• Dupelet@piefed.socialOPM
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    14 days ago

    Trolley problem fun fact: The 1986 Chernobyl disaster saw a real-life version. The Soviets used rain seeding to create rain, washing radioactive particles over rural Belarus to save the larger population of Moscow, intentionally harming a smaller group to prevent a wider catastrophe.

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      Well… The Soviets were proficient in killing non-Russian populations to protect the Russian one from stuff. Even when the stuff didn’t actually exist.