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darthvader · WayToRussified Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 381

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Metro_2

How intriguing......... Anyone want to disclose any extra information? Any ex-Soviet plumbers, cleaners, etc want to reveal any deep, dark secrets under the "public" Moscow metro?

darthvader · WayToRussified Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 381

http://outside.away.com/magazine/0997/9709under.html

"......In 1994, exploring seven levels down, the Diggers hit upon what Mikhailov believes is Stalin's much-rumored second metro system, a "spetztunnel" used to spirit Party officials from the Kremlin to the underground town of Ramenkoye, some 50 miles away. The train is still functioning, he claims, and "for merely a few thousand dollars" he'd be delighted to take international film crews down for an eyeful. Now Mikhailov dreams of finding the lost library of Ivan the Terrible, a priceless collection of Byzantine and Hebrew scrolls that is believed to be stashed somewhere under the Kremlin and that for centuries has been the subject of an on-again, off-again national search. To do it right, of course, such an ambitious hunt would require not only considerable funding and state-of-the-art archaeological equipment, but also official permission to go rummaging beneath the twelfth-century foundation of the Kremlin none of which the Diggers have........"

darthvader · WayToRussified Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 381

So, concerning this intriguing premise, when's the movie blockbuster action-adventure-thriller going to be released? Indiana Jones, Jason Bourne, and Da Vinci Code all blended together would have nothing over this. Wink