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| Remains of synagogue in Chernobyl by Pier Paolo Mittica |
The original town there had many Jews and was the birthplace of a prominent Hasidic movement that survives today.
But the Nazi invasion of Ukraine changed all that. Jews were confined in a ghetto in Chernobyl (now spelled Chornobyl) and then deported. Many fled before deportation. Those who stayed were rounded up and shot on November 19, 1941, three months after the Nazis arrived.
There's a mass grave of over 400 Jews shot by the Nazis.
Whose idea was it to build a nuclear plant at the site of an earlier massacre?
Surely the blood was still crying out as operators in the plant's control room made their mistakes.
It kind of makes you believe in Satan, the advocate, warping the minds of those who shot the Jews, those who took their homes and jobs in the town afterward, those who built plant, and those who ran the safety test that went awry.
Either that or the doctrine of total depravity is right on.
Radioactivity will haunt the site for 20,000 years.
See my earlier discussion of Chernobyl and the new HBO docu-series:
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