"Chernobyl": what ended the worst episode of the season

Came the final episode of the miniseries "Chernobyl" of the American HBO channel. Even before he could finish, he triumphantly topped the rating of IMDb. And there are many reasons: from the brilliantly conveys the atmosphere to the genuine feelings of fear, skvozyaschego of each frame.

"Layfhaker" says goodbye to the series and says that should learn from the history of the terrible disaster.

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What happened in the final series

It may seem that everything is the worst we have seen in previous episodes: The real effects of radiation sickness, killing of infected animals, all deserted Pripyat. But the final release was stronger and more emotional of all the previous ones: it was he who opened the viewer to the main cause of the disaster. And it turned out that it is much worse than the consequences of the accident.

The creators of the show trial of the director of the Victoria Station Bryukhanova, chief engineer, Nikolai Fomin and Deputy Chief Engineer Anatoly Dyatlov. This trial would turn into a demonstration performance, but in the end it turned into a triumph of truth. Hiding the real causes of the disaster at the IAEA conference of experts in Vienna, Valery Legasov found the strength to tell them when all around were no longer expected.

It turned out that the root of evil - a fatal flaw button AZ-5, responsible for emergency killing reactor. This error is intentionally made in the design to reduce the cost of construction of the station.

Senior officials and scientists were aware of this. But how He said KGB agent from the series: "Why worry about that ever happen?"

Station workers about anything not suspect. And as a result of the emergency stop button that you pressed the head of the night shift, Alexander Akimov, served as a detonator. The real culprit turned out not people, and pervasive lies of the Soviet system. Guilty if at the same time, Deputy Chief Engineer Woodpeckers? Of course, because he has broken all possible rules of operation of nuclear power plants. Still, he - no more than a part of the breed of his government.

The country still had to acknowledge the problem in the design of the RBMK. But this happened only after the suicide Legasova. Shortly before the death of the scientist recorded on tape monologue about the causes of the accident. With this testimony, that it was impossible to ignore, nuclear reactors across the country have finally been finalized.

We hardly ever finds out how many people died because of Chernobyl: the spread varies from 4000 to 93 000 deaths. The series ends with the story of real prototypes heroes. Final credits are under the eerie crackling Geiger.

How will the stories of heroes in reality

Even in the first episode, we learned that the second anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant Valeria Legasova found hanged in his apartment in Moscow. And so it was in reality. True, this was still Legasova family: his wife and daughter. how says screenwriter Craig Meyzin Valery - not a brave man or a hero, but an ordinary man with his weaknesses. Before the Chernobyl disaster, he was an active member of the party. However, the incident caused him to reconsider many of their beliefs. In 1996, Russian President Boris Yeltsin posthumously awarded Valery Legasov title of Hero of Russia.

Boris Shcherbina worked at the scene and gave the fateful order to evacuate. Shcherbina gradually realized that the Chernobyl accident occurred due to the shortcomings of the Soviet system itself, of which he was himself for many years. Although this awareness did not come easy to him, he did all that in some way to make amends. It is believedWhat numerous trips to the elimination zone undermined his health. Boris Shcherbina died in August 1990.

Ulyana Homyuk fictional character - a collective image of dozens of scientists who tirelessly work alongside Legasov. Among them were those who spoke out against the official version of the authorities who were trying to blame the disaster on the negligence of employees. These people hunted. Many of them were arrested. And Ulyana character has been created to honor their dedication and loyalty to the truth.

Sentenced Anatoly Dyatlov and Victor Bryukhanova sentenced to ten years in prison for criminal negligence. Four years later, after numerous letters to his defense, including by Andrei Sakharov, Dyatlov released early due to illness. In 1995, he died of a heart attack, and did not admit his guilt. Former director of the Chernobyl Bryukhanova also released early due to health problems. He died in 2018 at age 83.

Chief engineer Nikolai Fomin sentenced to ten years in prison. Two years of custody greatly affect his mental health, after which the former engineer was transferred from the prison hospital to a psychiatric clinic. After his release, Fomin returned to work - it took at Kalinin NPP. He now lives with his family in Udomlya.

Separately, in the closing credits referred engineer Valery Hodemchuk - the first victims of Chernobyl. He was not able to get out of the fourth power unit. Death overtook engineer at one hundred and thirty tons of concrete rubble.

Noteworthy and divers Ananenko Alexey, Valery Baranov, and Boris Bespalov, who were not afraid to dive into the radioactive water when required to manually open the tank. Dispersed information, if they died heroically in carrying out assignments. But in fact, the divers survived. Sheep died only in 2005 of a heart attack. Ananenko and Bespalov alive and continue to work.

Daughter Lyudmila and Vasily Ignatenko, who had called Natasha, died of congenital heart disease almost immediately after birth. Subsequently Lyudmila still I decided to have a second child. The boy from childhood suffered from liver problems and severe forms of asthma. Inspired by the story of this woman, a Swedish documentary filmmaker Gunnar Bergdahl in 2001 directed the film "The voice of Ludmila".

As the audience appreciated the ending

I wanted to write about something that looked through Chernobyl, but then there is nothing to say. IMDB score on a well-deserved. HBO Thank you for the 5 Series. pic.twitter.com/v1EjxjOx1I

- Vladya (@ ar7work) June 4, 2019

Seriously... if you have not watched #Chernobyl yet... you have to watch it. Incredible series, but episode 5 was especially powerful.

- LMarie (@ LMarie1969) June 4, 2019

Seriously, if you have not seen "Chernobyl", you have to watch it. Incredible show, but the fifth episode was particularly powerful.

Absolutely amazing performance by @JaredHarris on #Chernobyl. Every episode was incredible but his performance in episode 5 hit me hard.

- DannyDarkside (@DannyDarkSide) June 4, 2019

Absolutely stunning Jared Harris in "Chernobyl". Each series is incredible, but the game in the fifth episode just struck me.

Episode 5 of #Chernobyl wow. Just WOW. #ChernobylHBO is inarguably one of the best mini series EVER.

- ColeTres (@ColeTres) June 4, 2019

The fifth episode of "Chernobyl" wow. Just wow. "Chernobyl" on HBO - is undeniably one of the best mini-series.

Thank you to @clmazin & @hbo and the actors and crew for a truly important five-part film. Finishing #Chernobyl episode 5, my family sat stunned. It felt like a prayer from another world: Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do.

- Mike Rinzel 🌊 (@TheOceanSwells) June 4, 2019

Thank you Craig Meyzinu and HBO, cast and crew of the film of a five really important. My family sat stunned at the end of the fifth episode. It was like a prayer from another world: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

What should we make of all this

In a sense, the tragedy of Chernobyl - is an alternative level of evil. As I reported Alexiyevich"The military atom - is the Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the peaceful atom - a light bulb in every home. No one has guessed that the military and civilian nuclear twins. " Indeed. The war, in spite of all the horrors associated with it - this is the thing comprehensible to anyone. But radiation was totally different enemy. Invisible and therefore particularly creepy.

The really scary when the usual friendly world - the sky, the sun, clouds, grass, - changes. And no one, including the viewer can not see these changes. But the series deals with an impossible task and carries on screens disembodied inaccessible gaze nightmare through sounds, brilliant visuals, heartfelt story.

But most importantly, what I want to thank HBO, - respect for those people, the fate of which broke Chernobyl. This is evidenced by even the creators of painstaking attention to detail and the desire to play perfectly every errant household item. Screenwriter and director Craig Meyzin Johann Renk created shocking, but a very important project that you want to see not only because of the ranking of 9.7 on IMDb, but also because it touches each of us.