{"id":39147,"date":"2023-04-13T15:04:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T13:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/looks.film\/?p=39147"},"modified":"2025-01-02T12:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T11:24:22","slug":"chernobyl-utopia-in-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/looks.film\/en\/chernobyl-utopia-in-flames\/","title":{"rendered":"Chernobyl \u2013 Utopia in Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0<\/span><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces” equal_height=”yes”][vc_column width=”2\/3″ disable_custom_paddings_mobile=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1591352720872{padding-right: 50px !important;padding-left: 70px !important;}”][vc_column_text]The Chernobyl disaster on 26 April 1986 is considered the worst nuclear accident in mankind\u2019s history \u2013 both in terms of casualties and costs. It has impacted the world forever. Many have seen the fictional account. But the true story is even more complex, more human and more shocking than we could ever have imagined.<\/p>\n

It starts in 1970 in an area of forest and marshland in Northern Ukraine, very close to a little village that the Ukrainian locals call Chornobyl, in Russian: Chernobyl. There a utopia was made real: the largest nuclear power plant in the world alongside a model town of Soviet communism, Prypjat \u2013 they were the embodiment of the achievements of the New Human.<\/p>\n

The people who moved to Pripyat were chosen for their skills, their determination, and their willingness to believe in the future. They would all start as construction workers, and later become shop keepers, nurses, policemen, plumbers \u2013 everything needed to keep their city going. They lived a dream that most of us today can hardly fathom. But this dream was torn asunder on April 26, 1986 \u2013 and today, it is only this ending that most people know about Chernobyl and Pripyat. Now, we uncover the whole, true story through:<\/p>\n