theme 15.06.1999 (1999)

The program epigraph is a fragment of the film "The Baltic Apocalypse".

Video: b/w newsreel: German helmets from the Second World War, children spinning on an anti-aircraft mount, a building in Berlin destroyed by bombing, flags of the USSR, Great Britain and the USA hung on the balconies of a building in Berlin, Marshal Georgy Zhukov at a meeting, soldiers near a poster "

British Sector", people digging the ground against the backdrop of the bombed-out Reichstag, an organ grinder on the street of post-war Berlin, a small ship rocking on the waves during a storm, the flag of Great Britain, a military guard over a live ship, sailors on the deck of a ship, the captain looking through binoculars, soldiers putting on gas masks, a cameraman in a gas mask with a movie camera on the deck, a ship exploding at sea, a soldier in a gas mask, a column of smoke over a ship at sea, naval officers in gas masks, a ship sinking into the sea, a page of a document.

The program topic is "Ecological Safety".

Behind the mass of domestic and foreign policy problems, the issues of environmental safety of the country have receded into the background.

Meanwhile, they have not lost their relevance and the solution of many of them does not tolerate delay.

The program "Topic" is devoted to the problems of destruction of chemical weapons.

In particular, issues related to the environmental catastrophe threatening Europe due to the predicted depressurization of captured chemical munitions sunk after the Second World War are discussed.

Their point of view is expressed by: Vice-Admiral Borisov Tengiz Nikolaevich, Head of the State Duma Committee on Ecology - Zlotnikova Tamara, member of the environmental organization "Union for Chemical Defense" - Petrenko Vladimir.

Borisov Tengiz answers the question of what a warehouse of sunken chemical weapons of the Second World War is.

Borisov Tengiz talks about the decision of the Allied countries to sink German chemical weapons at great depths in the Atlantic Ocean.

Borisov Tengiz talks about the decision of the USSR government to sink chemical weapons in bulk in separate barrels as the ship moves.

Borisov Tengiz says that not all chemical weapons buried by the method accepted in the USSR are dangerous.

Zlotnikova Tamara does not confirm Borisov Tengiz's words about the safe burial of chemical weapons in the Baltic Sea.

Borisov Tengiz talks about the danger of chemical weapons buried by the allied countries England and the USA by sinking entire ships with barrels of toxic substances.

Video: Animation - a diagram of the sinking of barrels with toxic substances in the hold of a ship.

Borisov Tengiz talks about the timing of a possible release of toxic substances in sea water and the consequences.

Tarasov Valentin answers the question of what will happen if fish poisoned by a chemical substance ends up on a person's table.

Mikhailov Alexander talks about the silence of European countries about the problem of burial of toxic substances.

Zlotnikova Tamara talks about the responsibility of countries for the burial of chemical substances.

Borozin Mark says that ordinary people do not know about the consequences of exposure to chemical toxic substances and radiation on the body.

Petrenkonko Vladimir answers the question, what did you experience when you were exposed to chemical weapons.

Petrenkonko Vladimir talks about his participation in the experiment on taking threshold doses of a toxic substance and the consequences of exposure.

Petrenkonko Vladimir says that today he is a disabled person of the third group.

Petrenkonko Vladimir answers the question, the liquidation and destruction of chemical weapons was carried out at the testing ground in the Saratov region, do you have information about how this work affected the participants in the liquidation and the residents of the region.

Video: Volsk sign and stele with the city coat of arms.

Glazunova Nadezhda - a resident of the city of Volsk, talks about the consequences of chemical poisoning.

Video: Vegetable beds in a garden, a girl with a horse-drawn carriage, a view of a field, a woman talking to a doctor, a doctor examining a woman in an office, the woman's legs are covered in spots and ulcers, two people walking along the road and road signs, an information board "Shikhany town, closed administrative-territorial entity, entry by passes", a view of the landfill infrastructure, a pipe and barbed wire.

Nadezhda Glazunova, a resident of Volsk, talks about the doctors' conclusion and treatment.

Nadezhda Glazunova with her children at the table in the kitchen.

View of the river and the pier.

View of the landfill infrastructure, through the fence.

Mikhail Kudin, the head physician of the children's hospital, talks about oncological diseases in children.

View of the river bank, a motorboat floating along the river.

Women talk about bad air.

A woman talks about the death of her three children, the eldest died at 28, the middle daughter at 30, and the youngest at 24. The woman says that she needs to sell her apartment and move to the village.

Tamara Zlotnikova answers a viewer's question about whether it is still possible to live in Russia or not.

Tamara Zlotnikova talks about the high mortality rate of men in the country.

Natalia Belokhvostikova answers the question about how Lena, the heroine of the film "By the Lake", played by you in the film, would have behaved in the current situation.

Natalia Belokhvostikova answers the question about why the voices of cultural figures in defense of the environment are not heard now.

Vladimir Petrenko talks about the elimination of old types of chemical weapons and the possible development of new combined types of chemical weapons.

Tamara Zlotnikova talks about the law on environmental safety in Russia.

Tengiz Borisov talks about the danger of chemical weapons sunk in the sea by different countries, the consequences of their decomposition, and Russian technologies for the neutralization of chemical weapons.

Natalia Belokhvostikova says that everything must be done to ensure that life on earth does not end.

The host says goodbye to the viewers.

Photos of human impact on the environment and nature.