Vichnaya Pamyat

Episode aired Jun 3, 2019
TV-MATV-MA
1h 12m

9.8/10

S1.E5

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Valery, Boris and Ulana risk their lives and reputations to expose the truth about Chernobyl.Valery, Boris and Ulana risk their lives and reputations to expose the truth about Chernobyl.Valery, Boris and Ulana risk their lives and reputations to expose the truth about Chernobyl.

9.8/10

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Chernobyl: Vichnaya Pamyat

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Valery, Boris and Ulana risk their lives and reputations to expose the truth about Chernobyl.

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Trivia
The episode title "Vichnaya Pamyat" is Ukrainian for "Memory Eternal". It is a hymn intoned during Ukrainian Orthodox Christian church Funeral or Memorial Litiyas/prayers for the deceased. In Ukrainian Orthodox parishes the Liturgy and prayers are usually in Ukrainian while in parishes belonging to the Moscow Patriarchate, the Liturgy and services are in Church Slavonic. In these services "Memory Eternal" is pronounced "Vechnaya Pamyat".

This hymn is heard at the end of the episode.

Goofs
Moscow in March isn't green. It's still winter time.

Quotes
[last lines]
Valery Legasov: [on tape] To be a scientist is to be naive. We are so focused on our search for the truth we fail to consider how few actually want us to find it. But it is always there whether we see it or not, whether we choose to or not. The truth doesn't care about our needs or wants, it doesn't care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions. It will lie in wait for all time. And this, at last, is the gift of Chernobyl. Where I once would fear the cost of truth, now I only ask: What is the cost of lies?

Soundtracks
Vechnaya Pamyat (Memory Eternal)
Performed by Homin Lviv Municipal Choir

Top review

10/10

Few words about this show from a 27-year-old from Ukraine

I live in Cherkasy - a small city about 300 km far the Chernobyl.

And it is a very strange situation when yourself hear a small part of the information and seeing a lot of documentaries movie about this catastrophe every year from childish age, but truly realized the size of this only after the HBO show.

You know - today we live near this, where people around are dying with cancer... And for us - it is part of our life - not just an interest fact about some far country.

Thank, HBO that you tell about Chernobyl to the whole world almost absolutely documentary but with true feelings and people.

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