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

Series Chernobyl, HBO's latest big hit, came back to put on the agenda the terrible accident that occurred in the nuclear power plant located in Pripyat, Ukraine, while it was part of the Union of Soviet republics (USSR).

Today, a family from Cordoba living in Spain recounts the experience that he experienced when he left Cordoba and settled in Belarus in 1992, six years after the tragedy.

According to the newspaper The nationDr. Eduardo Sosa and his wife Edith have not moved economic or professional goals, 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 said, adding: "When we arrived in Minsk Belarus) nobody spoke publicly about the disaster, the issue of radiation was not considered a problem as serious and it is only in August 1993 that the government recognized the issue and created a special ministry to deal with this 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. "I was close to Pripyat, 22 kilometers from the factory," he said.

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.