1. The Soviet Union - 1922-1991
... alone is what destroyed the Soviet Union." Not single-handedly, of course: this was just another major cause. On the twenty-sixth of April 1986, very poorly trained technicians (classic Soviet move to cut corners) decided to undertake a systems test of the fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, at one-thirty in the morning. A surplus of nuclear energy ... ...
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