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My favorite conspiracy theory is that Soviet leadership actually orchestrated Chernobyl disaster to scare Europe of nuclear and secure its oil/gas profits. Of course, objectively, its most likely false, but it's still curious that nobody even talks about this possibility.

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Nah, CIA orchestrated Chernobyl to prop up soviet oil revenues to maintain a constant threat to US interests to assure CIA funding.

Every time I think I've seen the funniest conspiracy theory ever, someone goes and raises the bar. Thank you Sir/Madam.

Maybe they did it to ensure the Soviet Union and then Russian Federation wouldn't go completely broke and start selling off nuclear weapons to the highest bidder.

Guys on high horses are not funny

What do you mean by that? What was 'high horse' about my joke? Or are you mad at me for some other thread?

Genuinely confused how that joke could offend you.

> My favorite conspiracy theory is that Soviet leadership actually orchestrated Chernobyl disaster to scare Europe of nuclear and secure its oil/gas profits.

mfw you don't know the actual truth about Chernobyl <https://www.tor.com/2012/07/20/a-tall-tail/>

I have no idea what kind of dramatized bs I was just tricked into reading but 9 paragraphs in it even lost me. And I'm about as hard as hard sci fi/ space exploration nerd as you can get.

That's a shame, it's a fun story and worth sticking with.

Another Stross favorite: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm

Try this then, which is a factual description of FOOF:

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...

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