LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Mikhail Gorbachev on Chernobyl

Genre

News report

TX Date

May 1986

Year of production

1986

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Duration

00:02:48

Description

Radio Moscow world service report on a speech by Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and how well the Soviet Union is coping. He has said the West has issued propaganda about the accident. Male reporter not identified. Sound fades in places.

Contributors

Radio Moscow

Keywords

Health; USSR; International relations; Propaganda; Nuclear safety; Nuclear power; Ukraine; Radiation effects; Chernobyl Nuclear Accident (1986); Nuclear disasters

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