A perspective

Alright so right now I'm watching an amazing documentary about Chernobyl...

Battle of Chernobyl (The True Battle of Chernobyl Uncensored) via google video.

True Battle of Chernobyl - Link


And wow. I'm less then 15 minutes in and already my jaw is constantly dropped in awe... I can't even believe it.

It has a lot of unseen footage of the disaster, and the video is from 01/28/2011 so very recent. I'll be writing more of this as I watch the video and post my biggest "Holy Shit!" points.

1) Smoke coming from the reactor, except it's not smoke. It's pure radiation... in a pretty much solid form.. CAN YOU EVEN COMPREHEND THAT?!? My god... The journalist on a helicopter put his head out the helicopter window and was hit by it... He was the first to take a picture of the damage.

2) The first video footage taken from the city can literally show the radiation on the ground and in the air around them it shows up as an anomaly on film... And they had NO idea.

3) The city wasn't told anything for days... whaaaa... Within 4 days they would have had a lethal dose of radiation. They were 3 KM from Chernobyl. Just to put some perspective on that, Japan has already vacated 15 km from their power plant just as a precaution of the Fukushima plant in danger right now from the earthquake... poor Russians had no clue at all.

4) Great secret to keep... Other countries knew about the radiation before officials in Russia did... Awesome!

5) You can take 2 "roentgen" (measure of radiation) a year as a "safe" dose per year of radiation. Normal atmospheric roentgen levels are 1/ . When they started fighting the blaze, there were an estimated  1000 roentgens in the atmosphere around the explosion... Firefighters were exposed to 5 roentgens every time they did a drop to help put the fire out.

6) The government hid this all from the people. They encouraged them to act as normal... There was a holiday coming up, and the people paraded in the streets. An entire city was afflicted by radiation on a holiday from the disaster... and hadn't a clue.

The rest is too amazing to not know and see. If you have read this far, and are interested, please check out the documentary.

The efforts of the people, sacrifices made... is so selfless. They risked everything to fight an unkown, invisible enemy. And won, while still feeling effects and illnesses to today's date, and a good portion of them will die prematurely.

Get to know what these sacrifices were, you'll appreciate our world a lot more.