Katri Uibu, ABC News Online: This man knows what it's really like shovelling radioactive debris on top of Chernobyl's reactor
"Sometimes it happens in life that someone, somewhere, has to do something. Whether they want to or not."
When he left his wife and two children on May 7, 1986 and went to work, Jaan Krinal didn't know he would be one of those people.
The 32-year-old was working on a state-owned farm in Soviet-occupied Estonia.
Because he'd been forced to complete the Soviet military's retraining a year before, he was confused when officers surprised him at work and said he'd been called up again — immediately.
Jaan and 200 other men were taken to a nearby school. Once they'd walked through the door, no-one was allowed to leave.
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WNU Editor: I finished watching Chernobyl last week. And one whose nationality is Russian-Ukrainian, it hits home in many ways.
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