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The tiny, little-known country of Belarus

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suffered more than any other
in the aftermath of the 1986

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Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

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Even after decades, one-fourth of the country\'s
fertile soil is judged contaminated.

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Thousands of villages and
towns were abandoned

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or evacuated, and their populations
resettled to safer areas.

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When they learned that
the local governments

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where encouraging people to relocate to
this irradiated villages, I decided to go

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there with a camera. On
my way, I met a family

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whose child travels to this city
for a chemo therapy treatment.

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Chernobyl\'s most numerous
victims are the young

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whose tired glands are particularly
vulnerable to the effects of radiation.

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[music]

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While driving on the road

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leading to the village of this
yet, I\'m crossing the border

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between habitable and uninhabitable, an
artificial line on the Belarusian map

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which humanity rarely crosses.

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Located 70 miles downwind from Chernobyl,
this village was completely evacuated

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in the years following
the nuclear accidents.

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Three hundred people used
to live in this area.

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Today, there are none.

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At one time, there was a
checkpoint on the road

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in order to prevent people
from crossing into this area.

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But it is gone now because the guards were
afraid to stay, I was told by the driver.

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[music]

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The zone surround Chernobyl,

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many of the houses were burnt down, while those
which still stood were abandoned or looted.

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Radiation has no look, no taste or smell.

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The land between life and
death is indiscernible here.

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Without humanity, nature still
seems to quietly continue.

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[music]

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Visiting these house, many of which
were built hundreds of years ago,

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I feel like an archeologist
uncovering the secrets of the past.

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But here history ended
abruptly and without warning.

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[music]

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Who are the people who lived here?
Where are they now?

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Or they moved to (inaudible) called
apartments on the edge of the city?

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Did they resist the moving? Are they alive?

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Are they safe? Where is the looted
material from these houses?

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Was it used to build radioactive
structures elsewhere?

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I never learned the answers.

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Seven miles down the river, I
found a village of Raduga,

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or rainbow in English, located in the area
heavily showered with the radioactivity

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in the hours following the
1986 Chernobyl accident.

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Raduga is part of the zone that was not for civil, they
populated in the months and years following the tragedy.

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The 700 inhabitants of this village
were told they could leave

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only if they wanted to. Some
did, and their homes and jobs

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were filled with war refugees
seeking work and shelter.

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Lena Tsiplaev is one of those
refugees, an ethnic Russian,

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she moved here along with her husband
and daughters from Chechnya.

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I have to wake up (inaudible).

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(inaudible), wash the
dishes when you get up.

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Don\'t oversleep.

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We knew that there was radiation here,
but it made no difference to us.

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We would\'ve gone anywhere
to escape the war.

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We couldn\'t sleep at night there
because of the endless shooting.

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(inaudible), (inaudible)you\'ll
be late for work.

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Everyone\'s up, and you\'re still sleeping.

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We knew that they needed workers
here, and we\'re often free housing.

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We came here because of the children,

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to save their lives so that they
could live, eat, and sleep in peace.

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[sil.]

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Many love this village and
moved allover Belarus.

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They\'ve all come back now.

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[sil.]

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The collective farms are
being reestablished.

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[sil.]

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Last year, we were examined for radiation.

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They checked our bodies with this device.

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[sil.]

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When people from the zone are examined,

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they still find a lot of
radioactivity in our bodies.

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I was in the hospital in January, there
was a man whose radioactivity levels

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were 70 times above normal.

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He was put in the
sanitariums for treatment.

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[sil.]

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When we came here, we were
assigned to this collective farm.

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We stopped here because we liked the
natural surroundings and the nearby river.

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[sil.]

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We came here in 1993, I was
told by the medical committee

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that I had to be registered to work here
because this is a radioactive zone.

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But how much radiation, no one knows.

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[sil.]

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The radiation changed absolutely nothing.
We didn\'t dwell on it.

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[sil.]

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where we came from, we were surrounded by chemical
plants. Grozny is situated amidst the hills

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and the factories surround the outskirts.

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If you drive to the top of the
highest hill to look down at Grozny,

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you can see everything as
if it was in your palm.

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The five chemical plants there, it
made clouds of different colors.

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Green, red, blue,

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black, and yellow, and
they\'re all above Grozny.

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[sil.]

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But we lived there anyway.

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[sil.]

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where does takes place the war now?

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The war takes place

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in Chechnya. (inaudible), why have you come

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uh…to Raduga? Why did you
leave your native places?

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We have come here…

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We have come here

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because of war. Of the war.
Because of what war?

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[sil.]

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Of war in Chechnya

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in Grozny, my town. Did your family know

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about Chernobyl disaster

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and about our dirty territory
when you uh…came here?

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It is better to live radiation atmosphere

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but among

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very kind, good people

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than to be killed in Grozny.

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[music]

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It wasn\'t easy to adjust. The food is
different, the climate is different.

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[sil.]

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We didn\'t want to leave, to abandon our house,
but the war was starting and momma convinced us.

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In the morning, she went
to get the tickets.

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We didn\'t pack a lot. We just gathered
whatever things were in the house.

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[non-English narration]

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There were tears when we parted with our
friends. Such things one doesn\'t forget.

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[music]

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There were lot of people on the train, also
from Grozny. There was a woman with two kids

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also crying when they left.
We got here in three days.

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We had to transfer twice,

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we had a long way and lot of stuff
(inaudible) district, (inaudible),

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then finally got to the
city of (inaudible).

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Our journey was ordinary, but people
questioned us. Of course, they asked

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from where to where, why are
you abandoning the city,

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so we explained, there is
only one reason, the war.

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How can you live in such circumstances when you can\'t
go outside. As we traveled, we looked at the territory

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surrounding Grozny. It
was frightening to see.

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Tanks were already advancing.
This you don\'t forget.

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[sil.]

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We like it here because
of the natural setting,

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and because there\'s some
place to go out for a walk.

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How does it compare it to Chechnya?
There\'s a big difference.

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In Chechnya, we couldn\'t go outside. Chechnya
was under martial law. And after 6 o\'clock,

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we couldn\'t go outside because they
had the right to shoot a person.

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But here, we can stroll at
night with absolutely no fear.

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Danger, radiation, before
this zone was considered

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to be contaminated, cows were not
allowed to graze here. But now,

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I don\'t know why it\'s still here.
When we first moved here,

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we were not permitted to come here or to swim.
But now, everyone else goes, so we also go.

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Read what it says.

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[non-English narration]

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Toxic waste, harvesting
of agricultural crops

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and grazing of animals prohibited.
Dangerous radiation.

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[sil.]

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Do you think this grass is healthy? I don\'t
know, but if the crows are grazed here,

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and they\'re eating without problems.

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Maybe it\'s not okay, but
what are people to do.

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People don\'t think that this is a radiation zone contaminated with
leftover seas and fallout, and that the cows may be unhealthy.

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But everyone drinks the milk and it\'s okay.

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There are no illnesses. People
here do what they want.

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[sil.]

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What did you hear about the radiation?
Nothing good.

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Is there radiation here? There is.
You can\'t drink that milk.

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Why do you come here with your cows?

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There is nowhere else to graze them.

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But you should know that there is radiation
here. But there is no where else to graze.

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There\'s no other place. No,
from there to here. That\'s it.

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There\'s nothing else.
Couldn\'t drink this milk.

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Everyone drinks it. Also your pike,

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where\'s our pike?

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Where did you catch it? Over there.

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That\'s where we\'re going to swim.

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Aren\'t you afraid that they might
be contaminated. With what?

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Radiation. We eat them and nothing happens.

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What did they say?

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When they drink the milk, they say that
nothing will happen to us. We\'ll be healthy,

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same with the fish. No one pays attention.

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[sil.]

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It\'s very nice here in the summer,
especially after exams. We would change

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and come here to the river, right after our final
exams. It\'s wonderful. We\'d spend the whole day here

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until our mother\'s would
come and chase us away.

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We don\'t have a river like this in Grozny. If
we had, we would only walk along the shore.

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[sil.]

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Look at this map showing
radiation levels in Belarus.

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[sil.]

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This is the capital of Belarus, Minsk.
This is the river.

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[sil.]

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It eve says (inaudible).

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The radiation level is
from 15 to 40 curies.

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We didn\'t even think that the rivers contaminated. We
were happy that there was a river in which to swim.

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There was no river like this in Grozny.
We think it\'s clean.

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We get pleasure from the river. It\'s fun to swim
and relax with our friends there. I don\'t know.

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[sil.]

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This is our color. It says that the level
of radioactive contamination in the zone

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is 15 to 40 curies per square kilometer.
What do you know about Cesium?

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Cesium, well, it\'s the element heavily
released after the Chernobyl explosion.

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It\'s the most radioactive element.
It\'s thought that cesium causes

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big disturbances in a person\'s body and causes
serious dysfunctioning in a person\'s thyroid.

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[sil.]

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Of course, Chernobyl had a huge effect.

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Many, many people left this zone.

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Many are now coming back to the villages.

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They left after the initial
explosion, but are now returning.

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Why? Either because life is hard,

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or they just don\'t pay very much
attention to the radiation.

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Perhaps life is easier in the
country than in the city.

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So they\'re coming back to the villages.
Although at first, they were very frightened

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and left because of the radiation.

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[sil.]

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When we came here, we realized how good
it is to live where there is no war,

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no shooting, and people sleep in peace.

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Of course, we\'re very happy that we left.

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Very happy.

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[sil.]

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We live calmer now. At least I
don\'t worry about the children.

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They can go for a walk in the evening.
There, you couldn\'t leave the house,

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and we stayed at home in fear.

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[sil.]

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We have many of these old photographs.

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All have survived.

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When you look at these photographs,
do you think of Grozny? Of course,

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we look at them often. During Easter, we gather
the photographs and sat down with the children

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to look at our friends. Everyone
celebrated Easter together here.

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But we have no relatives
here and no where to go.

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We remembered all of our friends,
the dead and the living.

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[non-English narration]

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We remember Grozny often. Not a day has
passed that we haven\'t thought of Grozny.

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That\'s our native country. It\'s where
we were born, and where we lived.

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It\'s possible that we may still return
there if everything resolves itself.

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Apparently, in agreement we
signed yesterday with Chechnyans,

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Yeltsin invited them to Moscow.

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These are our Chechnyan neighbors. They are
mother and daughter. This is my older sister.

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This is a street where we lived.

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What is the difference between
you and the Chechnyans?

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There is no difference. At one time,
we would have lived out our lives

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without noticing any difference. As
neighbors, they are very good people.

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We went to school together, we
eat together, we slept together,

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we celebrated holidays together,
we never felt any difference.

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I just can\'t understand how
all of this could happen.

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[non-English narration]

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This is the class photograph.

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[sil.]

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This is me and my Chechnyan friend.

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She was my neighbor, and my best friend.
We shared a desk in school.

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We were born different,
but how is she different.

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In absolutely, no way.

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Here\'s another Chechnyan, we helped bring up this child.
She brought the child to us when she went to the store.

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[non-English narration]

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This is her daughter. We lived side by side
with them. We raised our children together.

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And now, we don\'t even know what\'s
happening to them over there.

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These are (inaudible) parents.

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This is the father who was killed.
This is the grandmother.

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We know nothing about how
she\'s doing in Grozny.

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Of course, we are very worried. We
hoped so much that she would come.

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[sil.]

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The memory of war is still vivid or many.

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(inaudible) is from Armenia.

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She came here several years ago with her
husband, (inaudible), and their baby girl.

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Their son was born a year later.

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[sil.]

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The (inaudible) and the Tsiplaevs
share a unique bond as neighbors.

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Both families having fled civil wars.

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Anyone home? We\'re home. We\'re home.

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May we visit you?

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[sil.]

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Is this in your house?

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Yes, this picture was taken
in our home in Armenia.

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They\'re shooting at every step. They
fired with tanks and airplanes.

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The young, aged 16, 17

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are brought back dead.
About a 150 people a day.

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They draft you, we don\'t know how to shoot.

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They bring them back dead.

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It\'s better to die from
radiation than from a bomb.

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[sil.]

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No one pays much attention
to the radiation.

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Everyone works, studies, and (inaudible),
and pokes around in their gardens.

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[sil.]

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Everything depends on the earth. To have food, we
must plant, and that\'s the most important thing.

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[sil.]

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The letters we\'ve received from Grozny

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are only from my mother-in-law. They
were brought over by the Russian troops.

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This is a letter where
our father was killed.

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She writes, \"Hello, my dear
granddaughters and children,

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I want to tell you that
the city does not exist.

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The old school was burnt. The
new one has been shattered.

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For a whole month, we have been under fire by both
the Russian troops and by the Chechnyan troops.

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We lived in the cellar under the
house without gas or water.

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Now, I will write about horrible things.
On February 6th,

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the Russian troops were advancing,
tanks were shelling our houses.

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Father went into the house for something
and was seriously wounded in the back.

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He was hit in the lungs and died
on February 6th, after two hours.

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We buried him on the second day at
the school. He was buried there

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because there is no other place. All
the cemeteries have been mined.\"

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I don\'t know how she lives there.
I can\'t imagine it.

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Of course, I want to return
home, but it\'s not possible.

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There\'s nothing alive there.
Everything is destroyed and shattered.

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I don\'t know.

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[music]

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In Chechnya, in Grozny, I worked with computers
in a programming division in a research center.

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[non-English narration]

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I wore a white robe and
everything was very clean.

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But here, of course, a farm is a farm.

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The difference is huge between working
in a white robe and handling animals.

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Before, I had no idea about
how to care for them.

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[non-English narration]

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But I\'ve learned.

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[sil.]

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It\'s nothing terrible.

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It\'s just work. And one
has to live somehow.

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[sil.]

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It\'s interesting working with the cows.

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And the children come to
work to watch and to help.

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[sil.]

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After coming from school and doing homework, I come here
to see momma. I\'ll help clean her, feed the animals.

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[sil.]

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I like the little calves
running around the barn.

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At first, I worked with the pigs (inaudible),
then I moved over to the calves.

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[sil.]

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In Grozny, we have gas,

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running water, bathrooms,
but there are none here.

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We have to get water outside,

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but it\'s all right. We\'ve gotten used to it. Probably,
everyone can get used to anything. Life is life.

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[sil.]

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I think that we live, and we just notice
the radiation. We\'re just used to it.

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Everything seems to be okay.

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It\'s the same everywhere. Do you think
that the city of Gomel doesn\'t have it?

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Gomel has it too. Who drinks
the milk from these cows?

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This milk is taken to the
city and people drink it.

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If it\'s contaminated here,
it\'s contaminated there.

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[sil.]

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Of course, we worry,

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and we certainly fear for our health. But
so far, we can\'t complain about anything.

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We try to take vitamins and
meat produce in the summer.

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The doctors conduct endless
medical examinations here.

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The doctors came to the kindergarten and the
medical boy checks everything thoroughly.

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They take blood tests,
they check for radiation.

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Especially after Chernobyl, the infection
was thought to occur in the thyroid.

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There are kids who have enlarged thyroids

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but almost no one pays
attention to the radiation.

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The younger girl, Natasha was examined by the medical commission.
They said that she should be admitted to the hospital

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for medical treatment. Since she will
be on summer vacation from school

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and must be treated. What does she have?

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It\'s something with the internal
organs, the stomach and the pancreas.

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[non-English narration]

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It\'s hard for us here because we are alone.

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People are different here,
they are strangers.

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But, of course, it\'s better here.
There\'s nothing left alive there.

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[sil.]

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Did you catch anything?

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Not much. Were you at the creek?

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When they first announced the Chernobyl incident on the
television, they said that there was a meltdown at the reactor.

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[sil.]

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They showed pictures of destruction shot
from the helicopter, and that\'s all.

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[sil.]

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But nobody said what really happened.

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[sil.]

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There were two guys at my plant

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who went to do clean up at Chernobyl.
They worked next door to me.

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Both suffered from radiation poisoning.

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The first lost all his hair,
and the second one died.

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He got some kind of cancer.

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[music]

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(inaudible) abandoned the
village of (inaudible).

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Walking towards the cemetery, I discovered
that the level of radiation here

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is roughly 20 times that of
normal background radiation.

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[music]

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Nature seems to thrive here.
I remember hearing a myth

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that the radiation causes the grass to grow
longer, the flowers to bloom more colorfully,

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and the birds to sing more loudly.
Here, the myth

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seems wholesome truth.
Ironically, in the graveyard,

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I found only signs applied in this village.
Freshly cut flowers

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adorn the tombstones of
the recently buried.

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Life and activity are eerily
confined to the cemetery

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where even today, people return to bury
their dead alongside their relatives.

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[music]

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Back in the village of Raduga, I\'m invited
by my Armenian friends for a picnic.

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[music]

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We knew that there was radiation
here, but we were not afraid.

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Death comes slowly here. It\'s invisible.
There, it comes right away.

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[non-English narration]

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They shoot at every step.

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[sil.]

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My sister was killed. She
died at the age of 24.

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A bomb exploded, and she died.

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And the sister\'s husband\'s
sister, she was 29,

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they died together.

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His cousin\'s husband was also killed.

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He was 23. It happened when
they went to negotiate

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a prisoner exchange with the Azerbaijanians,
instead they shot them in the forest.

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They went with the representatives
to the burial and got shot

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by the Azerbaijanians right away.
This is how they negotiate.

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This is how contemptuously they behave.

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They don\'t understand here. Until a person sees it
directly, one cannot understand this kind of grief.

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Do you think that you will leave?

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Possibly. But I won\'t have enough money for
the ticket. And how are we going to live.

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The children are little. And at
times, there isn\'t enough money

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to buy shoes for them. In
Armenia, we lived well.

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We still have a car and everything there. But
here, we don\'t have the money to even buy bread.

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We live anyway.

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It\'s difficult. The locals here
have grandmothers, grandfathers,

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a brother, a sister,
everyone helps one another.

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Likewise, as neighbors, we try to share.

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If you have bread, you share.
If you don\'t, I will share.

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Recently, this year, a law was passed which
says that even though we are Russian, Armenian,

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or whatever that we must become citizens of
Belarus, since we reside in Belarusian territory.

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But to become a citizen, one must
have lived here for seven years.

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So far, we have only lived
in Belarus for three years.

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[non-English narration]

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While we wait, we don\'t receive
the extra radiation money.

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My husband got 300,000 which
will be deducted next month

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because he is not a citizen of Belarus.
They took it back,

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the same with the medicine.
They took it back too.

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There\'s nothing we can do about it.

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[music]

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It is my last evening with the Tsiplaevs.
And it\'s time to say goodbye

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to the friends I\'ve made in Raduga.

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I\'m invited for a
traditional farewell party

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in the Russian style.

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Its Beautiful. A young man was killed.

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He was 24. His name was Elvig.
This song is about him.

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It happened in 1995.

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You left everyone crying…

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You left us too early…

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Oh Brother, oh Lord…

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You left everyone crying…

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You closed your eyes too early…

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Where has our loved one gone?

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Oh Lord don\'t take the best ones…

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Oh Lord don\'t torture the orphans…