政府大幅度提供福利政策给那些被规划为残疾人的生活在受到切尔诺贝利影响地区的数百万人，这些谎言鼓励了宿命主义和悲观行为，并且在受到影响的社区中产生了“依附文化 ” 。
Combined with sweeping government benefit policies that classify millions of people living in Chernobyl-affected areas as invalids, such myths encouraged fatalistic and passive behaviors and created a “culture of dependency” among affected communities.