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[22 Aug 2006 | Comments Off | 72 views]

Ghost Town: Elena’s Motorcycle Ride through Chernobyl is a fascinating look into the aftermath of Chernobyl. After 20 years the area surrounding the Chernobyl meltdown remains uninhabited, and for good reason. Filatova Elena Vladimirovna is a resident of Kiev and grew up during the Chernobyl disaster. She has documented a couple of motorcycle rides through the hot zones with still and video camera footage. Her narration is interesting, albeit broken English, and really sheds light on what it must have been like to go through something like that. One of …