Villagers gather at the back of a truck to purchase food and goods. Ignoring radiation, several hundred elderly people had returned to the Exclusion Zone by 1993. Initially, Ukrainian officials tried to discourage them by artificially inflating prices in the zone. Ilyintsy, Ukraine, 1993
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