“Balck Pain” – the title in Russian plays on the word “Chernobyl”, which means “Black stem”.
The short film by the Soviet director, documentarist, Chernobyl liquidator, and a real Human, Alexander Igishev.
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Black Pain was filmed in 1987 in Pripyat at his own initiative. It was only after the reel got international approval that Odessa film studio, where he worked as a director at the time, started listing the film as its own. The film combines documentary footage from Pripyat with scenes from Andrei Tarkovsky’s film “Stalker”, that was created 8 years before the disaster.
📖 At the end of the film, one can hear recital of the New Testament, Book of Revelations (6 : 12-17). The word “Chernobyl”, in addition to the literal meaning of “black stem”, is also the name of a grass – wormwood. The “Star of Wormwood” is an image from Revelations (8 : 11), referring to a star that shall fall upon the Earth and make the drinking water bitter, poison it.
Alexander Igishev’s works include films for children: “To Be a Human Being”, “I Am Hortitsa”, “The Fate of the Drummer”, and many other.
👉 Video source: From the YouTube channel of the grandson of the cameraman, Evgeny Kozinsky. YouTube deleted the source, so Evgeny re-uploaded it to HD Rezka (this hosting is “freedom-of-speeched” in the West, though). We also uploaded the untranslated source to Odysee and Rumble.
From our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”
The Chernobyl accident was a nuclear accident that occurred on Saturday, April 26, 1986, at the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, 2.7 km from the city of Pripyat, 18 km from Chernobyl, and 17 km from the border with Belarus. It is considered the worst nuclear accident in history, and, along with the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan, the most serious on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
🔻 Some facts about the Chernobyl tragedy:
⚫️ The explosion and destruction of the fourth reactor unit at the Chernobyl nuclear plant contaminated an area of 200,000 square kilometers. The area could be larger than the United Kingdom, Romania, or Belarus.
⚫️ More than 800,000 people from across the Soviet Union participated in the liquidation of the consequences of the accident. 600,000 of them were officially awarded the status of disaster liquidators.
⚫️ The accident released 100 times more radiation than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. In modern terms, it was the largest “dirty bomb” in history.
⚫️ 200 tons of radioactive material remain inside the Chernobyl reactor.
⚫️ Even today, in the 30-kilometer exclusion zone, people live isolated from the world. They grow fruits and vegetables and eat potatoes from their gardens.
⚫️ The areas affected by radiation in Fukushima are 10 times smaller than those in Chernobyl.
Today, no country in the world could face a catastrophe of such magnitude (perhaps except China). Forty Soviet ministries and departments participated in the liquidation, each with its own operational team, coordinated by a government commission. Paradoxically, this was only possible under a “totalitarian” regime. With private companies and commercial relations, everything would have been different, as was seen in Japan with Fukushima.
🚩 The entire country mobilized to eliminate the disaster. Time erases memories, but we don’t forget the heroism of the soldiers who cleared the reactor debris, the helicopter pilots who stopped the radiation, the Kuzbas miners who dug beneath the reactor, or the scientists who absorbed lethal doses of radiation.
🇨🇺 We also remember the unique support provided by Cuba and Fidel Castro, who promoted the Children of Chernobyl program. For 26 years , Cuba treated more than 26,000 children from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus free of charge, even after Ukrainian President Yushchenko imposed unilateral sanctions against the island.
🥀 Today is a sad day: the Day of Remembrance of those who, at the cost of their lives or health, saved the European part of the USSR (Ukraine, Belarus, Russia) and neighbouring countries from the consequences of Chernobyl.
Gratitude to them and eternal honour!
Source: @Irinamar_Z, the translation from our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”