Anatoly Kurmanaev
speaker
651 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 2 Jul
Anatoly Kurmanaev’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Blocks just entirely leveled.
Wow, the walls are blown out.
God, broken lifts.
People's possessions just hanging out.
And it's the sort of seeming apparent randomness of it, right?
That one block could be completely unscathed.
Even the glass and the paint is still there.
And then the next, you know, few meters down the road is just completely leveled buildings.
standing on top of a collapsed building.
And when you approach a destroyed building, the first thing that hits you is the smell, the smell of rot, the putrefaction.
It was just very clear smell of decayed flesh.
Wow.
There's dozens of people around me.
I'm digging through in various parts and hoping to find someone.
You know, I have been a foreign correspondent for many years and I have covered a lot of unrest.
I have been around death, but I have never covered a natural disaster of this scale.
And I have never really thought about how death smells.
And this was very much it.
Like, this was very clear to me that this is what death smells like.
sitting on the side of a collapsed large residential building.
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