Extreme self-reliance, in Siberia


The hut

This article at Smithsonian.com is fascinating. It’s about about six members of a Russian family who fled into remote Siberia to avoid religious persecution. They lived there for 40 years, surviving on food that they could forage and what little they could grow.

I find this story inspiring. It shows just how adaptable ordinary people can be, and how little little we can live on.

2 thoughts on “Extreme self-reliance, in Siberia”

  1. But but but…

    How did they ever survive without an arsenal of military-grade weapons? And several tons of canned food? And water filtration systems, and a bug-out plan, and a super-secret highly secure and cozy retreat? And I bet they never spent a single moment obsessing excitedly about TEOTWAWKI, or about WTSHTF. I can’t take these Russian “survivors” seriously.

  2. Incredible. And there must have been others like them, who were perhaps never found or eventually left the forests.

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