Secret Russian research on activated water

Philipp B.: You sometimes read about “secret Russian research” on activated water. Is it true that the Russians wanted to survive a nuclear attack by the Americans?

• I only met one researcher from that time, the doctor Dina Gitelman, but she remained silent about it. The Soviet hero of the active water discovery is called Vitold Bakhir and is now the head of a large company and a professor at a huge water research institute in Moscow. He also didn't answer any of my emails. So all that remains is speculation. After all, his English-language websites www.bakhir.com and www.vbinstitute.org provide extensive historical material.
• In the early 70s, Bakhir developed an alkaline activated water to improve drilling fluid for natural gas drilling in Uzbekistan. Since the workers on the drilling rigs suffered less from sunburn when they bathed in the Bakhir water, the protective effect of the alkaline electrolyte water against all kinds of radiation damage was investigated and it was found that it works and is cost-effective. It was the time of the Cold War, nuclear war with immeasurable radiation damage was a real threat - so perhaps that's why the files were sealed with the stamp "top secret". It was not until 1981 that the first news about the extensive research became public.
• In 1985, electrochemical activation was officially recognized as a new scientific research area. From 1987 to 1996, work was done on so-called contactless electrochemical activation, which is actually based on the migration of hydrogen gas.
• This resulted in the most extensive and well-funded active water research that still exists today in Russia and some CIS countries. After the fall of communism, Russian researchers networked internationally, and there are hardly any secrets left about the world's most extensive research on activated water. However, many documents are still only published in Russian.
• The important Russian water researcher VG Shironosow has compiled an excellent encyclopedia of this literature. In view of this intensive research over decades, it is not surprising that water ionizers are a common product in the CIS countries and are available to take away in some supermarkets. Russian books on this topic have a dizzying number of copies, and the words “living water” and “dead water” have long been part of “folk medicine”.
• A certain pride in the Soviet Union's own development is also evident in a Russian television report that I uploaded to YouTube in German translation. The attractive Russian ex-agent Anna Chapman, who, among other things, wanted to marry Edward Snowden, cleverly reveals some of the secrets of Russian water research. However, it is not the Cold War that is mentioned here, but specifically the Afghanistan War as the reason for the secrecy. My YouTube title is: “The not-so-secret Russian water research. Can be seen here:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZguTWzqiBY&index=10&list=PLS2_rQEROX8MycX4VrgY59rdINGSQFlXg