Gerd Ludwigのインスタグラム(gerdludwig) - 7月31日 02時15分

In 1987, just one year after the Chernobyl accident, Anna Avramenko, returned to Opachichi, the village of her birth inside the Exclusion Zone. When I visited her in 2011, she had accidently spilled boiling hot milk onto her left leg and was waiting for the doctors to visit. Her neighbors who had come for a visit could only wait helplessly with her for an ambulance to make its way through overgrown roads from the Chernobyl hospital some 15 miles away.

It’s 40 roughly years ago that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant went first online, but it’s reactor #4 blew up in 1986 after operators botched a safety test. Of all manmade environmental catastrophes in human history, Chernobyl is considered to have caused the most lasting impact. Approximately 350,000 people were forced to evacuate after the explosion.
But, disaster be damned, a couple of hundred elderly people have retuned and live surrounded by devestation. At first Ukrainian officials discouraged them, but they soon turned a blind eye, allowing them  to stay, realizing that  they prefer to die on their own soil rather than of a broken heart in anonymous city suburbs.

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