I was 17 when this tragedy happened and it impacted everybody in Europe.People were scared, angry and sad all at the same time. On the west side of the Iron Curtain we lacked how bad it really was and how many people were directly exposed to the lethal levels of radiation. That all was reveiled much later.
In the 80s I have visited East Germany and Poland, in 1986 it was Poland, so weirdly enough I actually moved closer to the site a fem months after the disaster. When we were at the Polish border all freight trucks were rinsed with large amounts of water by men in hazard suits, that was a scary sight and made it all the more real for us what had happened.
This is a tough series to watch but I am glad you are watching it and I feel "all" people should watch it to realise that using nuclear power is a very dangerous toy we, in my opinion, should not play with.
Erik Kegge
2025-02-28 07:22:50 +0000 UTC
I will closely watch you doing this, and I feel largely the same as you do experiencing it. Uh, you're very brave and I really admire you for doing the reaction.
This was a big tragedy that could've been avoided had people not been so... lax. If they had just admitted purely how things went wrong, as they went wrong, uh... lives might have been saved. Sadly, they were not.