Lie ‘86
Secret Chernobyl Documents
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
In her search for the truth about Chernobyl, Alla Yaroshinskaya came across secret documents revealing a massive cover-up by the Soviet leadership and a targeted policy of disinformation. Against their better knowledge, state and party leaders played down the extent of contamination, sent people back into irradiated areas, brought contaminated food stuffs into the distribution system and provided the world with a sanitised version of events.
(Osteuropa 4/2006, pp. 39–56)