The fact that Amerikans know more about Chernobyl than the Church Rock Uranium Spill is clear evidence of how ingrained anti communism and anti native racism is in Amerikan culture
Church Rock uranium mill spill - Wikipedia
The spill is the country's "worst in terms of contamination" according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, with over 100 million gallons of radioactive sludge and 100 pounds of solid waste spilled into Diné lands, communities and into the major water supply of the Rio Puerco. The US government even had the audacity of "testing" the area, and reported no increase in radiation, a clear lie that lead to the preventable deaths of many more Diné.
Yet we here not a word, few documentaries are made about it, Netflix does not make a dramatized historical fiction story about Church Rock, YouTube feeds are not filled with attention grabbing pop history/science videos on it, and no high school history class spends 1-3 classes on it. Yet the Diné are still dying from this spill, still suffering negative heath outcomes, birth defects, loss of livestock and illnesses from this spill and all the other radioactive pollution caused by US mining on their lands, for which the Diné to this day have gotten no little to no compensation.
Why? because the perpetrator wasn't one of Amerika's foreign rivals and because the victims weren't white, but one of the prisoners kept by the Euro-Amerikan jailhouse. This isn't a crime of the evil Russian communists, but of the Euro-Amerikan occupation against its occupied victims, the Diné nation.
