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Kids in Idaho watched the sky for radioactive Chernobyl clouds. Company my dad worked for re-entombed the blown reactor. I did a school project on meltdown. Stories from the crisis from ex-Soviet friends: haunting. It helped end the USSR.
High expectations -- hope this delivers
High expectations -- hope this delivers
Btw in HBO "Klitschko" doc, there's this amazing sequence where Wladimir walks around an abandoned military base in Ukraine where his father, a Soviet helicopter pilot, was based during Chernobyl, flying missions to dump sh*t into the reactor and stop the meltdown...
... He describes how no one knew what was going on, and the helicopters would come back, and be hosed down, and the water (and radioactive dust) would collect in two retaining pools, and the kids would play in the water with their boats.
It's just haunting.
It's just haunting.
