Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Going Underground in Moscow

(Source: NZ Herald/ Independent) In the Soviet era, subterranean Moscow was filled with secret tunnels and nuclear bunkers. But Josef Stalin's paranoid underground facilities are about to be overtaken and dwarfed in scale by the high priests of Russia's prevailing religion: capitalism. In a move that has alarmed geologists and preservationists, Moscow's city fathers have announced plans to gouge out 80 per cent of the land beneath Moscow to create a city beneath a city.


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