Chernobyl. Also, Hey Chuck Can You Read This?

[livius drusus]

Because I can never get enough of the Life After Man landscape of Chernobyl and its associated town of Pripyat, here is an excellent collection of recent pictures taken by a guy who paid for an illegal tour.

It's hard to pick, but I think this one wins the eerie prize:



I'd love to know what children wrote about America and Americans in their class assignments. Chuck, can you read this beautiful cursive?

[slimshady2357]

It's amazing how nature just takes over, even in concrete buildings. Some of the trees in those pictures, located inside buildings or on the front steps are already pretty big. You can sort of imagine what it would look like in 100 years.

[LadyShea]

This one freaks me out, even thought it's sunny and green and peaceful. I just imagine little ghost children playing on it and get the heebie jeebies.

[Ensign Steve]

You need some music for that soundtrack?

Gondola & Ballerina Music Box - YouTube

[MonCapitan2002]

I know this is an old thread, but I have to mention this. It amazes me just how transient what humans build really is. It's been about 25 or so years since the Chernobyl disaster and it amazes me how much nature has reclaimed the land in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. I wouldn't be surprised if only the largest structures built are still standing in 20 years.

[ChuckF]

Hello yes, I did not see this thrad until today. I think probably because it was posted 5 days before the bar exam. I can't quite make out that cursive because it's a little blurry. I will try harder when I am not at work.

[curses]

Originally Posted by ChuckF

I will try harder when I am not at work.

[maddog]

The handwriting is beautiful. I am so far only able to recognize that, on the second line, after the first word, comes "na temu 'Amerika y Amerikantsi' " or something like that, which is "on the theme of 'America and Americans.'"

I can get the very first word, "V" (the B is a V) means "In" something 1983. Pretty fuzzy, as Chuck says, and his Russian is way better than mine. I recognize a couple of prepositions, here and there.

ETA: the last three words appear to me to be "mir na planete," or peace on earth.

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[ChuckF]

[maddog]

The printed matter is much easier to decipher.
Administratziya S Sh A (that is ess, shah, ah, stands for soyuz shtatui ameriki, or union of american states, or USA) prikruivaes' lzhivuim lozungom zashchitui svobodui, bezzhalostno popiraet prava i samikh amerikantsev i drugikh narodov.

my vocabulary sucks, but the best I can do is:

The administration of the USA blah blah blah blah blah ... and something Americans and other peoples/nations. Oh, and freedom (svobodui) is in the middle there somewhere.

The legend over Miss Liberty is Free, Free, Free World!
I think. the word mir means both world and peace.

Oh Chuck! we all need your help!

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[ChuckF]

The printed matter I can do!

The US administration, using mendacious slogans of the defense of liberty as a smokescreen, ruthlessly tramples the rights of Americans themselves and other peoples. (from the newspaper)

The cursive is harder. It starts out "In December 1983..." but I can't make out much meaning after that.

[Watser?]

Why do they always have to trample so ruthlessly? It's not the trampling I mind so much, we have a proud family tradition of being trampled on, it's the ruthlessness that gets me though.