Russian Family went 40 years cut off from the world

Fascinating story. There's a link to a documentary at the end which, unfortunately, is in Russian w/out subtitles.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/For-40-Years-This-Russian-Family-Was-Cut-Off-From-Human-Contact-Unaware-of-World-War-II-188843001.html

 

I love that story, but the most fascinating sentence is this one ... A quarter of a century later, now in her seventies herself, this child of the taiga lives on alone, high above the Abakan.

How do they know she's still alive? Doe somebody check on her regularly?

 

I got the sense that they still check on her. And as I've stated elsewhere, if she is still alive, she's the most badass person in the world.

 

Her tears could cure cancer in Chuck Norris.

 

That was a great read.

 

Amazing; thanks.

 

Great read.

But strange headline: " . . . Unaware of World War II"

I guess they were unaware. But story never mentions World War II, never mentions the family being told about it later (if they were).

Just an out-of-left-field thing to stick in the headline.

 

Family was found in 1978 so it adds up timeline-wise.

 

Oh, I'm not disputing it. But reading the headline gave me some expectation that was never met. Story mentions satellites and moon landing and television. Just didn't mention the thing in the headline.

 

Yeah you're right. Fascinating story though. Kurosawa made a movie about a guy stuck in the Siberian wilderness, but it was nothing like this.

 

I would like to have gotten more "family stuck outside their time" stuff. Nazis and nuclear bombs and the Partridge Family and other such genocidal evils.

 

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