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The trace of the black wind (kinderen vertellen)
| Author | SEU |
| Date | 1996 |
| Classification | 2.34.8.10/52 (CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT - CONSEQUENCES SURROUNDINGS - GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
FROM THE COMPILER What is the message of this book created by children, yet utterly unchildish, pithy and truth-revealing? It will be telling you about a land which is little-known, although it is situated in the very heart of Europe and is the home of ever-interested, inquisitive young people born there. The book will give you an idea about Belarusians - people who love their mother country, a land of plenty. They have created a genuine culture and a language of their own there, and moulded their own particular character - composed, patient, and probably too mild-tempered at times. Indeed, in the midst of various earthly trends, this trait of theirs may be thought to be holding them back from shaping into a nation. But that is no more than a mere implication. Overall, this book voices a recurrent motif of pain, expressed by many voices and reflected in plenty of facts. It is the pain and suffering that has befallen this land and its people, and is known to the world as the global Chernobyl catastrophe. The book is made up of essays written by schoolchildren who won prizes in a competition concerned with Chernobyl. This collection of essays gives an all- embracing, forcible and, most importantly, true coverage of this tragedy of the entire people. The book was brought out in Belarus, and has now been republished in Japan and Brazil, in Japanese and Portuguese accordingly. At present it is being translated into German. Apart from the socio-ecological union Chernobyl, this English edition has also been sponsored by the Help Chernobyl movement active on the island of Kyushu, Japan. After the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, the word Chernobyl stands for the station, the explosion and the whole disaster. The people considered at length its exact meaning and found that originally Chernobyl meant -'wormwood' in Ukrainian. Then experts explained that the Revelation to St. John in the Bible contain prophetic words which allegedly cover the situation: "The third angel sounded his trumpet and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch. It fell upon a third of the rivers and springs, and the name of the star was Wormwood. One third of the waters became wormwood and many men died of the water, because it had become bitter." Vail YAKAVENKA, writer and president of the Belarusian socio-ecological union Chernobyl
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