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January 29, 2013 05:14 pm PST
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For 40 years, this Russian family was cut off From all human contact, unaware of World War II
In 1978 a team of Russian geologists took a helicopter to a remote part of Siberia and encountered a family that had not had contact with anyone for 40 years. The family were Old Believers -- members of a "fundamentalist Russian Orthodox sect, worshiping in a style unchanged since the 17th century." They fled to [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/nJnpag7oEeM/for-40-years-this-russian-fam.html
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