The Soviet Union Possessed The Most Sophisticated Offensive Biological Weapons Program In Human History And They Weaponized The Plague
On the second of October, in a town most people could not place on a map, a young woman died of a pneumonia that nobody could name. Her name was Darya Shipilova, and she was twenty-eight, a laboratory technician in Shelekhov, a small settlement in the Irkutsk region of Siberia, at an institute whose entire reason for existing is the study of plague. Two days earlier she had fallen ill at work, gone home, and never recovered. The official account is careful to the point of evasiveness. Rospotrebnadzor, Russia’s health watchdog, said she had died of a pneumonia of unknown origin, and that no case of plague had been recorded in Irkutsk at all. The head of a neighbouring region, Buryatia, had already told the world on social media that she died of the disease, then edited his post to soften the claim into a possibility. Even the World Health Organization was informed there was nothing to see. And then, quietly, everyone began to behave as though there were. That is a great deal of machiner...
