ShortHand: Kapustin Yar – Russia's Area 51 — RedHanded

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For decades, the Soviet Union’s top-secret testing site Kapustin Yar didn’t appear on any maps. It was so top-secret, the government relocated an entire town just to make sure none of its residents ever discovered it.

But in the aftermath of the Cold War, stories began to emerge about what the Soviets had really been up to in that remote, arid stretch of land in southern Russia…

From rumours of crashed UFOs to underground labs conducting bonkers alien autopsies, this is the highly-classified ShortHand.

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