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Special: 9th October 1963 - Vajont, a man-made natural disaster

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We go back to a quiet mountain valley of north-eastern Italy where the peace was forever broken by one of the country's most ambitious architerctural and engineering projects that ended in one of the worst disasters in the history of Italy in the 20th century.

This is the story of how progress and profit was put before thousands of human lives, this is the story of Vajont, a story that must be remenered,

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Special: 9th October 1963 - Vajont, a man-made natural disaster

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