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Victims of hydro plant disaster mourned one year on
Published: 17 August, 2010, 14:09
Edited: 17 August, 2010, 19:36
On Tuesday, Russia commemorates the 75 people who died last year during the accident at Sayano-Shushenskaya power plant. A year since the tragic event, the investigation into it has not yet finished.
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Agree with all your observations, PR101. The monuments to those killed last year are also monuments to the spirit of recovery, that brought workers back and got the turbines working again.
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As it was the Kursk nuclear powered submarine disaster in 2000, the Siberian hydro plant disaster in 2009 has corruption, negligence and a potential sabotage written all over it. Of course, we feel and mourn the lives of the workers who died as we mourn the death of 118 sailors of the Kursk tragedy- we can also imagine but will never know the degree of the their loved ones everyday. However, it is pertinent to stress that the Russians have immense inner power to endure disasters and pull themselves standing up again-stronger and more confident. This quality is truly part of the Russian character as a society and people.