Elena (from Chernobyl motorcyle ride fame) posted new pictures to her site

[Ramma2]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
if Elena is a she, why is her hand so hairy and masculine?

Her dad is there with her, perhaps its his hand.

If you can get to her main page, she has an awesome photo site with pics from some defensive line in WW2. Lots of cool army relics.

 

[geecee]

Wow. The pictures and her commentary are truly incredible.

 

[FoBoT]

http://www.theserpentswall.com/_/images/p30-image1.jpg

check out her other stuff/stories , etc

one of her comments about WWII

Occupation of Kiev lasted two years and two month. It began in September 1941. The same days when Soviet army have been trapped in a marsh German army began occupying Kiev. Germans found town in chaos. On central market they saw how some people were selling human meat. Germans caught the human flesh sellers and strung up the enterprising gentlemen right on a spot. They left them for people to see that new authority call for order.

 

[Jzero]

Based on the results of the prior website, I would take all of her commentary with a healthy dose of [iodized ] salt.

 

[91TTZ]

"We also see, the grass that growing aside the road, we call this grass chernobyl, the wormwood. It has bitter taste"

91TTZ common sense tip of the day- Don't eat the plantlife at Chernobyl.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Jzero
Based on the results of the prior website, I would take all of her commentary with a healthy dose of [iodized ] salt.

so you think it is all/mostly fake? you think it is an elaborate fraud by a ukranian internet nerd that can't get a date?

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
"We also see, the grass that growing aside the road, we call this grass chernobyl, the wormwood. It has bitter taste"

91TTZ common sense tip of the day- Don't eat the plantlife at Chernobyl.

Yeah I caught that too. "bitter taste?" I assumed something was lost in translation because who the fvck would eat radioactive grass?

 

[Aharami]

fascinating site. definitely a noteworthy thread

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: Jzero
Based on the results of the prior website, I would take all of her commentary with a healthy dose of [iodized ] salt.

so you think it is all/mostly fake? you think it is an elaborate fraud by a ukranian internet nerd that can't get a date?

The consensus on the original website was pretty much that the pictures were real, but the narrative was greatly exaggerated. They claim it was corrected, but who knows the truth?

I think the wiki article sums it up best in explaining how the veracity of the narrative does not lessen the meaning of the pics, but based on past history, I looked at the pics and paid little attention to the storytelling.

 

[FoBoT]

yeah, i read that. i thought maybe you knew more about it than that.

i vaguely recall when this was first posted on slashdot, but i didn't really follow it at the time

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: captains
surprised its not for sale on ebay

What? Chernobyl?

 

[AnyMal]

Those images are painful. I remember that place all too well, pre-1986.

 

[Crucial]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
"We also see, the grass that growing aside the road, we call this grass chernobyl, the wormwood. It has bitter taste"

91TTZ common sense tip of the day- Don't eat the plantlife at Chernobyl.

Yeah I caught that too. "bitter taste?" I assumed something was lost in translation because who the fvck would eat radioactive grass?

In Ukrainian language ( where we don't like to say "the") Chernobyl is the name of a grass, wormwood (absinth). This word scares the holy bejesus out of people here. Maybe part of the reason for that among religious people is because the Bible mentions Wormwood in the book of the revelatons - which fortells the end of the world....

REV 8:10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

REV 8:11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

 

[GTaudiophile]

More interesting Chernobyl reading.