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| Gorbachev |
In late April, 1986, reactor number 4 at Chernobyl exploded.
The effect was catastrophic. Not only on lives and buildings, but also on the health of the USSR.General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, in seeing the devastation, realised that incompetence and failure was rotting away at the Soviet Union, and that far-reaching changes were needed in response.
But his subsequent reforms, instead of liberating the nation, instead hastened its decline.
Gorbachev lost control of events. His innovative spirit ended in failure. He, like all his fellow innovator-leaders, hoped he could lead his community into a better future. Some innovators succeed, some fail. But they all try.
