Soviet Russia’s radiation experiments on people

The sad story of Nim, – Documentary films, MACLEANS CA, by Brian D. Johnson , April 29, 2011 “…….After the Apocalypse takes us to a former Soviet nuclear test site in Kazakhstan, where residents were deliberately exposed to radiation as human guinea pigs, …… After the Apocalypse, from British director Antony Butts, explores the fallout from 456 nuclear blasts detonated by the Soviets from 1949 to 1989 at the Semipalatinsk test site on the steppes of Kazakhstan. So scientists could study the effects of radiation, residents were not evacuated; some 200,000 were exposed, suffering genetic damage that ricocheted through three generations. Today, one in 20 children in the zone is born with birth defects, and sheep graze in radioactive bomb craters, where herders “protect” themselves with vodka.

Dr. Toleukhan Nurmagambetov, head of the local maternity clinic, takes us to a museum of bottled fetuses with monstrous deformities (such as a cyclops eye), then to an orphanage of children with Down’s syndrome and missing limbs…….. http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/04/29/the-sad-story-of-nim/

April 30, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | history, Russia

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I watched this program and Dr. Toleukhan Nurmagambetov, from my personal point of view, his a very strange person indeed and, as a doctor, his ways are very suspicious and even sounded malicious…

Comment by V. Veiga | July 20, 2011 | Reply
I do agree with you, about this doctor. That article goes on to describe his attitudes and behaviour; –
“……… Dr. Toleukhan Nurmagambetov, head of the local maternity clinic, takes us to a museum of bottled fetuses with monstrous deformities (such as a cyclops eye), then to an orphanage of children with Down’s syndrome and missing limbs. As the doctor points to the horrors with righteous anger, he seems a sympathetic figure, until it becomes apparent that his rage is fuelled by intolerance.
The film’s narrative hinges on his conflict with Bibigul, a pregnant farmer who tends horses and sheep with her husband. Her birth defects are visible on her face, which the doctor brands “frightful.” The cubist distortion of that face is disturbing at first, but a humanity, even a beauty, shines through. It’s the doctor who seems grotesque as he urges the woman to abort her child, or at least submit to tests, which she refuses. The decision is hers, but if the doctor had his way, it wouldn’t be. And as the suspense of her pregnancy builds, the doctor’s mission of eugenic cleansing has chilling echoes of a Stalinist past…….” http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/04/29/the-sad-story-of-nim/

Comment by Christina MacPherson | July 20, 2011 | Reply
How can you say he’s intolerant? Do you have any idea of how much monstruosities this Dr has seen? I don’t agreed with his points but I can understand such beahviour! Sounds very “nazi” point of view but to preserve the standard “life” in the Polygon, the “faulty” DNA has to be erased… and the most ethical way of doing it is perventing it to spread (in other words, don’t allowing Polygon vistims to procreate)

Comment by Charles | July 20, 2011 | Reply