Chernobyl Legacy

ninty · **Chernobyl Legacy -** 12-18-2006, 06:30 PM

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http://www.magnuminmotion.com/essay_chernobyl/

Unknown_Sniper · 12-18-2006, 06:37 PM

wow... That's so sad and horrific.

Scorched Earth · 12-18-2006, 06:45 PM

thats so depressing.

[DAS REICH] Blitz · 12-18-2006, 06:52 PM

Not sure if same thing, but for some reason I remember looking at b&w photos of Chernobyl several years ago from this site

anti · 12-18-2006, 06:59 PM

[quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":b4a92]Not sure if same thing, but for some reason I remember looking at b&w photos of Chernobyl several years ago from this site[/quote:b4a92]

same. i was looking for this site not too long ago, thanks ninty.

geRV · 12-18-2006, 07:04 PM

What was the other site where some girl took a bike ride through chernobyl on her own taking pics with a digi cam? Seem to remember a ton of pics of it.

Edit: found it

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html

Chronic Diarrhea · 12-18-2006, 07:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by geRV

What was the other site where some girl took a bike ride through chernobyl on her own taking pics with a digi cam? Seem to remember a ton of pics of it.

Edit: found it

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html

Weird, I was looking for that exact site just a week ago. Thanks.

Madmartagen · 12-18-2006, 07:19 PM

i think the kid of speed site is fake, isnt it? i thought i heard it was a hoax

ninty · 12-18-2006, 07:23 PM

[quote:cdc05]The accuracy of that story has since been questioned, not least because motorcycles are specifically forbidden inside the 30km reactor exclusion zone, which can only be accessed through permanently manned checkpoints. Chernobyl tour guides and tourists to Chernobyl have claimed that that Filatova visited the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone only as part of an organized tour.[2] Chernobyl tour guide Yuriy Tatarchuk recalls that Filatova "booked a tour, wore a leather biker jacket and posed for pictures." Her website appeared soon after.[3]

Around May 16, 2004, Filatova posted to her website that she was "being accused that it was more poetry in this story then reality. I partly accept this accusation, it still was more reality then poetry"; by May 24 she had removed the note.[4]

Regardless of the degree of Elena's actual personal involvement or the reliability of her narrative, the photos themselves still hold interest for many viewers. While some of them could have been staged to a degree (it is noticeable that there are no photographs of her motorcycle inside the abandoned town of Pripyat), she could not have staged the whole ghost town. In any case, all photographs now taken in the region by even the most conscientious photographer are to some extent "set up" because props have been placed by previous photographers around the town. While there are numerous accounts of the consequences of the catastrophe, Elena's account presents it to the world in a novel way.[/quote:cdc05]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Filatova