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11. That'll make it easier to install all the bugs Putin needs in it

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Thu Apr 9, 2026, 08:42 PM

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True story: In the 1980s the United States decided to build a new embassy in Moscow, and they hired Soviet construction companies to build it. This wasn't the brightest idea we ever had because the Soviets bugged the place so thoroughly people were calling the building The Eight Story Microphone.

The replacement for it was built by American companies, and the materials were delivered from the US by the US Army. Every truck had two soldiers in it: one Army truck driver and one Russian-speaking Military Intelligence soldier armed with a loaded M-16 rifle.

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