It's not that surprising that the cause of the Soviet Union's collapse tries to pass the blame elsewhere. Without Chernobyl, but with Gorbachev's reforms, the

It's not that surprising that the cause of the Soviet Union's collapse tries to pass the blame elsewhere. Without Chernobyl, but with Gorbachev's reforms, the Soviet Union would still have collapsed. Without Gorbachev's reforms, but with Chernobyl, the Soviet Union would still exist, just as PRC did not collapse from Tiananmen Square and DPRK did not collapse from 1990s famine.