My interlocutor name is Victor Pavlovich, Colonel jingoism and retirement, the participant of liquidation of consequences of the Chernobyl accident. His behavior, the ability to hold yourself, special army specifics to describe the events - all says that this man is simply unable to imagine, let alone to dream foldable so that his stories can be easily written in an exciting artistic novel.



Down to earth person, so what! No offense he was told. "Now you write on your site different amazing history. But I was much more strange!" he noted in a conversation with our correspondent. And Victor Pavlovich told...

- That was in July 1986, the same Chernobyl. Damn year. I then only the captain was, company commander. And threw our company in the Chernobyl hell - in Slavutich. Residents then massively moved whom where. Part of our camped in the Zhytomyr region, just in Ovruch district, just a few tens of kilometers from Chernobyl. 8 overall, we conducted in Slavutych decontamination. Our company have disabled brand new, only two years as built apartment block.

Residents have long been evicted apartment was practically empty. There was still some small furniture or rags - stool there or rugs. We immediately burned. As a member of the second platoon, Bob Nesterov from Vologda, was the first to come into a small one-room apartment, in which an elderly woman lived. The old woman under Kiev evacuated together with the furniture and the wall in the bathroom a few Souvenirs masks left hanging from the property. Most of these masks, oval, creepy, weird paintings, letters look like. African masks, and these, some of the black magician was made, probably. Four of the mask was, as I remember. I gave orders to burn them, but one more mask suddenly disappeared somewhere. Into the fire flew all three. The flame was impressive. But the masks didn't burn, though were made from a tree.

I had to chop them in pieces, while Junior Sergeant Mikheenko cool himself in the leg with an axe has blown up by. Scratch earned deep. But the mask, which became the chaff burned down completely. However, the smoke from them was black-black as though tires burned. After about a week we returned to the location of the part, has picked up radiation, passed the medical examination, took a course of treatment and continued to serve.
As I remember, it was 8 August 1986. I slept at home, I zampolit part directly in the middle of the night is calling, saying, come soon, we emergency. I instantly ran into the part. And there happened to this. Orderly "on the table" stood near the Armoury room.

Said was about two nights. And here from the location of the company where the beds soldier stood, there is a cry. The orderly was awakened by a duty on the company and together with him rushed to the location.
Turned on the light, and there airman Nesterov on the bed, his wheezing, moans and whispers that his snake choking. Epilepsy is like. While for the doctor in the medical unit was running, Nesterov and died. It turns out, he shouted. It is clear that all the command of the unit came running. PE yet. Sorry guy, to muster him six months only remained, but here is. And epilepsy he never had. This is the first case. Perhaps radiation impact. All anything, but only a pathologist, making vskritie, noticed that died Nesterov not from epilepsy, and from mechanical asphyxia, respiratory and fracture of neck vertebrae. Strangled him in one word. What happened!

Investigators came in large numbers, the NKVD. Interrogations began, soldiers is found, each of them ten times interrogated. One himself somehow drew attention to the testimony of the duty Rota, which heard the words of the dying Nesterov that it stifles the serpent. And drew attention because another member, Irkutsk Igor Petrov, assured that saw the snake, such a thick, three-meter long, black, she's from under radiators crawled in bed with sleeping Nesterov crawled. For a long time he himself was tortured Petrova questions, several dozen times clarifying that looked like a snake. And then for Petrov man some resulted in appearance of a researcher. Petrov and he repeated his description of the snake. I still don't understand why they gave this mysterious snake so much attention. The scientific employee in a conversation with the KGB-called snake "totem patron", this word I remembered well. They were talking about some kind of cult people-snakes. Then from Moscow people came all the way from Moscow state University.

Professor of some sort. He said that somewhere in the barracks should be hidden "fetish". And what is it not said. No fetish we have not found, because I didn't know what to look for. Nine days after the death Nesterov we were going to carry bed Nesterov, the soldiers began to turn off the mattress, and under it was found that very oval African mask, one of the four, who disappeared during decontamination in Slavutych. Apparently, Nesterov then hid it and was taken to the barracks. I took the discovery of the zampolit, and he almost from the chair fell off when I saw such a miracle. Called our eyes, and he immediately called his colleague that the snake was interested in.

This colleague, as he saw the mask, ordered everyone to leave away from her. And me and political officer ordered to wash hands some chemical, similar to ammonia, which he brought: mask this, they say, impregnated some solution, which causes hallucinations and through the skin into the body penetrates easily, and this chemical to counteract it. Of course, we washed. The mask this stranger himself with a drove away.

And with me and with political officer to sign an NDA, why it took ten years. Why on ten? Can't say. And to explain what is behind the mask was this, too, can not. No I never told you. But it was all really - that I'll swear!

Author: Tripling