• stoy@lemmy.zip
    212·
    8 months ago

    You can clearly see that the “before” picture was taken years after the disaster…

    • Snowman@lemm.ee
      6·
      8 months ago

      The “after” is also fairly old - at least before the new safe confinement was built. Here’s what it looked like around 6 years ago: (Apologies for the quality, on mobile and had to shrink it to get it to upload)

    • AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de
      25·
      8 months ago

      Or it could be the USSR where people cannot afford cars, there is no money for building mainenance and everyone is at work right now … /s

      • stoy@lemmy.zip
        4·
        8 months ago

        You can clearly see plants growing out of the concrete, based on the videos that exists of Pripyat from before the disaster that is not what it looked like.

        Pripyat was a privileged town where people lived well.