Journeys through the dead zone
Elena likes to ride her motorcycle. Nothing remarkable about that. It is Elena’s choice of route that is unusual: She likes to ride through the chernobyl “dead zone”.
Her website displays eery photos of abandoned villages and towns:
From the first look ghosttown seems like a normal town, someone put their washing hungs on a balcony, some windows open, other [closed], here is taxi stop, there is grocery store… then, you read this slogan on building- “party of Lenin lead us to the triumph of a communism”- that helps to realise that clothes hung on balcony for 18 years and that town is empty..
Via Slashdot
But oh! It matters much to me
If wicked men with cunning ways
Should lull our fair Ukraine to sleep,
To better plunder, set ablaze…
- Taras Shevchenko, Haidamaki (1841)