[HN Gopher] Moscow Metro 2
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       Moscow Metro 2
        
       Author : sebazzz
       Score  : 3 points
       Date   : 2022-03-21 22:03 UTC (57 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (moscow-russia-insiders-guide.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (moscow-russia-insiders-guide.com)
        
       | nonrandomstring wrote:
       | I 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 surprising that
       | Moscow didn't have such facilities, even if they're not publicly
       | open.
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       | 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.
        
       | rmason wrote:
       | I 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.
        
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