Hopkins, MN
Quoted from BillySastard:It's amazing how the plant personnel denied everything
That is how things there work. From the personnel, to the people in charge of the city, to the KGB, local secretary of Communist Ideology, the head of the militia, the mayor. They would rather die then let their superiors, or worst the West, think they had a problem they couldn't handle. That is how Chikatilo took so long to track down.
Quoted from Tommy-dog:Governments lie and never told everyone how bad this actually was.
The mayor let the parade the next day go on, before evacuating the city.
Quoted from Atari_Daze:Were there possibly cosmonaut deaths that were never reported???
Russia always rewrites history. Leaders come in and out of favor. Get added to pictures they were never in, get removed from pictures they were in. Even Czars have been removed from their history.
Quoted from jgentry:I had a former employee (I am an environmental chemist) that actual went to Chernobyl 3 times over the course of 18 months to help with heavy metals testing. He has had cancer twice already. He spent limited time on site with full hazmat suites.
Just think of all the people that were on the bridge or top of apartment building to see the pretty silver cloud over the reactor. Or after the evacuation and the people who went there and stole furniture and TV's, etc. etc. and hauled to Kiev and other cities to sell and spread the contamination.
LTG : )
