The Chernobyl nuclear accident is part of the Ukrainian dramatic continuum and its peaks of intensity:
- 1917 Soviet revolution
- 1932 Organized starvation (Holodomor)
- 1937 Stalinist purges
- 1939 German-Soviet annexation
- 1941 German invasion
- 1945 Guerrilla warfare against the USSR until 1954
- 1986 Chernobyl accident
- 1991 Collapse of the Soviet Union
- 2004 Orange revolution
- 2013 Maïdan revolution
- 2014 Annexation of Crimea by Russia
- 2022 Russian invasion
Through its economic role in the collapse of the USSR, the Chernobyl accident is one of the key points in the modern history of Ukraine.
Par Semoziade — Travail personnel, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=115524008