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It’s All Shits and Giggles Until the First Nuclear Missile Flies
The city of Pripyat had a population of 49,000 on April 27, 1986. This was the day the temporary evacuation order was given. The residents never returned to their homes. The Chornobyl nuclear power plant was on fire.
If you have ever seen photos of this town, it is like a Pompei-like lava that overwhelmed the town only in the form of unseen radiation. As a result, it left life fully intact.
It did, however, drive the town’s residents from the idyllic Soviet town nestled in a pretty forest in the Ukrainian People’s Republic and scattered them into the future.
The 15 schools, movie theaters, shops, swimming pool, amusement park and so much more would take on more life after the town’s death than it did during the town’s seven years of life. Pripyat was officially classified as a town in 1979. It was officially declared unlivable by 1987.
Pripyat exists today still for a reason. It is a voice from the past. It is a voice to which we should be paying attention.
If we want to get an idea of what the world will be like if Vladimir Putin leads us into a nuclear war then Google Hiroshima. Google Nagasaki. Google Pripyat. Pripyat…
