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Who is arguing that? I never seen any credible evidence that it contributed in any significant way to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
by dcgudeman 5y ago
Who is arguing that? I never seen any credible evidence that it contributed in any significant way to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- arethuza 5y agoMikhail Gorbachev for one https://slate.com/technology/2013/01/chernobyl-and-the-fall-of-the-soviet-union-gorbachevs-glasnost-allowed-the-nuclear-catastrophe-to-undermine-the-ussr.html https://slate.com/technology/2013/01/chernobyl-and-the-fall-... Edit: Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy also makes a claim that the accident let to political instability in the Ukraine which certainly didn't help with the integrity of the SU.
- yc12340 5y agoGorbachev is directly responsible for collapse of USSR, — he ruled it when it collapsed. So he is responsible for both of the disasters. Shouldn't you be a little skeptical, when he tries to blame one of his disasters for another?
- arethuza 5y agoOf course I'm sceptical - but given other accounts of the times that I have read I haven't seen anything in his account that seems fundamentally wrong.
- NovemberWhiskey 5y agoWell, Mikhail Gorbachev has actually written about specifically this. You'd think he'd be a reliable source.
- breakfastduck 5y agoAbout as credible as you're going to get, I imagine
- throwawayboise 5y agoMy perception of it is that the collapse had already started and was probably inevitable, but the Chernobyl disaster accelerated it and was a metaphorical nail in the coffin, further reducing any chance there might have been at recovery.