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Lyubov Sirota - "Excessive Burden" - Part 3
16.12 2007

EXCESSIVE BURDEN - Part 3

to women of Chernobyl destiny it is devoted

**(Notes are on Page 3)

 

EPILOGUE

 
When I have already finished this article, Tamara Golovchak has called me and informed that her husband Yurij has died 7 November. The Heavenly Empire for him!
 
He has died of the extensive insult, though in the last years of his life in the "bouquet" of his Chernobyl diseases the main was the polycystosis of lungs. Notice, he was not smoker, however he has inhaled a lot of radioactive dust, laying pipes under the destroyed reactor ¹4 of the ChAES in May 1986.
And in some days on all channels of our TV by the next portion of poison for all real victims of Chernobyl the official information on the new Resolution of the United Nations about Chernobyl catastrophe (from 19.11.2007) has sounded.
 
And though in this article I only hoped through destinies of only several women and their relatives to show the real face of this trouble, not accenting special attention on one from the main Chernobyl problems – of "the big lie about Chernobyl", having reminded about it only in Notes(4, 8). Yes, probably, speaking about destinies of the victims of Chernobyl, it is necessary to stop on this most obvious from all negative psychological factors of Chernobyl tragedy, which still renderthe irreparable harm to their health.
 
I shall not make comments on the Resolution, all items of which as if are logical, as well as their decision about the termination of the sponsor's help to the injured countries, which has sounded in the mass media. Especially as for all these two decades the majority of real victims of Chernobyl practically had nothing from all these mythical milliards of the sponsor's help (23).
 
I and all my fellow countrymen am offended by another – namely by that definition given to victims of Chernobyl accident from the such high UNtribune, and also by the head of projects of the Program of development of the United Nations for the countries CIS Louise Vinton in interview of the RIA of News. And that they again offer us "the psychological help" for overcoming so-called"radiophobia", that I also already mentioned in Notes(4). I dare to assure, that many victims of Chernobyl could also – and completely free-of-charge! – to share with officials of the UN and other people more than twenty years' experience of a survival (as it do, for example, ours colleagues – Japanese hibakusi, the survived nuclear bombardments in Hiroshima and Nagasaki). And notice, – by the experienceof the heroic survivalin the permanent-extreme vital conditions(24), including experience of stoical endurance of the agonal sufferings before death, the examples of which you saw in this article... Yes, whether it is necessary to go far – they (or even much less paid officials) would try to survive, even on my today's (so-called raised) monthly pension of the invalid of Chernobyl of the 2nd group - in 515 grivnas (approximately equal $100 USA)…
 
In this light simply blasphemy that in the Resolution they suggest us to pass to the healthy, radiologically and ecologically checked up food. While a lot of real victims of Chernobylwould be glad to have even a necessary minimum of the most elementary, even and not checked up, foods (recollect a history of invalid of the 1st groupof ChAES - the deceased nowadays Valentina Rjabuha)…
 
I very much regret, that my poem "Radiophobia"still actual (15)even 20 years after the Chernobyl accident.
 
RADIOPHOBIA

Is this only – a fear of radiation?
Perhaps rather – a fear of wars?
Perhaps – the dread of betrayal,
cowardice, stupidity, lawlessness?
The time has come to sort out
what is – radiophobia.
It is –
when those who've gone through the Chernobyl drama
refuse to submit
to the truth meted out by government ministers
("Here, you swallow exactly this much today!")
We will not be resigned
to falsified ciphers,
base thoughts,
however you brand us!
We don't wish – and don't you suggest it! –
to view the world through bureaucratic glasses!
We're too suspicious!
And, understand, we remember
each victim just like a brother! …
Now we look out at a fragile Earth
through the panes of abandoned buildings.
These glasses no longer deceive us! –
These glasses show us more clearly –
believe me –
the shrinking rivers,
poisoned forests,
children born not to survive …
Mighty uncles, what have you dished out
beyond bravado on television?
How marvelously the children have absorbed
radiation, once believed so hazardous! …
(It's adults who suffer radiophobia –
for kids is it still adaptation?)
What has become of the world
if the most humane of professions
has also turned bureaucratic?
Radiophobia
may you be omnipresent!
Not waiting until additional jolts,
new tragedies,
have transformed more thousands
who survived the inferno
into seers –
Radiophobia might cure
the world
of carelessness, satiety, greed,
bureaucratism and lack of spirituality,
so that we don't, through someone's good will
mutate into non-humankind.

Translated from the Russian by Leonid Levin and Elisavietta Ritchie
 

And today I address with this my poem to Louise Vinton and all authors of this Resolution, whom, probably, the experts ofthe WHO and IAEA have inputted into the error (?!). But most likely, the destiny of victims of this accident are deeply indifferent for them, differently they would be more humane, and did not similar statements which again in literal sense kill the injured people. – I sure that already there are many fatal psychological reactions (heart attacks, insults, etc.) on the account of this – of the next "psychological help" of the official institutions to the victims of Chernobyl.
 
I shall name only two of many absolutely real negative consequences of similar statements. In first, really the officials of such rank do not know, that each word made from such high tribune or declared by such high organization, is the formal and informal instruction for officials of all levels? So in Ukraine (and also in Russia and Byelorussia) the Chernobyl programs and laws, which and without that annually is reduced, may be folded at all.Thus they not simply abandon without their abstractive so-called help of the victims of Chernobyl, which are already today "hardly making ends meet", but in literal sense throw out them for the line of a survival, considerably increasing death rate among the injured population. Second, it’s the real psychological factor. Really they till now have not understood that similar statements render awful psychological impact to real victims of Chernobyl, which factually less than other are afraid the radiation and even all possible stresses. Becauseall these years, to survive, they really use all existing methods of rehabilitation: from "a healthy way of life"(25)and all traditional and not traditional methods of treatment – to the spiritual perfection (by the way, many "chernobyl'cy"in conditions of the atheistic USSR began to be the deeply believing people). And, notice, without the special so-called psychological help of these high institutions, on which, I think, there the million financial assets will be again directed, i.e., as a matter of fact, on their own programs and funds, instead of on the real help to the victim… But the most terrible, that such their assessment and statements once again block a way for simple human compassion, i.e. even for those crumbs ofthe concrete help to concrete victims from concrete kind and merciful people of all world which can believe this lie and not respond to new concrete call about the help (as in a case with Katya Matkovskaya, etc.). So, all these hardly surviving and dying people, are branded by the"radiophobia" once again, again will stay alone with their trouble.
 
I once again want to emphasize, Sirs the officials of the United Nations, the victims of Chernobyl don't need your mythical so-called sponsor's help, which they did not see and will not see. They even don't hope for your compassion.
 
But they demand elementary respect for their sufferings and troubles, which you only aggravate by the so thoughtless your statements and assessments...
 
Moreover, victims of Chernobyl would be very grateful to such respectful international organization as the United Nations if there the Resolution has been accepted on condemnation and even the criminal responsibility of everyone who will ever dare to brand their by the unreasonable and humiliated term "radiophobia"!..
 
It is necessary to note, that theses of the named Resolution about the decade of rehabilitation and steady development of the areas injured of Chernobyl accident, even within the limits of 30 km of a zone of alienation around the ChAES, practically are do not cause doubts. Certainly, if such rehabilitation will be reasonable and verified from the point of view of radiological conditions in each concrete settlement (because even in the villages remote from station we found some places or a stains with very strong pollution and on the contrary – near the 10 km zone of the rigid control are the villages with more or less normal radiological conditions, etc.). The main thing that they did not aspire to occupy 10 km zone around of the station, which is really dangerous to the residing of people on hundreds, and even thousand yearsin future (26). Especially it concerns the city Pripyat, which, we see, someone also very much would like to wipe out from the face of Earth – that the mankind forgot about Chernobyl at all, and nuclear magnates have continued construction of the extremely dangerous objects on all planet!
 
Therefore in conclusion of this article I would like to remind once again to all people of good will, including and such a high international organization, as the United Nations, about very important (in ecological, social, cultural, political and psychological aspect) the initiative of the command of the site Pripyat.com and of the editors of the newspaper "Literary Ukraine" about the granting to city of Pripyat of the international status of a City – Museum, a City – Monument of the greatest technological accident of a planet(21).
 
We would be extremely grateful to General Assembly of the United Nations if this initiative has been added by one of the main items of the Resolution of the United Nations about Chernobyl that our Pripyat still many years continued to be the Reminder and the Prevention from new similar tragedies and catastrophes.
Notes:
 
1. Chernobyl, – byl'nik m., byl' (bylina); byl'ec.; byl'njak`; koniki; budyl'nik`(alarm clock), – the kind of the large wormwood (polun)” (Vladimir Dal’).
2. “The third Angel blew, and the big star has fallen from the sky, burning like the lamp, and it has fallen on a third part of the rivers and on sources of waters. And name of this star was polun; and the third part of waters has become bitter like polun’, and many of people have died of waters, because they became bitter.” (Revelation, VIII-10,11.).
3. On December, 1, 2007 when I have already finished translation of this article in English, my Australian friend Michael Barry has informed me that the new government of Australia under pressure of the public has refused plans of construction of nuclear stations (see Michael Barry' site "The Nuclear Flower": http://www.nuclearflower.com/index.htm). Thank God!– That though there the common sense has won.
4. See the article of Michael Fernex "The Chernobyl catastrophe and Health care" (http://iph.bdg.by/Socium/fernex_en.htm), in which See the article of Michael Fernex "The Chernobyl catastrophe and Health care", in which he has explained why the World Health Organization (WHO) remained absent during the first five after the Chernobyl accident on health studies and in particular studies on the genome and why this Organization still remains so inefficient in this field by the fact that it is still blocked by an "Agreement" signed in 1959 with the International Agency for Atomic Energy, (IAEA). The secret documents of the Ministry of Health and other departments of the former USSR about concealment of real consequences Chernobyl not less eloquently confirm a reality of such criminal "Agreement".
Only some facts from secret documents about Chernobyl catastrophe:
I. From the Letter of the chief of 3-rd Central administrative board of the Ministry of Health of USSR Shul'zhenko¹ Ó-2617 from 27.06.86 "About amplification of a mode of privacy at performance of works on liquidation of consequences of accident on the Chernobyl atomic power station", in which it was recommended:
4. To make secret information on accident;
8. To make secret information on results of treatment;
9. To make secret information on a degree of radioactive defeat of the personnel participating in liquidation of consequences of accident on the ChAES.
II. An explanation of central MMC (Military-Medical Commission) of the Ministry of Defence of the USSR from 08.07.87 ¹ 205 signed by the chief 10 MMC the colonel of medical service V.Bakshutov, addressed to the military commissariats:
* Presence of sharp somatic frustration, and also attributes of an aggravation of chronic diseases at the persons, who are involved in liquidation of consequences of accident of the Chernobyl atomic electric station (ChAES) and not having attributes Sharp Radiation Sickness (SSS), should not be put in a causal relationship with influence of radiation.
* At drawing up of certificates on illness not transferred in SSS at the persons, who were involved in work on the ChAES, in item 10 to not reflect the fact of involving them to the specified works and the total dose of the irradiation which have not reached a degree of sharp radiation sickness.
This explanation does not contain instructions on the definition of illness on the basis of given research of the patient, and orders notorious distortion of the origins of disease, falsification of diagnostics, and consequently also wrong treatment.
III. “The List of data on questions of accident on the Chernobyl atomic power station, which forbidden to publication in an open seal, transfers by radio and TV ", authorized by the decision of the governmental commission ¹ 514 from February, 29, 1988, restricted the following data:
1. Data on a level of radiating pollution on the separate settlements, exceeding a maximum permissible level /MPL/.
2. Data on parameters of deterioration of physical serviceability, loss of professional skills of the operational personnel working in special conditions on the Chernobyl atomic power station, or the persons involved in works on liquidation of consequences of accident.
IV. The directive letter of the First deputy minister of public health Services of the USSR of Shchepina O.P. (21.05.86 ¹ 02-6/83-6), addressed to Minister of Health Ukrainian ÑÑÐ Romanenko A.E., in which it is underlined, that "according to earlier given instructions, to the persons who have undergone influence of radioactive radiation, taking place in a hospital and not having attributes of sharp radiation sickness, must be established the diagnosis "vegeto-vascular distony".
And further: "to the workers involved in emergency works, at reception of maximum permissible beam loading and in case of their receipt in a hospital for inspection to expose also the diagnosis"vegeto-vascular distony"like the practically healthy persons and not to involve them to the further emergency works on a target term".
Thus, Ministry of Health of the USSR, by default, without inspection of patients and presence of the clinical data, without taking into account a state of health and specific features of each of victims or patients as a result of influence on them ion radiation, at absence of data on a concrete doze of the irradiation and a stage of development of illness, in infringement of medical ethics and the constitutional Law on health protection, demanded of all medical institutions subordinated to it and workers to recognize as all their healthy and to expose preset by the ministry common for everybody, i.e. collective, the diagnosis: vegeto-vascular distony.”
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I think that such facts don’t need comments!
(In Russian these documents see here:http://x1986x.narod.ru/secret.html, also in the article of V. Yakovenko "Chernobyl: ten and more years later ": http://chernobyl.onego.ru/right/bel.htm).
In our film "Threshold" (17) there is the episode, filmed in the spring of 1988 in the All-Union Science Centre of Radiation Medicine of Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (ASCRM AMS USSR) in Pusha Voditsa (where, by the way, with 1987 on 1992 I also had "the treatment" on two - three times in year). In this episode: sick people have gathered in the yard of this clinic and very emotionally tell to Rollan Sergienko about lie and double standards which reign in this "medical" establishment... I shall not describe all this drama episode (thank God, now you can see this in our film), I shall tell to you only about "personal statistics" of one sick liquidator Nikolay Zhukov, which tells there about, that the military department has taken from their small village on liquidation of consequences of Chernobyl accident a 5 persons (young and healthy!) and that in result: four from them, to whom have written down as much as possible allowable dozes of an irradiation - 25 BER (the biological equivalent of a roentgen), now are hardly sick. And the young guy, to whom they have written a doze 5 BER, has already died …" Also that now he (Zhukov) - the invalid, has the whole bouquet of chronic diseases and he has named diseases practically of all bodies and systems of an organism…In the conclusion of his monologue he shows the five fingers of a hand and speaks: "Look! Us was five healthy people! Because they did not take to Chernobyl the sick people! And what I can to do now?!. Whonow will take me for work of such sick?!. For whom I ‘m necessary?!...). Soon he too has died! - The Empire heavenly to him!..
Unfortunately, the majority of true victims of Chernobyl have approximately same "the personal statistics".
5. See site "The First Centre for Memories, Biographies and Testimonies of Women": http://www.internationalcenterofwomen.org/.
6. *"The Chernobyl prayer (the chronicle of the future)" of the Belarus writer Svetlana Alexievich you can see here: http://alexievich.info/booksEN.html#4;
** The author of a story "The woman in the zone" Svitlana Jovenko also was the initiator and the composer of the unique English-Ukrainian edition the book-photoalbum "Chernobyl concerns everyone", Kiev, publishing house "Dnipro", 2000: http://www.4uth.gov.ua/chernobyl/memoirs.html, the interview with Svitlana Jovenko in Ukrainian see here: http://www.umoloda.kiev.ua/number/969/164/35225/;
*** About great Ukrainian poetess and the known keeperof the Chernobyl memory and Chernobyl traditionsLina Kostenko see here:http://word.world-citizenship.org/word/index.php/wp-archive/1522,
7. See the photoalbum "Chernobyl: time of overcomings", Kiev, "Chernobylinterinform", 2001: http://www.mns.gov.ua/chornobyl/photo-album/index.ua.php?m=J4.
8. L. A. Iljin - theacademician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, director of Institute of biophysics of Ministry of Health of the USSR. Also he - the main creator of the lie about the medical consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe and the author of the term the"radiophobia", which became one of main among psychological factors of deterioration of health of victims of Chernobyl... For this his activity for the sake of covering one more of the long circuit of the awful crimes of USSR L.A.Iljin from 1988 became the person non-grata in Ukraine. And now this person - is the main expert (!!!) of theIAEA. –
" … Academician V.Legasov told to writer Alesya Adamovichu, that he daily reported conditions on the Chernobyl atomic power station to members of the Political bureau, but their attitude was unequivocal: "Terminate faster there with your accident, – at us here the West very noisy". The governments of two injured republics also constantly reported on a situation there to the Prime-Minister N.Ryzhkov. The Ukrainian Party Leader V. ShCherbitsky asked the help, but his Belarus colleague Slyunkov presented situation there as normal. Not casually in Belarus the evacuation of the population from the struck districts began only in three years after Chernobyl catastrophe. They presented “the tested medicine“ – the lie to population, which was alarmed not on the joke.The CPSU, Soviets and science together bleached a situation. Vice-president of Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR L.Iljin and the head of the State Committee on Hydrometeorology of the USSR J.Izrael, perfectly knowing scales of disaster, generously distributed the "soothing pills of lie".Even the criminal liability for use by the citizens of dosimeters has been entered, in particular, in time of the purchase of food in the markets and at the shops, that the population could not deny the false data. The government has established fifteen rubles of the extra payment to people living in the infected zones, that witty people have there and then christened as "mortals" (for the coffin – the comment of L.S.). The Soviet authorities have presented the false data and in the IAEA too. They have declared, that emission of radioactive substances in an atmosphere was 3 % while actually it has reached 80 %. Group of deputies of a Supreme Soviet of the USSR have addressed in 1989 to the General Public Prosecutor of the USSR A.J.Suharev with the requirement about excitation of criminal case against those officials, which by their lie have doomed on the silent extinction of people in zones of radioactive pollution. By the end of 1989 the deputies have received the answer-formal reply from Office of Public Prosecutor of the USSR, in which they was informed about the engaging to the criminal responsibility of the heads of the Chernobyl atomic power station (that is - have again punished "switchmen" – the comment of L.S.)... " (N.Mormul " Total lie": http://lib.rin.ru/doc/i/81517p.html).
By the way, after removal of the governmental secret from the theme Chernobyl, it's became obvious - how many harm thistotal liehas brought. In first, inmedical and social aspects– when people have not been provided with the sufficient information and means of protection, and that has considerably increased the received dozes of radiation, besides, thisliehas removed terms of the probable help to victims. Second, not pseudo, and the realpsychological factoralso considerably increased consequences of Chernobyl accident, - it was the notorious term"radiophobia", by which in the first years after Chernobyl catastrophe the official medicine "has branded" victims. Thus, compelling them constantly to prove to physicians and associates, that their sudden problems with health and their sufferings are really connected to influence of the ionized radiation, instead of with their suspiciousness and "stresses". Such necessity daily to prove, that "you are not a camel", distortion by physicians of the real changes in your organism, not sympathy and nonunderstanding of people around you, more trusted to lie of the authorities which generated your trouble and have thrown you alone with it – every day increased feeling of injustice, depression and a hopelessness of the real victims of Chernobyl, and also worsened their health. Thank God, in 1988 the public nevertheless could break this wall of lie and falseness (with the help of our film "Threshold" too), that at once has much more facilitated a psychological condition of victims and has opened a way for from social protection...
9. About Lyubov Kovalevskaya see here: http://library.thinkquest.org/3426/data/emergency/evacuation.html. The article of L. Kovalevskaya "Help to child to die" for the first time has been published in autumn of 1995 in the newspaper "The Mirror of Week" ¹ 43 (see the full text of the article in Russian:http://www.zerkalo-nedeli.com/nn/show/56/4284/; http://pripyat.com/ru/people_and_fates/2006/01/04/444.html).
10. Rollan Sergienko - the known director, the author of the whole series of films about Chernobyl, including our common film "Threshold" (http://pripyat.com/ru/media/video_news/2006/04/20/788.html; http://www.moviegoods.com/movie_product.asp?master%5Fmovie%5Fid=32030);more about Rollan Sergienko see here: http://pripyat.com/ru/news/2006/01/19/502.html, and also the interview with him of Alexander Sirota here: http://pripyat.com/en/publications/2006/02/02/525.html .
11. The name of one of main streets of Pripyat, where are the hotel "Polissia" and the Cultural Center (where I have worked) - is "street of Kurchatov".
And the central (main) street of Pripyat - "prospectus of Lenin" is located directly perpendicularly to street Kurchatova and it rests the Central Square - front of the Palace of Culture. You can see it on the map of city here: http://pripyat.com/en/photo_gallery/maps/3/574.html (the truth, of street on it are written in Russian, but I think, you will understand)...
And my short notes on these two main streets of Pripyat.
Main street Lenina - is central street of Pripyat. I think, you know, that in the USSR the every from big and small towns had street named Lenina, similar about squares!.. You know also, that Chernobyl atomic station had name of Lenin too, as one of main constructions of the USSR (one of the most important objects of it!)!..
Street of Kurchatov - is located perpendicularly to street Lenina - on crossing of these streets (Lenina and Kurchatova) is the Central Square of city - the square is front of the Palace of Culture, near with which are: a town committee of the Communistic Party, hotel "Polissia" with restaurant - from one site and new big shopping center and restaurant - from other site). I think you know, who was I.V. Kurchatov. Also you can see about him here: http://alsos.wlu.edu/information.asp?id2=304&past=1.
12. About Anatoly Klopotenko see the article of V.Krasilnik "Nash Batya" (our father), the newspaper "POST CHERNOBYL", ¹ 9, September 2004, in Ukrainian here: http://pripyat.com/ru/people_and_fates/personalities/2005/12/17/389.html.
13. The announcement of the temporary evacuation of the population of Pripyat (as informally they have explained to us then - for three days, but it has appeared for all life!) first time has sounded on a city radio network on April, 27, 1986 at 13.30.
The text of the official announcement of the evacuation was such:
"Attention! Attention! Dear comrades!
The city council of People's Deputies informs, that in connection with the accident on the Chernobyl atomic power station in city of Pripyat there is adverse radiating conditions. The Soviet and Party organs, military units undertake necessary measures. However with the purpose of the providing of full safety of people, and first of all of children, there is a necessity to carry out temporary evacuation of city dwellers in the nearby settlements of the Kiev area. For this purpose to each apartment house today on April, 27, since 14-00 hours, buses will be sent in accompanied byworkersof militia and representatives of city executive committee. It is recommended to take with itself the documents, extremely necessary things, and also the food on the first case. Heads of the enterprises and establishments determine a circle of workers, which remain on a place for the ensuring of the normal functioning city. All apartment houses for the period of evacuation will be protected by the workers of militia. Comrades, temporarily leaving the habitation, please do not overlook to close a windows, will switch off electric and gas devices, to block water faucets. We ask to observe calmness, organization and order at the realization of temporary evacuation."
Audio record of the real announcement of evacuation you can download from here: http://pripyat.com/ru/media/. For the first time after evacuation this announcement has sounded in our film "Threshold": http://orantas.livejournal.com/5879.html, now it sounds almost in all films about Chernobyl.
14. Lieutenant colonel Anatoliy Nikolaevich Klopotenko speaks about the this fact in film of the Spanish cinematographers "Radiophobia", 2005 - shortly before his death. Lieutenant colonel Anatoliy Nikolaevich Klopotenko speaks about the this fact in film of the Spanish cinematographers "Radiophobia", 2005 - shortly before his death. This episode you can see in the short trailer of this film here:http://www.lunapictures.com/Demos/Radiophobia/RADIOPHOBIA.wmv (about the film see here: http://pripyat.com/ru/media/video_news/2006/12/22/1434.html).
15. See Lyubov Sirota "Radiophobia": http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/chernobyl_poems/chernobyl_poems.html#radiophobia, also about "radiophobia" in the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiophobia.
16. Many facts of the display of high mercy are already described in the book of Natalia Baranovskaya "Ukraine. Chernobyl. The world"(Kiev, Nika-Center, 1999), however, as far as I know, this book so and has not reached the wide reader.
17. About our film "Threshold" see in section "Media" of a site Pripyat.com:http://pripyat.com/ru/media/video_news/2006/04/20/788.html(in the same place it is possible to load and look film:http://pripyat.com/media/movie/porog.pripyat.com.avi).
18. About it, and about the Annual International Action "The Saved Planet" you can see here: http://orantas.livejournal.com/#item5198.
19. About the Great Famine-Genocide in Soviet Ukraine of 1932-1933 (Holodomor) and of the millions victims of it see here: http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/index.htm.
20. See about the organizers of the Internet-project Pripyat.com here: http://pripyat.com/ru/organizators/.
21. The text of the Appeal to the President, the Government and the Supreme Rada of Ukraine, to the Chapters of all countries of the world, the Council of Europe, UNESCO, the United Nations about granting to city Pripyat the international status of the City - museum, the City - monument of the greatest technological accident of a planet see here: http://pripyat.com/en/news/2006/02/15/560.html.
22. From last interview of our well-known fellow countryman of opera singer Anatolij Solov'yanenko to the Ukrainian TV, some about him see here: http://www.kmu.gov.ua/kmu/control/en/publish/article?showHidden=1&art_id=7339437&cat_id=32672&ctime=1089732951017.
23. For example, even in the first months after accident because of bureaucratic inconsistency we with the girlfriend could not receive even the sum in 50Soviet rubles from the international Red Cross. The truth, then in Polesskoe (where, after evacuation, all Pripyat organizations and the enterprises temporarily were placed) we have received on 15 rubles so-called – "for theelevating".
24. Also us all time try to convince, that after"radiophobia"(15) the main frompsychological the factorsof disease of the population, is the stress connected to resettlement and constant social and economic problems. I not deny presence and influence of all these kinds of stress, however I shall remind, that theconditions of a survival in the former USSR have made people over hardy, especially to any stresses. Therefore people speak: that for the European or the American – will death, for the former inhabitant of the USSR – it's a real nothing! And it – the truth!..
For example, similarly to the majority of inhabitants of the former USSR, before Chernobyl I also had a lot of the personal stresses from too heavy vital situations and problems: from long not having of own habitation and constant shortage of money; from heavy divorce with the father of my son and the search of a new residence and work, practically without livelihood with the small child on hands, (thank God, I have found all of it then in Pripyat) – to my mum's death, which was too heavy for me, etc., etc. Not speaking, about social and political problems, and, first of all - the absence of freedom, i.e. the life in a stuffy atmosphere of a constant hopelessness (who did not live in conditions of full absence of freedom, hardly can understand this permanentpsychological factor, the pressure of which cannot be compared with any stresses and phobias!!!).
And the main thing, at least, three times (not including often crossings on another's, removed apartments!) I have been compelled to change various residences: from the farewell with then loved city of my childhood and youth Frunze (the capital of Kirghizia, nowadays – Bishkek) and the moving together with parents on the native land of our ancestors – Ukraine in 1975; in first in Kherson (where I had too gloomy and hopeless life), and then with the husband – in the nice young city Komsomolsk of Poltava area; and, at last, after divorce – in young, fine city of Pripyat (which I loved at once), where I have moved, having left to my former husband (and his new wife!) just hardly received new apartment …, etc., etc. But all these stresses and problems only have mobilized my forces, activity and work capacity!!! Thus,then I was not simply absolutely healthy and extremely active, – I always knew (felt!), that I can do all is absolutely (from any heaviest physical, intellectual and creative work – up to any psychological and emotional loadings!!!)...
BUT after Chernobyl my life was changed cardinally already half-year later, when I for the first time in a life (except for a maternity home!) has appeared in a hospital (after temporary loss of vision and in a heavy condition) where I have stayed almost three months (and then - constant hospitals, surgical operations etc.)!.. But most of all then I was oppressed even by not various frequently sudden pains, unexpected losses of consciousness and a constant, unusual weakness, -namely suddenly sharply broken rhythm of a life when I have felt suddenly that I can not almost anything (any time on a habit I still promised any people something to make, but even more often I could not fulfill these promises!)... I.e., as other victims, I should was adapt for a new rhythm and new way of life too for a long time.Even now, though I already for a long time have learned to be pleased to everything, that I able to make (even to the smallest!), sometimes I nevertheless have some despair from my ultralow capacity to work now. I confess that this article, which was promised to Natalia Fernandez, I wrote more one year (by small portions and with the big breaks), though up to Chernobyl (or as at us speak, before "war") I would write it only during a pair of nights!.. But, that the most important, I with the great pleasure would spend the rest of forces for realization of creative plans, which much more pleasant and more lightthan the Chernobyl theme. However, unfortunately, constant aspiration of known forces to ignore or pervert a consequences of this timeless tragedy and simple human problems of majority of the victims of Chernobyl practically do not give to me an opportunity to make anything else.
25. By the way, about "a healthy way of life" – among the injured population of people with harmful habits is much less, than even among the usual population of Europe and the USA, let alone Russia and Belarus, which really suffer from these problems (Ukraine, in this sense, does not differ from other European countries). – As the majority even from those from them, who up to Chernobyl hadharmful habits, because of serious problems with health have stopped to drink and smoke (for example, the same Anatoly Klopotenko who up to Chernobyl was the inveterate smoker, after returning from a zone at once has completely refused this harmful habit because of sharp deterioration of health). Probably, the data of the so-calledexpertsabout harmful habits among the injured population are based on their supervision on the "liquidators" and those who now works in territory of the Chernobyl zone. As, not a secret, that from first months after Chernobyl accident there the opinion has been widely distributed that alcohol reduces influence of radiation, therefore intoxication became norm for workers of a zone and station - I also can testify to it, unfortunately! But this fact cannot be distributed on all the liquidators and, especially, on the evacuated population and all injured people, because overwhelming majority of us - peoplewhich are not drinking and not smoking!Even those some destinies of victims,which I have mentioned in this article are deny this false thesis of the Resolution that "a unhealthy way of life, smoking, alcoholismhave the more expressed negative character than the radiation", because almost all heroes of this article even up to Chernobyl had no harmful habits…
 
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© Lyubov Sirota, also see Chernobyl Poems from "Burden" by Lyubov Sirota
 
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