It's Pronounced "Nookyoolar" Disaster

I heard a little retrospective report about Chernobyl this morning on NPR. The reporter, who was born and raised in Kiev, talked about how after the explosion at the nuclear plant, the only way people could get the real story about what had happened was through rumors and gossip, since all the official pronouncements from the government were of the "move along, nothing to see here" variety.

Aren't you glad we don't have to deal with that here?

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