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What a fascinating account:

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine

Very. Thanks for the link.

Thanks for sharing. There's a book to be written about this family.

Amazing story!

i suppose it would almost be a requirement to survive like that to be one of the traditional religions.

Yes, I think the religious elements of the story are fascinating. I thought it might give Larry some options:) I also found the comment that the daughter's didn't have a standard language to be intriguing.

what a story... damn..

I think the writers of JAG must have known about this....

I remember a line in an episode where they were talking about Siberian peasants so isolated that they might not even know the Soviet union collapsed. The retort went something like "It wouldn't surprise me if there are people who still think the Czar is still in power!"

Amazingly this story actually comes close to making that line true! I'm very impressed with how the family was able to improvise for so long! (Loosing the kettles was quite the blow....

One thing i'm surprised about is that at no point where spears mentioned when it came to hunting wildlife.....


The whole story reminds me a lot of uncontacted tribes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_tribes

great story, thanks for posting it.

I read it to mean they spoke russian but with their own accent which was difficult to follow.

"The daughters spoke a language distorted by a lifetime of isolation. "When the sisters talked to each other, it sounded like a slow, blurred cooing.""

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The language aspect interests me the most I think. Thanks for posting that.

Reminds me of this movie...

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No wonder that I could never find my dream girl.

"Slow blurred cooing", Hot, really hot.

Might be a new growth industry. Extreme mail order brides.

I don't mean to be crass but, they created their own progeny Adam and Eve style right?

What are the other options?