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I hope there's no accident of course. That said, Tchernobyl and the cost of managing that disaster is seen by many historians as the event that bankrupted the U

• redis_mlc 5y ago
  Chernobyl had multiple effects on the Communist Party, but one that was important but intangible - the loss of credibility of the Party (the meltdown proved they couldn't manage a utility, and there was a huge coverup.) After the USSR breakup, the CCP studied how to avoid the same fate. Partly that's the reason for the corona coverup. What's interesting is that a failure of the Three Gorges Dam would cause both a Chernobyl situation from loss of cooling of multiple nuclear reactors, as well as flooding the Wuhan area, where the PLA/etc. joint command is located. The PLA maintains a military force around the dam to protect it. Note that the Three Gorges Dam is not used for flood control , just electricity generation, which is controlled by one of the Dragon Families. The dam was deliberately made half-height (of what Russian engineers recommended) so that if it filled, it wouldn't flood a major city upstream.
• cmurf 5y ago
  They exchanged communism for an oligarchy that openly steals from the people, syphoning wealth abroad. It's not an improvement.