Forty years ago, on April 26 1986, one of the most devastating disasters of our time occurred: the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Chernobyl is famous not only because it directly affected the lives of millions, but also because - according to many historians - it stands as a symbol of the collapse of the Soviet Union: the memento of a dictatorship’s denial, servility, and propaganda, the monument of the system’s corruption.