Comments on: Better red than dead

Better red than dead

infini — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:01:32 -0800

With the potential 'crisis' with Russia, Georgia, Europe et al, the BBC tries to imagine what a new Cold War would be like starting with a tour of the budding Moscow tourist attraction called the Confrontation Cold War Museum. Sold off in an auction last year, the underground bunker now belongs to a private company that plans to turn it into an entertainment complex with a museum about the Cold War, a restaurant and even a spa. But it is already possible to hold fashion shows around the 600-meter-long network of bare, cavernous tunnels.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:00:39 -0800

Some recent, previous Cold War-era abandoned bunker news.

By: infini

infini — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:16:57 -0800

hmm seems like cold war bunkers are 'in' these days

By: ersatz

ersatz — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:49:35 -0800

-Isolated Moscow snubbed by Asian states at summit. -Putin accuses US of starting Georgia crisis as election ploy. "The suspicion arises that someone in the United States especially created this conflict to make the situation more tense and create a competitive advantage for one of the candidates fighting for the post of US president," Putin said. The White House said Putin's allegations were "patently false" and the state department said it was "ludicrous" for the Russians to say they were not responsible for what had happened in Georgia.

By: droplet

droplet — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:44:22 -0800

I love a good fashion show.

By: infini

infini — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:01:15 -0800

meanwhile in Europe, To younger "romantics" such as David Cameron, 41, who wants to "accelerate" Georgia's application to join Nato, that smacks of Cold War thinking. The Tory leader was swiftly invited to Georgia after he described Russia as a "massive bully", and wrote on his return: "We must not return to the days of Yalta, when whole nations were allocated according to spheres of influence. If we go along with that in the case of Georgia, where will it apply next? Ukraine? Estonia?" According to some critics of the Cold War veterans, their vision comes from even further back – from the 19th century, when the Council of Vienna divided up Europe among the Great Powers.

By: cmacleod

cmacleod — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:06:40 -0800

Has the US built any bunkers recently?