What a jerk!!!

From UER:
But there's more. I'll give an example - one of the pictures on her original site was inside a kindergarden. It's a picture of a baby's crib, with a photo of Lenin, a child's gas mask, and some toys. These photos were 'staged' by Elena's husband. He found the photo of Lenin elsewhere, put it in the cott and placed a gas mask alongside then took a photo of it.

I am really disappointed that the photos were staged. And, they tried to desecrate my image. These miserable opportunists are going to Communist Hell. I'll see to that.

Classic example of over-reach. Like the photos wouldn't have been fascinating enough on their own? Like we NEEDED her to be on a motorcycle? Big dummies.

Good point Ken.

It sucks that she lied and staged photos but I wonder if some things she wrote about weren't true. Like this story:

This old man lives in the Chernobyl area. He is one of 3.500 people that either refused to leave or returned to their villages after the meltdown in 1986. I admire those people, because each of them is a philosopher in their own way. When you ask if they are afraid, they say that they would rather die at home from radiation, than die in an unfamiliar place of home-sickness. They eat food from their own gardens, drink the milk of their cows and claim that they are healthy.....but the old man is one of only 400 that have survived this long. He may soon join his 3,100 neighbors that rest eternally in the earth of their beloved homes. It appears that the people with the most courage were the first to die here. Maybe that is true everywhere.

I wonder about the people who refused to leave. They're the ones who should be posting websites with photos of their lives. Fascinating.

Karol,
I am from Belarus, which has some areas affected by Chernobyl, and I think some parts in the 30-km zone - but for sure some abandoned areas. I've never gone there, but some of my friends have.
Most people who stayed are simply old. They don't have much health or reproductive functions to protect. I've heard stories about wolf packs getting numerous and attacking the half-abandoned villages, and of rangers doing copter rides and shooting the wolves with AK-47s. I'm sure most of the people there have no clue what the internet is, and no money to make digital pictures.
I've never been in the zone, but what I saw in rural Belarus is not that different: a devastated, mostly abandoned country, and people waiting to die.
I think that the benefit of the pictures' exposure outweights by far the disappointment with the author's honesty. I am glad somebody took these sad but beautiful pictures and people saw them.