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General Discussion / Re: Cover-up
« Last post by Osi on Today at 12:48:50 PM »At a time when the Khrushchev thaw was being implemented with concrete initiatives, there was a fierce opposition against the stretching of the Stalinist legacy. The failure to find the last four individuals, in particular, and the lack of a plausible explanation for the tragedy's cause, must have served as an opportunity to accuse the government of erosion, embarrassment, and incompetence, based on the deaths of nine young people. Could a simple case of radioactive contamination have been exaggerated by opposition experts? It seems understandable that a tragedy that actually occurred due to a chain reaction of natural causes, the lack of reliable reporting, the lack of modern resources (TV, internet, etc.), and the government's inability to control events due to the distance between Yukaterinburg and Moscow, led to a plausible cover-up, or rather, steps to cover up the incident without delving into it too much.