Did the Chernobyl disaster contribute in any way to the fall of the USSR?

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Kryptospuridium137

There was an awesome thread 3 months ago on this. Definitely check it out:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/bwshem/mikhail_gorbachev_wrote_in_2006_the_nuclear