This program includes richly emotional scenes of the survivors of the Armenian earthquake; interviews with angry workers in a Yaroslavl engine factory where one of the first strikes in decades took place; a visit to Chernobyl, where people are illegally returning to their homes in the still-radioactive zone around the nuclear reactor; and footage of the bloody unrest among the Mhesks in Uzbekistan. (51 minutes)

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