From the archives: Aftermath of Chernobyl disaster, Pripyat, Glogow, and Moscow
Thirty-seven years ago, Boston Globe photojournalist Suzanne Kreiter traveled behind the Iron Curtain to document the deadly pollution in the collapsing Soviet Union and East bloc countries, an unfolding horror that the West was just waking up to. Kreiter journeyed through what was then East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Russia, and finally Ukraine to witness the world’s largest nuclear disaster site, Chernobyl, three years after its reactor melted down.
Twenty-one of her photographs were published in the award-winning series “Poison in the East,” with stories by former Globe reporter Larry Tye. It showed what happens when authoritarian regimes have no tolerance for opposition, specifically from environmentalists.
Recently Kreiter spent many hours uncovering, scanning, and restoring her negatives to give previously unpublished (and unprinted) photographs new life . Now, 40 years after the Chernobyl disaster, Kreiter details the stories behind her work because it’s time to look back at the history, and history unstudied is bound to be repeated.
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