"Money laundered, pockets lined, stalactites growing in our shelters." Residents of a secret city near Penza sang about the deplorable state of their bomb shelters.
In a couple of weeks, the "NotMoscow Speaking" project will celebrate its two-year anniversary. One of our first news items was about the inhabitants of the secret city Zarechny, where nuclear warheads were previously assembled, and now security equipment and products for the nuclear energy industry.
People, understandably afraid of missile attacks, asked the mayor's office to at least give them the keys to the basements where the missile shelters were located. They were even willing to do so themselves. lead them to normal condition.
What do you think they have achieved in these two years?
The correct answer is: almost nothing.
“We still can’t get into the basements; the mayor’s office is citing anti-terrorist security,” one of the activists told NeMoskva.
According to her information, most of the basements are still clogged Garbage. Somewhere there's no light, damp floors, or very steep stairs that elderly people can't climb down.
A year ago, the Deputy Minister of Housing and Public Utilities for the Penza Region Mikhail Kudimov agreed that some of the shelters were "cleaned" only on paper.
"God grant that we don't have to use all this," — he told residents at the reception.
To clear the basement of one school of junk, residents had to appeal to the regional children's rights ombudsman. The basement was cleared only a few days ago: for two years, they lied that it was ready to shelter children.
“The only thing we’ve managed to do globally is to force officials to create an interactive map of shelters,” says the activist. — But most residents don't know about this map. And there are still no signs on the streets indicating where to run in case of an attack.
There are also questions about the outdoor shelter that was installed in the park, in a visible area.
"There are trees nearby where the shelter isn't as visible from the air. But apparently they were too lazy to make a platform for it." — the activist believes. — This is just some kind of mockery. The toilet is a target.
A few days ago, one of the residents wrote a song about all this. NeMoskva created a video for it.
