The story from Estel I promised:
In 1986 4th reactor of Chernobyl power station blows up.
Western propaganda starts to tell horror-stories about evil Russians. I listened to the Voice of America every day in April-May 1986 on short-wave radio, breaking through jamming. They reported numbers of Chernobyl victims daily, numbers went up every day, from something like 4000 in 10-15 days they went up to 80000. That was enough for me and switched to BBC Russian Service, at least their hallucinations didn't go further then 120 Soviet soldiers killed in Afghnaistan daily.
So, in May, 1986, a Western TV team working in Ukraine makes a report about a real "deformed baby", a true mutant with severe birth defects, and it is shown on one of the Western popular TV channels. It was really horrible - they filmed the "real outcome of Chernobyl radiation exposure"!
KGB started an investigation immediately - when did they film this and why we don't know about such outstanding mutations going on!? The answer was simple. Poor baby was born in a family of alcoholics. Parents refused to take the child, preferring to spend money on vodka. And the most interesting fact was that the baby was born in December 1985, 5 months before an accident!
"As shown on TV", our victims of Evil Soviet Radiation claimed the kid back and turned to one Western embassy for political asylum because "Soviet state is responsible for the birth-defects". Funny, but they were let out of country and got to the West. It was a hard time for alcoholics in 1986 - Gorby started an anti-alcohol campaign, and in the West they had a chance to continue with their creative hobby. So, in a few weeks it was all clear to the side that gave them an asylum, so they were kicked in their ass, returned to the Union and spent the rest of their lifes in narcological clinics. Poor kid stayed in the West.
I wonder if the TV programm mentioned in this thread used the same original 1986 footage of a "deformed baby". Maybe the journalists who made an original report about "Russian mutants" still get royalties?...