Comment on The Forgotten Plague Island – USSR's Deadliest Secret
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The UK, meanwhile, made it very very clear which island they used for their anthrax testing in WW2.
Comment on The Forgotten Plague Island – USSR's Deadliest Secret
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The UK, meanwhile, made it very very clear which island they used for their anthrax testing in WW2.
SKGUnknownTV@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yep — big difference:
UK (Gruinard Island):
Tested anthrax in WWII
Publicly acknowledged
Quarantined for decades
Decontaminated by 1990
USSR (Vozrozhdeniya Island):
Secretly tested smallpox, anthrax, plague
Denied everything
Caused a deadly smallpox outbreak in 1971
Covered it up for years
One island had warning signs. The other had a cover story.> The UK, meanwhile, made it very very clear which island they used for their anthrax testing in WW2.