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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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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.

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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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at least its better than having to live where drumpfs president

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