picard, 
Today in 1986, the residents of Kyiv gathered for the annual May parade.
A few days earlier, the reactor at Chornobyl had exploded. Large levels of radiation were pouring into Kyiv.
But the kremlin ordered the Ukrainian party to proceed with the parade.
Children and pregnant women were at the parade - the radiation levels were high enough to cause stillbirth.
Here's a picture from that day - smiling people, happy. Unaware.
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