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Main Librarian Vladimir Koziar
I am sure I could find among you those who would scoff at the name of the lecture, but through the lecture I will explain to you my view, and possibly persuade you to my ideas. The apocalypse, the Great War, The Day When The Bombs Fell. All are synonyms of one event – the Third World War. Many among you see the remnants of Pre-War civilization as the legacy of better times. Much of it is an enigma to us, irreparable even with our modern science. Many of you feel that the Pre-War world was great and beautiful; no mutants, radiation, or hunger. Many of you feel that the world was in a utopian state until the ‘evil’ Chinese started a war that resulted in the loss of countless lives and the destruction of our planet. A destruction so profound and absolute that it took many generations before we could once more set foot on the irradiated soil and begin to rebuild our once great civilization. Many of you believe that the war came like a plague in the night, obliterating our planet in one fell stroke, an unknown and unthought-of possibility. But that is untrue, the Apocalypse was inevitable.
