Soon after the critically acclaimed HBO and Sky miniseries Chernobyl ended, controversy erupted over Instagram selfies taken at the actual disaster site. It seems that clicking the heart, sharing and/or shaming has suddenly become more important than remembering the nuclear catastrophe that took place in Ukraine on April 26, 1986. This rings alarm bells for me, and not just generally because of social media-spurred overtourism, but because I myself actually visited Chornobyl not too long ago, before the hype, to explore the legacy of the disaster.
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Deutsche Welle: Visiting Chornobyl more powerful than Instagram hype
Visitors walk in the ghost city of Pripyat during a tour in the Chornobyl exclusion zone on June 7, 2019.
