According to UN experts, 4,000 people died as a result of the disaster, which makes up only 0.66% of the population living in the area affected by radiation. Their report speaks of 47 firemen lost as a direct result of radiation, along with 9 children who succumbed to thyroid cancer.

This data contradicts calculations made by Ukrainian ecologists. They estimate that up to 200,000 people perished after the accident, with some 3 million subjected to radiation.

In the 1980’s, ecologists proved that during the disaster, winds were blowing towards the West. The frightened western public believed Soviet experts who painted an awful picture of the ecological destruction of Europe. Funds were started in the West to raise money, with which the USSR should prevent radiation from affecting other countries. 19 years have passed since the disaster, but the danger emanating from Chernobyl has not diminished. Today, money still flows, helped by the country’s ambassadors, who have mastered the skills of “graduate beggars”…

The level of a person’s radiation exposure or illness is not officially defined through carrying out medical checks, but by the person’s location in terms of distance form the reactor. Those people defined as living in the radiation zone receive benefits. No companies operate, and no factories are built. People expect to receive money, while working on their allotments and tending their cattle. Here, the death rate is not higher than in other regions. There are even grandmothers who are the other side of 90…

While demanding money from western governments to construct a sarcophagus for the damaged reactor as well as alternative nuclear power stations, Ukraine gradually reduces its own budgetary outgoings on the clean-up operation. The country tries to outwit Europe and the USA by inducing pity. “We have saved the planet from serious consequences”: as said in the Ukrainian parliament. The deputies neglect however to mention the reason for the “serious consequences” being the senile dementia and criminal negligence of the Soviet system and the Party leadership. And the donor states who for some reason are paying for this.

Ukraine appears similar to an invalid, for whom international funds have taken on the role of crutches. Propping itself up on them, the country will mourn for all eternity the “millions of Chernobyl victims”. However, the state will not move a finger to provide those affected by the disaster with work, pay, and the opportunity to solve their social and economic problems.