They brought us there, about 12 or 15 men. We had already put on the chemical protection suits and gas masks – we looked great, real tough guys. They woke us up in the middle of the night. Someone said “ I’m the squad leader.. I need two more volunteers”. We are going to pump out the water from under the reactor. Well, OK, no objections. Anyway I couldn't refuse. And the volunteers were the two guys from my tent. We come to the station in an APC. We get out, everybody jumps out of the APC wearing those gas masks and chemical protection clothes. And the people around are wearing nothing of the kind – just gauze masks, like flu masks. Where is the radiation; what does that radiation mean? Probably, there was no radiation at all. They led us to something like a hall and they seated us. Those generals were running around there, and they divided us into groups of 4-5 men, then they sent us under the reactor. We went through a kind of a basement, long corridors with lots of pipes there, it was very dark, they gave us torches and lead us there… […] Something like 10 minutes later he takes his dosemeter and says: “That's enough for them. Now to the shower”. And they added up as much as 4 Roentgen on my dosemetric card…