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Old 04-26-2006, 04:44 AM   #1
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Chernobyl 20 Years on.

Today is the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Let's not forget what happened on April 26th 1986.
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Old 04-26-2006, 02:55 PM   #2
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Chernobyl Anniversary

All of us should take a moment today to remember the disaster and those that continue to be affected by it. Such a tragedy.

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Old 04-26-2006, 04:39 PM   #3
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Maybe someone who is a scientist would know this—it is possible that Soviet awards, etc that some of us have in our possession are radioactive because they happened to be near Chernobyl, and we do not know about their radioactivity?
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Maybe someone who is a scientist would know this—it is possible that Soviet awards, etc that some of us have in our possession are radioactive because they happened to be near Chernobyl, and we do not know about their radioactivity?
just try to look at yours in the dark to see if it glows...

on a more serious note: I believe not only the medals were stroke very far aways from Tchernobyl region, but almost they were decerned to the liquidators when they were back at home. And just think of the classic soviet inertia to take a decision about awards and to start fabrication...
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Here is how it looks today:

http://lenta.ru/photo/2006/04/17/pripyat/

http://lenta.ru/photo/2006/04/17/block/
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Thanks abr for great pictures.
We lived not far from Chernobyl, when the accident happened.
Terrible memories. Terrible experience.

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I remember the days right after living in Kiev...

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I remember the days right after living in Kiev...

Rusty.
Rusty,
I did not know you are from Kiev.
I lived in Kiev too.

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Yeap!

I'm from Otradnoe.

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Rusty,
It must have been something to go through those days after the accident.

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