The Chernobyl disaster is a better example of socialism at it's finest than it is a mark against the use of nuclear power.
That is exactly it, sir, a failure of socialism; it certainly demonstrated, in its slipshod construction, how much the socialists loved the workers and peasants.
I was in Ukraine 8-10 years after Chernobyl.
I heard many times about how it was several days before the socialists told their own people what had happened, and that ostensibly radiation had rained down from the skies on May 1, May Day, as hundreds of thousands of children marched in socialist parades in downtown Kiev, ignorant of any peril.
However, the people had sensed something was wrong, because the accident at Chernobyl happened during the small hours of the morning.....and by circa 6:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m., the roads leading out of Kiev were jampacked with vehicles fleeing east and northeast (towards Moscow). Under socialism, traffic jams were an unknown phenomenon, given that only socialists, and not people, could afford to have and maintain motor vehicles.
And then there was this--thousands of automobiles and military trucks, jampacked full with possessions, streaming out of the city. Many of the people in these convoys were recognizable as socialists, abandoning the people to their fate.
The people wondered what had happened--the most common supposition was that some sort of
coup d'etat had happened in Moscow, but being victims of totalitarianism, generally obeyed orders to stay put and continue on with their regular routines, their regular lives.
I actually saw Chernobyl, but from a distance. I have no idea how close I was taken, but it was close enough to see from the distance all of the buildings, including the "entombed" one. Mostly what I remember was going through villages and towns and cities, abandoned 8-10 years previously; weeds growing on the streets, buildings slowly collapsing, junk strewn all around, not a soul.
This is the sort of world for which the primitives dream; where their idols, their icons, their gods live in comfort and opulence and security, and the people languish in poverty.
One supposes the primitives imagine that under socialism, the primitives would be among the favored few, but that's never happened. The primitives would be mired in poverty and hopelessness and want and involuntary ignorance along with all decent and civilized people.
