[ansel12]

"The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl 20 years ago this month, even more than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union five years later."



Modest, isn't he ?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl 20 years ago this month, even more than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union five years later."

. . . because it dramatized the price you could find yourself paying for having been kept in the dark and fed B.S.