zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / Jul 16, 2017 1:48 PM
In September, Russia will conduct its Zapad 2017 military exercise, the largest since the end of the Cold War, and one which is already sending shivers down the spine of NATO, which not only has “serious doubts Moscow is revealing the true extent of its military exercises”, but because the last time such a major training exercise took place was just before the Crimea “annexation.” One country, however, isn’t taking chances: Russia’s northern neighbor Finland, which as the WSJ reports, is “going underground.”
In something straight out of an H.G. Wells novel, Helsinki has built an entire subterranean city beneath Helsinki which forms a “crucial line of defense for the capital. Finnish soldiers routinely train here, with a mission to keep Finland’s government running and city residents safe in a network that features more than 124 miles of tunnels, passageways and shelters” the WSJ reports.
The “extensive underground network” has been adapted over recent decades with one thing in mind: to become an impregnable defensive redoubt which provides most of the amenities of regular, above the surface existence: blast doors seal entrances…
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