[hutzlibu]

" seeing the coverage of unbelievable heroics that people would demonstrate. I mean literally firefighters pouring water into the molten reactor core by standing at the edge of it, and then dying the same day from radiation poisoning"

I heard those hero's had mostly no clue, that they were on a heroic suicide mission, nor did they had any choice in the matter. Knowing a bit about UDSSR I can very well imagine this to be true, but does anyone knows more?

edit: this article confirms it, but I am not sure if the site is reliable (it quotes the "socialist worker")

http://www.upworthy.com/you-probably-dont-know-their-names-b...