Memories of Chernobyl: an Oral History of the Nuclear Disaster
by Alexeevich
About This Novel
On April 26, 1986, the reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Residents of neighboring Belarus lost everything. Some people died on the spot, and more people were evacuated and were forced to abandon all their belongings. Thousands of acres of land were contaminated, and thousands of people were infected with various diseases due to the leakage of 20 tons of high-radiation nuclear fuel. A famous reporter Alexievich spent three years interviewing survivors of the disaster: the wives of the first rescuers to arrive at the disaster site, on-site photographers, teachers, doctors, farmers, government officials at the time, historians, scientists, forced evacuees, resettled people, wives and grandmothers.
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Official(5)Scraped 12d ago
The truth is always buried by man-made "facts"
I read this book after watching the recent American TV series. I have to say that many people say that American dramas deliberately smear the Soviet Union, believing that the Soviet Union is no longer around and can be distorted at will. However, after reading several books on this matter (the authors are all from the former Soviet Union), I just want to say that not only did the American drama not smear and distort it, but more facts were not shown as straightforwardly as in the book! Looking at the various thoughts and styles of the former Soviet Union, and then thinking about it now, don't you think they are so similar? Hehe.
Why! Nuclear energy does not,,,
Oral description
It was a bit confusing for me to read, but the story in the book is very attractive.
A war that transcends all wars!
Good reading, good reading, good reading, good reading.
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Community(0)
Official(5)Scraped 12d ago
The truth is always buried by man-made "facts"
I read this book after watching the recent American TV series. I have to say that many people say that American dramas deliberately smear the Soviet Union, believing that the Soviet Union is no longer around and can be distorted at will. However, after reading several books on this matter (the authors are all from the former Soviet Union), I just want to say that not only did the American drama not smear and distort it, but more facts were not shown as straightforwardly as in the book! Looking at the various thoughts and styles of the former Soviet Union, and then thinking about it now, don't you think they are so similar? Hehe.
Why! Nuclear energy does not,,,
Oral description
It was a bit confusing for me to read, but the story in the book is very attractive.
A war that transcends all wars!
Good reading, good reading, good reading, good reading.
