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Moscow Metro 2
- rmason 5y agoI too have heard the rumors. It's surprising during the brief period of openness during the beginning of Yeltsin's rule that they didn't even acknowledge the existence of Moscow Metro 2. Plenty of other long deep secrets were made inadvertently public at that time.
- nonrandomstring 5y agoI think all old cities have a "secret underground". Many major European cities, especially in the north, have deep excavations for underground roads, trains, shopping centres. In the winter months when the snow and dark comes, transport and life patterns change. I can think of times in Finland and Sweden when it felt like I hardly left the underground for weeks on end. For a good portrayal of this feeling read "The Machine Stops" by E.M.Forster. Anyone who has visited cold war labyrinths, or even the German war tunnels under Jersey knows the familiar concrete catacombs. Like an endless game of Half-Life. There are many secret tunnels beneath London, including "ghost" tube stations and preserved wartime military estates. Some are reused as data storage, archives, and cable conduits. It would be surprising if Moscow didn't have such facilities, even if they're not publicly usable. I suppose the "danger" of these, for crackpots - and I include presidents and politicians - is the illusion of invulnerability they give, potentially leading to Dr. Strangelove type "bunker mentality". There's really no reason you'd survive a major NBC attack down there, you'd just take longer to die while eating crappy MREs and waiting for rats, traitors or accidental contamination to get you.