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'Chernobyl' shows how mass mobilizations saved Europe and doomed the Soviet Union

  • Written by Gregory R. Witkowski, Senior Lecturer of Nonprofit Management, Columbia University
Miners were among the many people the USSR deployed after the disaster.Liam Daniel/HBO

The HBO miniseries “Chernobyl” about the 1986 Soviet nuclear disaster has won over viewers and critics.

Despite taking some dramatic licenses, the show accurately portrays everyday life under communism in the Soviet Union, the gory effects of severe...

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