Mother Russia

[arch_schatten]

Pattern Recognition re-ignited my love for Russia -Jen, I think I know where the communist ferret dream came from!- and I thought I would share these links. Do any of you know of any urban novels set in Russia or that dwell on Moscow's lower levels?

Lost city of Chernobyl: A visit to the abandoned city and a look at how out post apocalyptic world

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[vespa331]

I see your Chernobyl and raise you a chick who takes motorcycle journeys alone through Chernobyl.
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/spring2007.html

[vigilante_wake]

I thought that was proved to be fake?

[vespa331]

No idea. Maybe it was? I found it on someone else's blog years ago, and haven't actually read through the whole site. Mina's thing just reminded me of it.

[arch_schatten]

That's a really cool collection of pictures! For some reason, though, I feel less affected by the abandoned towns than by the abandoned city... probably because I have seen abandoned towns before, so it doesn't especially spell 'Radiation Disaster' to me? While an abandoned city is so.. post apocalyptic...

Still, it brings me a measure of happiness to see Nature take over the places we ruined for ourselves.

[vespa331]

Yeah, me too actually, I was...underwhelmed? Which makes it all the more mind-fucking really. Like when I was in Bosnia and kept seeing these wrecked buildings with holy, crumbly walls, and didn't really notice because they look similar to abandoned buildings I've seen elsewhere (though most abandoned factories don't have trees poking through the windows. But then you stop and think "Oh yeah, those aren't worn-out walls, those are bulletholes" and it breaks your brain a little.