Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives
Interviews on Chernobyl
44 hours of video interviews conducted by journalists Svetlana Alexievich and Tatiana Loginova in 1996, entitled "Living Voices of Chernobyl". The interviewees include scientists, engineers, doctors, priests, Party officials, politicians, and mothers of children with leukemia, who discuss subjects ranging from the impotence and hypocrisy of the authorities following the disaster, decontamination work and public health issues, to popular ignorance of radiation and daily life after the explosion.