40 years ago today #Chernobyl nuclear disaster started. In a rush to earn a promo from #Communist party, NPP's chief engineer went on with a reckless test that led to one of the reactors blowing up. With its usual genocidal indifference to #Belarusian and #Ukrainian lives, #Russia's leaders denied scale and public health implications of the disaster, proceeded with their May parades, and, when the radioactive clouds turned towards #Moscow, had them seeded to land 70% of the fallout in #Belarus.