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With the worry of citizens all shipment of fruit from Europe was stopped. Even in upstate New York radiation was found and many went out to buy iodine tablets. With all the radiation killing and injuring people Soviet Union successfully covered up the truth from all the citizens and reporters fro a long time. “People were clueless” my own mom said “We carried on life as usual, looking back now I realize now, that the government didn’t give a dam about the people, otherwise they would have stopped pretending to be such a perfect country and fess up” she added. Indeed the Soviet government held back the truth and left it’s people wander the streets of death. Only after violent protests from Sweden and some Western countries did Soviet Union admitted that the disaster

occurred. However they told such limited information that awful rumors began to spread. Some said that more than 2,000 people died and were bulldozed into large graves. 10 Most Soviet citizens were disappointed in the president, because Gorbachev promised that once he became president all secrecy was to end. However when Gorbachev was asked to tell more, the Kremlin shut it’s doors and acted same as they did many years ago. It wasn’t bad enough that the Kremlin covered up the deaths the put the people in imminent danger only for saving their face. 11 But to others, outside from soviet Union the cover-up was of no surprise. Disasters ranging from plane crashes to fires were never admitted to anyone. In 1957 when a nuclear-waste pant exploded and spewed contaminants over

hundreds of square miles in the southern Ural Mountains. More then hundreds of people died, and for years afterward the area was a radioactive wasteland. Only in the 1970s did a Russian scientist in exile, Zhores Medvedev, published the story. Even then, the Kremlin did not acknowledge that, the explosion ever happened. Many Russians accept the Soviet government’s actions, to cover up any bad things.