Chernobyl was a confirmation of the deepening crisis in the USSR - power, technology, organizational, economic. 5 years after the disaster, The Economist wrote that Chernobyl's political consequences yet destroyed the story of the reliability and power of russian technology. For the West, Chernobyl was a confirmation that the Soviets were managing their technology as well as society: secretly, bureaucraticly and inflexibly. The story of the russian Empire has fallen, which is able to compete equally with the West. The Chernobyl tragedy one more time highlighted the conflict between Western culture and russian culture.
