Voices of Chernobyl, by Svetlana Aleksievich

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The undersigned was 10 years old on April 26, 1986. The unfortunate date on which the world was approaching the most certain nuclear disaster. And the funny thing is that it had not been a bomb that threatened to consume the world in a Cold War that continued to threaten after World War II.

Since that day Chernobyl has been incorporated into the dictionary of the sinister and even today, getting close to it through reports or videos that circulate on the internet about the great exclusion zone is horrifying. It is about 30 kilometers of dead zone. Although the determination of "dead" could not be more paradoxical. Life without palliative has been occupying the spaces previously occupied by humans. In the more than 30 years since the disaster, vegetation has won out over concrete and local wildlife is known in the safest space ever known. Of course, exposure to still latent radiation cannot be safe for life, but animal unconsciousness is an advantage here against the increased possibility of death.

The worst of those days following the disaster was undoubtedly the occult. Soviet Ukraine never offered a complete picture of the disaster. And among the population that lived in the environment spread a feeling of abandonment that is well concerned with reflecting the current HBO series on the event.

Given the great pull of the series, it never hurts to recover a good book that complements this review of such a worldwide sinister. And this book is one of those cases in which reality is light years from fiction. Because the stories of the interviewees, made testimonies of a few days that seem suspended in the limbo of surrealism that sometimes covers our existence, make up that magical whole. What happened in Chernobyl is what these voices tell. The incident was due to whatever reason, but the truth is the collection of the consequences narrated by the characters in this book, and by so many others who can no longer have a voice.

The naivety with which the events were faced by some inhabitants who were confident in official versions is disturbing. The discovery of the truth fascinates and terrifies the consequences that this underworld of concentrated nuclei had that exploded to change the face of that territory for decades to come. A book in which we discover the tragic destinies of some inhabitants deceived and exposed to disease and death.

You can now buy the book Voices of Chernobyl, an interesting book by Svetlana Aleksievich, here:

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2 comments on "Voices from Chernobyl, by Svetlana Aleksievich"

  1. Thanks for the recommendation, I will look for the book. At the moment I am watching the series and I am amazed by the ineptitude in which man can go to hide such a delicate event.

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