[Spooks] The Woodpecker

[john]

Watched it last night via a Prime stream.

The Ukrainians hate the Soviet Union.

It's a mixture of artsy conspiracy theory and anti-soviet documentary 
with a few min of Woodpecker quasi technical info mixed in.  The photos 
of the antenna array (from which Chernobyl is visible) are staggering. 
It's all been left to rot (and apparently climb).

The Ukrainians hate the Soviet Union.

The premise of the movie is, the Woodpecker , which was enormously 
expensive (2x the cost of the Chernobyl nuke facility) never worked. In 
order to cover up this failure, Chernobyl was purposely melted down.

Plausible, but a real reach.   It could have been shorter than it was (I 
missed the point of the scenes of the main character randomly wrapped in 
Saran Wrap holding a torch. This probably explains why I became an 
engineer not an art major) . On the other hand, it's certainly the only 
video you'll likely see of the Chernobyl nuke site taken from the top of 
the Woodpecker antenna array.

Oh, and the Ukrainians hate the Soviet Union.


John K5MO

On 3/2/2019 8:23 PM, Christmas Peter via Spooks wrote:
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> Take  look on RTVs web site. They did a good piece about it
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> On Sat, 3/2/19, john <johnmb at nc.rr.com> wrote:
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>   Looks like the video is $2.99 on Amazon Prime
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