Although not recognized as such at the time, the deadly explosion that wrecked the Soviet Union's showcase nuclear plant in Chernobyl in 1986 was an advance obituary both for the country and the very concept of the communist doctrine.
With overabundant braggadocio, Soviet leaders called Chernobyl “the new power plant that would one day make the USSR's nuclear engineering famous across the globe.”
Famous? Nope, infamous is the better term. The much-hailed facility turned out to be one of the more spectacular failures in technological history.
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