Thirty-nine years ago today, on May 14, 1986 (April 6, 1986 lunar calendar), the truth about the Chernobyl nuclear accident was revealed. Father mourns his son - a victim of the Chernobyl accident. On May 14, 1986, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev spoke publicly for the first time about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. He said in a televised speech today that the incident showed that nuclear power can become a "harmful force" once it gets out of control. Gorbachev accused the West of using the disaster to set off a "rampant anti-Soviet movement", but at the same time he tactfully admitted that the Western criticism also put forward a four-point proposal to speed up the exchange of information on the nuclear accident, so these criticisms have a legitimate side. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred on April 26, but it was not until May 6 that Pravda, the Soviet party newspaper, published the first detailed report on the accident. Pravda said the blaze caused by the explosion spread beyond the reactor, releasing radioactive material, and the report detailed how firefighters struggled to put out the blaze, during which melted asphalt seeped into the firefighters' boots. The nearby city of Pripyat has been abandoned, the report said, and only a few monitoring vehicles occasionally drive through the streets. But the report did not say the amount of radiation from the blaze or the number of casualties. In past reports, two people died and 148 were hospitalized. Of those, 18 were seriously injured. Some of the victims were hospitalized in Kiev, and more than 10,000 Chernobyl victims were treated at a seaside sanatorium in Cuba