Old enemies practice teamwork.

Abstract

In their book, Ecocide in the U.S.S.R., Murray Feshbach, a specialist on Soviet health and population, and Alfred Friendly, Jr, a former Moscow bureau chief for Newsweek, warn of the dangers of ignoring ecological consequences of our actions. The book details the enormous price in human health and natural resources exacted from the Russian people by its leaders and its system. Feshbach and Friendly relate how the country has for so long systematically poisoned its land, air, water, and people. This article is about a group of Americans who experienced the shocking extent of health problems that exist in Russia and the sorry state of health care endured by the Russian people. This group of medical and nursing personnel and other volunteers are working with the citizens of Zelenograd, Moscow, Russia, to help rebuild the long-neglected health care system and to improve the education of health care providers.