Communism didn’t just drop plastic straws to the ocean, they sank by radioactively contaminated submarine sections to the sea: The story of K-19.
The visual footage of the rupture of an underwater gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico have triggered some people on Twitter, mainly Americans, who suddenly started to take swipe against Capitalism in clear pretext of promoting Communism. What these persons don’t have is the real experience and knowledge what neglect to the environment the Communist regimes have shown. Most notorious of all the neglects is the 4 July 1961 Soviet K-19 submarine incident, where its protype nuclear reactor cooling system failure almost resulted in such nuclear catastrophe to the ocean environment, the Soviet Navy seamen unofficially nicknamed the K-19 nuclear engine Hiroshima.
did i do this right pic.twitter.com/OfdsPpwKYR
— carina (adult human sbemail 💌) (@checarina) July 3, 2021
The sea is on fire but some people *still* think capitalism can be managed. pic.twitter.com/akxbZzlNXs
— Laura Pidcock (@LauraPidcock) July 3, 2021
Worse – later, during the radiation decontamination works at the dry dock and dismantling the radiated sections of the K-19, additional 700 square meters of environment was radioactively contaminated. The cut out radioactive K-19 sections were later sunk into the Kara Sea, close to the Novoya Zemlya.
The Arctic seas and oceans are most oxygen rich oceans in the world resulting in explosion of various marine fauna who all are till this day under severe threat of uncontrolled nuclear radiation. Also, the whole marine biological variety is most rich at the arctic and cold waters. What the Soviet Communist did was deliberately hid radioactive contamination deep underwater but not to conserve properly with the future environmental issues in mind.
On 4 July 1961, two months go commissioned, Soviet submarine K-19 with the R-13 (NATO SS-4) ICBM on board, encountered a serious nuclear reactor accident where the cooling system of the prototype reactor seized to work. The reactor reached quickly 800C temperature. The captain of the vessel had no other choice than to order volunteers to go and assemble a makeshift replacement system in highly radioactively contaminated reactor premise which later resulted in all 7 seamen who installed the replacement to die from the radiation right after the incident despite being equipped with CBRN suits. In the few years’ time additional 15 crew members died from the radiation because the highly contaminated radioactive steam and air spread over the whole submarine.
Communism have never cherished human life, they all are expendable, the same goes with the attitude towards the environment as everywhere, the where the Soviet Army, Navy or Air Force has been dispatched it always have ended in serious environmental contamination and threats to human lives.
The fact alone all the K-19 radiation contaminated sections, and addition equipment from the dry dock, were sank into the Kara Sea seems to be a nothingburger for the same people, because by a mere visual stimulus they express something they have very little knowledge and critique only within the limited perception of the world they have allowed themselves to be submerged.
To list environmental catastrophes in the USSR then the top list would be:
- the Aral Sea,
- the Baikal Lake pollution,
- the reversing of Siberian rivers by series of massive underground nuclear explosions,
- massive contamination of baby food with heavy metals and pesticide fertilizers,
- depletion of Siberian Forest from the reindeer by annually shooting at least 150000 beasts just to meet the centrally-planned economy quota.
Technogenic accidents do happen but Communism or Communistic economy approach is not the way how for the prevention.
