Much better source than Lenin's Tomb are available. Journalists tend to focus on simplifying, story like explanations, whereas reality is much more complex, eve

Much better source than Lenin's Tomb are available. Journalists tend to focus on simplifying, story like explanations, whereas reality is much more complex, even more interesting than the "stories" they tell. Chernobyl was a mere foot note in the Biographies of Gorbachev. In fact, ethno national flareups in Nagorno-Karabakh, and rise of anti-Russian sentiments in Ukraine and Baltics is perhaps the most critical factors that lead to the collapse of the USSR. Even on a chronological basis, it would be attribute to Chernobyl. USSR collapsed in 1991 December. Even a month before it collapsed, it wasn't imagined or expected that it would simply collapse that way.