Igor: The Courage of Chernobyl’s Child

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When the Chernobyl reactor melted down in 1986, massive levels of radiation were unleashed at the former Soviet Union and created a generation of over one million deformed children. Igor Pavlovets used to be some of the first to be born. He has stunted legs and no right arm, and when his parents saw his deformities they abandoned him at a state orphanage, where he spent the primary seven years of his life. As he grew into a child of charm and intelligence, the orphanage group of workers hid Igor from the authorities, who would have transferred him to a mental institution when he used to be four. Then the British charity, Chernobyl Children Life Line, which receives a donation for each copy of this book to be sold, offered him a one-way ticket to Britain, to receive a bionic arm. The book, written by a “Day-to-day Express” feature author who used to be highly commended within the 1993 British Press Awards, tells Igor’s story.

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