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Moscow Metro 2

 
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darthvader
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:15 pm    Post subject: Moscow Metro 2 Reply with quote

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Metro_2

How intriguing......... Anyone want to disclose any extra information? Any ex-Soviet plumbers, cleaners, etc want to reveal any deep, dark secrets under the "public" Moscow metro?
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darthvader
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://outside.away.com/magazine/0997/9709under.html

"......In 1994, exploring seven levels down, the Diggers hit upon what Mikhailov believes is Stalin's much-rumored second metro system, a "spetztunnel" used to spirit Party officials from the Kremlin to the underground town of Ramenkoye, some 50 miles away. The train is still functioning, he claims, and "for merely a few thousand dollars" he'd be delighted to take international film crews down for an eyeful. Now Mikhailov dreams of finding the lost library of Ivan the Terrible, a priceless collection of Byzantine and Hebrew scrolls that is believed to be stashed somewhere under the Kremlin and that for centuries has been the subject of an on-again, off-again national search. To do it right, of course, such an ambitious hunt would require not only considerable funding and state-of-the-art archaeological equipment, but also official permission to go rummaging beneath the twelfth-century foundation of the Kremlin none of which the Diggers have........"
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darthvader
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So, concerning this intriguing premise, when's the movie blockbuster action-adventure-thriller going to be released? Indiana Jones, Jason Bourne, and Da Vinci Code all blended together would have nothing over this. Wink
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bunker6
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There is an enormous, heavily guarded C&C complex built deep under Moscow. No diggers have ever seen any of it. It's real, active and it's effectively secret.

BTW Moscow is not the only one. Russians love to dig deep.

BTW Russians are not the only ones too. Same things have been built in good old America.
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