A refugee from the evacuation of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone recalls her return to her ancestral home. Many people like her would find ways to go back to their lands after the fall of the Soviet Union by taking advantage of the chaos that followed it, choosing to live and die in the land of their forefathers.
Having endured discrimination in their new homes following relocation, to this day a sizable number of elderly people still live in The Zone, but as the years go by their numbers decrease as old age takes its toll, making them the final inhabitants of the area.
A refugee from the evacuation of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone recalls her return to her ancestral home. Many people like her would find ways to go back to their lands after the fall of the Soviet Union by taking advantage of the chaos that followed it, choosing to live and die in the land of their forefathers.
Having endured discrimination in their new homes following relocation, to this day a sizable number of elderly people still live in The Zone, but as the years go by their numbers decrease as old age takes its toll, making them the final inhabitants of the area.
