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i am. twenty five years ago the entire fifty thousand population over ukrainian town of previous was evacuated within three hours. the shock would you please step aside i'm working and you getting in my short thank you they left most of what they had here as they were told they were leaving only for

a couple of days but none of them has ever returned the last thing they saw for me leaving their hometown was the fourth floor of the chernobyl nuclear power plant tell us they did pipe all the explosion. what are we going numb to let you know we need to go to pre-cancer post office geniuses believe it's you we need recently i received an altercation to pick up a letter here in three patch the little that's impossible it was the post office isn't working for twenty five years. i don't think it's for real. show me state strange but according to the stamp this really has come from here you know where this post office is yes i know the back. of.

the for. a few. but if it is a loop it will still all these trees that you see they've all grown since the accident and right now we're going to be passing the house where i was born. the fish that. we came to the chernobyl exclusion zone to investigate a very strange story this place has been deserted for a quarter of a century but recently some people started receiving notices telling them to pick up letters at this post office in previous i'm holding one of those here and indeed

the stamp here proves that it came from the ghost town here. frankly speaking i don't know what to look for. these notices have no interest as nor names of those who had sent them. you know where. you're going to be honestly speaking i don't think we're going to find anything here. most of the things that remains here and in the apartments were later buried we is me but i knew i didn't keep them because they were very radioactive.

stuff. and the rest was stolen by scavengers. so here's a letter which someone failed to send from here. and there is a photo inside. looking you. all the times i've been here i've never seen anything like this. this or this refused to do so phones work here were. used they work at the nuclear power plant and sometimes they work here a little fellow. a local lawyer who we are calling our high work tonight. from kindergarden come as any excuse me who is it we calling and then harden i must

have that the wrong number. i don't get it. our investigation brings us to one of the pits kindergartens and this one is truly a horrifying scene most of the things one can see here have been left untouched ever since the catastrophe at this site which gives probably the best description and most dramatic one of the chernobyl tragedy is that children's toys i lay literally side by side with military gas masks. this is my kindergarten. i used to go here. we used to be many children in p.p.s. . specialists from all over the soviet union came here to operate the nuclear power

station all the mostly young people in a store and they thought that they were waiting for a bright future. so this town experienced a baby boom and. almost no one used the gas masks look out there because the catastrophe happened on a saturday. they'd been kept here and were left untouched. what was in that letter you found. there is a photograph inside. or here have a look. to the pop which of course it seems it was written by a child a small girl. just to try their history i was so glad to have received

your letter so i decided to reply to it was my mom got me a new doll she's so beautiful that i'm sometimes afraid to play with her when i go to school in the morning i put her by the window and make a best for her in the evening i love her dearly the weather has already been very warm here we'll be having a holiday soon my parents and i will go to a rally will be inflating balloons and after that there will be a concert in the house of cultural activities my sister will be dancing there even though she's small she's already a great dancer we're missing you very much please come and visit us from this country we're missing you very much please please come visit us in the summer less wouldn't be surprised when he mentions the first may vents in the previous house of culture and kids from this kindergarten were to perform at a concert there. when was that letter written. would you push that all the date on the envelope as it was meant to be sent and could justify just the day before the

catastrophe. the coming nobody on the eve of the catastrophe many celebrations had been planned for saturday and sunday they always schedule wedding celebrations and children's concerts for the weekend but with even when the tragedy happened we didn't call off the festive events because the living children were breathing the c.e.o. as it was a hard day and the events were out in the open many people were in the parks and i know that there were weddings in the house of culture in the end we were informed that it was very serious and that we were to go home and pack up for evacuation.

may the first was one of the biggest communist holidays in the soviet union the labor day people's house of culture still has a collection of posters with soviet leader they were meant to be carried at a traditional demonstration and the stage over here was meant to become a venue for a holiday concert. alexi they say it's not so course but look what i found it it's a fire in mansfield. so could it be that it belongs to one of those firefighters who fought the blaze at the nuclear power plants. then you have saluted no question for you that most of them died. and their gear was radioactive. thrown that it was destroyed almost immediately afterwards. what do you know that used to be an

amateur theater here maybe it's there's got to be honest i feel we're stuck with a stick and you got any ideas where we could go next. well there used to be a library here you could check out the rangers profile cards. you know the city was very beautiful. it was meant to be kind of a role model for others. who like the best place communist society could ever be perfectly planned and constructed. rebuilt it was meant to be

a paradise for those building communism. wait a minute i found a note inside this picture book it looks like a page from someone's diary this. is dated april the twenty fifth one hundred eighty six we're preparing an exuberant at the station will be bringing the reactor to a store where we have some heated debates most of us assured that we're doing everything right but still cannot come to a conclusion that the times it seems we're talking on different languages come won't make it come from flu with no one there was a confrontation of the world before more workers did not want to keep the unstable reactor an operational mayor cory wonderful from for permission according to conversations and documentation through been published already the reactor was out of control. on the twenty fifth of april the employees were saying that it was faulty solution but the bosses demanded that they should finish the experiment that

they were performing on the unstable reactor. that should be in your stomach and i saw a picture in daughter's article with babylonians our little i joked that we have now finally built it to be me in the grey of the steroid. i'm on top of tallest building it is the best vantage points to see the chernobyl nuclear power plant straight after the disaster it was covered by steel lead cold the sarcophagus underneath it are still tons of radioactive fuel and deadly levels of radiation but if you don't know that from here read it almost looks alive.

quite a few of those no doubt the apartment we're looking for should be somewhere here. do you know where this drawing came from but. it appears here several years ago actually i don't know the elevator shaft is open so be careful we need to go this way but let's go. i turn ssion. i turn shannon. i knew my eye tension on one of the new hombre ads got up the council of the town i reports it was a usual saturday and it was a very warm day we did not feel like studying. after the second lesson teachers were called for a meeting and left us to ourselves at the time we heard something bad had happened

at the reactor. many of the children's parents worked there and they talked about what they had heard from them gholston from i learned that there had been a blaze of a station and several people were injured. could not imagine how serious it was we felt that a fire was nothing to be afraid of at school we were taught that atomic energy was the safest in the world. community because. i was still a kid when the tragedy happened we played outdoors with to the rooftop and saw the blaze at the station there was smoke coming out of the building from the explosion radiation levels were already extremely high. of course everyone young and old was exposed to huge radiation doses. and still works. still i seen she won yes there's almost nothing left here. the most can you look

through your archives maybe there is some information about this person there yes just a second yes now yes i have something he was one of those who was supposed to be performing an experiment at the station which means that during the moment of the explosion he should have been there all of the workers who were working at the fourth block were immediately sent to a hospital as they were severely or radiated from what we could go to the hospital maybe we can find something there. that is a good idea. a minute. what about his family. i don't know. i have no information on them.

the injuries were different the bullet they killed but the majority were exposed to the fourth radiation levels. and received third or fourth degree burns and. one patient died of burns. me and the others were treated as a helmet a cool facility. and then they will go to moscow. shows with the fourth level of radiation bring shock and disoriented but i think he's going to rest.

i know the insurers are being brought here from the power plant they are all covered in radioactive dust and. we are receiving strong those disappeared and we are completely i'm ready for what has happened i don't believe in all this at the it just can't be happening this is real hell we thought what's that well because i know i found it inside what the patient records cardinal. we need to leave what's happening we are leaving. i.

lol. it should just make your decision quicker the radiation levels are very high here come off.

yet. the scope of the piece only what is this cross doing their best it's a protective cross you there are four of them in the ukraine and they form a square for you in the south in the east and in the west this is the northern one . yourself a work you have much of it was no there's no signal whatsoever. well then we're stuck.

but there's a post here hold this book any of them has to do with there's a village not far from here. well but of course they are on the other side of the river a few elderly couples living there to live for they might have a radio phone of if god and at least we can stay overnight. at least.

in. case. there's no doubt as we walked through the field i saw a herd of wild horses where we come from very very few they were brought here straight after the catastrophe in the ninety's and it was an experiment to see how

they would survive the radiation and now they've grown into a huge population the same happened to all the other animals because of course there's no people here with us when they've. well safe walking out of. what is this village who lives here there's a couple of elderly people that live here but there's the wait a minute they were evacuated out of the catastrophe one take why they here they were extra so well they came back they resettled here of their own free will. hello in my carry on and you know i have no hello hello they're looking for how do you

live here on your own there's no transportation facilities pastor thing at the other provide us with the free bus to sit on top of the you they want when we need something from the market it's huge and he won some money because how often who are unsure of how good this is the stress of dealing with now it's less often. this one is used by everyone in this election when they need to challenge some final bush we know what the. mass media want to block the most if they wish to go over there near the stove maybe. the problem was i will give you blankets and pillows and i'll come and i think it was on a blanket or something and set ourselves up. as .

i still don't understand those post notices. you remember the old men of various across the river. apparently he's a post man. and once a fortnight you cruises up and down the river and delivers mail. so you think he did it for. you maybe i don't know. maybe somebody else maybe it was a mistake. it's interesting with a lot as

a support chemistry at first but there's such an easy solution. to the more from research we have seen him do you think anyone will ever come back here. i don't know. this is our god forgives they built in one thousand eighty six it was in temporary they said it was temporary because it would last for twenty to thirty years now they're building a new one. isn't ones supposed to last one hundred years and you know it's funny they also call it temporary means that both you and i and our children will be gone and it will still be standing there after all who will. and haven't looked at these pictures i still don't understand why you describe this town as beautiful to me it looks like an ordinary soviet town typical buildings and planning there were thousands of thousands like that across the country it was beautiful because we lived here and you know i've been having this feeling that you just cannot let go of all that happened here. because if you continue fighting the zone ok now how can

i forgive it if you. now let's just maybe try talking to the zone. it's nonsense you need letters in order to be well those i received were not directed to me either. when you wanted to do they were not meant for you. and you would never have found them. in the first place.