It was not done loudly and with anguish -which became almost mandatory in the future- but the first attempts were made to answer the classic question: “What to do?” I could already feel the turn from splendor and hype to comprehending the real situation in the country. It didn’t pass without routine speeches and habitually loud phrases. The 27th Party Congress ended in early March 1986. He gives a striking eyewitness account from the head of government perspective, quoting from Legasov’s tape memoirs at times. Valery Legasov directly reported to him, Ryzhkov has traveled to the disaster scene for the first time on and spent two days on road trips visiting the contaminated villages of Ukraine and Belarus. Ryzhkov was the Soviet Premier from 1985 to 1990 and the head of the Politburo Commission for handling the accident at Chernobyl NPP. Below is the chapter on Chernobyl from Десять лет великих потрясений (Ten Years of Great Upheavals), which is the memoirs of Nikolai Ryzhov, first published in 1995.
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