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What exactly did we learn from communism.
To start it with irony – it was like a porno movie with a story. The inadequate “actors”, who get ****, the plot/story, and people who jack off while watching the show. Excuse my language, really (: But I can’t seem to find a better comparison.
We are communal beings. So we all have lived, ever since we began to think, in a system of communism. Some proactive individual decided they can play with words and twisted the axiomatic sence of “communism” into what we connect it to now (historically).
I am a generation Y person, the first somewhat clean generation, who have only “heard” about that horrible grey reality of communism and The party. From all the results I have been subjected to, growing up in post-commie Bulgaria, from all the stories and tragedies, and false peace and happiness, it wasn’t untill a 2-minute comment in a Chernobyl movie that I realized what communism was.
The night Chernobyl exploded, there was a regular test of the reactor scheduled. The pressure had to be lowered, but not too much. The main scientist – Deyatlov – a person with an impressive past and a nuclear fanatic, so to call him, wanted to completely switch the pressure off. He wanted to proove to himself mainly that He is the one controlling technology, not vice versa. Two of the other scientists were horrified of what could happen if that is conducted but only vaguely protested. After all what they feared was hypothetical and he was in charge.
How can the communist scientific world be wrong. Isn’t Chernobyl the strongest and ultra modern nuclear plant in the world! To add up to the total lack of survival instinct, later on, it turned out that the constuction of the block was flawed – because the Party insisted on “finishing way before schedule, so we prove socialism is more effective than capitalism“. This insisting resulted in snap-shot-purchasing of NON-fire proof materials for the ceiling, not good enough concrete and etc. The scientists didn’t even know that on the tips of the borum rods (which are used to prevent explosion in each reactor) there is graphite (which actually triggered the blast!).
After this short introduction let me get to the comment that basically explained it all to me.
Chernobyl was the grand finalle of a sterilized system based on mistakes. It metaphorically marked the end of the socialism era. The person in charge of the plant wasn’t a scientist. He was a close to the Party person who went through 2 year-course. At the night of the blast he was sleeping, because he knew the test would be successful and he would get his promotion and get out of Pripyat. Deyatlov, the one in charge in Chernobyl that night, wanted to impose himself on everybody because he was the best nuclear physycyst in the Soviet Union at the time. Born in the system, he has learned that things are as they are told. That is why he never even assumed he could make a mistake. The two other scientists knew he was the authority, being grown in a system where you do what you are told it is impossible to rebell, your sence of thinking is cut out. Yes, they were brilliant scientists, but that was paid by their survival instinct – they sacrificed it, or maybe were born without it. Chernobyl was a sum of construction mistakes that only waited for an organisational mistake. And how difficult could it have been to find an organisational mistake in that world? Maybe we all deserved that tragedy.
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