere before.
 
As I recall, officialy about 30 people were claimed by this tragedy. At least, Russia officials said so. I'm not sure at all if these numbers are correct, but that's what I remember.
 
yea that might be right. The official casualties of the day of the accident is probably very low. But in more recent times russia did up the numbers to a few thousand victims, from day one to today that is.

But as stated in the clip many organizations dispute this number and say something like 60-100k have been affected.

If you just think about this logically. 100k seems more right than maybe 10k or so. There where about 40k living in Chernobly at the time of the leak i think, so...
 
Thanks for the clip!

I remember seeing similar videos during that summer. (I'm Hungarian and I was 10.)


There was a WHO report in 2006 about the long-term effects of the accident:
http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/en/

top link on the right:
http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/WHO Report on Chernobyl Health Effects July 06.pdf

I've only read an article on the report by a doctor, but I can give a short summary of it later today, as I'm still at work...


EDIT:

There seems to be quite a debate about the WHO report, so I'll just point anyone who's interested to this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster_effects
 
Amazing footage, thanks for sharing it.

Seeing the bird flying at 5:55 strikes a chord in me of sadness.
 
Words cannot describe how this video affects me. I was 7 when this happened, but I still remember seeing it on the news back then.

Here's a thought for ya: If everyone had been told about the dangers of a nuclear power plant breaking down like that, who would have done the work needed to contain the radiation? Even if they had found people willing to do the job, it would have taken too long to find them, the damage would be many times over what it really was.
 
Unkillable Cat said:
Here's a thought for ya: If everyone had been told about the dangers of a nuclear power plant breaking down like that, who would have done the work needed to contain the radiation? Even if they had found people willing to do the job, it would have taken too long to find them, the damage would be many times over what it really was.
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Not to mention how the panic of the evacuation would have been. I would rather be courtmartialed and spend some prison time than die from an enemy I could not fight.
 
Actually Loxley, thats precisely what soldiers are supposed to do. The cliche: "The few bad man between us and the evils of the wold" is actually true. It is the politicians job to point the finger, generals job to planand the grunts to make the other bast... die for his country. Or as a last resort its grunts job to die for his, come hell or high.
Then again conscription leaves/destroys a lot of of your loyality to your country. For a conscript its a lot of bastards who want to kill you and a lot of bastards that might keep you alive.


And if you think Russian governments reaction was bad, you should have seen mine. The fallout had affected most of the tea (farms?) plantations(?), patatoe and corn crop on the black sea cost and there was 1 minister who was saying the irradiated plants were not harmfull, demonstrating it by drinking tea on tv... (Only Govenment channel 1 and 2 those days. coloured tv was young etc...)
 
cronicler said:
And if you think Russian governments reaction was bad, you should have seen mine. The fallout had affected most of the tea (farms?) plantations(?), patatoe and corn crop on the black sea cost and there was 1 minister who was saying the irradiated plants were not harmfull, demonstrating it by drinking tea on tv... (Only Govenment channel 1 and 2 those days. coloured tv was young etc...)
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I'm intrigued to know what happened to him.
 
golfmade said:
cronicler said:
And if you think Russian governments reaction was bad, you should have seen mine. The fallout had affected most of the tea (farms?) plantations(?), patatoe and corn crop on the black sea cost and there was 1 minister who was saying the irradiated plants were not harmfull, demonstrating it by drinking tea on tv... (Only Govenment channel 1 and 2 those days. coloured tv was young etc...)
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I'm intrigued to know what happened to him.
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you really believe that he drank tea from that region?
 
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