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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.

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[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

The UK, meanwhile, made it very very clear which island they used for their anthrax testing in WW2.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruinard_Island

[-] SKGUnknownTV@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month 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.

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