Greetings, Comrades!
We’ve had a rough February – and we didn’t manage to fix all of our errors in the previous podcasts, but…here we are nonetheless. This show was one of the hardest ever to make, and I really hope you’ll not only enjoy it, but will also take some time to understand the depth of the tragedy. Today’s picture is – Pripyat. Empty, irradiated and ghastly, it stands there to remind us of the evils of ignorance.
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Chernobyl was such a tragic event and all caused by corruption. Thank you for telling this story.
Well done and very scary.
Great episode as I have come to expect from you. Thanks again!!
RBMK = Реактор Большой Мощности Канальный
That’s really thinking of the highest order
Fantastic podcasts, thank you so much (!)
Please, what is the spelling of ‘Spoilage’?
You mean in Russian? Phone doesn’t have cyrillic…it’s Brāķis in Latvian tho. In latinized Russian it’s Brak.
Thank you soo much again (!) ^^
– When I looked it up in Russian, брак ‘Brak’ came back as a direct translation for ‘marriage’, which is either poignant or hilarious.
So I wanted to double check! ^^
My sincere best wishes to you and everything to do (!)
It does. Russian language is a bit strange in this way 😀 You can the understand the meaning from context, tho.
Birgitta Dahl, who was the Minister for Energy Affairs in Sweden by the time of the Chernobyl disaster claims the Moscow government wasn’t aware of the disaster when she contacted them in April 28. So it was rather the people at Chernobyl who tried to hide the accident, not Moscow and Gorbachev.
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/dahl-vi-har-inte-lart-av-laxan-fran-tjernobyl/
Yes, because obviously, the Soviet government would never lie to anyone, especially foreign powers. Of course. And independent investigations later, during the perestroika are all wrong. Totally.
The attempted cover up may have been done in true Russian style, and subtlety. BUT the knee-jerk reaction to minimize and cover up big industrial stuff is by no means unique to the Soviet Union – Bhopal India, and Three Mile Island are also case studies.