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Posted on 04/20/2026 10:30:58 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
We were newlyweds. We still walked around holding hands, even if we were just going to the store. I would say to him, "I love you." But I didn't know then how much. I had no idea…
We lived in the dormitory of the fire station where he worked. There were three other young couples; we all shared a kitchen. On the ground floor they kept the trucks, the red fire trucks. That was his job.
One night I heard a noise. I looked out the window. He saw me. "Close the window and go back to sleep. There's a fire at the reactor. I'll be back soon."
I didn't see the explosion itself. Just the flames. Everything was radiant. The whole sky. A tall flame. And smoke. The heat was awful. And he's still not back. The smoke was from the burning bitumen, which had covered the roof. He said later it was like walking on tar.
They tried to beat down the flames. They kicked at the burning graphite with their feet ... They weren't wearing their canvas gear. They went off just as they were, in their shirt sleeves. No one told them.
At seven in the morning I was told he was in the hospital. I ran there but the police had already encircled it, and they weren't letting anyone through, only ambulances. The policemen shouted: "The ambulances are radioactive stay away!"
I saw him. He was all swollen and puffed up. You could barely see his eyes.
"He needs milk. Lots of milk," my friend said. "They should drink at least three litres each."
"But he doesn't like milk."
"He'll drink it now."
Many of the doctors and nurses in that hospital…would get sick themselves and die. But we didn't know that then.
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This is at the end of the article:
“In his first presidency, Donald Trump called journalists the enemy; in his second term, it’s clear he’s treating us like one.
From Hungary to Russia, authoritarian regimes have made silencing independent media one of their defining moves. Sometimes outright censorship isn’t even required to achieve this goal. In the United States, we have seen the administration apply various forms of pressure on news outlets in the year since Trump returned to office. One of our great disappointments is how quickly some of the most storied US media organizations have folded when faced with the mere specter of hostility from the administration – long before their hand was forced.”
Propaganda.
Yeah. And The Guardian, of all outlets, bitching about the works of a communist government.
I don’t see anything about Trump. Are we talking about the same article or am i starting to go blind?
Bkmk
Not a word about Trump at the end of the article.
From the website...
“This article is more than 21 years old”
The Guardian in Australia just got royally embarrassed.
It sucks on two continents.
The HBO miniseries Chernobyl was reallly good. I found a DVD set and watched it several times. not sure how accurate it is but a good representation if nothing else.
The anti-Trump rant is at the end of the article where the Guardian is asking for donations to help “journalists” combat Trump’s war on news outlets.
Survivors say it’s accurate. I didn’t know this, but a lot of them live in Israel!
Alexander Leek: “The nocturnal butterfly. In ancient cultures, the moth represents a form of the psyche, or the soul immortally trapped in the hellish death realms”. Mothman. Well, that’s what the Ukrainians called him. Rough translation of course. There were a hundred sightings in Chernobyl when the nuclear pump went down. Galveston, nineteen sixty-nine, just before the hurricane. They saw it. But seeing isn’t always believing.
Artcle: “Many of the doctors and nurses in that hospital…would get sick themselves and die.”
Fake
So many good scenes in that movie.
When they confront the coal miners, the head miner was awesome in his role.
The old lady milking the cow had a very good dissertation.
Heartbreaking to know they actually cleared the abandoned villages of pets like that.
All in all a very good movie, I feel like watching it again now.
I believe Alexievich’s book was the inspiration behind the series and some of the characters.
This story from two days ago may be of encouragement :)
“Chernobyl full of life as wildlife reoccupies a radioactive landscape”
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