Lyubov Sirota "Radiophobia"

the video version of my poem "RADIOPHOBIA", written and filmed still in 1988, it is directed against the lies, falsehoods, and double standards of the criminal authorities of the former USSR.
But in view of the recent, most terrible events, i.e., Russia's military aggression in Georgia, this poem might now also be addressed to those who have created this war, and who once again conceal their terrible plans beneath attractive and deceptive rhetoric...

It's the excerpted from of Rollan Sergienko's film "Threshold" (about the film see here: http://pripyat.com/ru/media/video_news/2006/04/20/788.html).

Translation of this poem in English (from here: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/chernobyl_poems/chernobyl_index.html):

RADIOPHOBIA

Is this only – a fear of radiation?
Perhaps rather – a fear of wars?
Perhaps – the dread of betrayal,
cowardice, stupidity, lawlessness?
The time has come to sort out
what is – radiophobia.  
It is –
when those who've gone through the Chernobyl drama
refuse to submit
to the truth meted out by government ministers
("Here, you swallow exactly this much today!")
We will not be resigned
to falsified ciphers,
base thoughts,
however you brand us!
We don't wish – and don't you suggest it! –
to view the world through bureaucratic glasses!
We're too suspicious!
And, understand, we remember
each victim just like a brother!..  
Now we look out at a fragile Earth
through the panes of abandoned buildings.
These glasses no longer deceive us! –
These glasses show us more clearly –
believe me –
the shrinking rivers,
poisoned forests,
children born not to survive…
Mighty uncles, what have you dished out
beyond bravado on television?
How marvelously the children have absorbed
radiation, once believed so hazardous!..
(It's adults who suffer radiophobia –
for kids is it still adaptation?)
What has become of the world
if the most humane of professions
has also turned bureaucratic?
Radiophobia
may you be omnipresent!
Not waiting until additional jolts,
new tragedies,
have transformed more thousands
who survived the inferno
into seers –
Radiophobia might cure
the world
of carelessness, satiety, greed,
bureaucratism and lack of spirituality,
so that we don't, through someone's good will
mutate into non-humankind.