Was the Soviet Union under totalitarianism? Was Leon Trotsky a strategist? The Cominform was established by the Soviet Union to Was Yugoslavia part of USSR? Was Ukraine part of Poland during World War II? Was Ukraine part of Russia during the Chernobyl disaster?
What caused the Chernobyl accident? On April 26, 1986, the Number Four RBMK reactor at the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, Ukraine, went out of control during a test at low-power, leading toan explosion and fire that demolished the reactor buildingand released large amounts of radiation in...
On a Sunday in June, 1993, having completed the field research for a magazine assignment on the aftermath of the Chernobyl tragedy, I filled Volodya Tikhii’s car with black market gasoline in Kiev, and we drove into the steppes of central Ukraine, to the village where my father was born...