In the first person: the Cordova family who lived in Chernobyl after the nuclear disaster

The Chernobyl series, the latest success of HBO, has once again put on the agenda the terrible accident that occurred in the Pripyat nuclear power plant in Ukraine, while it was part of the Union. Soviet republics (USSR).

Now a Cordoba family, based in Spain, recounts the lived experience when she left Cordoba and settled in Belarus in 1992, six years after the tragedy.

According to the newspaper La Nación, doctor Eduardo Sosa and his wife Edith have not targeted an economic or professional goal, but the desire to help children affected by the radioactive cloud.

"I am a doctor and evangelical pastor and I always had the idea to help the poor, so when we had the opportunity to go to Belarus with our family, we did not doubt it", he declared. from Belarus) nobody spoke publicly about the disaster. The issue of radiation was not considered a serious issue and it was not until August 1993 that the government recognized the issue and created a special ministry to address the problem. "

Sosa and his wife moved with their three teenage children: Sebastián, Federico and Ximena. "In total, we lived in Belarus for five years, and what we did with my wife was to devote ourselves to the child victims of the disaster or orphans," he said, adding, "There is really a generation that has disappeared in Belarus ".

Sosa has never been able to enter the city where the factory was militarily fenced, even though it was a few kilometers from the site. "The closest I had was in the city of Pripyat, 22 kilometers from the factory."

Currently, only one of the couple's children has returned to Argentina. The rest stayed in Europe. She brought to the country the real estate brand RE / Max, which is now the main chain of this product on the local market.