Ghost Town
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  • if i remember correctly people thought that the evactuation was temporary so that they left a lot of their things untouched behind and never came back for them

  • go to goggle maps and write in the box pripyat you will see nothing :O the city is dead

  • 3:30

    A civilian asks an officer why they are wearing gas masks and hazardous material suits. The officers tell the man "It is a training exercise, move along." to avoid spreading panic.

  • Such an amazing city, such a horrifying loss. The crown Jewel of Soviet Ukraine, Hell, maybe the entire Soviet Union. My eternal respect for those who lost their homes, lives, and loved ones.

  • HUMAN IS DEAD

  • Guys, the firemen and all the people who helped this disaster are not hero's. just ordinary people who did what they knew they had to do not just for them, but to help others.

  • @DeadSpaceAddict

    Ordenary people dont die for their duty. Or for others.

  • heartbreaking that it is being repeated as i type this...more people,children,animals...more heroes stepping up giving their life. we sure create tragedies in a beautiful world that could be paradise.

  • Only we are guilty for all unhappynes and disasters in our lifes...

  • Ghost Town - Miasto Widmo

  • and the history repeats once again, I feel sorry for Japanese.......

  • this song touches my heart.. amazing song for chernobyl victims :)

  • i wonder why there are gas masks on the floor., why didnt they here the exslposhion.

  • @ROUSTERMAN42 good question they probably did but did not understand what it was and the parents probably thought nothing of it , but there were indications in documentaries and the like that parents that said babies would not sleep on the night of the accident werid.

  • i wonder why there are gas masks on the floor

  • @ROUSTERMAN42 they took off the gas masks and they died getting the children out of the school.luckly the children were able to leave

  • asome video to bad it all happened thought. they just put crap on top of the wast. at one point the crap is going to come back up

  • asome video to bad it all happened thought.

  • Спи спокойно....

  • The song "Ghost Town" by the Specials would have worked too.

  • Although it was a hugely tragic accident, there is a strange beauty about the aftermath

  • Mann muß dran denken das sowas nie mehr passieren darf.

    Auf der ganzen erde gibt es Atomkraftwerge.

    In Deutschland wäre es beinnahe auch passiert vor 1 oder 2 Jahre wo man ein Reaktor runterfahren mußte.LEBE FÜR NICHTS ODER STIRB FÜR ETWAS

  • @hiersprichtdergabba

    Solche Sachen werden immer wieder passieren solange es die "dumme" und wissbegierige Rasse der Menschen gibt!

    Und wieder einmal hat die Menschheit nichts gelernt und zerstört diesen Planeten weiter!

  • The song fills me with fear, sadness and death-awareness.

  • its very sad lots of people lost everything incloding there lives

  • never forget - never forgive

  • this song is so beautiful...respect everybody who died 'cause they wanted to clean mess what happend..rest in peace everybody who died there...

  • It is a marvellous song though........These people give me pity, the firemen always will be real heroes; Nowadays is Belarus the most affected country?. thank you matagonzo for this video. Regards from Colombia.

  • wat a legacyto leave to our children. great ancestors we will be

  • What gets me about this disaster is that there was no general alarm about this. The Soviet government vowed to keep it under wraps so the actual events were not "revealed" to the West. It was not until I believe some Swedish scientists discovered the radioactive cloud traveling throughout Eurasia. The Soviet government put their reputation of being a "glorious" country in front of helping their own people, who the governments vows in their political philosophy to help. Quite ironic to me...

  • @Fearosius No, American spy satellites discovered the exploded reactor

  • Wasn't it kind of "experiment" that made the reactor explode? The scientists planned it, but they didn't want to tell the public.

  • I mean that what I saw in another video was that the security system that would have cooled it down was shut down on purpose for the experiment...

  • 600 Years? Geez. I think even Henry the 8th will be forgotton by then :L x

  • Every generation leaves something behind and thanks to communists, this is our legacy to the future generations

  • Yeah, buts let not forget what the Americans have left behind.

  • @Ritari2000 Thanks to the democrats in America, leaving us the destroyed and contaminated till today Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Thanks to America leaving us a destroyd, burned and contaminated by Chemical weapons Country that calls itself Vietnam. So why the FUCK do you think, that only Russia leaves bad things 4 the next Generations? If you have no clue about things that were going on and going on today, than please just SHUT YOUR MOUTH!!!

  • @roman949 And The united states just buries our waste deep under ground because its "safe" that way. Bullshit safe. I suppose, ignorance is bliss

  • Thanks for the vid!

  • mmtigan, aguywitha: look here for some good and readable info about it

  • what is this song please ?

  • I think it is "Huns & Dr Beeker"

  • The people who caused this died extremely horrible deaths minutes after it happened.

  • miliseconds you mean? the reactor exploded they didnt survive it for more than a few seconds

  • Well not really, the explosion wasn't that big. A nuclear reactor doesn't explode like a nuclear bomb, it's the radiation it releases that's more dangerous.. Sure the people who were still in the reactor died instantly, but the people who had managed to get away when they realised it was gonna blow died from radiation, they pretty much got cooked in a huge microwave ovin.

  • Of course, it was not a nuclear explosion, it was a steam explosion. There was too much pressure in the reactor because of the uncontrolled reactionand it blowed.

  • @mmtigan Several people that was inside the plant survived , i believe a few are still alive today aswell.

  • Huge respects for the people who helped clean this mess; as much as it could be cleaned at the time. Many people laid their lives to give us a better future, I know that is a debt that I as an individual or we as a nation can never pay back. Best way perhaps is making sure that this never happens again, and if it does I'll be proud to give my life as those brave warriors in 1986. To me they'll never be bio-robots, they were remarkable human beings who bought us a brighter future with their blood

  • @Furizah Most soldiers and fireman knew nothing about the danger.

    They deserve credits for the help and giving their lives but they were forced to work there. Or go to afghanistan for 2 years or clean mess for 2 minutes.

    In that time nobody had a microwave oven or any knowledge of radiation.

  • @merrybreeder

    Nobody had a clue about what was actually going on.

    The people of Prypjat even looked at the fire standing on the roof of one of the buildings.

    And were evacuated 2 days later.

    It was a sad example of old Soviet communism.

    The government didn't tell the people anything about the dangers they were in or downsized the consequences of the disaster.

    And now governments are talking about new NPP's.

    Haven't we learned anything?????????????

  • @Furizah, they didnt clean it up... they just evacuated everyone...this will never be clean

  • @Furizah totally agree , i dont think anyone will be able to repay the work they did i am however grateful , if they had not gone in there would be no europe and no russia because the nuclear material would be in the water table and that would have caused such a big explosion the resulting shockwave would have wiped out most of russia , left europe unhabitable. russia did learn though all the remaining 1000 series plants have contaiments structures and saftey systems that cannot be deactivated.

  • @Furizah

    Do you really think these people had a CHOICE ?

    No they don't need respect they need pity.

    They were no heros, they were sacrificed and didn't know what's going on.

  • @TheFuckthisshit Well, you have your opinion. I have mine. And I repeat: to me these people were indeed heroes and they do earn my deepest respect, every and each one of them. And lastly: I don't know how many of these people did or did not know what was going on, but it does not diminish the value of their actions and sacrifice. Besides, fighting the unknown can be many times more horrifying than fighting an enemy you know, this was a nightmare environment regardless. Namaste, Heroes.

  • @Furizah

    "Hero: a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities. A role model "

    The workers simply were military reservists that were taken to the place and had to go there by military rules.

    If someone is forced to do something that sacrifices him and helps others, then the guy who was forced to kill himself is a hero in your eyes ?

    A hero does something heroic by his free will and not by force of a 3rd party.

    Fits better to the firemen in tokyo...

  • @TheFuckthisshit Under these circumstances, yes in my opinion. As I previously said: we all have different views and opinions but I consider these individuals heroes. We don't have to agree on that, but that's my view on the matter. And since you brought Japan up - the very same definition of hero can be applied to that personnel (firemen, nuclear plant workers etc) as well.

  • @Furizah you are so right....

  • 50.000 people used to live here... now it's a ghost-town

  • 48,000, it was built for 50,000 though

  • this is so interesting but poor people :(

  • Poor people:(

  • if i wer u id take the conscript rad-masks

  • Not a good idea, they must be irradiated

  • cod4 did a good job on making the graphics of Chernobyl

  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R. did too ;)

  • I like the winter shots of Pripiat, they've got an eerie vibe to them...

  • prety scary 2. i love being scared of something

  • Try prison

  • chya

  • rip liquidators :(

  • Oh, really? And what do you see in the future?

    Because i can tell you what's the future of my friends who are victims of that day! Let people be informed of what was happening in these countries, because politicians had done their job to keep it in secret. Sensible men mind their and other's mistakes and do not allow to repeat them. Experience is what we are learning from, so don't tell me to not look in the past, because past is bound up with future.

  • Well Said i had no idear of what it was like and i spose that what living in a "democracy" does for us

  • They said it was rainy in some places... Of course there were wise men who advised politicians to exterminate all agricultural production cultivated in the spring of `86 but as i said no measures were taken. Contaminated food such as milk, eggs, lettuce and other vegetables was consumed by ordinary people. Except by the leaders... they went to the safiest places in country, even abroad, they drinked purified, deeply-driiled water, ate selected food...

  • ...Firemen didn't know what they are fighting with.

    Let me give an account what happened in Bulgaria since i'm Bulgarian.

    *Just a notice for the brothers beyond the ocean: Bulgaria is a former communist country.

    So... when the disaster happened the ones who knew were our so-called leaders. They kept it in secret. Because may be they didn't want to hurt nation's psyche...

    No preventive measures were taken. Nothing. People took part in Labour's day parade on 1st May.

  • god there r 2 many deaths

  • Those firemen and the people who volunteered to clean up after the disaster are true heroes they risked and many lost their lives to protect the future of all of Europe. So may all of them REST IN PEACE let us not forget what they did for us all.

  • i wonder what happend and 2:21 very sad

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  • I surely want to go to Chernobyl.

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  • love the song

  • I come back to this a lot.

  • so sad

  • If the place is so radioactive and uninhabitable then why are people able to visit and take pictures?

  • I guess the photographers were wearing protective costumes...

  • You can go an tour

  • Radioation level is in the "zone" (2-30km away from the emission) in a good level for a short trip, you dont need any protection.

    Of course anyone protects themselfs by wearing costumes...

  • were is this there use to be ghost town in utah

  • this is in hungry. this is the town of chernobyl.

  • Get it right man, this is pripyat, Ukraine, town closest to chernobyl.

  • hungry? haha hungary dumb. And it was in Ukraine, like kdubovenko said.

  • 1:36 lol, ugly face

  • where is this at ?

  • Ukraine, Pripyat

  • in memoriam of the victims of Chernobyl.

  • games FALLOUT 2 is similar to the city

  • i will go in this town with my brother

  • man i get a thrill in my spine... i can move or speak... jesus, i wish i could do some thing...

  • Absolutely surreal.

  • this really makes me cry!

  • every civilization will leave something behind that will last forever the egyptians left the pyramids the romans left there architechture we will leave a sacrophagus of deadly radiation that will outlast the pyramids. and the sarcophagus holds 90% of the radiation if it collapse the next chernobyl will be chernobyl.. and will be much worse then then the last disaster.

  • @devo2394 how do u know that if the sarcophagus colapses there will be a bigger disaster? I'm just curious..

    this video impressed me so much and the music is so good..

    my best wishes to all!

  • @Stefan1527 there will always be a bigger one, but he doesn't know.. but god please make people stop using those.. it cost so many lives!

  • Just because of some Filed Fuck's Cover Ups the entire community had to face this tragedy. Curse 'em.

    Thanks for remembering it and thanks for putting this vid. Was that song taylor made for this?

  • Mankinds Creations Carrys Two Charater Properties One It Can Carry Good Towards The World And Two Is Bad

    Sadly The People Of Chernobyl Had The Taste Of The Second Properties Of Makinds Creation And Many Lives Where Lost On That Day Was A Lesson With A Heavy Price To Pay Why Does The Innocent Pay The Cost Of A Mistake That Could Of Been Prevented Why Did This Had To Happend Peroid

  • this happend in chernobyl an nuclear plant explosion and there comes radiation clouds over the countries and they didint know anything.

  • To noobratorz:

    This is the ghost town of Pripyat, Ukraine, the city where the workers of the Chernobyl Power Plant used to live. They say it was called "the city of the future" because it had some modern construcions and it was a really nice place to live. The power plant exploded in 1986 and this is how the place looks nowadays.

  • 26.04.1986 = day of my birth ...

  • really? wow

  • WOAH!!

  • 4 April 15 1999 =date of my birth TITANICS SINKING DATE

  • why don't are kids learn about the mistakes we made?

  • Kids r too busy with watching cartoons , taking drugs and living in present not in the past . Unfortunetly...

  • Ye, man...unfortunality

  • Why would you want to live in the past? I would rather look forward to the future, my friend.

  • ok i can see where you come from but if we bring the future and the past together we can learn from our mistakes and be shure this NEVER happens again

  • The shell that they placed around the chernobyl plant is about to collapse, they need to reinforce it soon

  • @WallyGamerBF2

    I think they're already in the process of doing just that.

  • This is really terrible and scary beyond belief. Thank goodness people are trying to reverse this and putting up windmills instead.

  • yeah but the windmills are killing the bats. We need bat doctors now.

  • love the video,

    love the song,

    it made me cry :(

    i am from Chernihiv that is not too far from Chernobyl either, but of course far enough...

  • This is what the human can do today.

  • it's both beutiful and terrible

  • damnnnn... TRY WATCHING THIS WITH THE VOLUME REALLY HIGH ... I CANT WATCH ANYMORE ;))

  • lol no there are no mutants there i think you played to mutch stalker..

  • Yes, the reason of this tragedy is stupidity of Boss of the power station. They want to know what is the MAX power. And they bring misfortune on themselfs. Reactor was overloaded and finally blew-up. To this day Tschernobyl is closed zone and anybody can settle down there.

  • No no no and no. Read the facts again. They didnt test the max power. They tested what is the lowest power that reactor can be used, untill the back up water would start up. Or something like that. But not max power. wikipedia.

  • Now I know the real reson. Whan I read this art in wikipedia in English I must bad interpretate some part of tekst. Know I read this in Polish and know everything.

    Sorry for creating confusion.

    Greatings from Poland ;)

  • ye you are right it was the fault of boss of the power station and you now what i heard he let them do the test but they wasnt supposed to do the test yet and he leave the power plant but then police catch him

  • IS THIS THAT THING THAT THE TOXIC spillled and the gov. paid poor people to go die and clean it up?

  • :( tragedia a zlyhanie cloveka.

  • Elena Filatova is a hoax, that's the sad element of the story. the rest is just cheap lyrics.

  • To Lawse 294, i will answer to you in private. I just want to clarify that for hoax i mean that Elena Filatova doesn't have all passes permit as she claims. What she does is called optic illusion. She drives until the check points of the Exclusion zone and then she join the tourist tour. I am not denying the disaster but i am denying Elena credibility. I have been inside the zone and the roads are too ruined to drive a Kawasaki and the zone is well populated anyway. So that's bollocks.

  • I have waited 6 months what have you got???

  • this is much worse than a horror movie

  • this is incredibly sad, the song gives you that lump in your throat if you listen to the lyrics, watch the movie and think about what happened.

  • it's so sad, soo sad, and I read all about it, message me if you have any questions, I researched it.

  • This is just so... sad.

  • Vynikajúci zostrih.. núti to k zamysleniu..

  • Incredible documentary... this is a tragic example for the humanity that we can't play with nuclear weapons.

    Thank you for posting.

  • freezing song, freezing video...

  • lol tags. biorobot ? XD

  • how is that funny?

  • How is it funny?

  • Quit arguing you lot! The fact that this happened, and the fact that no one did a dmaaned thing about it until it was too late still remains. All we can do is make sure that it never happens again, even if it means getting rid of Nuclear Power once and for all.

  • My uncle was there, helping to rid off after-explosion problems (he was army man).

    He died after 6 years , cancer...

    (sorry for bad English)

  • Respect

  • hay my great great gran dad was to...

  • And do you ? Since this incident the number of health problems regarding cancer incresed over 2-3 years after explosion.

    "There died little of people" but still they died if they are just numbers for you, all is left for me is to feel sorry for you.

    "The city was evacuated" o yes it was but after the incident and after waves of radiation. So I dont see your point.

    "All of them are alive or dead becauese of old age" still they have many health problems due to incident so again swing and miss m8.

  • ok is this just like the complaint about our lives section ?? if it is cool we all got problems but insted of think about them think of ways to get around them (i think system of a down should sing this song)

  • Some say: If you want to know how big your problems are,go to Pripyat and pay your respect. Then you find out how small your problems are. Cause im going there next summer!

    Peace to all of them poor souls.

  • I know how big are my problems. There are biger issues of people in wars and other things like this. Chernobyl isnt only one power station tragedy, america present this as a worst tragedy ever because its in Ukraine, and they dont says anything about similiar tragedy for example in england.

  • What, where, when ?

    The only similar tragedy I heard about was near Ural mountains when some nuclear waste-depo exploded and created toxic cloud. But Russia wanted to keep all hush-hush. And when US did something for Uraine ? Hm ? Never heard of any aid from their side, only the UE care about it, yet left the sarcophagus repair case open.

    Get your facts straight m8 :)

  • Take at easy ma'.

    I don't know exactly where in england, but I've heard something about it. Of course USA don't presents chernobyl tragedy, I've meaned by it if they have opportunity they say "oh chernobyl, it was worst!". For sure if there will be something like this in America, they won't tell "it's worst tragedy ever."

  • Very nice song.

  • This song makes you think.

  • this song and the video are more than sad and beautiful!!!! Chernobyl, Pripyat 26th April 1986!I think that this is the biggest tragedy ever,some people say that the % of radiation will be enough low for living there after 500 years

  • Pizda.....mrmh.......

  • the song and the video describe the tragedy that happened in 1986, the ghost town is really impressive

  • It almost happened in the US at Three Mile Island but that plant had more safeguards.

  • It's terrifying! I love around 100 kilometers from Forsmark, a swedish large plant.

  • Espectacular el video completo, y la musica ni hablar, lastima que sea por un tema tan triste como nuestra propia destruccion...

  • sadly but true, vary vary good music

  • da istina super al niet hhhh

  • hhh za nevjerovat stvarno dobar video & muzika

  • radioktívny mrak preletel aj nad Slovenskom, moja sestra sa vtedy mala narodiť, takmer po narodení zomrela. Ja som od toho roku mala zdravotné ťažkosti, liečila som sa aj na ochorenie štítnej žľazy a doposiaľ som chorá na obličky.

  • to je dosť možné, vraj sa zakázalo konzumovať vlastnú zeleninu a ovocie zo záhrad...

  • ešte viac je smutné, že sa snažíme, aby sa nám poškodí a zhonu neumiera k vytvoreniu vlastnej deštrukcie ... chorý a zomiera, pretože toľko nevinných ľudí nedbanlivého vlády ... že smútok

  • mrak sa nad Slovenskom prehnal akurat na 1.Maja...ked boli vsetci vonku...

  • amazing video and song and perfect mix 5* Favorite... words cant describe it.

  • hi..

    now this will be a strange question. im trying to elarn this masterpiece on piano. but all i was able to figure out are the chords for accompaniment. i have realy bad pitch so if anyone can help me (i lost my hopes to find sheet music anywhere), please PM me on youtube. it is really great song. thx in advance.

    Fin

  • yeh sad

  • Can anyone help to find out what is the name of this song, and who is the author? Thank you:)

  • It says in the description who the author is, 'made by the musical duo "Huns and Dr.Beeker"'