Soviet Ghosts

[S0UP76]

So I was checking weather.com today for – well, the weather forecast…and I noticed an image of the Soviet hammer and sickle.  What did I find there?

http://www.weather.com/video/left-to-rot-a-former-empire-53538?collid=/video-minutes/uncharted&cm_ven=Email&cm_cat=video_share

The DailyMail also has a nice article on it.

“Abandoned military bases, deserted hospital wards and cinemas which are now just a shadow of their former glory - these are the haunting images of the ghosts behind the former Soviet Union’s Iron Curtain”

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2701310/Ghosts-Iron-Curtain-The-haunting-images-former-Soviet-Union-s-abandoned-barracks-cinemas-fighter-jet-graveyards.html#ixzz3DCD2y13M

[KaLeu]

Thanks for sharing. It’s an irony to see the large red letters in the picture of the Chernobyl sports hall. They read “pobeda”, which means “victory”.