Chernobyl's Zone Of Alienation

The rural scenery on the long drive from Kiev to Chernobyl is like any other journey in these parts, small villages and lush countryside that you would expect from a country known as the "Breadbasket of Europe".
It isn't until you come across the armed perimeter outposts of the exclusion zone that you realise that this is somewhere altogether more serious...

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