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twenty five years ago the entire fifty thousand population of grainy and sound of preview was evacuated within three hours. you're shocked could you please step aside and working and you getting 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 or thing they thought for leaving their old sound was the cool floor of the chernobyl nuclear power plant devastated by the explosion.

but where are we going numb to we need to go to previous post office geniuses people to relay recently i received an altercation to pick up a letter here in the last week that's impossible the post office isn't working for twenty five years i don't think it's for real. or show me strange but according to the stamp this really has come from here because you know where this post office is yes i know the be. discussed. to give you

a little snow 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 fifth hickey. we came to the chernobyl exclusion zone to investigate a very strange story this place has been deserted for a quarter of a century recently some people started receiving posts notices telling them to pick up letters at this post office in crete yet i'm holding one of those here and indeed the stamp here proves that it came from the ghost town here. frankly speaking i do not know what to look for. when it's not where you describe.

these notices have no addresses nor names of those let sentinel. thank you thank. you. thank you no we're. going to be honestly speaking i don't think we're going to find anything here. most of the things that remained here and in the apartments were later buried. but i knew i didn't keep them because they were very radioactive. and the rest was stolen by scavengers.

look here's a letter which someone for you to send from here. there is a photo inside. it's lucky you. would miss all the times i've been here i've never seen anything like this. but. this is the surface to do so phones work here. they work at the nuclear power plant and sometimes they work here. hello hi. hello who we are calling our. word tonight can i pick my daughter up from kindergarten. just give me who is it calling i beg your pardon i must have done 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 and this site which is probably the best description and most dramatic one of the chernobyl tragedy is that children's toys are laying literally side by side with miller triggers masks. which. at the moment of this is my kindergarten look i do i used to go here. we used to be many children in the last greatest nationalists from all over the soviet union came here to operate the nuclear power station all the mostly young people wish to store and they thought that they were waiting for a bright future. so this town experienced

a baby boom orgasmically it was 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. for the most of what was in that letter you found. there is a photograph inside. here have a look. look through the proper should call it seems it was written by a child a small girl. just leave your or try there was three i was so glad having received your letter so i decided to reply once 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 bet 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 my it 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 for missing you very much please come and visit us in this country we're missing you very much but usually it's come visit us in the summer less written piecemeal women are supposed to new dimensions being the first may venture 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 them all the date on the envelope says it was meant to be sent and go to school just the day before the catastrophe.

mckenna 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 the even when the tragedy happened we didn't call off the festive events so the movie 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 waiting lists 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 it's house of culture still has

a collection of posters with soviet leader they were meant to be carried at the traditional demonstration and the stage over here was meant to become a venue for a holiday concert. i think say if not all course but look what i found asking for more as a fireman suit. could it be that it belonged to one of those firefighters who fought the blaze at the nuclear power plant. and then you know absolutely no no question why did it most of them died just about all their gear was radioactive to throw the orange to that it was destroyed almost immediately afterwards. class you know there used to be an amateur theatre here maybe it's there's got to be honest i feel we're stuck with a stick and we got any ideas where we could go next.

well there used to be a library here you could check out the reader's profile cards. you know this city was very beautiful work for the way it was meant to be kind of a role model for others. like the best place communist society could ever built perfectly planned and constructed. 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. is dated

april twenty fifth nine hundred eighty six we're preparing an experiment at the station we'll be bringing the reactor to a stop we have some heated debates most of us assure you we're doing everything right but still cannot come to a conclusion that the times it seems were talking on different languages kumble come through here for there was a confrontation over the word before more workers did not want to keep the unstable reactor in operational mayor cory when the from from for control because in the conversations and documentation that have 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 the minute they were performing only unstable reactor. and should be honest i'm a go i saw a picture and daughters are good with the babylonian tower i joke that we have now finally built it that's been we integrate the steroid.

i'm on top of that stall is the 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 so-called underneath it are still tons of radioactive fuel and deadly levels of radiation but if you don't know that from here it almost looks alive. what a few of those what we've built in the apartment we're looking for should be somewhere here with do you know where this drawing came from. 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 or your let's go. i tension in you mind. i turn sharon. i knew my eye tension was rather you. got up on the council of the town records it was the 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 that 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. from i learned that there had been a blaze at the station and several people were injured with a home but we could not imagine how serious it was they felt that

a fire was nothing to be afraid of at school we were told that atomic energy was the safest in the world to. them and they're going to come so i was. close to a kid when the tragedy happened we waited outdoors which of the rooftops and saw the blaze at the station there was smoke coming out of the building from the explosion in relation levels were already extremely high. horse everyone young and old was exposed to huge radiation doses. still works. yes there's almost nothing left here. the most can you look through you are maybe there is some information about this person there just a second yes that 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 we could go to the hospital maybe we can find something there. that is a good idea that's a minute. what about his family. i don't know. i have no information on them to.

move the injuries were different. but the majority were exposed to the fourth radiation levels. and received third or fourth degree burns and. one patient died of burns and me and the others were treated at oh medical facility. and then the world war to mosco sucky bully shows with the fourth level of radiation grimshaw sorensen i think he's going to resist. i know the injured are being brought here from the powerful arms they are all covered in radioactive dust and. we are receiving strong those in here too and

we're completely i'm ready for what has happened i don't believe in all this at that it just can't be happening this is real hell with the. work because i know i found it inside with a patient record card. we need to leave what's happening we are leaving.

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it should make your decision quicker the radiation levels are very high here. are.

just ridiculous that's the sucky at least tell me what is this cross doing there and so on they can just say it's a protective cross there are four of them in the ukraine and they form a square garden in the south in the east and in the west this is the northern one. is your cell phone work you have a fever with no there's no signal whatsoever. well then we're stuck. but there's a post here called this book i have amused there's a village not far from here. well the because they are on the other side of the river a few elderly couples live there in a form they might have a radio phone of if not then at least we can stay overnight.

at least.

ok. as we walk through the field i saw a herd of wild horses where they come from they who 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 get on a horse there's no people here with us where they've. i'll say for the. evening.

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 class the intake why are they here they were history so well they came back they resettled here of their own free will oh hello and material and you know i was not hello hello there again because you live here on your own there's no transportation or facilities casper pointed out that he provided us with the food bus to sit on top of the ute they want when we need something from the market it's huge and he wants some money because how often go round your own house and this is just a little but now it's less often. that

this course is used by everyone in this village when they need to carry on some final push when i was. young. it's not what you want to block the most you can receive over there near the stove maybe. that was i will give you blankets and pillows and at the time i don't think it was on a blanket or something and set ourselves up. i

still don't understand those post notices. you remember the old men who appeared just across the river. apparently he's a post man. and once a fortnight he 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. yes it's interesting with a lot as a simple chemistry at first but there's such an easy solution. for them is apart from research first we have seen do you think anyone will ever come back here. i don't know. this are going to get they've built in one thousand nine hundred six was in temporary they said it was temporary because it would last for twenty to thirty years and now they're building a new one. this one's supposed to last one hundred years and you know it's funny

when they also call it temporary that means that both you and i and our children will be gone and it'll still be standing there after all the war. and haven't looked at these pictures i still don't understand why you describe this town is beautiful to me it looks like an ordinary saudi town typical buildings and planning there were thousands of towns like that across the country it was beautiful because we've lived here 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 can i forgive it if you. well let's just maybe try talking to the zone. it's not sending me letters in order well those i received were not very much of me either. if they were not meant for you. and you would never have found them. in the first place.