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- BlindingDawn, on 01/28/2008, -3/+100Looks like inspiration for CoD5
- timbofirstblood, on 01/28/2008, -3/+79Actually, building abandons you.
- kmckanna, on 01/28/2008, -0/+51Why would the first image in the article be out of a computer/video game? Or are my morning eyes deceiving me...
- inactive, on 01/28/2008, -0/+49That satellite dish that is the size of the football field has been replaced with one the size of my dish network dish. No wonder they abandoned it. Very cool stuff
- inactive, on 01/28/2008, -6/+53In Soviet Russia, Wonders abandon you.
- Lust4Me, on 01/28/2008, -1/+40I always find the location of text vs. photos confusing on that site.
- valardur, on 01/28/2008, -0/+39it screams half life 3 for me.
- SickBoy, on 01/28/2008, -1/+34Yeah that first pic looks like it's from STALKER or something.
- scoottie, on 01/28/2008, -0/+30why do people put the pictures above the text? Its annoying to read something then have to scroll upwards to see the pictures. It breaks the flow of any article.
Very cool stuff tho - Del129, on 01/28/2008, -1/+28The first pic reminds me of the sniping mission in CoD4.
- postalblowfish7, on 01/28/2008, -0/+24it's the old goldeneye control dish
- liah, on 01/28/2008, -0/+22I'm 80% sure it's a screenshot from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. At least, it seemed familiar to me when I saw it after playing the game.
- SuperVepr308, on 01/28/2008, -1/+2250,000 people used to live here...now its a ghost town...
- jetblackz4, on 01/28/2008, -1/+22I can never get enough of abandoned sites.
- jamessavik, on 01/28/2008, -1/+21I really like articles like this. Reminds me of the good ole days of the Cold War when we had a sane adversary that had no more desire to die for thier ideology than we did. In fact the more that I learned about the Russian history, people and culture the better I liked them. I learned to respect their courage and their strength from their performance in the Great Patroitic War. I look forward to the day when we can forget the fear & paranoia of the past and call ourselves true friends and allies because together there is nothing that we could not accomplish.
- LeRenard, on 01/28/2008, -0/+20I've always wanted to see Pripyat. Well, if it didn't still glow in the dark.
- vkorobkax, on 01/28/2008, -0/+20I love the way that they named places in the USSR. The name of the abandoned city (Promyshlennyi) translates as "Industrial".
- timbofirstblood, on 01/28/2008, -0/+19Looks like that to me too, that's strange.
- sfury, on 01/28/2008, -0/+19looks like S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
- smacksaw, on 01/28/2008, -0/+19The more I learn/see about the former USSR the more I want to see it in person. It's strange to say, but living in the US you see pretty nice stuff, but seeing the totally non-capitalist utilitarian Soviet equivalent seems pretty cool to me. Especially since it was just recently that we even know what ANYTHING looks like over there.
- suxmonkey, on 01/28/2008, -2/+20Why ... would you bury content because it was double-voted by a third party? That makes no sense. They were submitted at the same time so clearly MrBabyMan didn't want to be biased and choose one over the other to vote for.
- downwiththeking, on 01/28/2008, -9/+27Is that first picture from COD? :)
- BaDooer, on 01/28/2008, -0/+16Do you think Russia would let me buy the submarine base and make it my new under ground base of operations?
- Vhaeos, on 01/28/2008, -0/+16The first picture looks straight form S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
- Mindset1, on 01/28/2008, -1/+17It's actually from S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
- crapmatic, on 01/28/2008, -1/+16"The giant communications dish above is the size of a soccer field."
Yes, definitely, especially seeing as you can see the railing around that catwalk on the control cab and below it on the pedestal. I guess the Soviets played on 30-foot long soccer fields. Blogs that exaggerate by an order of magnitude have credibility issues. - strictnein, on 01/28/2008, -2/+16That's because "real" communism could only exist along side magic fairies and clouds that rain skittles.
- Ramble, on 01/28/2008, -2/+15Err, he's right. The whole everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others thing. Communism failed because of the government, power corrupts, and under communism in the soviet union the government controlled everything.
- p51d007, on 01/28/2008, -9/+21Oh come on.....everyone knows socialism will work.....it just hasn't been tried by the right people yet.....LOL
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..................................., - solid12345, on 01/28/2008, -1/+13Actually it was true socialism. The state owned everything from the factories to the banks and the creation of consumer, materialist goods was not encouraged. "Socialism" in Europe is not real socialism because it is still a market economy.
- strictnein, on 01/28/2008, -1/+11Who are the bums going to, you know, bum money from?
- smacksaw, on 01/28/2008, -1/+11When you use caps like that you make it sound like A Children's Book.
- vkorobkax, on 01/28/2008, -0/+10And? The article is about the former Soviet Union... which includes Ukraine, Russia, and 13 other republics.
- MindStalker, on 01/28/2008, -1/+11Eh, with a new transmitter/receiver the dish itself could be very useful. Its not the dish in your dish network receiver, its not rounder or anything, its the receiver and the satellite are more accurate and digital.
- Tyrghast, on 01/28/2008, -0/+10you actually want another WWII game? They haven't raped the genre to peices already?
- blackjack75, on 01/28/2008, -3/+12Real communism could only work if people were good. They're not. Humans want competition. We were "designed" by evolution to want to be the alpha dog. That's why we are here today.
If you limit the competition to corrupt people inside the party they will all join the party and all get corrupt. - TheHT, on 01/28/2008, -0/+9Further, why would there be a fire lit in the first place?
- solid12345, on 01/28/2008, -1/+10Everything was like that in the USSR. You went to a store titled "Bread" to get, well bread.
- inactive, on 01/28/2008, -0/+9the Abandoned Submarine Base looks exactly like a video game I used to play. That was kind of cool
- weister42, on 01/28/2008, -3/+11That abandoned satellite station looks like the one in GoldenEye.
- Klainmeister, on 01/28/2008, -0/+8It most definitely is: look at the tire and the fire. Both of which are in no way real.
- yujie, on 01/28/2008, -2/+10Wheres Chernobyl?
- keruha, on 01/28/2008, -1/+9Indeed, and makes no sense why it is there. Why not put up a real picture of Pripyat or Chernobyl instead?
- postalblowfish7, on 01/28/2008, -0/+7let im post away - i can't stand reddit. it's like the 1996 internet vomited the default link color all over the front page.
- piesforyou, on 01/28/2008, -0/+7I actually hit f3 and searched for "in soviet..."
I was hoping for a better attempt... - jamessavik, on 01/28/2008, -1/+8I don't know about that. Soviets were known for leaving nasty stuff in their abandonments because no one knew percisely everything that was going on in there. Military officers knew some, political officers knew some and KGB/GRU all had interests in many of these places but no one knew everything. It's entirely possible to find some really nasty surprise packages hidden away in those places.
Not to mention- Soviet military was very, very dirty environmentally. Many of these buildings were probably abandoned because they were seriously contaminated with the Red Army's leftovers. - turbopro, on 01/28/2008, -3/+10all ghillied up
- rabidbob, on 01/28/2008, -0/+7Who cares? Get a life.
- GreenGrassyNoel, on 01/28/2008, -0/+7I'm glad I'm not the only one, I had to scroll through comparing descriptions with images a few times before figureing it out.
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