Name: Alida Safsten

Period 7.

Date: April 8, 2011

Title: Ghost City Symbolizes Cost of Nuclear Disaster

People went to a place called Pripyat. They weren’t supposed to touch anything when they went there.  They went to a place for children. They found tons of little toys covered in dust. Along with those toys were gas masks for toddlers. These had been left out had been left out for a quarter of a century.

Something terrifying had made the toddlers leave their innocent corner of the world. Their home town had become the set for a true-life apocalypse movie. This little place was considered a very happy place. It had good housing and schools, lots of young families, and the shops were filled with things you couldn’t get anywhere else. Everything was new here; everything was up to date and was very modern. The cities swimming pool echoes to the church full of broken glass and tile under your feet. Five percent of its annual budget is devoted to Chernobyl-related benefits, including payment of a small sum, know darkly as “funeral money”, to help people in very gross and contaminated regions buy clean food. Today this area is still abondened.