Chernobyl Journal: Red Forest & Lenin Square

[TambMr]

who else is waiting for a pack of pseudodogs or a bloodsucker to pop up ?

[Dazcam]

I keep wanting to see a giant ass mutated Sasquatch xD

I wanna go there

[anikidwolfy]

next time i see a "stay off the grass" i bloody will listen to it.

[Saltgranat]

Welcome to Pripyat...

[JunkieFame]

Wow , I bet is very scary to be there.I really want to go there.

[TravisKovac]

HOLY FUCKIN EERIE!!!!

[JannaConEstilo]

wieso wird der wald 'red forest' genannt? also wieso ist er rot o.O

[lordyo75]

@JannaConEstilo Weil sich die Bäume nach dem Strahlenunfall 1986 rot gefärbt haben. Heute sehen die Bäume wieder einigermassen normal aus (das Wachstum ist allerdings immer noch gestört).

[aznwolf106]

even though the government allow tourism, how dangerous would it be today?

[1Rockyboxer1]

@aznwolf106 its been like 20 years passed and the radiation should of settled. its safe for only bit of time.

[sockschappercat]

c'mon! put on a rad-suit! ot you'll lose perception and endurance!

[n00bAnkka234]

1:33 "Radiation 400x above normal. I think I am going there for a picnic.

[dirtbiker715]

Wish a few of Bloodsuckers running out of the red forest and rip the guys apart to pieces then I'll give this film a thumbup. :)

[trooper59]

wait isn't in dangerous to just walk outside, without protection when the road is like 80x higher in radiation than normal?

and why is it called red forest? are the trees and leaves red? or the soil?

btw, one day i'm going to try to travel to Ukraine and see the place, if it's even possible

[BRabbitN06]

They should be carefull... once you're infected you need to stay in chernobyl, they won't let you out of the country...

[masterchief4329]

@BRabbitN06 I don't think radiation sickness is contagious...

[divinydistant]

Has anyone been able to find footage or photos of the Red Forest at night? I've read many times that some of the area has a glow.

[lordyo75]

@divinydistant I strongly doubt this is true. Radiation usually doesn't glow - read this: abc.net.au/science/articles/20­08/05/20/2249925.htm

[cortexedge]

@lordyo75 some materials, like plutonium, thorium, are said to be glowing.

[BRabbitN06]

Palace of Culture... i remember that from CoD 4... I saw the documentaire about chernobyl then i played CoD 4 and i thought... damn, that's fuckin palace of culture!!

[miked9372]

what if their is a forest fire in the red forest with all of the radiation on the trees?

[BorisWatkiss]

@miked9372 That is one of the major ecological worries, there are people whose job it is to try to prevent that from happening. Because otherwise another radioactive cloud would sweep across Europe. I am guessing not as big though.

[tnerual888]

why exactly here is the radiation so high??

[lordyo75]

@tnerual888 Because Red Forest is the area which received most of the fallout on the day of the accident - it's very close to the reactor.

[lordyo75]

@tnerual888 Because Red Forest is the area which received most of the fallout on the day of the accident - it's very close to the reactor.

[hanysk]

0:28 electric forest drom CoP...woooow

[dungacearense]

é demais

[Meidrexx]

2:35 I know that from the game :D

[lordyo75]

Yes, it was very strange having played that COD level before I went to the zone. In the public swimming pool, I was looking out for stray dogs...

[awesome3468]

@lordyo75 is it true that red forest is called red forest because the tree's where glowing red after the radiation?

[blue2draconian]

Does anyone happen to know what exactly the "Palace of Culture" was used for? It's just such an odd yet interesting name for a building, I can't quite think of what it's uses would be.

Amazing videos, by the way. I'm reading your journal, and it's extremely interesting! Also, congrats on the Daily Deviation, it was well deserved!

[blue2draconian]

@blue2draconian Oops! Answered my own question further down in your journal! Haha! Go me!

[thirdfloornorth]

@blue2draconian

would have been a general indoctrination center. That's maybe overly harsh. It would be the requisite local museum with a history of Soviet Russia, heavily skewed towards the heroism of Lenin and probably particularly Stalin, with the "amazing venture" of societal communism.

Of course, this all being after Khrushchev's Great Thaw, any number of permutations of the "grand story" could be present.

[aapinator]

OMG i really want to go there again, but now in the winter or fall..! Too bad the vehicle dumping place is off limits, and the red forest isn't exactly red anymore..! I walked around too much at Hotel Polissya and the Jupiter factory.. what a terrible waste of precious time that was =\. Would give my left arm to go there again.

[0carmine0]

end your pursuit now stalker, or you will die....

[DemonsofRazgrizclan]

cod 4 all ghillied up

[rocketshipstud2]

plutonium-239 has halflife of 24000 years...thus it is still leathal mess for 400,000 years...the ussr nuked itself and the warsaw pact nations on 26 april 1986 with fallout of 400 hiroshima atomic bombs!...so very sad on children in area...kiev mayday parade 1986.../@ milwaukee

[t3r080]

@rocketshipstud2

Plutonium itself isn't the main problem, but Iodine-131 causes thoroidical cancer and other illnesses. People can avoid going to contaminated areas but the clouds, winds and rain made it sure that many innocent people got "death sentence". USSR didn't nuke themselves. It was an accident. What they did, was to call airforce to spray silver-based composition to the clouds that made those clouds rain all the hazardous radiation over Belarus and Ukraine. Wind carried the rest to EU.

[lordyo75]

0.70 of what?

[lulzwhot]

@ParasBoy are you retarded?

[2sillytube]

radioactive dump site found at planet core?

[LordTharapita]

I thought red forest was bulldozed?

[trancewave01]

Yeees,you are right, but on the bulldozed trees they put some soil and sand and put new pine trees down there. And because of absorbtion abilites of the trees, they put radiation from soil to the air.

[Ghostwitch]

@trancewave01 Biomagnification is a bitch.

[purpdrank83]

Well put together video, a real testament to just how fragile our world is. How much planning does it take to go there?

[nvm0]

I heard that if you are in the red forest and you get off the road on the grass - you die. Is that true?

[lordyo75]

I'm not a radiation expert, but no, that's not true. If you stayed 100 days in red forest, your chance of getting cancer in your lifetime would increase by 1%. You wouldn't get acute radiation poisoning. There are some spots in red forest where the radiation is much higher, but you wouldn't die right away.

[Dawgcz19]

oh fuck...it looks rly creepy there!! thx 4 replying n posting great vid!

[Dawgcz19]

what will happen if u go to most radiated area...??

[lordyo75]

Guess what... you'll be irradiated!

Actually, not much will happen for a while - the levels are not high enough to give you acute radiation poisoning. You'll probably have to throw your shoes and clothes away when you get home, will need a decontamination shower. If you're unlucky, you'll have breathed in radioactive dust and develop cancer.

[zipcis]

ghost town

[t3r080]

Awesome video, filled with perfect atmospheric music. Really sets the mood and gives the vibes. Powerful!

[Ellexhirion]

I dont get it, these people are standing there in radiation level x times over normal, should they not be affected? headhake, tiered? or other symptons?

[lordyo75]

No - while the radiation is much higher than normal, it is not enough to trigger radiation sickness. You get more radiation from taking a high altitude flight, or having your x-ray taken by the dentist. Of course there are spots in Chernobyl where you can get heavily irradiated, but we had a guide and didn't go there.

[Zi0in0]

Thank you for this video

[lordyo75]

thanks for your comment!

[frizzletot]

great vid. i will be taking a trip to the exclusion zone next year

[lordyo75]

Thank you! Good luck with that, and don't eat the berries in the woods. ;-)

[Air50HE]

thanks for this great footage!