Chernobyl at 40: Secret Stasi files reveal extent of Soviet misinformation campaign over nuclear disaster
theconversation.com
Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.

Any totalitarian regime would put its own survival before the health and safety of its population.

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    16 days ago

    This is all old news, I was hoping for a lot more.

    For “three years” of poring over Stasi docs, this is little more than we knew in 1989.

    It’s like he stopped writing just as he was gaining momentum.