Roadside Picnic, a book written by the Strugatsky brothers well before the Chernobyl disaster, describes aliens landing briefly on earth and leaving both terror and wonderment in their wake. The zone was a trash-laden and scarred landscape left as legacy by a once mighty power. As governments changed the disaster zone was left in the intervening years, abandoned, uninhabitable, and burdened with rusting relics from another era. The Wall may have fallen four years later, but for many this was the precursor to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Although the disaster occurred nearly three decades ago, the threat seemingly over, it has had a lasting legacy on the Ukraine and the rest of the former Soviet states. The event was to have dire effects for the surrounding area as well as the rest of Europe. Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant exploded, unleashing airborne radioactive pollution into the atmosphere. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened in 1986.
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