"Five years after the Chernobyl disaster, in the summer of 1991, the last summer the Soviet Union was still in existence, I visited Ukraine. I trekked out to the 20-mile exclusion zone - it had been cleared of all people after the accident - together with some local environmental activists."

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Anne Applebaum is an American journalist and historian known for writing on authoritarianism and Soviet history.

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