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Regarding building of power plants, I've studied the information I could find but very briefly. Including some interviews with Czech people who built those reactors.

> Czechs were last in europe to have uranium mines, some of mines were used as slave labor camps for dissidents / political prisoners (60 000 i think) under soviet occupation (pre1989). They were mining radioactive ore with bare hands and lived in buildings without heating. ( clergy was big part of political prisoner population, connection with clergy man Mendel )

Yeah, that's exactly what is called "propaganda". Just like the movie Tenet starts showing "life" in Russia/USSR where in some "typical Russian city" "typical Russian people" gather pieces of uranium on the streets with their bare hands. Yeah, this is exactly how we live and always lived. /s

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> Czechs were last in europe to have uranium mines

"The Svornost mine (German: Einigkeitschacht) is a deep mine in Jáchymov. It is the oldest uranium mine in the world and the oldest mine still in use in Europe."

https://www.mindat.org/loc-19729.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1chymov

Propaganda is that thing you consumed and made you not believe facts.

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[https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/USSR.CHAP.1.HTM]

" LETHAL POLITICS Chapter 1 61,911,000 Victims: Utopianism Empowered*

By R.J. Rummel

...when we are reproached with cruelty, we wonder how people can forget the most elementary Marxism. ---- Lenin

"How long will you keep killing people?" asked Lady Astor of Stalin in 1931. Replied Stalin, "the process would continue as long as was necessary" to establish a communist society.

Probably 61,911,000 people, 54,769,000 of them citizens, have been murdered by the Communist Party--the government--of the Soviet Union. This is about 178 people for each letter, comma, period, digit, and other characters in this book.

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so they killed more than 50 milion of own citizens, neighbors, family etc. But they wont kill political dissidents in country they do not care about in slightest?

Educate yourself.

After Hitler in west, reforms came. After Lenin in east, Stalin came.

One in west was voted into power. Two in east were not. All three murderous mistakes.

Also, officials* in current Russian Putin regime say that above number is not true, and that soviets intentionally killed only 24 million people.

Because they do not acknowledge some "situations" like Ukrainian famine, deaths from nuclear tests on people,... as a "intentional" killing ... i.e. 'not their fault'.

*Edit : people => officials

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