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Nicolai Levashov. The Mirror of My Soul. Vol. 1. Born in the USSR

worse, but it could be better. No sooner said than done—at the beginning of January,

1990 I did the necessary influencing and.., began the wait for the result.

Suddenly, at the beginning of February the central Soviet television declared a day-
long Chernobyl “telethon”; The Supreme Soviet of the USSR assigned enormous funds
for the Chernobyl area—this kind of action had never been undertaken since the
catastrophe in 1986. Impressive donations were collected both from private individuals
and enterprises: however, as it became known later, neither these donations, nor any
budget funds ever reached Chernobyl. When they declared the telethon, I thought that
probably I had not taken something into account and the experiment had failed. But I
soon became aware of some very interesting information.

* * *
First, Vladimir Dmitrievich Sergeev, who had very close connections with the
secret service, informed me that the research carried out by the KGB laboratories on
infected territories showed the absence of any radiation background higher than normal.
It was quite an interesting situation. The top management of the KGB knew, through
Vladimir Dmitrievich Sergeev, that I had tried to decompose the radio-active
contamination in the area of Chernobyl; their laboratories checked up on the efficiency
of my work, and when they had confirmation of the positive result, they smartly
“organized” an allotment of considerable sums of budget money for cleaning the area,
and the tele-thon, knowing perfectly well that everything was already clear as a result of
my work.

Obviously, they decided to “line their own pockets” with considerable sums of
money using the results of my work. Most likely they decided to hold back the
information about my clearing of the Chernobyl area, to simulate cleansing activity,
using as a cover the secrecy of nuclear decontamination methods, and to announce the

work to be successfully completed (until now there is no nuclear decontamination
method, except for the land burial of the contaminated soil).

The desired result of their operation was that which they longed for, filling their
pockets with money, which they had not earned. They fully succeeded in this, but they
failed to keep it a secret. As a result they failed to become heroes, who allegedly rescued
humanity from the radio-active contamination. Before they had time to organise a
performance with their “cleansing”, the information about the absence of radio-active
contamination leaked out and the inhabitants of contaminated areas began to go back to
their houses. Authorities tried to stop them, but failed.

In February, 1990 a journalist of the TV program “The Time” yelled from the
screen: “...if the Geiger counter does not show the presence of gamma, beta and
alpha radiation, it does not mean that there is no nuclear contamination...” What a
“highly scientific” speech! But the journalist forgot to say that physics did not know
any other methods of registering nuclear contamination, except for measuring levels of
gamma, beta and alpha radiations!

So, they failed to steal money “elegantly” at someone else’s expense (in this case

mine). They managed to steal money, but failed to acquire the image of heroes and
earned the image of common thieves. This was the other outcome of my work on clearing
the Chernobyl area of radio- active contamination. It also appeared to be successful, and
I was both glad and distressed at the same time with the results of my work.

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