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40 years of the Chernobyl disaster: what the USSR and German media reported about the Chernobyl accident

How the USSR tried to hide the scale of the Chernobyl disaster and how the West German media, step by step, put together a picture of the Chernobyl accident - in a reconstruction of the first days of the information confrontation in the spring of 1986.

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40 years of the Chernobyl disaster: what the USSR and German media reported about the Chernobyl accident
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Как СССР пытался скрыть масштабы Чернобыльской катастрофы и как западногерманские медиа шаг за шагом собирали картину аварии на ЧАЭС - в реконструкции первых дней информационного противостояния весны 1986 года.

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