Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev29 April 1986
Faces growing pressure to provide fuller public information as radioactive fallout from Chernobyl is detected outside the Soviet Union.
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Faces growing pressure to provide fuller public information as radioactive fallout from Chernobyl is detected outside the Soviet Union.
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