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To: ild who wrote (59965)	4/30/2006 11:59:55 PM
From: ild	Read Replies (8) \| Respond to of 110194

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To: ild who wrote (59965)	5/1/2006 4:30:37 AM
From: shades	Respond to of 110194

Believe me, most people in both Russia and Ukraine watch with deep regret what government officials have done to separate them. Well perhaps in time more will demand change like the orange revolution. Cancer has been killing scores of people over there since that day twenty years ago. Lots of kids have been born sick. Yes several of the olga's that I knew started losing thier hair but said they were happy to make it to thier 20's - they said many died much younger. I only saw one die from cancer - sad end. One of the olga's got access to dima's credit card and left him with a 4K bill before she went home - HAHA! Now to your website - perfect example of real VALUE of GOLD in a real life modern crisis. Were people snatching for thier gold? Weblink you provide shows they were passing the banks and gold jewelry shops in a mad dash to get a Chezet. kiddofspeed.com This is a sales sticker for a Chezet, 26hp, 343cc, motorcycle. Price = 1050 rubles. Chezet! It was the ultimate dream machine for all young bikers in the Soviet Union. I remember being a school girl in a crowd of bad boys hanging outside and drooling on the showcase window of the cycle shop......dreaming of what we could do with 26 hp bike, because Grandpa's crippled dinosaur had only 15 ponnies but how the HELL could we ever afford it in this lifetime????? The average monthly wage was only 180 rubbles then. When the town siren went off on Sunday morning, mass panic ensued. With the police evacuting along with everyone else, banks and even jewelry stores went relatively unnoticed, but this shop was emptied out in a matter of an hour. The police began shooting looters in May, when radioactive TV sets began to appear in the pawn shops of Kiev. And if this comes to pass - reminds me of mad max 3 where you had to have geiger counter to drink your water: Only a very small amount of the radiation inside of there had so far actually escaped. More then 90% is still under sarcophagus. I heard with all the concrete they put down, the construction became heavy.. some day it may fall down, get in subterranean waters and leave Europe with no water.

To: ild who wrote (59965)	5/1/2006 9:27:26 AM
From: dutchie_SI	Respond to of 110194

Was in Russia and Ukrain region several times for starting up Agri-business for US multi-national. I think the truth as always lies in the middle. It is too easy to state that the Tsjernobyl disaster was poorly managed. What could they have done. There is just no way to handle such a run away reaction afterwards. Many people were sacrified to stop the disaster. The sheeple were sent in unprotected to clear the area, drop concrete etc. As I see it is not much different from foot soldiers sent into the enemy fire, while the generals were shifting markers on the map. When I think how Russian factories looked and how they were run 15 years ago I am amazed they got it under control that fast. Unfortunately the containment building does not look so stable, hope they will improve that before it becomes a disaster again. A lot of people died and still more will die from the fall-out. But you have to be very careful when reading about radio-activity in the regions down wind. Under the support laws it became very profitable for regions to be marked as 'radio-active'. We took samples about 5 years after the disaster in several regions to determine if we wanted to have plants there to produce food products for Russia and export. In many regions that (still) claim to have suffered from radio-activety no activity could be determined. At least to my knowledge ..... if my company at the time did not lie....

To: ild who wrote (59965)	5/1/2006 2:42:01 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

i saw a program the other day about how in Belarus they are trying to reclaim contaminated farmland. they dust the fields with potassium prior to planting crops. this is supposed to keep the plants from absorbiing cesium. they are paying farmers two or three times normal wages to go move to these places with their kids. then they showed some testing center, and all the kids drinking cow's milk from these areas have high counts of carcinogens. a researcher said the govt's idea is a bad one and the areas should be left alone for many more decades.