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If this is the "other" disaster, then what was the first one? You definitely don't mean Chornobyl, because it's not in Russia.
by kozak 9y ago
If this is the "other" disaster, then what was the first one? You definitely don't mean Chornobyl, because it's not in Russia.
- rangibaby 9y agoThe “R” in USSR may as well have stood for Russia ;-)
- OnACoffeeBreak 9y agoThat is also a pet peeve of mine that even respectable journalists that should know better make: saying Russia when they clearly mean USSR.
- mikeash 9y agoIt's fairly common, although I agree they ought to do better. It seems to be partially due to the fact that Russia was such a dominant part of the USSR, and partly because the USSR was more or less the continuation of the Russian Empire, which was often referred to as just "Russia."
- mcguire 9y agoSee 'synecdoche'. Russia was the important part of the USSR.