[jlebar]

Here's the story of real people that were cut off from the outside world for 40 years:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russ...

> “What amazed him most of all,” Peskov recorded, “was a transparent cellophane package. ‘Lord, what have they thought up -- it is glass, but it crumples!’”