Post #1838411
2026-04-26 18:31 UTC
40 years ago today #Chernobyl nuclear disaster started. In a rush to earn a promo from #Communist party, NPP's chief engineer went on with a reckless test that led to one of the reactors blowing up. With its usual genocidal indifference to #Belarusian and #Ukrainian lives, #Russia's leaders denied scale and public health implications of the disaster, proceeded with their May parades, and, when the radioactive clouds turned towards #Moscow, had them seeded to land 70% of the fallout in #Belarus.
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@dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt 2026-04-26 18:48
Millions of people in #Belarus and #Ukraine were and continue to be exposed to radioactive isotopes. #Cancer cases went up, I am part of that statistic as cancer survivor. #Thyroid gland disfunction has become commonplace, my wife can't function without a daily dose of levothyroxine. Birth defects went up in Belarus and all over Europe. Displacement of hundreds of thousands further accelerated centuries-long demographic decline of Belarus that started with the genocidal #ForgottenWar of 1654.
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@__ic@mastodon.social 2026-04-27 04:57
@dmitry@mastodon.circle.lt would you recommend readings on the topic? All I remember of the period is filtered by where I come from (France), when “the cloud” meant something else than today.