Soviet Bioweapons Exposed: Plague Island’s Deadly Cold War Secret
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In 1971, a Soviet research ship encountered a mysterious brown cloud near Vozrozhdeniya Island—later known as Plague Island—in the Aral Sea. What followed wa...

In 1971, a Soviet research ship drifted into a strange brown cloud near Vozrozhdeniya Island in the Aral Sea—what would later be dubbed Plague Island. What followed was a deadly smallpox outbreak that the USSR scrambled to cover up.

This wasn’t just an accident. Aralsk-7, a top-secret Soviet bioweapons lab on the island, was ground zero for the development of weaponized smallpox, plague, anthrax, and more. It was one of the USSR’s most dangerous secrets—hidden from the world, in violation of every international treaty imaginable.

Declassified documents, CIA files, and explosive testimony from Soviet defector Ken Alibek now confirm the unimaginable: the Soviets nearly unleashed global biological catastrophe.

Welcome to Plague Island. The deadliest place you were never supposed to know existed.

    • SKGUnknownTV@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 day 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.