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The Chernobyl incident took place when the USSR was in power, but during its declining period. It was in a very hard economic situation, a financial crisis. The government was not able to bear the burden of compensating for the damage to the people, the communities, etc. caused by the accident at Chernobyl. Henceforth, they tried to minimize the damage by suppressing the truth of, particularly the health effects due to, the accident. As a result, the data on the damage and health effects during the earlier stages were classified or falsified, or some were apparently even destroyed.
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Ochiai, E. (2014). Data on Chernobyl. In: Hiroshima to Fukushima. Science Policy Reports. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38727-2_14
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