For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of Worl

metzican

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http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2013/01/for-40-years-this-russian-family-was-cut-off-from-all-human-contact-unaware-of-world-war-ii/


I'm not sure if this is the right area for it. But for some reason it seemed like it belonged. This family survived for so long on almost nothing. Make you appreciate the smallest things in life.

"But if the family’s isolation was hard to grasp, the unmitigated harshness of their lives was not. Traveling to the Lykov homestead on foot was astonishingly arduous, even with the help of a boat along the Abakan. On his first visit to the Lykovs, Peskov—who would appoint himself the family’s chief chronicler—noted that “we traversed 250 kilometres [155 miles] without seeing a single human dwelling!â€￾
 

jmnielsen

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Lincoln, NE
That's incredible they lived unknown like that for so long. Can you imagine for 40 years not being caught up with current technology and what is going on in the world? Shoot, I've only been alive 21 years and a TON of stuff has changed just in my lifetime.
 
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