Stories of Heroes That Will Make Your Day

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Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and Boris Baranov

The three men, sometimes called the Suicide Squad, kept the power plant from melting down by opening sluice gates beneath the power plant and potentially saving millions of lives. These three heroes survived the harrowing experience.Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and Boris Baranov were three men who bravely swam through the radioactive waters of Chernobyl in order to prevent a nuclear meltdown.