The vast Soviet Empire crumbled, as all imperial edifices must with it vanished the client states that Moscow used as a defensive bulwark against invasion from the West, thus bringing a new European geopolitical order into being. Those three decades since the disaster inaugurated a period of change perhaps unprecedented in the history of mankind. In the West, the thirtieth anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster has passed with the usual photo-galleries and retrospective articles providing for the amusement and education of chattering classes while in Kiev candles were lit in solemn commemoration of an unparalleled national catastrophe.
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