Comment by lostlogin
6 hours ago
> Kyiv subway stations are also air raid shelters
When building them, they probably didn’t expect to be hiding from Russian attacks.
6 hours ago
> Kyiv subway stations are also air raid shelters
When building them, they probably didn’t expect to be hiding from Russian attacks.
That would be a naive reading of the history of the USSR.
Yeah, weren't subway stations in the USSR dual-purpose nuclear shelters?
I think you're talking about something else. Not all that much risk of self-nuking.
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I think I’m missing your point?
The USSR didn’t bomb it’s citizens all that often did it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czecho...
Op is probably referring to the history of conflict between Ukraine and Russia specifically, for example when Ukraine lost its war of independence against the Red Army. Stalin purged Ukraine quite thoroughly then by starvation.