Keith Jones - Historian, Author of 'The Return of Stalin: The Soviet Union under Romanov'
If the entire previous history of the Soviet Union wasn't enough to convince you of the morally repugnant practices of the communist party, Chernobyl should have. The Soviets only acknowledged the incident once they were forced to once detected in the free west. The Soviets then covered up the failure of their defective shoddy reactors and went about trying to retrofit them secretly. Thankfully this was exposed in 1987 by a CIA report widely commented on in the press. President Reagan rightfully lambasted the Soviets for their crimes, calling them an empire "built of lies, predicated on deceit and the depravity and tyranny only those evil men could imagine".