The Post-Apocalyptic Roadmap/Russia

Part of the Post-Apocalyptic Roadmap Project.

Moscow

Post-Nuke Journal #2

April 11th

I might be stuck here in Minnesota, and having never left the United States, I feel that can't speak of what the rest of the world was like before the nuclear strikes. In the old world I used to speak to people from different countries; England, Sweeden, Lithuania, Russia.. My airsoft and Warhammer 40,000 hobbies led me to discussion forums serving other hobbyists all over the world. I had talked to slavic people on a forum dealing only with Russian and former Soviet materials, many were airsofters looking for that latest piece of Russian Flora combat gear to help them get the Russian soldier look.

I wonder if any of them have survived as I had to. One would think that military enthusiasts like me would be able to survive perhaps a little easier than other civilians.

April 13th

I could not get any sleep last night. The coyote packs were very active around our perimeter, and since I was not scheduled for a guard shift for 13 hours, I decided to read one of my few books; Dimitri Glukovsky's Metro 2033. Moscow reduced to ruin after nuclear attack, 40,000 humans were forced to live in prepared habs in the Moscow Metro system.

Could this now be true? The real Moscow Metro was, like the book says, a great feat of human engineering, and the book never over-emphasized the size of the Metro system. I sit here and wonder, are people living in the Metro stations like in the book? Are there mutants? Will we face the same nightmares those Metro-dwellers do?