watching hbo's chernobyl and damn this shit is..... Intense....... horrifying....... and made me immediately buy the book its based on, chernobyl prayer by svetlana alexievich
while i was living in kyiv i could have taken a day tour to pripyat but it somehow didnt feel right, macabre somehow? now i wish i had
i liked masha gessen's article on the flaws of the show, mainly the 5th episode, which was so pat it couldve been butter google.com/amp/s/www.newy…
also, the alexievich book is intense but also quite funny in parts, poetic in parts. she relays all the jokes people tell, like: what do you do with a chernobyl apple? bury the core as deep as you can. or this bit 
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