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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Ghost city symbolises cost of nuclear disaster

People were instructed by a guide to not touch anything in the kindergarten they passed through in Pripyat. There were such things on the shelves like plastic cubes and teddy bears kiddies’ books. Normal things you would find in a kindergarten right? The only difference is these toys were coated in thick leprous white dust. And scattered among them were infant sized gas masks. Something terrifying had made the toddlers flee their innocent corner of the world. Their home, Pripyat, once a model city, had become the set of the true-life apocalypse movie. Cursed by the winds that blow from the Chernobyl few kilometers away, Pripyat is a snapshot of astronomical cost of the world’s worst nuclear disaster. No one knows if they lived or not. Tis very sad indeed.

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