Chernobyl (miniseries): Difference between revisions

 

[[File:20110426-IWHO-22.jpg|thumb|right|You'll do it because it must be done. You'll do it because nobody else can. And if you don't, millions will die. ~ Boris Shcherbina]]

[[File:Abandom-village-chernobyl.jpg|thumb|More soldiers, more famine, more bodies. My brothers never came home. But I stayed, and I'm still here. After all that I have seen... so I should leave now, because of something I cannot see at all? No.]]

[[File:Памятник_академику_В._А._Легасову.jpg|thumb|I'm an inconsequential man, Valera. That's all I've ever been. I hoped that one day I would matter, but I didn't. I just stood next to people who did. ~ Boris Shcherbina]]

:'''Shcherbina''': Of course I know they're listening! I want them to hear! I want them to hear it all! ''[outside, Legasov and General Tarakanov can easily hear]'' Do you know what we're doing here?! Tell those geniuses what they have done! ''I don't give a fuck!'' Tell them! Go tell them! Ryzhkov! Go tell them he's a joke! Tell fucking Gorbachev! TELL THEM! ''[smashes the phone to pieces, then drags them outside before tossing them into the grass, then turns to Legasov and Tarakanov]'' The official position of the State is that a global nuclear catastrophe is not possible in the Soviet Union. They told the Germans that the highest detected level of radiation was two thousand roentgen. They gave them the propaganda number. That robot was never going to work. ''[to one of the guards]'' We need a new phone.

 

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:''[General Tarakanov briefs his men before sending them to clear roof level "Masha"]''