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18.06.2022 / 19:43
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Shocking new documentary claims 80% of Russian soldiers sent to Chernobyl died
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion has claimed that around 80% of Russian soldiers sent to clean it up died from being there.Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes, which is available to watch on Sky Documentaries right now, highlights newly-discovered archive footage and witness accounts of the aftermath of the tragedy.And it shows that the former Soviet leaders sent around 5,000 men on a suicide mission to clean up the site – which the soldiers were unaware of at the time.Director James Jones said: “The Soviet government played fast and loose with the truth.“They thought they would be able to film the clean-up and look like a country full of heroic people. “There were government-made documentaries, released in Soviet theatres, one year after the explosion, but it was dangerous for the film-makers to have gone so close to the radiation.“One of the directors died, as a result of radiation poisoning, one month after his film premiered.”According to official Soviet Union records, 31 people died from the explosion in Prypyat, but the true figure is though to be anywhere upwards of around 5,000 to around 10,000, if deaths as a result of the clean-up and after effects are included.
