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Chernobyl was the epitome of dysfuntion in the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 80s. Everything was falling apart. Nothing was working the way it was supposed to. Every citizen and resident knew that something was broken and needed to be fixed. This level of Soviet dysfuntion was unsustainable.
Chernobyl disaster was 1986. Gorbachev was 'elected' as 'leader' in 1985 as the young face that would revitalize USSR. Berlin Wall fell in 1989.
Chernobyl disaster was a harbinger of collapse in hindsight.