History Extra podcast: The librarian who stole KGB secrets
When an elderly man with a battered suitcase walked into the British embassy in Vilnius in 1992, few could have guessed what he was about to hand over. Gordon Corera…
A video about the The Kyshtym disaster
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The Babushkas of Chernobyl | Documentary Central | Full Movie
In the radioactive Dead Zone surrounding Chernobyl's Reactor No. 4, a defiant community of women scratches out an existence on some of the most toxic land on Earth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-WWiOUQeSY
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