From Chernobyl to the Coronavirus

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As a Soviet teenager In 1986, yarotrof saw how the Communist regime tried and failed to suppress the truth about Chernobyl. Is China making the same mistakes with the coronavirus?

My grandfather called just as I finished packing my suitcase—a hard task when you don’t know whether you will ever return. “Don’t you dare leave Kyiv now,” he hissed into the receiver. “You will ruin your life forever. They never forgive this kind of thing.”

It was the last day of April 1986, and I was 16, staying with my grandmother in Kyiv while my parents lived in New York. My girlfriend was the daughter of a deputy minister of commerce; a few other classmates at Secondary School Number 153 were even better connected. Three...

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