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Being a fairly naive kind of fellow, I seem to spend a lot of my lunchbreaks scanning the Internet for information about a great variety of things that I feel the need to know about. Recent examples include :

• Is Cliff Richard gay? (A friend insists he is and this is common knowledge. My investigations remain inconclusive).
• When, exactly, did the IRA form and why? (Too in-depth to go into here. And surprisingly boring).
• Do Scientologists honestly believe all that crap? (Yes).
• Was Brigitte Bardot as achingly hot in real life as she appears on a mug in my office? (again, yes, disproving the long-held belief that the first attractive woman was born after 1970).
• What exactly happened at Chernobyl?

This last point led, as most things seem to do nowadays, me to checking Wikipedia which gave the following, throwaway nugget of information:

“…”liquidators”—members of the army and other workers—were sent in as cleanup staff by the Soviet government. Two of these were sent in wet suits to release the valve to vent the radioactive water, and thus prevent a thermal explosion. These men, just like the other liquidators and firefighters that helped with the cleanup, were not told of the danger they faced. The two men saved millions by releasing the water, yet it is likely they did not even reach the surface again before they died.“

Why was I not informed? Surely these men, not even dignified with names, are not just Russian heroes, but world heroes! There should be statues of them in every town and village! This is the greatest injustice since Lassie was accused of robbing that bank and I demand vengeance!

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