The Meaning of Chernobyl
The Meaning of Chernobyl / Yuliya Tymoshenko (was Prime Minister of Ukraine and is now leader of the opposition), Project Syndicate, 20/04/2011
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/tymoshenko21/English
It began as a grey and muddy spring day, like so many others in my homeland. It ended in dread and mourning. Of course, none of us knew the precise moment when catastrophe struck at Chernobyl 25 years ago. Back then, we lived under a system that denied ordinary people any right whatsoever to know about even essential facts and events. So we were kept in the dark about the radiation leaking from the shattered reactor at Chernobyl – and blowing in the winds over northern Europe…