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Comrades! All Power Serwices personnel now to be viewink photos from glorious Chernobyl-era Russian nuclear power plant near Smolensk.

Because this powerplant was completed after the Chernobyl, they paid a special attention to secure it from alike accidents. There is even a saying that “The sci-fi writers are on the second place by richness of imagination, the first place is occupied by the nuclear plant security engineers,” meaning that they need to make it safe just for some unimaginable events that not very likely to happen, but still the security system should be ready for them.

The outside structure that secures reactors themselves can stand the blast that exceeds ten times the power of atomic bomb blast, just imagine.

Ha! Glorious comrades, now to be imaginink many unimaginable ewents werry werry likely to happen in similar power plant in capitalist pig-dog (ptui!) Alpha Complex!

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Comrades! Somevere is beink somebody who somehow for some reason is needink to see over 1,000 labels for Soviet-era Russian and Eastern European matchboxes! Is you? Da, good!

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Comrades! Now to be viewink glorious Photoshopped photos, circulatink through endless forvarded emails, altered from actual genuine 1933 Soviet bomber aircraft Kalinin K-7, with actual genuine history familiar to all Troubleshooters visitink R&D:

The bomber was 91 feet long and had seven 750HP engines, six on the leading edge of the wing and one at the rear of the fuselage. The K-7 had a wingspan of nearly 174 feet and could fly at a maximum speed of 145 miles per hour. The aircraft was also designed for other functions such as transporting VIP, paratrooper and heavy cargo such as tanks. [...]

[T]he prototype was plagued by vibrations and instability problems caused by the massive propeller engines. Kalinin and his team of engineers tried to overcome flaws by reducing the size of the tail boom. The eleventh test flight proved to be fatal when the plane's elevator jammed, causing it plough into the ground below. The entire crew of 15 perished. The Soviet government under the command of Joseph Stalin terminated the project and in 1938 arrested and executed Kalinin for espionage and sabotage.

Few photos exist of this plane, and the ones included in the email appear to be computer-created or enhanced.

Now to be also seeink glorious Wikipedia entry on Kalinin K-7.

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Comrades! Now to be lookink at glorious Flickr set of Soviet nuclear test site equipment photographed by capitalist running dog Mark Pitcher.

Equipment built during the 1940's to 1970's for use in the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site (the "Polygon"). All are hand-made and most are one-offs. Photos from a museum in Kurchatov Kazakhstan.

(Via Make magazine.)

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Comrades! Never are ve to be tirink of new photos from glorious Communist vorkers' paradise, North Korea! Now to be viewink capitalist pig-dog (ptui!) newspaper Boston Globe and beautiful photo series, "Recent scenes from North Korea."

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Comrades! Via Jason Kottke, who in turn stole link like running-dog capitalist pig from Foreign Policy Passport blog, glorious collection of North Korean anti-American propaganda posters! Let's extensively raise goats in all families!

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Comrades! Many many many times ve have been linkink to photos of abandoned Soviet tunnels. Never never never can ve be gettink tired of photos of tunnels. Now, vith compellink title "The Underground Moscow," how could ve possibly not be linkink to English Russia blog's amazink photos of genuine Soviet-era KGB dungeons, flooded conduits, and alvays more tunnels, ever more mysterious nightmare tunnels? Go, and see Internal Security and Technical Serwices tunnels made wisible!

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Comrades! Already beink sick to death of multiple links to photos of old abandoned Soviet fortresses, missile installations, and nuclear wessels? Vell, toughski! Now to be lookink at still one more big abandoned Soviet Ukrainian submarine base, now museum. Alvays to be usink these kind of photos in good Communist adwentures in Underplex. Is good!

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Comrades! Now to be enjoyink colorful Flickr photos by comrade "gazjoe" of this year's glorious Mass Games at May Day Stadium in vorkers' paradise, North Korea. (Also to be readink Wikipedia article on mass games and followink excellent external links on that page.)

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Comrades! Now to be inspectink werrry interestink "WebUrbanist" blog entry "7 Abandoned Wonders of the Former Soviet Union: From Submarine Stations to Unfinished Structures." Vitness abandoned submarine base, abandoned prison, abandoned missile silo, abandoned oceanside fortress, and entire abandoned glorious city of Promyshlennyi. Werrry handy for Outdoors and Underplex Troubleshooter missions! (Rest of WebUrbanist blog also vorth long look.)

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Comrades! Via BoingBoing, inwestigate and bookmark most glorious blog of Russian citizen Alexander Zakharov, A Soviet Poster a Day.

"Every Soviet poster, no matter the date of creation, bears a stamp of expressiveness and graphical quality. The attention to details is awesome. The scope of techniques is endless. Soviet posters are a treasure chest with inspiration for any graphical designer, not to mention the seeing pleasure itself. And what's important, every Soviet poster has a historical reference essential for understanding the layers of meanings it carries through time."

BoingBoing comment thread also links to glorious Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages.

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