There are great and disturbing similarities between the Chinese Communist Party’s handling of the coronavirus and the Soviet Union’s handling of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
In both cases, communist regimes waited too long to admit they had a problem, placing the illusion of government control and stability ahead of the preservation of human life. This caused the risks and the number of deaths to grow unnecessarily.
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