Akademiemitglied Petrjaew: Seuche des 20. Jahrhunderts: Tschernobyl / Академик Петряев: Чернобыль — Это Чума XX Века
Member of Academy Petriaev: Chernobyl is the Plague of the 20th Century

Author(s): Leonid Jekel
Subject(s): Energy and Environmental Studies, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: CEEOL Collections / Digital Reproductions
Keywords: Chernobyl;
Summary/Abstract: ...Before I ask you, a well-known scholar and the chairman of the “Life after Chernobyl” foundation, questions about what life after Chernobyl is like and what awaits us in the near future, I, Yevgeny Petrovich, would like to refer to my long-ago interview with Ales Adamovich come. It was published in the magazine “Rodnik” in 1989. It was .Adamovich's letter to M.S. Gorbachev. A month after the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ales Adamovich said in his letter what no one dared to say. In his letter he described the dimensions of the disaster in Belarus in reality, in contrast to what was reported to Moscow. That this tragedy is more terrible than that which the Belarusian people experienced in 1941-1944. He cited compelling evidence as to what measures should be taken immediately to save the nation. Because “...every day and every hour of delay is an unpardonable sin against the future of the people. Our sick descendants will not forgive us for any justifications or explanations. We will not be able to forgive ourselves for unfounded sacrifices.” He spoke of the terrible misfortune into which the monopoly of truth in science plunges people. The authorities' efforts to conceal the extent of the disaster and its consequences...

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