[lbo-talk] Chernobyl's silent graveyards

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 21 07:12:59 PDT 2006


--- Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote:


>
> Chris Doss wrote:
> > People have actually been moving back there.
>
> this is not surprising, at least for the poorest
> folks in the old USSR
> area. there are low real estate values (maybe even
> free land, de facto
> if not de jure). there is game to hunt and plants to
> harvest, if you
> don't mind a few mutants in the bunch. it may be
> possible to garner a
> subsistence living outside of capitalist social
> relations there. It's
> likely not the best place to live, but a
> capitalism-free zone? (and no
> bears!)
> --
>

People who were from the area also suffer a lot of discrimination and fear in the other areas of Ukraine to which they were resettled after the disaster (they might be irradiated or something is the fear I guess). Many (I don't know how many) are moving back to avoid this.

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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