r/ChernobylTV • u/[deleted] • May 27 '19

Chernobyl - Episode 4 'The Happiness of All Mankind' - Discussion Thread

Valery and Boris attempt to find solutions to removing the radioactive debris; Ulana attempts to find out the cause of the explosion.

The Chernobyl Podcast | Part Four | HBO

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u/jyeatbvg May 28 '19

Give me 1000 Soviet grandmas over 10,000 Unsullied.

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u/MGY401 May 28 '19

She’ll definitely say no to the god of death.

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u/Vandal66 May 28 '19

She already has, multiple times.

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u/havens4hawks May 28 '19

I think a Soviet Grandma + Olenna Tyrell convo would make for some great tv.

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u/MGY401 May 28 '19

Lots of “no,” and any experience Olenna could come up with, grandma has seen worse.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '19

"Sᴠᴇᴛʟᴀɴᴀ, ɪᴛ's ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ɢᴏ." said Death, floating into the babushka's home, scythe in hand, list in the other.

She aimed her old service rifle at him.

"I'ᴠᴇ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴠᴇʀʏ ᴘᴀᴛɪᴇɴᴛ ᴀɴᴅ ʟᴇɴɪᴇɴᴛ. Yᴏᴜ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴛᴏ ʟᴇᴀᴠᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴍᴇ."

She pulled back the firing pin and shouldered the rifle, cataract eye gazing down the sights. She fired, missing wide, shooting one of her many cats.

"Fɪɴᴇ. I'ʟʟ ᴛʀʏ ᴛᴏᴍᴏʀʀᴏᴡ." Death muttered, leaving. Walking inside after him, another figure dressed in a cloak.

"Yᴀʀɴʙᴀʟʟ, I ᴀᴍ Dᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ Cᴀᴛs! I ᴀᴍ ʜᴇʀᴇ ᴛᴏ sʜᴇᴘᴀʀᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏᴛ-"

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u/PM_ME_CAKE May 28 '19

She certainly has.

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u/berserkuh May 28 '19

There's something you need to understand about the Balkans or Eastern Europe and the old and elderly farmers.

As it currently stands, Eastern Europe is one of the most tormented regions on the entire planet. There have been numerous people alive 30-40 years ago that have been through 2 World Wars, multiple regime changes, and, in the case of Belarus/Poland/Ukraine/Romania, severe discrimination by the soviet parties, as well as land seizes and such.

Throughout it all, they all survived by doing one thing and one thing only, and that's the only thing they're good at: ploughing their land.

Come winter, come invasion, come radiation, come government or soldiers, all they did was work the land, year after year, and eat off it.

My own damn father's a victim of this. His is a lineage of farmers. Two generations of his have seeded and harvested his plot of land, and now, as he's entering his 60s, the only thing he wants to do is retire on the farm.

The loyalty they all have to that small plot of land is immense.

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u/PM_ME_CAKE May 28 '19

There's something you need to understand about the Balkans or Eastern Europe and the old and elderly farmers.

Not saying this comment isn't useful to others but fear not, I myself do understand, considering I'm Polish.

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u/Daniel-Darkfire May 28 '19

The last Babushka saying don't be afraid of us, we don't contain radiation is soooooo adorable :')

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u/owntheh3at18 Aug 14 '19

Not today.

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u/glennjamin85 May 28 '19

Give me 500 Soviet Miners and 500 Soviet Grannies and I'll conquer the world.

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u/bill4935 May 28 '19

I'll fight you with 100 Gurkhas and 100 abuelas armed with slippers.

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u/Generic-username427 May 29 '19

A force to rival metal gear

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u/nyaanarchist May 29 '19

I mean, that’s pretty much what beat the Nazis

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u/15462756873 May 28 '19 edited May 28 '19

Babushkas have more balls.

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u/ray_0586 May 28 '19

What is the exchange rate of Soviet Grandmas to Soviet Miners?

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u/iownachalkboard7 May 28 '19

Ill take ten good men anytime

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u/AFLoneWolf May 31 '19

You leave Tim Goodman out of this. He's busy elsewhere.

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u/rockhard90 May 28 '19

‚I don‘t need an army. I need 20 good grannies.‘

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u/Sagelegend May 29 '19

I want to see a showdown between soviet grandmas vs Russian coal miners

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u/JokoChan May 28 '19

It's time to move

aye dunt wunt et

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u/letmebesexy May 29 '19

It was a really amazing scene that. Badass grandma ftw.

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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Jun 29 '19

Put 100 coal miners in front, and that army is unstoppable.

No need for armor, they can even be naked.

(They probably will be naked).