There were 3 places on Earth the remaining “legal” stores of smallpox were kept after it was officially declared eradicated.
The United States.
Russia.
And....wait for it.
Baghdad, Iraq.
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I assume you recall that the eradication effort was proposed at the UN by the Soviets in the 1950s and was completed by the 1970s (we all know who made it happen). Then the Soviets proposed at the UN that all stocks be destroyed, while they were simultaneously conducting research into weaponizing the virus at Biopreparat. Any resistance to the virus is now long gone.
So the whole thing stinks of a globo-socialist population reduction racket, managed by the Russians using Islamic surrogates for plausible deniability. It would be really interesting to get a good photo of a shirtless Vlad on his horse to see if he has a vaccina scar.