Chernobyl Disaster Quotes

5 quotes from 5 authors

Clicking the Chernobyl Disaster page lands you on five compact snippets that show how writers wrestle with the tragedy. One voice jokes about turning the catastrophe into comedy; another treats it as a solemn historical marker. For a view, explore the Nuclear Accidents or Soviet History sections where archive expands.

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Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the…

Svetlana Alexievich

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“There is only one road here: the most thorough study of all the details of the Chernobyl disaster, since it is by…

Grigori Medvedev

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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule…

Sam Kinison

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Five years after the Chernobyl disaster, in the summer of 1991, the last summer the Soviet Union was still in existence, I…

Anne Applebaum

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Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes!

Jimmy Carr

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