They care more for warfare than saving the future. Children are a long-term project for any society serious about its progeny. War and armaments are an ever-present short-term scramble for military power to do unto others before they do unto you. It's a pity though. That can happen to the US even more so today than before.
Nadia Zulfiqar You mean like the US. It’s disgusting, I agree. Russia is a kleptocracy. Their leaders steal everything. The US is an oligarchy, which means the criminals run the government
I realize this was filmed not long after the accident, as well as the collapse of the USSR a year later so rapid delivery of medical assistance was extremely strained...or just flat out not possible due to the long standing "iron curtain," but has any of this improved since this time? Granted the media just moves onto the "next big thing" and leaves such things behind so most of us don't know. I just hope now that 32 years on that things have improved in getting these people the medical help they so desperately need; the lack of resources that were shown here are just heart breaking as well as the cover-ups the Soviet Government decided to implement. I feel a donation would be greatly appreciated for the people enduring and working through such a horrible disaster which now after seeing this, I'm looking to see what I can do.
Has this improved? Look at some Belarusian accounts. The hospitals have improved, but the poverty is real. There are ex-USSR countries where the rubbish truck is still a horse and cart. The education is good, but the country is still poor. And for the children who survive, now in their 30s, growing up with disabilities, less jobs, more needs and therefore no money. It’s a poor country which has had a major long term disaster.
Well countries continue to built or use uranium rectors there will always be a risk of a repeat of this. The US has 99 nuclear plants and two more being built now .Fifty-seven accidents have occurred since the Chernobyl disaster, and almost two-thirds (56 out of 99) of all nuclear-related accidents have occurred in the US.
A lot of the reason so little was done is because the nation responsible (USSR) is dissolving. It seems a reason for the death of this supposed superpower was the unpreparedness of the USSR for such a contingency, and the economic devastation that unfolded. What floors me is these people appear totally ignorant of the fact that their country and way of life will not exist less that 1 year following the date this documentary was made. May God bless the souls of these people; they did nothing to deserve this and we're left by the perpetrators to die in chaos and confusion when sudden "independence" was thrust upon them, with a minimum of support to cope with tragedy not of their making.
