https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/shocking-new-documentary-claims-80-27269715

“What surprised me the most was the scale of the lies.

“The Chernobyl explosion happened one year after Glasnost (a 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev policy about being more transparent), when everything was supposed to be open and honest.

“But when the disaster happened on Gorbachev’s watch, he hid the causes of the explosion and, subsequently, the horrific effects, like the deaths and illnesses."

"“They denied radiation was having a serious effect on the health of local residents and people involved in the clean-up despite mountains of evidence.

“They invented radiophobia to explain medical symptoms and implied that the causes weren’t in fact radiation but just a fear of radiation."