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Chernobyl Ferris Wheel {1920x1200} (x-post from r/Wallpapers) (i.imgur.com)

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[–]lolsail 21 points22 points ago

There's even an abandoned person standing in the picture.

[–]Arkburn 0 points1 point ago

Slender man?

[–]hansbritzohno 61 points62 points ago

Just made that level in COD4 that much more legit.

[–]Svered 25 points26 points ago

Check out the STALKER series. You can look at maps of Pripyat and find the actual buildings in the game.

[–]RageGodReed 6 points7 points ago

Too right, mate.

[–]BiskitFoo 5 points6 points ago

My boy MACMILLAN.

[–]Gitarham 2 points3 points ago

My exact thought.

[–]JustPassingMyGas 1 point2 points ago

Pretty stressful sniping session

[–]Hamlet7768 0 points1 point ago

The sad part is that Price and MacMillan would have both died in real life. I read the ferris wheel is still one of the most irradiated areas in Pripyat.

[–]PNewallo 0 points1 point ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GIVpcMgCIQ&feature=fvwrel

[–]l_rufus_californicus 24 points25 points ago

Haunting image, OP... a very, very emotive shot.

Is it me, or is the Pripyat/Chernobyl area just flat out, well, entrancing? I've never been there, but I have to admit being completely taken by the city and the environs around it. I feel like it has to be remembered, not so much for the city, but for the people. It's weird. The pictures I've seen taken by folks who've been there, who've been in the exclusion zone, who've been in the abandoned buildings... It almost feels like you can still hear the laughter, or smell food cooking, or hear the murmured conversations still happening just on the other side of the wall. It's dead, but it still feels so alive.

I wish I were better with words. As a native English speaker, I feel like I should be better at it.

[–]kbk2015 4 points5 points ago

I sat down in the library and picked up a book about the life quality of people affected by the disaster. It's truly sad how neglected the area is. Ukraine is a bit better about it than Belarus but man...the stories of the workers who STILL work the cleanup efforts are crazy. This one man explained how he's basically a zombie. He forgets things easily due to the effects of long term radiation exposure, and he only makes $5 a month, but he cannot get another job due to his past job experience so he basically has to work to slowly kill himself.

[–]l_rufus_californicus 2 points3 points ago

Living in the States, I am sometimes really humbled. We do have it a lot better than other places in so many ways; it's hard to see that sometimes while all the political psychodrama goes ever on. Our deserted and abandoned places are, in most cases I can think of, because we just moved on. Pripyat is abandoned because they had to move on. Our abandoned places are a curiosity, mostly. The area around Chernobyl is life, interrupted, and it feels like it. There's a subtle sense of heartbreak around all of it.

[–]notmythirdaccount 5 points6 points ago

Your English is actually spot on. Funny how foreign speakers always say that their English is bad but usually it's better than our own, lol.

It is very entrancing. A lot of the photography makes it seem like Chernobyl/Pripyat is just frozen in time.

[–]omnipotentdeity 3 points4 points ago

I misread it too. He says he's actually a native English speaker.

[–]l_rufus_californicus 0 points1 point ago

Which illustrates that I could be doing it so much better. :)

[–]l_rufus_californicus 2 points3 points ago

I might have been unclear - I'm American, and native-born; English is my first language. I just feel like I could do much, much better with it, especially when it comes to trying to describe the elicited emotions/feelings over something as haunting as the Chernobyl/Pripyat abandonment.

[–]notmythirdaccount 0 points1 point ago

Ha, totally didn't catch that! Thanks for clarifying though!

[–]l_rufus_californicus 0 points1 point ago

I do wholeheartedly agree with you, btw, on your assessment of non-Native English speakers; by-and-large, those who do choose to express themselves in English do so pretty well. I know that my Spanish is atrocious and my German insufficient, so I will absolutely give credit where it's due.

[–]Sahak_ 1 point2 points ago

I guess it sort of represents the Soviet era for us Western folks, especially those who never lived during that era and live with the newscasts and stories told about it.

[–]l_rufus_californicus 3 points4 points ago

I concur. We were so limited in what we knew of life for our Soviet counterparts. For me, the eye-opener came in the summer of 93. I worked as a shooting instructor at a boys' camp in New England. There, I met a counselor from the former Soviet Union. As we spoke, I came to learn that he was a tank crewman in the former Red Army; I was a Cav Scout in the US Army. Here was this guy who, in a different world, could have been looking through his gunners' primary sight at me, at the same time I was looking through mine at him. Instead, here we were in this world, talking about how shitty the life of armored vehicle crewmen was for us enlisted pukes, regardless of the uniform. Eye-opening experience for us both. Where ever you are, Alexei, Спасибо!

[–]skittlesandcoke 1 point2 points ago

Is it me, or is the Pripyat/Chernobyl area just flat out, well, entrancing?

Definitely. They actually do tours there, it's near the top of my 'To Visit' list: http://tour2chernobyl.com/plan.html

[–]vi_rus 0 points1 point ago

You would enjoy /r/chernobyl :)

[–]RICH_LITTLE 13 points14 points ago

Pripyat actually, Chernobyl is close by though

[–]wortelcake 0 points1 point ago

Do you know this from seeing Chernobyl Diaries? I'm asshamed to say i do...

[–]Miles44 17 points18 points ago

50,000 people used to live there...

[–]BasketOfCats 13 points14 points ago

... now it's a ghost town.

[–]ImJustRick 3 points4 points ago

I never make it past "Fifty thous..." before I click to the menu.

[–]DivideByZer0 4 points5 points ago

Get out of here, stalker.

[–]Fishermang 3 points4 points ago

Smart choice, those boots. As proven in Fallout 2, they resist radioactive goo without flaw.

[–]juiceika 3 points4 points ago

I'm going to visit in 3 weeks. I can't be more excited!!

[–]l_rufus_californicus 1 point2 points ago

Please take as many pictures as you can, for those of us who wish we could be there with you!

[–]FabulousLastWords 2 points3 points ago

I'm feeling a strange urge to throw a bolt at this picture.

[–]omar_killer 0 points1 point ago

I really like this place,are there anymore tours to Pripyat or are they suspended?

[–]strongo 0 points1 point ago

papyrit...spelling...whatever you get the point

[–]greatunknownpub 0 points1 point ago

Reminds me of this.

[–]Wondering_Wandering 0 points1 point ago

Sepia filter because art.

[–]dlpwillywonka 0 points1 point ago

Has anyone found a picture of this Ferris wheel when it was new?

[–]happiest_tree_friend -2 points-1 points ago

I saw this on the call of duty once

[–]knightofmars 0 points1 point ago

Anyone have Chernobyl/Pripyat pics of similar quality?

[–]Octopain -2 points-1 points ago

This gives me war flashbacks. To all the hours I spent hiding behind that thing trying to beat CoD4 on veteran.

[–]RickJamesBond -4 points-3 points ago

Somebody needs to photoshop slenderman in there

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