The explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in 1986 astounded the world. It was shocking not just because of the technical failure—unfortunately such things happen from time to time—but as a social and political failure. The Chernobyl catastrophe undermined and exposed the false, vicious and inhumane Soviet totalitarian system. The Chernobyl explosion initiated the disintegration of the corrupt Communist regime—a regime which had been deemed unshakeable in the USSR.
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