Russia’s Radioactive Past Comes Back To Haunt Its Citizens (HBO)

Anton Kolomitsyn has an unusual hobby: He searches the Russian countryside looking for remnants of past wars. Earlier this year, he made an unexpected find. The relic hunter stumbled across a Stalin-era bunker with radium paint on the interior walls, used previously to make the bunker glow in the dark. It was one of hundreds on the Russian-Finnish border, aimed to protect the Soviet Union against a northern invasion. These bunkers are not an anomaly; they are part of a legacy of improperly managed radioac