He grew up in most nuclear weapons places on earth, She saw Mira Abenova without strength, while cancer spread in her family.
After years of living near the Semipalatinsk test site, Sun told how the devastating effect of radiation “did not avoid anything family“.
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The 7,000 -square -mile nuclear test site is known as Hell bombs from 1949 to 1989.
After a quarter of all nuclear explosions in history, the Semipalatinsk test site was an atomic stadium for Soviet scientists who was secretly for decades.
The reputable “atomic lake” was detonated 60 years ago by a ten -time bomb than those that were dropped on Hiroshima.
According to what was reported, one of the most destructive bombings on the site caused four times the number of severe radiological poisoning cases such as the Chernobyl disaster.
After 40 years of nuclear explosions that caused chaos of nearby societies, the consequences are still perceived today.
Kazakh authorities assembled “radiological passports” to help and identify the victims of repercussions – but this failed to cover the entire tragic repercussions.
“After more than 30 years have passed, we can now say that for 40 years, an atomic war has been launched on our beautiful land,” local resident Mira Abenova told Sun newspaper.
Now my mother and Jeddah, Mira grew up in the neighboring town of Simipatinsk
She is also the founder of a group of advocacy for the victims of the tests called the Polygon 21 committee.
Maira detailed the tragic consequences of the Semipalatinsk test site that made her life.
“In 1971, before she was sixty years old, my mother died due to esophageal cancer,” she said.
“At that time, we could not know the cause of this disease.”
After her mother lost, her sister died in 2013, about 25 years after the last registered nuclear test.
“In 2013, literally a month after surgery, my older sister died of breast cancer,” Mira explained.
Her husband the next One loves to die as a result of radioactive repercussions.
She said: “My husband was diagnosed with stomach cancer – he lived in torment for a year and a half before his death.”
Mira continued: “Just a few months after my husband's funeral, my brother was diagnosed with lung cancer.
“He only survived.”
The destructive consequences of the Semipalatinsk test site and then caught with the maira itself.
“Last fall, I was diagnosed with the same disease,” she said.
“I performed an operation, but I don't know how long I left.
“Our medical system provides little hope – not because we lack good doctors, but because the health care system, especially in our region, is in a very impressive condition.”
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“The worst thing is when doctors diagnose cancer. It is like a death penalty,” she added.
“A sentence of painful death. Without a suitable help and treatment.”
Mira also indicated that her local cancer clinic was “always crowded.”
The Kazakhstan authorities estimate that 1.5 million people have been subjected to the remaining testing of the test site.
Residents close to high cancer, heart disease and infertility, all of which were associated with tests.
More children were born with missing defects, parties, Down syndrome and other disabilities – while the number of suicide rates among young people increased as well.
Even a local official in the city hall submitted the shocking prosecution that “people in villages are accustomed to committing suicide,” according to the United Nations report.
Jeddah Mayira confirmed this epidemic, saying that after the site closed, higher suicide rates were known as “Kenarski syndrome”.
Despite the first bomb ever on August 29, 1949, four years after the end of World War II, radiation levels are still high, and children are still born with genetic mutations.
“This evil spared no family,” said Mira.
Thinking about these painful health effects, described the side that still bothering them.
She said: “As for the images that show the effects of tests, I may say that the most frightening consequences are not physical distortions or anomalous developmental conditions.”
But the constant fear – fear of death from a disease may not be visible from the outside.
“Fear of a young woman gives birth to a child with disabilities, and so on.”
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The activist also detailed a closed town called KurChatov, which was built as the headquarters of the test site and was only available with an official pass.
Semipalatinsk 21 was named, the base was full of nuclear scientists and military officers, located on the scenic bank of the IRTYSH River.
The Secret City had the highest 50,000 people, or so, they were all provided with high -quality products that were sent directly from the capital.
Meanwhile, locals outside the city lived in a relative hit with “empty stores”, Mira explained.
“It has been built in a short time,” she said about the city, which was called “Los Alamos”.
“Since the city was built by the army, it is similar to a military town – strict lines and no sponsors.”
The activist added that scientists have the timing of every explosion to match the wind direction – while ensuring that the deadly repercussions always explode their headquarters.
The typical Soviet education means that even the local population were not aware of the near -year tests.
“We did not know that until the late 1980s, when information began about the terrible tests that were conducted near us leaking to the audience.”
The role of Semipalatinsk in the Cold War
Written by Harvey J.
The Semipalatinsk test, also known as Polygon, played a major role in the Soviet Union's batch to win the nuclear armament race during the Cold War.
On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union detonated the first atomic bomb ever in Simepatinsk, just four years after the United States bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This explosion – permitted RDS -1 or “Lightning First Lightning” – ended America's nuclear monopoly and officially launched the ARMS Cold War race.
It was a component of the Plutonium bomb, a “fat man” of manufacture, which America dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in August 1945.
After the outstanding explosion, Semipalatinsk became the main site to test every nuclear development by the Soviet Union, including hydrogen bombs and experimental warheads.
This allowed the Soviet Union to acquire data on the revenues of the explosion and the repercussions of radiation.
From its inception in 1949 to its closure in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall, 116 bombs were detonated in the air, while 240 exploded underground.
A law created in 1992 means that the victims can apply for a “radiological passport”, which confirmed that they were subjected to repercussions and rehabilitated them with certainty. benefits.
Every person whose request has been granted a small beige book with a large blue mushroom cloud on the front cover.
Those who hold their own document can get things like monthly compensation and longer Holidays.
This system was said to have worked in its initial stages.
But these days, the scheme is ineffective, according to Mira.
It is now part of a renewed batch to improve compensation and achieve true justice for the lives of many who are affected.
“The law issued in 1992 has actually ended today, and its current provisions are discriminatory,” said Mira.
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The passport is given holders of 30 pounds monthly in the advantages – barely enough to cover the current medical cost money.
According to what was reported, many local population found it difficult to obtain official recognition of their children to obtain the document.
“Emphasizing the importance of seeking to obtain better support,” the most difficult thing for us is that we feel that we are doomed and unprotected. “
Maira also presided over the Human Rights Organization, which has also played an important role in forming initiatives aimed at protecting the rights of nuclear test victims.
It says on social media that over the past three years, the organization is working to “form new ways to address victims, achieve a major change, and expand dialogue with the state and the international community.”
Mira won awards for her work to support the test victims and participated in the United Nations meetings calling for a nuclear weapons ban.
The Polygon 21 committee left earlier this month, but it continues to work with the victims of nuclear repercussions through its pioneering role in DOM.
It is believed that more than a million people were residing in and around Semipalatinsk – but today, there are still a few thousand people.
The international day against nuclear tests occurs every year on August 29, the day when the first bomb exploded at the Semipalatinsk test site.
Despite the neighboring local population who live in the nuclear repercussions of the site, it is still unclear how dangerous to live in the region today.
Zubaon has dug the site in the hope of selling scrap metal, while the locals are known to use the “atomic lake” as a fishing place.
Mira said that she was familiar with the local population to go there because they “believed he was safe.”
But since the scene was marred by nearly half a century of nuclear shelling, she said that the area partially lost its beauty.
“It reminds us of the moon's surface,” she said.
“The hills of the steps and granite that collapsed over time … spread through atomic explosions.”
