Posted on 03/15/2022 6:19:23 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
Officially, the Odesa Catacombs comprise at least 2,500 kilometers, or just over 1,550 miles, of generally interlinked tunnels running under the city, as well as into outlying areas. Portions of the Catacombs are known to exist at three different depths at least, with the deepest being 60 meters, or almost 197 feet, below sea level, and there are at least 1,000 documented entry points. It is one of the world's largest known underground networks.
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Would’t the Russians have a map of them at the Kremlin; they are pre-Soviet?
The war is coming to a conclusion. Zelensky just gave in to Vlads first demand, No NATO for the Ukies. When the Ukies finally figure out they don’t really want the Russian speaking, pro- Russian eastern provinces,not worth the trouble, it’s sign the papers time…..and everyone will wonder why they didn’t negotiate earlier. What a shame.
A lot of catacombs, bunkers and caves, almost like humans have some kind of race memory that requires it.
The Russians defended Odessa against the Romanians for 2 months in 1941. They’ve probably got a very good idea of where those catacombs are.
Mustered gas will make those catacombs a grave.
The resistance to the Nazis used the catacombs, for a long time.
It is a World-class extensive system. Many are not connected, but in others, you can travel miles underground.
Would’t the Russians have a map of them at the Kremlin; they are pre-Soviet?——————
Just pump them full of CS, problem solved.
bttt
But who pays for the repairs?
And please don’t say America.
Yep..... definitely don’t want to be around any mustering gas.
Odessa was “mostly” Russian speaking prior to 2014. After the Maidan Coup, the nationalist/Azov brigades pushed a lot of pro-Russians out. Many fled to Crimea or to Russia proper.
Russians talk about the “massacre at the Trade Unions Hall” in 2014, where 100+ pro-Russian protestors were cornered in an old Trade Union hall, and then the building was lit alight by Ukrainian, Pro-Maidan nationalists.
Russians consider it a “remember the Alamo” kind of moment - so they will be looking for payback now
This is more hilarious propaganda—Putin knows where everything is buried in Odessa.
If you have a copy of Peter Neumann’s ‘The Black March’, there is a chapter entitled ‘The Partisans of Odessa’ in which an elderly White Russian officer entertains three young German officers one evening by recounting part of the story of the partisan war against the Roumanian occupation force.
Meaningless given that many Ukrainians speak both Ukrainian and Russian. The 2001 Census - which is generally agreed to have come before 2014 - showed that over 60% of the population was Ukrainian, and less than 30% Russian.
And now you know the rest of the story.
They don’t even need to use one of the prohibited chemical weapons to deal with it. Just use the likely fentanyl derived gas they used in the Moscow Theatre hostage crisis. Pump the catacombs full of it, dose anyone innocent outside the vent areas with the counter agent, problem solved.
Gas
Let's see. Deep underground tunnels + Black Sea + a few drilling rigs from Siberia. No, no one can figure out how to neutralize that threat.
After all, no one remembers Diamond Salt Mine + Lake Peigneur + Texaco.
Odessa... it has been that way for centuries.
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