Where does that 400,000 figure come from? Sounds like a heck of a lot of bodies to hide.
Have you seen the graveyard of the military equipment which was used during that time? Every one had people in them. Look it up and tell me that only a few people died during that time. That stuff still has so much radiation that people are not allowed to be near it. The solidest who had to go to Chernobyl died within a very short time of being at the site. Some only lived a few minutes. How about all the people in the area who died of cancer caused by radiation but were reported as just dying from cancer? How about the many many children who developed thyroid cancer who were treated by teams of doctors from this country? You should look up Elena Filatova’s website. She rode her motorcycle through parts of that area. She does not have any good words for the gov’t at that time. Some of the people she has talked to have said it would be radioactive for thousands of years. One was her own father who was a noted physicist in that country at that time. She said he started teaching her about nuclear education as a child.
"Where does that 400,000 figure come from? Sounds like a heck of a lot of bodies to hide."It did not happen overnight. Large areas of Belarus and Ukraine and some parts Russia were affected. In the decades that followed, and in the post-soviet breakup it was pretty hard to keep tabs. The Soviet govt was always secretive about everything and often they told doctors to not report nuclear related causes of death, this practice dates back to their 50's nuclear tests. http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Chernobyl-Zhores-Medvedev/dp/0393308146/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1300486488&sr=1-2-fkmr1