Gorbachev Faced Pressure Over Chernobyl Openness
Mikhail Gorbachev, who took power in 1985, insisted on full openness about the Chernobyl accident. However, initially, there was a lack of adequate information to release to the public.
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“Gorkychov was in a tenuous position. He had taken power just the year before and was vulnerable to being unseated by the overwhelmingly conservative aporectics that sat around him if they thought he was too much of a reformer. To this day, Gorkychov says that he insisted on full openness about the accident”
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