The Forest People.........

[Duck Rodgers]

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

(long read by Internet standards, but worth it)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/hist...ontact-Unaware-of-World-War-II-188843001.html

Things had only got worse for the Lykov family when the atheist Bolsheviks took power. Under the Soviets, isolated Old Believer communities that had fled to Siberia to escape persecution began to retreat ever further from civilization. During the purges of the 1930s, with Christianity itself under assault, a Communist patrol had shot Lykov's brother on the outskirts of their village while Lykov knelt working beside him. He had responded by scooping up his family and bolting into forest.

 

[Stoked]

That is insane. That old woan is loyal to her beliefs. But that horrible loneliness. Man is not meant to be a solitary being.

 

[Duck Rodgers]

That is insane. That old woan is loyal to her beliefs. But that horrible loneliness. Man is not meant to be a solitary being.

Yeah, I'm surprised they never went back to at least scout the area and see if anything positive had happened while they were away that would have allowed them to live a better life even under the religious strictures he wanted to adhere to. Although, it's pretty hard to go back when you wander off so far probably. They must have been really traumatized to stay up in the forest/mountains of that area. If I'm going away for 40 years, I'm not doing it in Siberia.

I kind of admire it though in the sense that actually were able to keep surviving. I'm not sure how long I could stay alive given the same conditions.

 

[Hartsock]

What the fuuuuuuuuuuu