Chernobyl (TV Mini Series)

Vichnaya Pamyat (2019)

Alan Williams: KGB Chairman Charkov

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Quotes 

• KGB Chairman Charkov : What role did Khomyuk play in this?

  Valery Legasov : None, she didn't know either.

  KGB Chairman Charkov : After all you've said and done today, it would be curious if you chose this moment to lie.

  Valery Legasov : I would think a man of your experience would know a lie when he hears one.

• Valery Legasov : In a just world, I'd be shot for my lies, but not for this, not for the truth.

  KGB Chairman Charkov : Scientists... and your idiot obsessions with reasons. When the bullet hits your skull, what will it matter why?

• KGB Chairman Charkov : You will not communicate with anyone about Chernobyl ever again. You will remain so immaterial to the world around you that when you finally do die, it will be exceedingly hard to know that you ever lived at all.

  Valery Legasov : What if I refuse?

  KGB Chairman Charkov : Why worry about something that isn't going to happen?

  Valery Legasov : [scoffs]  "Why worry about something that isn't going to happen?" Oh, that's perfect. They should put that on our money.

• KGB Chairman Charkov : No one's getting shot, Legasov. The whole world saw you in Vienna; it would be embarrassing to kill you now. And for what? Your testimony today will not be accepted by the state. It will not be disseminated in the press. It never happened. No. You will live, however long you have. But not as a scientist, not anymore. You'll keep your... title, your office. No duties, no authority. No friends. No one will talk to you. No one will listen to you. Other men, lesser men... will receive credit for the things you have done. Your legacy is now their legacy. You'll live long enough to see that.