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In the present uncertainty about external threats and possibly war, its strange to think our friends now, but
enemies of only a generation ago, were planning for a takeover.
Swindon was clearly in the Red
Army's sights prior to the break up
of the Soviet Union eleven years
ago as shown by several maps
that have come to light in Swindon
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Prepared in the USSR in the
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are designed using the standard
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It is believed that similar maps
compiled by the Soviet military
machine cover the whole country.
Work on them is understood to
have started during the World War
II. They are very detailed and ex-
A section of the main map which
pert cartographers will note that measures about 60" by 40" showing
the maps conform to the Warsaw all the main features of the town
Pact specification using the centre and Old Town. The strategi-
Krossovsky/Pulkovo system rather cally important railway junction and
than the UK geodetic and national the works, which in the mid-1980s
grid systems. lay derelict are clearly marked. Note
Useful as they may have been the large rectangular building run-
for shelling, ground forces would ning parallel to the railway line, A
have experienced problems using shop, which was demolished and is
the maps as all details, down to the now the designer centre car park
name of the
smallest cul-de-
sac, are set out in
Cyrillic Russian.
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ing to see how
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