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For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II | History| Smithsonian Magazine

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russian-family-was-cut-off-from-all-human-contact-unaware-of-world-war-ii-7354256
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The old man’s name was Karp Lykov

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>they could hunt only by digging traps or pursuing prey across the mountains until the animals collapsed from exhaustion. Dmitry built up astonishing endurance, and could hunt barefoot in winter, sometimes returning to the hut after several days, having slept in the open in 40 degrees of frost, a young elk across his shoulders.

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What finally killed him? A bit too much salt :marseylaugh:

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No, it was smallpox blankets from white man

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>Ywn be this guy

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Not with that attitude you won't.

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Perhaps the saddest aspect of the Lykovs’ strange story was the rapidity with which the family went into decline after they re-established contact with the outside world. In the fall of 1981, three of the four children followed their mother to the grave within a few days of one another.

Cool story, sad ending.

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at least its better than having to live where drumpfs president

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The Lord would provide, and she would stay, she saidβ€”as indeed she has. A quarter of a century later, now in her seventies herself, this child of the taiga lives on alone, high above the Abakan.

But Dmitry, in extremis, would abandon neither his family nor the religion he had practiced all his life. β€œWe are not allowed that,” he whispered just before he died. β€œA man lives for howsoever God grants.”

I looked back to wave at Agafia. She was standing by the river break like a statue. She wasn’t crying. She nodded: β€˜Go on, go on.’ We went another kilometer and I looked back. She was still standing there.

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The worst part is one of the Soviet team came back to live near her and sexually assault her a few times.

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Really? That’s fricked

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Teddystrags really think they could pull this off.

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or they're sad because they know they can't

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unnamed tributary of the Abakan, a seething ribbon of water rushing through dangerous terrain.

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A story of how strength in the One Lord Jesus Christ will protect and save the lowest man from the threat of evil including communism, the worst evil trans lives matter

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Russoids poor and backwards, communists, America 1st!!

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sovlless

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