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Oct. 9th, 2007 06:38 pmКомп в очередной раз сдох... Пытаясь спасти, что можно, обнаружила старую статью о Чернобыле на английском. Нехай будэ. Некоторых ее героев, к сожалению, уже нет в живых.
"Chernobyl - life after death"
"Don't wander about here," warns me the chief of police in the closed area of Chernobyl. "Why should you soak up the poison?" And why indeed should he do this? It turns out that in the country of Ukraine there are thousands that would do anything for an addition to their monthly salary. Even live and work in the radiation-plagued site where 17 years ago took place one of the biggest ecological disasters in the history of humanity. Besides the policemen, there roam scientists fighting the radiation, criminals finding refuge in the ghost towns, tourists searching for children with two heads and elderly, who stole back into the poisoned villages because for them it is home. Everyone drowns the fear in alcohol, the only "miracle medicine" to neutralize the radiation, and try not to think about the moment when the cover of the reactor will ultimately collapse.
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"Chernobyl - life after death"
"Don't wander about here," warns me the chief of police in the closed area of Chernobyl. "Why should you soak up the poison?" And why indeed should he do this? It turns out that in the country of Ukraine there are thousands that would do anything for an addition to their monthly salary. Even live and work in the radiation-plagued site where 17 years ago took place one of the biggest ecological disasters in the history of humanity. Besides the policemen, there roam scientists fighting the radiation, criminals finding refuge in the ghost towns, tourists searching for children with two heads and elderly, who stole back into the poisoned villages because for them it is home. Everyone drowns the fear in alcohol, the only "miracle medicine" to neutralize the radiation, and try not to think about the moment when the cover of the reactor will ultimately collapse.
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