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sarapuk:
Something not mentioned much is the fact that the area was put on lockdown for 3 years after the tragedy. This must form part of any investigation and all theories must take this into account. What happened that was so bad that the area had to be put out of bounds for 3 years  !  ? 

Morski:

--- Quote from: sarapuk on September 13, 2018, 03:40:14 PM ---Something not mentioned much is the fact that the area was put on lockdown for 3 years after the tragedy. This must form part of any investigation and all theories must take this into account. What happened that was so bad that the area had to be put out of bounds for 3 years  !  ?

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Mr. Vladimir (WAB) said, that this "lockdown" as well as the "25 years of non-disclosure" are parts of a widespread myth.
He himself interrogated many of the search teams members (such as Bartolomey, Karelin, Brusnitsin, Slobtsov, Sharavin, Mohov, Askinadzi, Koptelov), as well as Yury Yudin. Non of them mentioned anything about that.
The "lockdown" was in regard to forbid to officially direct hikers. As far as I got it, It means, that you cant go there in order to obtain higher sports degree and have official documents for it (what the Dyatlov group was trying). Anyone who wanted to go to the area was free to do it, just without the official registration. From March till September 1959 there were groups who went on a hike.
As WAB said, you cant just "close" a wilderness area with the size of Belgium for years.

sarapuk:
Is there any specific information on groups of hikers or individuals going to that area, including photos etc, between 1959 and 1962  ! ?

sarapuk:
Apparently the Dyatlov mystery was fairly big news in the USSR at that time , so I would have thought that there would be plenty of interest shown in any groups or individuals who ventured out to that area in the year or so after the big event  ! ? 

CalzagheChick:
But you can't think of this incident in the same terms as your current governing body. Freedoms that you yourself enjoy aren't necessarily the same standard of living afforded to the Socialist Republic. And the USSR had been in a chokehold--ruled with an iron fist (Iron Curtain?). Think--Stalin had been in the grave only 3 years at this point. He struck fear into the hearts of generations of people and although Kruschev allowed for that tight leash to be a bit more lax this was still during the Cold War where US/Russian relations were at the height of intolerance for one another so National Security was at its height and the safety of the government was worth more than the sum of its parts, for example the Ukranian famine inflicted by Stalin and only 1 of 2 famines that Semyon Zolotaryov would survive--Holodomor. Materials from the criminal case No. 475 heard in the Kyiv Court of Appeal found Stalin and others guilty of genocide. The case material contained hundreds of pieces of testimony of witnesses of forced collectivization, the requisitioning of food, cannibalism and executions by NKVD officers. Individual rights? What? I like the think that individuals had one "right" in the USSR: the right to work. But I'm almost positive it was propagated as a privilege more than a right. The government was invasive as all get out in order to determine the weak links and deal with them accordingly, I mean they knew how many dumps any citizen took on any given day.

Look all I'm saying is I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on Russian politics and culture. I obviously am not a Russian and have no concept of the hard life they lived before recently. But the more I learn the more I know that I wouldn't put too much hope into recovering photos from the area after the tragedy....

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