For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II
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But, peering intently through his windscreen in search of a landing place, the pilot saw something that should not have been there. It was a clearing, 6,000 feet up a mountainside, wedged between the pine and larch and scored with what looked like long, dark furrows. The baffled helicopter crew made several passes before reluctantly concluding that this was evidence of human habitationa garden that, from the size and shape of the clearing, must have been there for a long time.