Speakers at a Sakharov Center conference on the 35th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant disaster say the accident there intensified anti-Moscow feelings in Eastern Europe and triggered the rise of eco-nationalism in the non-Russian republics of the USSR, two developments the Kremlin had no choice but to respond.
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Paul Goble: Political consequences of Chornobyl disaster
Visitors walk in an abandoned amusement park in the ghost town of Prypiat, not far from the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, on Dec. 8, 2020.
