ABSTRACT
Five years after the nuclear disaster, the USSR Supreme Soviet grudgingly passed a decision to form a special parliamentary commission to investigate high officials and their Chernobyl-related activities. The Soviet party leadership pushed up ten to fifty times the permissible radiation doses precisely in order to conceal the actual scale of radiation sickness. And their "ideological" trick largely came off. The people from Kiev, Zhitomir, and Chernigov regions were found to suffer from various somatic diseases and had been placed under dynamic observation. They were receiving hospital and outpatient treatment. Judging by his publications "Why Soviet Radiation Is the Most Harmless", Professor A. I. Vorobyev could hardly have been let into the Chernobyl secrets of the Kremlin. His confession was indirect proof of the fact that about fifteen thousand people got acute radiation sickness in the first weeks after the accident. The secret papers confirm the old truth: on every occasion, to preserve itself, the totalitarian system had to do evil and cover its tracks.
