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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-26T08:28:05.000Z",
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  "textContent": "In 1986, while the rest of Europe scrambled to shield its citizens from the invisible poison drifting west from reactor four, Bulgarian authorities did something remarkable in its cruelty: they pretended the cloud wasn’t there. The result, documented in newly unearthed archives and assembled in Dimitar Vatsov’s investigation The Bulgarian Chernobyl, is a record no country would want. Bulgarians ended up carrying a heavier internal radiation dose than the populations of Ukraine, Belarus, or Russia....",
  "title": "Poisoned Without Warning: How the Communist Regime Made Bulgarians Chernobyl’s Most Irradiated People"
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