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?

Dnevnik

June 25th Found this journal by a dead guy's body. Most of the pages prior to this one were too wet from both blood and water to read. Decided to use it, since the poor guy surely didn't need it.

It's been 4 days since I was exiled from Mayakovskaya station. Being one of the deepest metro stations in Moscow, it quickly became the biggest evacuation center in the central Moscow. Protected from both radiation, cold and rubble, quite easy to access. Shame I will never get back to that safe place.

I have to move on quickly, the bandits will be looking for me. Going surface was the only option. Hope this leaded coat will protect me from rads.

A map told me that there was a police station nearby. Should try to go loot it for guns and ammo. Maybe I can find some meds there too. I always feel sad trying to make one former building from another. Makes me nostalgic. We had a pretty good life back then. But no, this damn NATO guys just needed to push us to the edge. My history teacher back in school told me that we and America were friends once. Was this war just a friendly competition? If it was, fuck friends.

I'm gonna move towards my home, the Khovrino District. Haven't been there for years, but a man should try to die at home. At least I think so.

July 1st Navigating the streets is incredibly hard, so is avoiding contact with other people aside from scoping in on them. Some might recognise the mutation that made me leave the Mayakovskaya. Also, those bandits are still chasing me. Found an AK-74M with a scope at the police station. Nice knowing that our cops were well supplied. Finally reached Voykovskaya. With all the radiation hotspots, raider stations and aggressive mutants, a 5-hour walk took me 3 days. Also, looting. I now have more food that I could eat in a week, but it has got more radiation in it to kill me within 3 hours. Ah, choices, choices. Also, found a smoking pipe with tobacco. Relaxing stuff. Gonna keep moving towards Khovrino District via Leningradskoe Highway. Sometimes the more open you are, the safer you will be.