Soviet artist Alexei Kokorekin, two-time winner of the Stalin Prize for his wartime posters, and his daughter Valeria are seen in Moscow, USSR in this undated handout photo. Alexei Kokorekin was one of three people to die in the 1960 smallpox outbreak. Family archives of Vladimir Petrosyan/Handout via REUTERS
“Immediately in Moscow a special headquarters was set up, which led the hunt for people who had been exposed,” Victor Zuev, 90, a laboratory worker at the time, told Reuters. Petrosyan, 80 and now a professor of chemistry, spent two months in compulsory isolation after contracting the disease. Some Russians question official coronavirus data now. But back then, with Nikita Khrushchev in charge, there was no information.
Petrosyan, who later married Kokorekin’s daughter, said he and his wife were at the artist’s bedside when he died that month.
That doesn’t make it right.
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