@pkattera
( https://steemit.com/photography/@pkattera/more-photos-from-chernobyl-following-my-1st-place-entry-in-the-steemitphotochallenge) thank's for your description of this place, it is important to spread such information because the scale of the disaster is enormous and people in Ukraine still suffer from it and I have some more terrible facts which appear even today after the catastrophe..

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Yeah, it's a terrible place.. I live in Ukraine and Kiev is not so far from Chernobyl.

My mother told me about this day when she was 16. The government didn't want to tell people the truth about the real disaster. We don't even know NOW(30 years left) what was there in real in 1986.

Mom is telling that people started to be taken out on 2d May (disaster happened on 26 April) and on a 1st May there was a celebration and people were forced to go out for a demonstration. How cruel and uncomprehendingly... Our people were not well educated that was the problem. Instead of leaving in couple days the city, people had to celebrate the 1st May.

Firstly, evacuation started from the Prypat' and it was said that it is temporarily. However, it was not. They had to leave everything except documents. Even their animals... People, without communications could lost each other and found each other after very difficult time.

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The sad thing is that people suffer from radiation even nowadays. People from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus are fouding deadly diseases or hard diseases. Very sad to say this :

  «В первую очередь увеличилось количество случаев рака щитовидной железы не только у детей, но и у взрослых, особенно тех, кто работал в тридцатикилометровой зоне. За 25 лет количество заболевших детей превысило четыре тысячи», – говоритдиректор Научного центра радиационной медицины АМН Украины Владимир Бебешко. Именно в  Черниговской, Киевской, Житомирской, Ровненской и Черкасской областях зарегистрировано 60% случаев данной патологии. 

The first increase in the number of cases of thyroid cancer in children not only cancer, but also in adults, especially those who worked in the thirty-kilometer zone. For 25 years, the number of affected children has exceeded four thousand ", - said the director of the Scientific Center for Radiation Medicine Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine Volodymyr Bebeshko. It was in Chernihiv, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Rivne and Cherkasy regions registered 60% of the cases of this disease. Also increased the number of cases of leukemia.

Today this city is still insecure and you have to be very careful, because our health is everything..

Yours respectfully,

Yulia