7/2020 – For nearly 30 years a community of unlikely heroines have lived in Chernobyl’s post-nuclear disaster “dead zone.” Stylish and stubborn, these fascinating women have survived, and even thrived, on some of the most toxic land on Earth. They are the last survivors of a community who refused to leave their ancestral homes after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. But the babushkas aren’t the only risk-takers: scientists, bureaucrats and even young men and women called “Stalkers” (who break in illegally to pursue their video game-inspired fantasies) explore the dystopian Zone and seek out its radioactive grandmas.
Q-tips say: Yes, see it. Enjoyed the old Ukraine village gals who said screw it to wherever the Soviets sent them after the nuclear plant meltdown and returned to live out their lives, mostly by themselves but with support from one another, in the contaminated zone they’d always called home.