Hundreds of Ukrainian fighters surrendered to an uncertain fate on Tuesday after weeks holed up in the bunkers and tunnels below Mariupol's Azovstal steel works as the most devastating siege of Russia's war in Ukraine drew to a close.
a maze of bunkers and tunnels to withstand nuclear attack
Haven't really been following the Ukraine stuff but this kind of stuff afaik is really common all across the former Soviet Union, though I'm sure to people who don't know that it sounds spooky and scary. The USSR apparently actually wanted its population to have a chance of surviving the nuclear holocaust.
Nice sentiment but tbh I think I'd rather have the first warhead detonate right on top of me instead.
fun fact I've learned about Azovstal steel plant:
it is "a vast Soviet-era plant founded under Josef Stalin and designed with a maze of bunkers and tunnels to withstand nuclear attack."
the nazis of azov battalion hiding inside of soviet-era infrastructure is hella ironic
I mean 2 former Soviet republics that became capitalist oligarchies fighting a war using Soviet equipment in Soviet built cities is just sad.
:ussr-cry:
siege culture :kelly:
Haven't really been following the Ukraine stuff but this kind of stuff afaik is really common all across the former Soviet Union, though I'm sure to people who don't know that it sounds spooky and scary. The USSR apparently actually wanted its population to have a chance of surviving the nuclear holocaust.
Nice sentiment but tbh I think I'd rather have the first warhead detonate right on top of me instead.