Most Western Europeans were notified about the Chernobyl radiation earlier than the Soviet people

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http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/a-liquidator-searches-for-the-truth-at-chernobyl-25-years-on/435751.html

A Liquidator Searches for the Truth at Chernobyl 25 Years On
26 April 2011
By Alexandra Odynova

Editor's note: This is the final installment in a three-part series about the Chernobyl disaster.


Twenty-five years ago, Alexander Glushchenko volunteered to join the "liquidators," an army of 600,000 who put their lives on the line to clean up the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

But sitting in his Moscow apartment, packed with books and photos about the catastrophe, he argued that with a disaster this big, there could be no liquidation, only a "minimization" of the consequences.

Glushchenko, 68, said crucial facts about the catastrophe remain "silenced" and that the global community still has not learned its lesson. snip

Destiny Called Chernobyl

Whatever its cause, the blast released some 200 tons of uranium into the atmosphere, polluting most of the Northern Hemisphere. Ironically, most Western Europeans were notified about the radiation earlier than the Soviet people, who were kept in the dark until the May holidays were over to prevent panic.

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1. Not surprising

The Soviets where not known for their telling the Russian people whats going on.

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2. One of my colleagues was in the Netherlands

at the institute in The Hague and didn't know why on earth she was so violently sick as in horrific stomach pain and vomiting non-stop and then she heard what happened. She is still of the view that both were connected.