Morbid Fascination

[tealin]

Some very interesting photo collections regarding Chernobyl:

Ghost Villages
Contaminated Vehicles
Lost City

Odd, to think this happened in my lifetime. It looks like fifty years ago.

Comments

[avidita.livejournal.com]

I remember.
Born 1979 we weren't allowed onto playgrounds anymore, because sand accumulates radiation. And we couldn't eat a lot of things, Nutella f.e., because nuts and other foods were heavily contaminated.
I was afraid of rain for months after that.

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Whoa - quite a slap in the face to hear from someone who was actually affected directly by what happened there. It was scary enough for those of us safely on the other side of the world.

[avidita.livejournal.com]

I wasn't even that near. Northern Germany, near Denmark, actually. But The Cloud went directly over our heads. And the weather forecast always praid that it wouldn't rain.
It was scray, yeah. And it left a distinct fear of those big hemispheres of concrete in the landscape. But I really enjoy telling about it. It didn't cripple me or anything. Just like the cold war. We had friends in the DDR and visited them sometimes. There was a file about me, man, I was 9 years old. I remember a lot. But since nothing ever really hurt me, in retrospective it was all just a very big and scary adventure.

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

Whaaaa - a file about you??? What did it say?

[avidita.livejournal.com]

Daughter of blabla and blabla, who are 'friends' of blablabla, who are therefore suspected of treason.
We sent them care packets with west-foods and goods and they sent us communist odds and ends. Their daughter was my pen pal. Once I tried to hide my dolls from the soldiers at the border (because the dolls were sleeping, it was way after midnight. Which decreased the time you had to spend waiting in line, there). That made them search our car extra carefully from then on.
All that was in my little STASI file. Pathetic, huh? *g*

[disneyboy.livejournal.com]

I think that's more excitement than I would ever want in my life. Good grief!