Highlights of this day in history: Convicted Nazi war criminal Herman Goering commits suicide behind bars; World War I spy Mata Hari executed; Nikita Khrushchev ousted as Soviet Union’s leader; ‘I Love Lucy’ premieres on TV. (Oct. 15)
Fifty thousand people lived in Pripyat, Ukraine before the Soviet Union ordered a complete evacuation following what remains the world’s worst nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station in 1986. The town stands as a stark reminder of the danger inherent in nuclear power.
VICE News visited the town to see how the site has dealt with the cleanup and to find out what the future holds for the location of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
Highlights of this day in history: U.S. cruise missiles hit Afghanistan and Sudan after American embassies bombed in Africa; The Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia; NASA’s Voyager 2 launched; Singers Issac Hayes and Robert Plant born. (Aug. 20)
Ukraine’s comedian-turned-president Volodymyr Zelensky casts his vote during the Parliamentary elections. Zelensky’s newly-created party is expected to win the largest share of the votes in the election that should usher in a new era in the country dominated up to now by politicians who grew up when the country was part of the Soviet Union. IMAGES
Numerous World War II reenactors recreated scenes from the defence of Brest Fortress in the Belarusian city on Saturday, to mark the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow on the 78th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union. Prior to the reenactment, a commemorative ceremony took place in the Brest Hero Fortress memorial complex.
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RT’s documentary about Chernobyl’s 1986 blast released in 2008:
‘Its been exactly twenty years since Valery Legasov – one of the Soviet Union’s highly acclaimed scientists – commited suicide. He headed the scientific group involved in the clear-up of the Chernobyl blast in 1986 and threw himself into finding what caused the disaster.
However he met a lot of difficulties in his path, which – as some say – broke him.’
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Highlights of this day in history: Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign the ‘Pact of Steel’; Richard Nixon is the first U.S. president to visit the Soviet Union; Actor Laurence Olivier born; Johnny Carson hosts his last ‘Tonight Show.’
Thousands carry portraits of World War Two soldiers as they take part in the ‘Immortal Regiment’ march in Moscow: Russia was marking on Thursday the 74nd anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany.
Preparations for Russia’s World War II Victory Day celebrations took place on Moscow’s Red Square on Monday. The centre of Moscow was filled with a wide array of military vehicles which were driven around the square after an infantry marching rehearsal.
The Victory Parade will take place on May 9 to mark the 74th anniversary of the official capitulation of Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union.
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