Chernobyl

On April 26th, 1986, the world experienced its worst ever nuclear disaster. One of the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, close to the border with Belarus, exploded, sending nine tonnes of radioactive matter into the atmosphere. To get an idea of the scale, you need to consider that this was 90 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II.

If you travel here today: Astonishingly, there are tour companies that are happy to lead tourists into the area. Their claims of it all being perfectly safe are contradicted by the fact that the reactor is still burning and unstable under a thick tomb of concrete. There are also plenty of plutonium isotopes, and they won’t decompose for another 20,000 years. If you do take on the risk, however, you will see some incredibly sad sights. Even worse than the ghost towns are the small homes of those who refused to leave. A better option is to go to the Chernobyl Museum in Kyiv, which covers the disaster and the consequences far better than any tour.

Start

During the Second World War, a team of former top division footballers got together whilst working in a bakery. After a series of good results, the Nazi occupiers put them up against top sides from Romania and Hungary in a bid to keep spirit down. However, the side – called Start – kept winning and were eventually put up against a German Luftwaffe side that had never lost. The Start players were given hints that if they didn’t lose the match, consequences would be dire, but they decided to play as normal.

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