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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1945 Marshal Philippe Pétain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during World War II, arrested for treason.As usual he kept his wits about...avoiding dying(1951) of dementia thinking "he was still fighting battles and surrounded by naked dancing women"...

1986 World's worst nuclear disaster: 4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR explodes, 31 die, radioactive contamination reaches much of Western Europe.

...as several hundred conscript-cannonfodder Russians R currently finding out;..having dug trenches in and around Chernobyl's highly toxic Red Forest, where even Ukraine powerplant workers are not permitted in the current re-Stalinization attempt ongoing in Eastern Europe. They are reported under treatment in Gorpet, Bylorussian hospitals for acute radiation sickness.