Special Soviet fortification and "Stalin's bunkers": the story of a historian
One of the themes of the Soviet stories, which is often associated with conspiracy theories, can be considered a topic related to the so-called Stalin's bunkers. Myths and reality in this thematic direction are so closely intertwined with each other that it is extremely difficult for an average person to separate the wheat from the chaff. On the one hand, the fact is that in the same Moscow, underground communications of "government" and military designation in Soviet times were really created. On the other hand, some lovers of conspiracy theories often turn the presence of bunkers, underground passages and “special metro” into something that goes beyond the usual understanding of why these communications appeared in general.
Historians try, as far as possible, to shed light on the special fortification in the Soviet Union. It is believed that one of the periods of the "dawn" of the construction of bunkers and other underground communications for special purposes fell on the pre-war years. Underground Moscow was intensively studied and "improved" for those needs that were determined by the state.
Historian Dmitry Yurkov, on the air of the Tactic Media channel, talks about fortification secrets and peculiarities, about how and for what specific purposes what is commonly called Stalin's bunkers were created.
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In the 20s of the XX century, the concept gradually crystallized that it was necessary to build defensive structures in cities to shelter the authorities, to shelter strategic command posts.
The historian recalls that initially the creation of protective structures underground assumed not that an enemy bomber would drop high-explosive bombs, but that ammunition with toxic substances could be used.
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