Nuclear Worker, Legasov and others in “Unfinished Business”

Now you want us to swim underneath a burning reactor. Do you even know how contaminated it is?

Legasov

I... I don't have an exact number.

You don't need to have an exact number to know if it will kill us. But you can't even tell us that. Why should we do this? For what, for four hundred rubles?

Shcherbina

You'll do it because it must be done. You'll do it because nobody else can. And if you don't, millions will die. If you tell me that's not enough I won't believe you. This is what has always set our people apart. A thousand years of sacrifice in our veins. And every generation must know its own suffering. I spit on the people who did this. And I curse the price that I have to pay. But I'm making my peace with it. Now you make yours. Go into that water. Because it must be done.

[stands] Ananenko.

[stands] Bespalov.

[stands] Baranov.