USSR
Coverage of USSR in the Nexus archive.
- Emergency left and right
Indira Gandhi declared a 21-month Emergency in India, during which Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh was assassinated. Geopolitical events included a CIA-backed coup in Chile, an Arab oil embargo favoring the USSR, and student movements in Gujarat and Bihar led by Jaiprakash Narayan. A court ordered Gandhi's removal over an election rally charge, and Ziaul Haq later staged a coup in Pakistan.
- From the archives: USSR announces Chernobyl power plant explosion in 1986
On April 28, 1986, Swedish scientists detected high radiation levels, revealing a reactor explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine that occurred two days earlier. The USSR announced the incident, marking one of the worst nuclear disasters in history.
- Semyon Guzman defied the abuse of psychiatry by the USSR
Semyon Guzman, a psychiatrist and human-rights campaigner, died on February 16th at age 79. He is remembered for his resistance against the misuse of psychiatry by the USSR.