"A four alarm fire in Downtown Moscow clears way for a glorious new tractor factory."
Posted on 04/03/2016 10:27:11 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A massive fire raged at a former headquarters of the Russian Defense Ministry in Moscow on Sunday before it was brought under control several hours later.
Hundreds of firefighters and several cranes were seen battling the blaze Sunday afternoon after the fire broke out hours earlier. […]
The Defense Ministry moved to a new headquarters on the Moskva River in 2014, but still kept the old building near the Kremlin. …
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"A four alarm fire in Downtown Moscow clears way for a glorious new tractor factory."
That’s General Berkhalter from Hogan’s Heroes. ha ha.
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Easy way to get rid of all those old pesky KGB-FSB records.
Mitroykin delivered most of the interesting KGB files to the West many years ago.
That was a very cool building in a great setting.
Yes, awesome reading...with a backstory that Hollywood’s best writers couldn’t have created.
Based on what I've read, that building was housing the RECORDS from the Defense Ministry's PROCUREMENTS.
That this happened almost the same day that the ICIJ released the list of world leaders who used 'illegal tax havens' is just surely a coincidence.
He was also "Peripetchikoff" the member of the Russian Trade Delegation in "One, Two, Three."
Lived to the ripe old age of 98.
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