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Gladkov immediately stood up and fully supported Haniyev's plan. At this time, not only Gladkov, but all the team members burst out with execution ability far beyond usual.

The firefighters had already gone to put out the fire, and Haniyev had already issued many of the most sensible orders to the nuclear power plant. Now the most important step, the one involving the largest number of personnel, was to evacuate the tens of thousands of residents of Pripyat. This was just after the explosion, when the radioactive fallout and radiation released by the burning exposed reactor No. 4 hadn't reached a significant level.

Now the radioactive dust and graphite powder stirred up by the explosion of Unit 4 have floated high into the sky, and most of them have been blown by the monsoon to Belarus in the north and even to the Baltic Sea, Northern Europe and other places. The current danger in Pripyat is not the greatest, but it is hard to say if we stay there for a few days before evacuating.

The entire Pripyat has a population of about 50,000 people, and these people must be evacuated immediately, especially since Haniyev knew that the Ukrainian top leaders would choose to suppress the matter after discussing it with Comrade Gorbachev of the Soviet Union, causing secondary damage, so he decided to act first and report later.

Faced with an emergency, Haniyev decided to demonstrate the courage of a Communist Party member and mobilize urgently to save the lives of 50,000 people in Pripyat.

The explosion occurred at 1:23 a.m., followed by a second blast seconds later, and then Haniyev began arranging the evacuation of the nuclear power plant and the safety of the fire brigade.

1:35 Most of the leading cadres have been awakened and come to the city government's conference room for a meeting.

At this time, all the relevant leaders woke up from their dreams. In order to prevent the leaders of the region, state or even the republic from interfering with his decision to save tens or even hundreds of thousands of people, Haniyev did not even call the region's first secretary Chekhov immediately. Instead, he arranged the emergency work first and then asked Nicholas to notify. By the time Nicholas reported, Haniyev had already passed the emergency plan at the emergency team meeting with the help of Gladkov.

The meeting ended at 1:42, and without waiting for Secretary Nicholas to return to the meeting room, the leaders in charge put on anti-radiation suits and went out to call the heads of each department to make detailed arrangements.

Haniyev sat in front of the radio, turned on the button, then took a breath in front of the microphone and shouted: "Attention everyone, attention everyone! Dear comrades, I am the mayor of this city, Viktor Vladimirvich Haniyev. On behalf of the Municipal People's Deputies Committee, I am issuing a notice -

Due to an accident, an accident occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Pripyat, releasing dangerous radiation.

The Party, the Soviets, and the military have taken the necessary measures. However, in order to ensure the absolute safety of the people, especially children, it is necessary to temporarily evacuate the city.

In order to protect the lives and safety of the people, today, April 26, starting from this moment, from 1:48 am, all buses and all official and private vehicles in the city will be requisitioned to evacuate the residents. They will be escorted by militia officers and representatives of the city party committee executive committee to temporarily retreat to the city of Chernobyl in the south, and even to Kyiv if necessary.

All people need to bring: ID card, basic living supplies and necessary food. No additional items are allowed except necessary supplies.

Executive committees of businesses and facilities will provide lists of workers who remain to keep the city running.

All residential buildings will be guarded by militia during the evacuation.

Comrades, when you leave your home temporarily, please do not forget to close the windows and turn off the electricity, gas and water taps.

Please remain calm and maintain order during this temporary evacuation."

Chapter 044: The Nuclear Age (3)

Haniyev personally delivered the speech three times according to the speech written in advance. Afterwards, each team member and relevant leaders also received anti-radiation suits and changed into them. They were dispersed to various communities, apartments, and units to personally arrange the specific matters of evacuation.

After all, the city of Pripyat is two levels higher than the high-altitude state forest farm, so it has its own militia.

Moreover, the Citizens Militia has a staff of 2,000 people, but a considerable number of these people are logistics staff and electricians of the nuclear power plant.

Normally, the city of Pripyat does not manage or dispatch these militias. Even the annual militia training is entrusted to the deputy station chiefs, engineers and other people who serve as company commanders and instructors of the militia regiments to organize the training.

However, now that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has exploded and suffered a serious nuclear leak, Haniyev has directly declared war.

With the decisive style of a proletarian revolutionary fighter who called for extraordinary measures in extraordinary times, he ordered the activation and management of the militia in the name of the Party Committee and Municipal Government.

Moreover, Haniyev was not only the mayor, but also the head of the militia. He had no chance to get to know everyone, but he still asked people to gather the militia in front of the city government.

This was an extraordinary period. After hearing Haniyev's broadcast, everyone was shocked, and then everyone who heard the broadcast began to get up hurriedly and prepare.

The militiamen of the militia regiment rushed out and gathered in front of the city government.

There was a pickup truck parked in front of the city government. Everyone who arrived received a set of radiation-proof lead suit and gas mask from the truck, and then went to the warehouse next door to change clothes and wait in line.

Since everyone was wearing radiation-proof lead suits and masks, it was difficult to see who was who, so Grigory and many militia company commanders used markers to write their names, positions, companies, etc. on their clothes.

This was also arranged in advance by Haniyev, and the inspiration was purely from what he saw and heard in the anti-epidemic war in his previous life.

Haniyev's broadcast began at 1:42 and ended at 2:03.

At this time, all units, communities, and apartments, under the organization of relevant leaders, began to arrange for residents and employees to pack their clothes and food, etc., house by house, in preparation for moving out.

The Ministry of the Interior's law enforcement officers, who are actually the so-called police, went out to requisition buses, private cars, official vehicles, etc.

Although the Soviet Union was extremely corrupt, it was a country that had complete control over its people. All citizens were employees of large Soviet companies. The rise and fall of such a country depended entirely on its leaders.

The small city of Pripyat can unleash amazing potential, execution and response speed when a leader like Haniyev emerges, and the same is true for a country.

It’s a pity that the person in charge of the country’s destiny is a guy with a map on his head and a map in his head, rather than the mayor comrade loved by the citizens of Pripyat.

Haniyev, who was in charge of the office, had an illusion that if he switched positions with the old man in the Kremlin, he would be able to do a hundred times better than him.

Even if it could not save the Soviet Union from disintegration and collapse, it could allow the huge empire to survive for a few more years, and even after the disintegration, it could still exist as the CIS, and maintain its status as a superpower on the earth by using the nature of an alliance in a disguised form, just like the European Union.

It’s a pity that Haniyev’s idea is pure fantasy and can only be thought about in his mind.

……

The Pripyat militia had assembled by 2:20.

This is a militia company of 2000 people. Excluding the personnel on duty at the nuclear power plant, those hospitalized due to illness and disabilities, and those who are away, about 1893 people have gathered at the material storage warehouse on the side of the municipal government, and all personnel have put on anti-radiation clothing.

Since Haniyev asked Grigory to deliver 8000 sets of anti-radiation suits, after deducting the radiation suits distributed to relevant leaders, department heads, community apartment managers and militia comrades, there were only less than 6000 sets left on the car.

Although Haniyev knew that the evacuation work was complicated, he also had to try his best to avoid the risk of being investigated or even arrested. So Haniyev called Anato immediately, hinting to him that there was an accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and asked him and the people behind him to find a way to investigate, while he, as the mayor, had to actively participate in disaster relief and rescue.

This was a get-out-of-jail-free card that Haniyev found for himself. As long as the Western media exposed the truth, he, an outstanding figure who bravely rescued the disaster, would surely be portrayed by the Western media as a new bureaucrat who dared to break the Soviet Union's corrupt and outdated political system, who was responsible and daring. By that time, Gorbachev would have to think twice before making any move against him.

In addition to making preparations for his back-up plan, Haniyev also thought that Chernobyl was an accident after all. Even if the entire KGB army was dispatched to investigate, they would not be able to find out that it was an accident that he manipulated and controlled, even if he made countless preparations in advance and acted as if he wanted to know that an accident would happen tonight.

However, in order to avoid a lot of trouble and suspicion, Haniyev asked Natasha to rent a shop on Frunze Street during the day, and discussed with Comrade Medvedev of the Municipal Planning and Economic Committee to open a store in this store to sell military and industrial labor protection products such as radiation protection clothing, gas masks, fire extinguishers, gloves, military boots, rubber shoes, etc. The contract was even drafted the day before yesterday.

The truckload of gas masks and radiation-proof lead suits that Grigory sent were all purchased by Pripyat's No. 1 Labor Protection Products Store, and the documents and procedures had also been prepared.

After the accident tonight, Haniyev's emergency plan wrote: "Gas masks and radiation protection clothing will be collected throughout the city as soon as possible to ensure the safety of firefighters, militiamen, party members and officials. All items will be requisitioned immediately upon discovery and compensated according to market prices."

So, judging from the procedures and timing, Grigory's truckload of goods was not prepared in advance by Haniyev to deal with the nuclear power plant explosion. It was purely for the purchase of goods for the labor protection store. It was just that the goods had just been delivered to Pripyat when the explosion occurred, and then 8,000 sets of anti-radiation suits were directly requisitioned by the Pripyat city government.

In order to prevent problems from occurring at the Zaporizhia Military Uniform Factory and to prevent information from leaking out, Haniyev took time out of his busy schedule to ask the director of the Finance Committee to write a check to Grigory to settle the expenses.

Grigory only needed to take the check back to the forest farm and hand it over to the sales manager of the Zaporizhia Military Uniform Factory, and the transaction would be successfully completed. From the perspective of procedures and time transition, everything was a coincidence. The hidden dangers of Haniyev being seen to know about the nuclear accident in advance were resolved.

At most, people criticized Haniyev for wanting to abuse his power for personal gain and run a business in his territory. However, such things can be seen everywhere after Gomap began to open up to private operations this year.

So after the matter was made public, the most people would say was: Haniyev is such a lucky guy.

At the same time, they also had to step on the leadership of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the Soviet leadership. After all, Reuters, RIA Novosti and TASS had discussed and reported on the safety issues of nuclear power plants, and the Soviet official media also shamelessly said that the Soviet nuclear power plants were the safest in the world.

However, just over ten days after he made such a boast, he was slapped in the face by the facts. From now on, the relevant Soviet leaders will definitely not be able to wash away the stain on themselves.

Haniyev sat in his office thinking about his layout and arrangements, trying to think of whether there were any loopholes.

A moment later, two men in radiation-proof suits came in. Hanyev looked at the words on their lead suits and recognized them as Grigory and Alyosha, the militia regiment's full-time political commissar.

Alyosha reported to Haniyev that the militia had assembled. Haniyev looked at the clock and it was already 2:25.

Secretary Nicholas, who had just finished reporting the situation to the district, sat beside him in a daze, apparently confused by the sudden major incident.

Haniyev nodded and said, "Secretary, please stay in the office. Secretary Chekonenev might call to get the real-time update. I'll go out and take a look."

After getting up, Haniyev had not yet taken the gas mask, but Natasha next to him had already helped Haniyev put on the gas mask. The smell of perfume still lingered in the mask.

Haniyev's heart warmed, he coughed lightly and said, "Let's go, I want to go out and talk to my comrades."

Since radiation had already begun to appear outside after the accident, no one in the original timeline reacted, and all the firefighters and militiamen who went out at night suffered more or less radiation damage.

However, this time, just a few minutes after the accident, Haniyev deployed all emergency plans and also revealed the truth through radio broadcasts, letting citizens know the truth. As a result, there was no one on the streets of the entire city of Pripitiya, and everyone stayed in airtight, radiation-proof rooms.

Even though more than 1,800 militiamen were wearing anti-radiation suits, they hid in a warehouse next to the city government building for safety reasons.

This warehouse is where the city government stores basic supplies. Now all the cotton-padded clothes, quilts, fire extinguishers, shovels, chainsaws, generators and other items have been moved out.

Nearly two thousand people stood in the warehouse, which seemed very crowded and the air was extremely polluted.

When Haniyev entered, he was also wearing a radiation-proof lead suit and a gas mask, so no one could tell what he looked like. However, his name and position were written on his clothes with black and blue markers. Everyone knew at a glance that it was the new mayor, the one who had just been announced through the loudspeaker.

Haniyev walked in without saying a word, accompanied by Grigory, Alyosha and Natasha, and gradually attracted everyone's attention.

After the warehouse was quiet with only the sound of breathing, Haniyev stood in front of the crowd with a megaphone and shouted: "Comrades, comrades.

Faced with the serious accident of nuclear power plant explosion and fire and nuclear radiation, what we need to do now is to race against time and lead our friends, relatives and families who protect us to leave before the radiation spreads, to ensure that they are not exposed to radiation and can evacuate smoothly and safely to the southern area.

In this accident, we must trust the organization, trust the Soviets, trust our party and government. On behalf of the Pripyat Municipal Party Committee and Government, I assure you that as long as we unite as one and strictly follow the emergency plan adopted by the Municipal Party Committee and Government, our families and ourselves will be safe and sound..."

Haniyev spoke in a powerful and passionate voice. Although the gas mask had slightly altered his voice, everyone could still hear him clearly.

"Thank you to the Soviet, thank you to the Party and the government, thank you to Mayor Haniyev."

Grigory and Natasha shouted at the same time after Haniyev finished speaking, and then Alyosha followed suit, and everyone around them shouted too.

The entire warehouse was filled with the sound of voices, all converging into one sentence: "Thank you to the Soviet, thank you to the Party and the government, and thank you to Mayor Haniyev."

At this moment, Haniyev suddenly felt a surge of ambition in his heart, and suddenly he felt like a general commanding thousands of troops on the battlefield.

The feeling of controlling the fate of tens of thousands of people and allocating personnel resources at will instantly intoxicated Haniyev and filled him with high spirits.

By the time Haniyev finished speaking, his initial morale-boosting speech had been effective, and the subsequent specific arrangements had also taken root in people's hearts.

All the people were full of fighting spirit and were dispersed to various communities, apartments, units and collectives in company units according to the arrangements of the militia commander Haniyev and the political commissar Alyosha.

Go and organize and manage each apartment, urge all the people to go downstairs, and put the children and women into the car first according to the procedure, and then send escort personnel to accompany them south to Chernobyl City.

Haniyev directly issued the strictest order, clearly telling all the militia that if they encountered stubborn elements who were unwilling to evacuate, the militia could use any force, even guns, and all personnel must be forced to evacuate.

Haniyev appeared fearless in front of others, like a proletarian revolutionary fighter, as if possessed by Guevara, but he was actually very scared.

So after the speech, he stayed in the city government obediently and did not dare to go out. He just kept calling various community apartments according to the phone number in the address book to understand the progress and situation. At the same time, he reported the real situation and his own response strategy to Chekhov, which won Chekhov's great praise.

Chekovych clearly told Haniyev on the phone that the region had dispatched all its vehicles and requested three trains to evacuate people. The First Secretary of Ukraine and Moscow had just received information about the accident at the nuclear power plant and the rapid response of the city of Pripyat, and had not yet issued any instructions.

Chekhov was also a man who dared to act. He knew that 50,000 to 60,000 people already knew about the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and it was impossible to conceal it. It would be better to respond actively and restore his image.

Therefore, Chekhov immediately made the decision to cooperate with the Pripyat Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government to evacuate the area, and actively deployed vehicles.

Haniyev knew the old secretary's attitude from Chikovsky's voice and words on the phone.

In my heart, I secretly applauded my decision to make the nuclear power plant explosion accident public, thinking: No matter what the leaders at all levels think afterwards, whether they hate me or not, everyone has to be led by the nose by me now!

After talking with Chekhov for an hour, Haniyev hung up the phone. It was already 4:40.

The nuclear power plant called to report that the fire caused by the flames splashed out by the explosion has been extinguished, all personnel in the nuclear power plant have been evacuated, and the two units near the accident have also been shut down.

Currently, there are only a few staff members in the nuclear power plant who control the cooling system. The fire in the No. 4 machine room where the explosion occurred cannot be extinguished at all, and radioactive dust is continuously released outward.

The follow-up work has exceeded the capabilities of the nuclear power plant personnel and the Pripyat City Party Committee and Government. Haniyev knows that it will definitely be someone from Moscow who will clean up the mess, and all he has to do is to lead all the citizens to move south before the instructions from Moscow come down, away from this Shura field that is constantly releasing nuclear radiation.

Author's Note: This is a long chapter.

Chapter 045: The Nuclear Age (4)

With the order issued after the mayor and the group leader Haniyev guaranteed it, all the personnel actively and urgently got into the state and rushed to various apartments to execute the order.

Obviously, in a country like the Soviet Union, no one dared to cause trouble at this critical juncture.

Around 5 o'clock, all personnel were ready and in place. Every leader in charge called Haniyevba to report that residents and units could evacuate at any time.

Although all residents of the community apartments were ready to evacuate, the shortage of vehicles forced Haniyev to order children and pregnant women to leave first.

At this time, the residents of each community are counted and numbered according to the apartment manager's register, and they can evacuate immediately as soon as the vehicles are in place.

The entire city of Pripyat has a population of about 5, and there are about twenty official vehicles, most of which are cars, one bus, and one truck.

There are two buses in the city that go to the nuclear power plant for commuting, and there are about 20 agricultural vehicles and private cars combined.

Even if all the vehicles were requisitioned, they could only carry five or six hundred people. Even if most of the passengers were short children, they could only transport a thousand people at most.

Therefore, without the help of transportation tools allocated by the region, if we only rely on the city’s vehicles, we will probably have to make 30 trips to transport 30,000 to 40,000 people.

In order to reassure the remaining personnel and let everyone feel at ease, less than half an hour after Haniyev gave the order, 200 women, seriously ill patients and thousands of children followed the example of the magical South Asian country and squeezed into the car. Then the convoy left Pripyat under the escort of a militia company on motorcycles.

In order to transport more children, Haniyev asked Grigory to use the cargo truck as well, and instructed him to return to the forest farm immediately to organize the evacuation of employees after transporting the children to Chernobyl.

At daybreak, all the children had already boarded the car and left. Haniyev breathed a sigh of relief. At least now that the children were safe, his image and personality would be established when the news came out.

Haniyev knew that all he could do now was to wait for the vehicle sent by the city of Chernobyl. In order to present the image of a brave and fearless mayor, he put on an extra layer of protective clothing and strolled on the street. At the same time, Natasha kept taking pictures of Haniyev.

Haniyev was thinking about finding an opportunity to tell Anato the photos and related information, and let Reuters report it. In this way, his fragrance would spread from within the wall to outside the wall, and the fragrance would spread to the whole country and reach the ears of the emperor.

……

Haniyev was lucky enough. He just walked around the street and saw the convoy coming from Chernobyl.

Two trains and more than 40 cars, eight buses and 12 trucks were dispatched from the Chernobyl region.

Haniyev had already learned from a phone call with Chekhov that the leader of the incoming convoy was the director of the regional committee, Petrov, so he hurried forward to greet him.

Nuclear power plant explosions were the number one priority in the Soviet Union. It was a top priority for the region and even the country. If Chekhov was not too old to take the risk, he would have come in person.

However, when Haniyev saw Petrov, who had wrapped himself up tightly in the car, he knew from his expression that he must have greeted Chekhov's family eight hundred times in his heart, so he hurriedly asked someone to send him a set of anti-radiation lead suit.

Only after he changed his clothes did Petrov dare to get out of the car to shake hands with Haniyev. At this time, leaders such as First Secretary Nicholas and Second Secretary Gladkov arrived late.