97% done with War and Peace

There’s an article on Slate that reports on how Gorbachev believes Chernobyl was a major cause of the downfall of the USSR. Tolstoy does not believe in the single cause theory as a prime mover of history and believes the forces are unseen. Ironic then that an invisible radiation cloud drifting over the fertile Ukraine could have actually been the exception that proves the rule.

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