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The Meaning of Chernobyl / Yuliya Tymoshenko (was Prime Minister of Ukraine and is now leader of the opposition), Project Syndicate, 20/04/2011http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/tymoshenko21/EnglishIt began as a grey and muddy spring day, like so many others in  my homeland. It ended in dread and mourning. Of course, none of us knew  the precise moment when catastrophe struck  at Chernobyl 25 years ago. Back then, we lived under a system that  denied ordinary people any right whatsoever to know about even essential  facts and events. So we were kept in the dark about the radiation  leaking from the shattered reactor at Chernobyl – and blowing in the  winds over northern Europe...