Washington Silences Its Own Voice

Two days after the 1986 explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, Soviet television broadcast a 20-second report acknowledging that a minor “accident” had occurred. Omitted was any mention of the high levels of radiation that had been detected as far away as Sweden and of the tens of thousands of people who had been evacuated. Ukrainians needed to tune to a different source, one that the Soviets actively sought to censor, for that information: the Voice of America (VOA).

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