Chernobyl

A city left to be overgrown by nature. Pripyat, less than 5km from the exploded 4th reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Impressively silent and desolate Pripyat shows what effects this explosion did not have. Radiation cannot be seen so superficially there is nothing to be seen, but the geiger-counter shows that radiation levels are between 10 and 200 times higher than in Kiev, 110km to the south. This is the reason that people were evacuated from this area in 1986.

As an example town for the sovjet regime, Pripyat still shows how things were in that time. Not far from another example of a similar regime, Belarus, where things did not really change after the decline of the sovjet union. People are not free to say what they want and you can be sent to prison for no reason at all.

Chernobyl and the situation in Belarus are not to be forgotten!!

A tipical view from Pripyat (Springfield) Ukrain. From the city cafe terrace there is a good view over the town with the exploded power plant in the background.