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The effects of the Chernobyl radiation are apparently common, that when I left my luggage in the Belorusskaya train station in Moscow I encountered a very large plaque describing exactly what categories of people were allowed to get in front of the queue when retrieving your stored luggage -- with "People suffering from radiation as consequence of Chernobyl" on the list.

If you served in the military for at least 6 months 1941-1945, you were higher on the priority list, which included around 17 different very detailed categories, all translated to English too.




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