Searching For The Chernobyl Resettlers

0:00 well look how contaminated the soil is here Wow it's going up and up and up you know in the last year we spend so much time together in the irradiated forests of Belarus over the border we've met some other people who continue to inhabit the irradiated villages there but today I'm here in Ukraine because I want to visit the source of the tragedy itself we're going to go together now with my guide eager and we're going to see the reactor number four at Chernobyl power plant and also the abandoned town of privat maybe we'll meet some people who continue to live there so join me on the journey to Chernobyl

0:47 on the first border at the zone they're kind of constructing it but I've got a list of rules that I mustn't do and mustn't carry any kind of weapons and I mustn't drink liqueurs or take any drugs anyway we've stopped off in what was a village before to see what was the kindergarten here let's take a look inside and see what's remaining of it we can see in this room everything that was left like the day on me I suppose when they were evacuated nothing's changed that pillows are the children that lay in these cots these are the nets

1:33 obviously that stopped the children falling off here are their toys left untouched since the day wow this really brings it home to you doesn't it when you see these kind of places just what the tragedy was that your noble tragedy today we're going to visit some reset lers and so we've come here basically to buy some products in the shop here in

2:19 the chernobyl town so that we can give to them here is the elk shop they sell inside here dobri them in such things for the complete the study key pathology what we know the really Kirara Molly but she discovered she does interesting show ulvaceus of Rimini calculated not sure of know we pre potty Tata is possible after the last 10 years

3:06 is a shoot big is saying in this shop they sell cakes with vodka inside that right she has no vodka you stop that's how much they love vodka in Ukraine they even the cakes have vodka I can't wait to try my vodka cake Wow is a democracy is a vodka is leaking vodka so wet I can feel inside the bag is just the vodkas leaking out 50% of this vodka Wow new idea eager we're going to make an export business we should export these cakes vodka cakes to England I think every popular Shinobu vodka cake

3:55 we've just stopped at one of the many checkpoints here in the reader design always keeping tabs on you the gates has been opened were allowed in to the village of resettle errs down here in the zone I suppose every time that eager comes

4:40 and knocks on a door in a village these people are very old and there's no answer he probably wonders you know he's everything okay people are just dying off the resettle is who came there were a tree setlist in this village before now there's only two this guy's in his 80s so it's only a matter of time before the villagers depopulated once again poor car is having a Sunday snooze Sunday lion and we've turned up many new

5:43 something up some nothing I I'm sorry Barney voinovich was explaining that life for his family members to visit him like his son he has a son but it's very difficult because you can only have five day permission to come here then you have to leave then you have to go back to your own town make permission is expensive and his son is far away in his son's not a rich man and so he's lonely here because people can't visit him so easily till the year until the mrs. Arad necessarily as in Rasmus is that sepra was it him a pincer candlepin see target

6:30 NZ Georgia Magus was it not worth you you miss um so Ivana bottom is explaining that him he was catching fish in the river here which is not allowed because the fish are contaminated and him and his friend were eating a fish and then the people from the administration came and checked their health and his friend was found to have over the legal limits of radiation and so the friend snitched on Ivan Ivanovitch and said he 400 honorary she was catching fish we ate it together and so he had a problem he was a little bit troubled the administration because he was breaking the rules of the zone yes by Yvan Ivanovich is somehow immune to the radiation maybe that's why he's got the t-shirt on and George and Eliza put

7:19 the muesli yeah Pratchett Australia sea vodka bleep you at the near Budhia thermos shiet wash kill toaster be buddhist arrow be show bullsháá washes my simple routine three years early yeah that you passed motive at crécy we gotta rebuild Brigid never to smut reott picanha do I mean your house that he built in the nineteen nineteen sixties still living here by himself

8:11 bye-bye Yvonne Ivanovich Wow bloody hell days just like vodka vodka cake in Chernobyl well we've stopped on the road not far from the react exciting this is the infamous red forest as it's called roar in Ukrainians called Elise and this is the most contaminated place in the world in terms of radiation when the explosion happened at the rate at the at the reactor it drifted in this direction and

8:57 a lot of it was dumped a lot the debris from the roof and a lot of the a lot of the stuff came down here the isotopes and landed here in this forest and then over night the forest the trees the leaves everything turned to a bright color of red and eager here has a picture of this of the red forest so this was the greenery here on the right and then you can see here how everything just overnight was turned red and this is it now okay that stuff is dyed and new stuff is regenerated but um yeah the most contaminated place on earth the red forest this building here that you see under the sarcophagus this is it the source of the crime this is reactor number 4 it's now been buried as I say on this huge building that cost billions

9:43 of dollars to build the plan to be to keep the radiation in but this is it this is the source of all the problems the source of so many deaths so much radiation so many contaminated lands in Ukraine in Belarus and Russia the reasons why people like Galia live alone in a village far from any one it all started here reactor number 4 50,000 people used to live here now it's a ghost town