i find it interesting that The Most Respected Newsman of All Time (tm) felt it necessary to preface every likely/absolutely true statement with THIS IS JUST SOME CRAZY COMMIE PROPAGANDA
I remember listening to Radio Moscow on my shortwave receiver when Chernobyl blew up. They canceled all normal broadcasts and sounded like there was this guy in a big empty room reading a statement on how there were hundreds and hundreds of accidents at nuclear power plants all over the US and UK. That statment Cronkite read sounds about right for the Soviets.
Even if that's so, I think it'd be like if Obama was shot in the head by a sniper in a convertible in Dallas and his brains were splattered on his wife and you were there and you yelled "DUPE"