Your ancestral village (today called Dibrova) is mentioned in this article, dated five years after Chernobyl Disaster.
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The past five years have shown that it is extremely difficult to regiment the lives of people living on contaminated land, especially in their traditional patterns of farming, foraging and fishing. The government issued instructions in May 1986 requiring everyone engaged in fieldwork adjacent to the exclusion zone to wear special clothing and face masks. Tractors with hermetically sealed cabins were also promised to the most vulnerable farming communities. None of this seems to have been acted on. Poliske peasants say that many village households keep a cow and consume its milk. Practically all of them grow vegetables and fruit on their private plots and forage for mushrooms and berries in the forest. They say they eat this locally produced food because the government fails to provide an alternative. According to one resident, 'life itself forces us to keep a cow'.
The district capital of Poliske displays in its central square a prominent billboard noting that in the five years since the Chernobyl disaster peppered the area with radioactivity, milk production has climbed back steadily to the pre-disaster levels, and meat, potato and grain production now exceed the 1986 level. According to Hrodzinsky, milk should not be produced here at all.
How is it produced? Peasants living in DIBROVA, near Bober and on the outskirts of Poliske town say that some hay is mown on the heavily contaminated land of villages already fenced off and evacuated. This hay is left standing for several months in the fields where it is mown. Then it is moved to an intermediate field to stand for several more months and finally it is recorded as grown on unrestricted land. It is mixed with industrially produced feedstock and given to the dairy herds. The farm workers milk these cows and deliver the milk to dairies, such as the one at Krasiatychi in Poliske district.
Most of this milk is consumed by urban populations to the south. Hrodzinsky says that the contamination levels in milk delivered to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv are sometimes 'just on the limit of the temporary permitted norm'. Some of the milk is distributed in cartons as 'clean milk' to the farming communities where it was produced. Similarly, meat, grains and other crops produced in the district are distributed all over the Soviet Union after they have been mixed in with other batches of the same foodstuff to dilute the overall radioactive content.
The drama surrounding the imminent resettlement of the 10 000 inhabitants of Poliske town illustrates another set of problems in the strict control zone. The highest level of contamination recorded inside the town after the accident was 370 curies per square kilometre, the average was 26 curies. Of the 5670 Poliske children examined by doctors, 2440 have enlarged thyroids, a condition that appears when the dose of radioactivity of iodine -131 to the gland exceeds 200 rems (2 sieverts). Nine children absorbed more than 1000 rems. People, particularly children, continue to suffer from the high level of radioactivity in the environment. The most visible complaints are nosebleeds, headaches, impaired vision and heightened susceptibility to infections and colds.
The legacy of Chernobyl: Five years after the worst accident in the history of civilian nuclear power, people in the Ukraine ..
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