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Thunderbeast

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3. I re-watched it last week too
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 04:56 PM
3 hrs ago

The depth of lies and fear of disclosing the depth of the disaster to Soviet leadership was telling and predictive. Russia still holds the fiction that only 31 people died from the explosion.

I hold respect for those brave souls who knowingly sacrificed their health and lives to save literally millions of European citizens on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

Before he died, Gorbachev posited that the Chernobyl disaster disaster was the tipping point that ended the Soviet Union four years later.

I recommend it too.

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Yeah. I watched it when it first came out. More should view it. hlthe2b 4 hrs ago #1
when did it come out? Recently or long time ago? BlueWaveNeverEnd 3 hrs ago #5
2019-HBO hlthe2b 3 hrs ago #6
ok. thx BlueWaveNeverEnd 3 hrs ago #7
Agree Tadams01KC 4 hrs ago #2
That Actually Could Have Been Accurate.... ProfessorGAC 3 hrs ago #8
I re-watched it last week too Thunderbeast 3 hrs ago #3
My relatives told me the ruzzians went knocking on doors in Estonia Wicked Blue 3 hrs ago #4
While Probably True... ProfessorGAC 3 hrs ago #9
Those guys were up in the helicopters Wicked Blue 2 hrs ago #10
A Lot Of Those Helicopter Crews Died ProfessorGAC 2 hrs ago #11
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