Gorbachev: Reaping the Whirlwind - The Poisoned Land

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30th October 1989 Season 37 Episode 31

From the Aral Sea, evidence of a catastrophe that rivals Chernobyl. The planning decisions of the Brezhnev years have left a great many facing disease, deformity and death. As the sea dries up, the ecology of the region disintegrates.

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Season 37 · Episode 32

Gorbachev: Reaping the Whirlwind - Bloody Sunday

In Tblisi, the capital of Soviet Georgia, troops encircled a crowd of peaceful demonstrators and attacked them with truncheons, entrenching tools and gas. 20 people were killed - more than 3/4 were women - and over 500 taken to hospital.

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