"In 1991 the city of Samara, Russia, located on the Volga river 700 miles south-east of Moscow, discovered one of Stalin’s bunkers had been hidden under their city since 1942. Samara, renamed Kuybyshev in the honor of a Bolshevik leader in 1935, was designated as the USSR’s second capital city, in case Moscow fell to the German Army. The bunker was built in nine months by a team of 800 engineers and 2,900 workers who worked secretly around the clock. General opinion is that the construction crew was made up of convicts who were killed after completion of the bunker, though no proof has yet to be found. It is still a mystery how the workers and construction equipment went unseen by the locals."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet