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Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.

Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.

Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.

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Shocking new documentary claims 80% of Russian soldiers sent to Chernobyl died

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Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion has claimed that around 80% of Russian soldiers sent to clean it up died from being there.Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes, which is available to watch on Sky Documentaries right now, highlights newly-discovered archive footage and witness accounts of the aftermath of the tragedy.And it shows that the former Soviet leaders sent around 5,000 men on a suicide mission to clean up the site – which the soldiers were unaware of at the time.Director James Jones said: “The Soviet government played fast and loose with the truth.“They thought they would be able to film the clean-up and look like a country full of heroic people. “There were government-made documentaries, released in Soviet theatres, one year after the explosion, but it was dangerous for the film-makers to have gone so close to the radiation.“One of the directors died, as a result of radiation poisoning, one month after his film premiered.”According to official Soviet Union records, 31 people died from the explosion in Prypyat, but the true figure is though to be anywhere upwards of around 5,000 to around 10,000, if deaths as a result of the clean-up and after effects are included.

At the time, Russia was said to have sent 5,000 soldiers to clean up the site, under the leadership of General Nikolai Taraknov.

Footage in the documentary shows him asking army leaders to choose the strongest, healthiest soldiers who were inventive and sporty”.But, James Jones explained: “Nobody knew anything, especially the first ones to go to in.“What surprised me the most was the scale of the lies.“The Chernobyl explosion happened one year after Glasnost (a 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev policy about being more transparent), when everything was supposed to be.

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