| It's important to note that reparations were paid to anyone claiming to be a
"victim" of the Chernobyl accident. You can imagine how many people came forward to blame the accident on their illness, hair loss, hangnail, etc. I observed this first hand in Ukraine in 1993. Joel I. Cehn, CHP 1036 Hubert Road Oakland, CA 94610 > snip > > > Russia, also badly affected by the disaster, marked the day with a > ceremony at a cemetery outside Moscow where thousands of Chernobyl > victims and "liquidators" are buried. > end of snip > |