Chernobyl - 30 years later - in somber silence - sunrise

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Chernobyl: "On April 26, 1986, a botched test at a nuclear plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, then a Soviet republic, sent clouds of smouldering nuclear material across swathes of Europe and forced more than 100,000 people to leave a permanently contaminated "exclusion zone" stretching across the Ukraine-Belarus border."









Reuters: "Chernobyl - living in the exclusion zone" (full text)
https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/chernobyl-living-in-the-exclusion-zone




Belarus digest:
http://belarusdigest.com/story/charnobyl-30-years-later-%E2%80%93-belarus-photo-digest-25452?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook
"Belarus ended up the most badly affected.

The Soviet Union sought to cover up the accident. The news about the explosion came out only two days later, after Sweden registered an increase in radiation levels on its territory. The evacuation of the population in the immediate vicinity of the plant began only several days later.

Among the health effects of Charnobyl was a spike in thyroid cancer, especially among children. Among the political effects was growing distrust of the Soviet authorities."







Min kristna samhällsblogg: "Chernobyl - "bury me in this very cemetery, under this very pine, with a stunning view of sunrise in one direction and a village landscape in another"
http://minkristnasamhllsblogg.blogspot.fi/2014/04/chernobyl-bury-me-in-this-very-cemetery.html
"Every year Orthodox Christians in Belarus throng to local cemeteries to commemorate their deceased relatives and loved ones on the ninth day after Easter, following an ancient Slavic rite on a revered day called Radunitsa. They tidy up tombs and adorn them with wreaths, and bow their heads in somber silence. --- "In Pogonnoye, I overheard an old man asking his younger relative to bury him “in this very cemetery, under this very pine, with a stunning view of sunrises in one direction and a village landscape in another”. 

There is little doubt the old man’s request will be respected – for many years to come, deceased evacuees are set to return to rest in peace in their native land. And for more years to come, despondent survivors of the world’s worst nuclear disaster will stream to their birthplace from which they were once uprooted."  (Reuters, May 13, 2011, Photographer's blog: Chernobyl graves by Vasily Fedosenko)

"bury me in this very cemetery, under this very pine, with a stunning view of sunrises in one direction and a village landscape in another”. 





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