Author: Alexander Starostin
The monstrous scale of the accident gave rise to the corresponding consequences. We have already seen how the employees of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant fought for the salvation of the station, how residents of Pripyat and the Zone left their homes. Later, they will cope with the consequences of the horror experienced, but the first days and months still had to be lived through. Let us look together with them into the eyes of uncertainty, acute radiation sickness, and disorder.
This is the hard part, but necessary. There are places that I deliberately removed under the spoiler. Consider this a "not sure - don't unfold" warning sign. Radiation sickness is not a joke, and the consequences of an accident at a nuclear power plant are not a computer game. Now we will continue.
"They were so helpless ... how they died ..."
From almost our time, let's go back to April 26, 1986. Everyone who worked at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that night and could no longer work because of overexposure was sent to the Pripyat medical unit No. 126, since it was the only medical facility with a hospital in the city. Among them were firefighters, station employees, and doctors. It is quite natural that crowds of people began to gather at the medical unit very quickly, consisting primarily of the wives and family members of the hospitalized. They did not plan to let them inside, but the women did their best. And soon, when it became known that new patients would be taken to Moscow, wives, mothers began to supply husbands and sons with the essentials for the trip. The crowd was filled with rumors that forced action. According to the recollections of Vasily Ignatenko's wife, she and other wives rushed to buy milk, as the doctors saidthat the patients needed it because of some kind of "gas poisoning." And when the husbands reported that they would be evacuated at night, the wives decided to follow them.
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Finally, take a look at the interview with the self-settling grandfather Savva (Savva Gavrilovich Obrazey), widely known in narrow circles of those interested. He died in 2014, since then no one lives in the 10 km zone:
Self-settlers are people, though seasoned, but friendly. Not everyone has relatives, so any guest is a kind of joy. They are not too interested in news, since they live mainly on what they have grown in their gardens, gathered in the forest, caught in the river. Their land is their main wealth, both material and spiritual.
Author: Alexander Starostin