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Fancy A Russian Map Of Your Town?
Well, you’re in luck then. Although Envirochecks website is only for the UK, the KGB mapped most of the world, so yours will be out there somewhere.
Between 1938 and 1990, the Russian security forces mapped most of the large cities in Britain, to a very high level of detail. As the site says:
It is a spine-chilling fact. Every Soviet president from Stalin to Gorbachev, and all their highranking officers, knew not only where you lived but how to get there by tank.
These are the areas covered - I see Aberdeen is on there!
It’s weird to think that in some cases, their maps were better than ours at the time. To this day, some of the best maps of Africa and Asia remain those crafted by the KGB. You can view a sample map at the site, and registered users can view or download them all.
Again via The Register.
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February 26th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Where the hell do you find the time to post so much?! Things are so busy for me right now…
February 26th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
You have my sympathy, having to schlep up and down the Midland Mainline
As I now stay at home with the boys, I have time to do this, as long as I clear some of the rubbish out of the way of the front door, and throw some food at the children occasionally.
Back end of 2005, we were both sick of our jobs, I was fed up with 4-5 nights a week in the Travelinn, Steph saw her dream job up here in Aberdeen so we went for it.
Cut our income in half, but life is so much better for it. A little more cash wouldn’t go amiss though, hence the paid posts.
Life is too short to spend doing a crap job…
February 27th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
I hear you… Actually my job’s fairly satisfying, but can be a bit all-consuming sometimes. Don’t talk to me about Travelodges and the like - I’m like Alan Partridge I stay in the south-east that often…
February 27th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Oh God, when I saw him staggering up the side of a dual carriageway, and getting food from a petrol station, I thought “This is getting too much like my actual life…”
February 27th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Oh please, I’ve so been there….
February 28th, 2007 at 9:50 am
Shell used to have the best sandwiches, but they’ve gone downhill of late
February 28th, 2007 at 10:46 am
The BP in Leatherhead used to have a good Pick ‘n’ Mix bit, but now it’s gone. Now I’m genuinely excited that they’re building a new Lidl store next to the Travelodge. Shoot me now.
February 28th, 2007 at 11:03 am
What’s blue & yellow and full of shit?
A carrier bag from Lidl….
There was a time I could recite the full menu of the Beefeater restaurant, and the excitement engendered one time in my colleague and I when we sat down to realise it had changed, was really quite pathetic.
Ah, halcyon days.
Halcyon does mean f***ing horrible doesn’t it?