Sverdlovsk Anthrax Leak: The USSR’s Deadly Lab Leak 

What up son? Anthrax rules 🤘🎧🥁

Can you please, please do a documentary on the rape of Nanking while covering the invasion of the Japanese Islands & the death count & why this death count was so high. As well as why dropping the advance in technology of bombs was no different from the bombing of Dresden Germany in the death toll. & if you have the guts to actually be truthful in why this new technology was no different then the "fire bombing" of Germany & Japan.. then maybe I can bring myself to watch your videos again.. I was horribly disappointed in how you glorified the Japanese after the extraordinary Hiroshima victory.. & the Nagasaki revenge... the Japanese did things to humans that never should be thought of.. the Japanese deserved 27 Hiroshima's at the very least!!! Just like Germany deserved 35 Dresden's ... You pay for what you support..!

You're a square space. Burn... 🔥

@@michaelb6420 Pp

And come early 2020... Soviet China, through the Wuhan Labs didn't get nor heed to the memo; continued on tweaking SARS and Coronavirus Strains: and caused the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020... Nuff Said._

How cheap is anthrax housing there in comparison to normal housing prices?

​@PoDaBo it depends on location: in Russia, probably 98% cheaper. In New York... Anthrax contaminated building... the landlord would probably give you a 5% discount for the first year of contract. Maybe they'll throw in free internet, but that's pushing it a bit already.

Its the same all over eastern europe

I hope you're not in Russia and your loved ones are safe. нет войны

Ouch.

I've learned more about America here than I have in any of my history classes in the US

China did what the KGB tried to do...

It's not isolated to Russia or then USSR.

Little does anyone know, that universe exists in the Command & Conquer: Red Alert series.

You don't realize how ironic your comment is. It's the US trying to will an alternate reality in to existence. Do you think this is just Putin wanting territory? Why now? Why Ukraine? You are clueless about your own government.

@@nmxsanchez ukraine decided to get closer to nato rather than russia so russia invades. This is literally an abusive relationship. Russia beats ukraine, tells ukraine it'll change, beats it again, ukraine tries to leave, russia tries to kill it

@@nmxsanchez Found the bootlicking Tankie.

@@nmxsanchez Why now? Because Putin sensed the opportunity: that the NATO countries were distracted and weak. He saw what he thought was a low-risk chance to conquer a resource-rich country in a valuable strategic position and took it. You might say, "Why now and not seven years ago..." except that Putin _did_ invade Ukraine seven years ago. In late February of 2014, Putin invaded and conquered Crimea (part of Ukraine) in an operation smaller but overall very similar to the 2022 invasion under way right now. NATO countries including the USA raised a fuss and passed some sanctions, but overall they chose to let the whole thing slide. Six years before that, in 2008, Putin invaded the Republic of Georgia, conquering a big chunk of the country. In that case as well, there was little serious response from NATO; newly elected Barack Obama blamed his predecessor rather than Putin, and sent his secretary of state to Russia with a "reset button," offering to put the matter behind them. In all three cases, Russia had spent years prior to the invasion on subversion/harassment operations against its intended victim. Meanwhile, it escalated with threats and allegations, and then finally attacked when it appeared its victim's allies would be unlikely to respond. That's why now. Why Ukraine? The same reason Russia has been conquering Ukraine again and again, going back to the eighteenth century. Plus oil. A Putin-aligned Russian newspaper accidentally posted an editorial right after the invasion started. It clearly had been written to be published in the event of a quick victory, and was quickly removed from the site once it became clear that the Ukrainians were putting up a serious fight. The article riffs on some of the grievances Nate alluded to, but mainly it gloats that the invasion was inevitable because Ukraine should never have been given independence in the first place, was a Russian territory by right, and both Ukraine and NATO were helpless in the face of Russian power and determination.

I mean, refuge in audacity is a thing. But the issue is that the plan has to 1. Be foolproof, or 2. Catch the enemy so off guard that they're destroyed before they can mount an effective resistance. The latter isn't applicable here, and its clear that the only thing foolproof was the amount of high proof vodka the fool in charge of designing safety systems was drunk on when they decided that a single point of failure system was A-okay for containing one of the most lethal germs known to mankind.

I choked on my drink laughing when he said that lmao

Sadly, yes.

I think that it's more along the idea that they were just cocky enough to think they were masters of everything. Plus a heavy dose of stupidity, look at the handling of the Chernobyl events for Russian stupidly trying to lie and hide numbers. Lying is a hallmark of the USSR's reign.

It kinda worked. No one did suspect a thing... until the outbreak, that is. 😅

Or the US, China, Iran, North Korea...treaties are often ignored.

@@owenshebbeare2999 Aye.. Most kept it on the fringe. Soviet States were absolutely blatant.. Amazing we've only had proxy wars up until now lol

@@owenshebbeare2999 or deliberately worded so vaguely that they're not worth the paper they're written on.

That's one major reason for the coverup (obviously not the only reason). The anthrax outbreak began when US President Jimmy Carter was just seven weeks away from a summit in Vienna, where he and Brezhnev signed the SALT II agreement. At the time, the Soviets were pushing very hard to sign nuclear arms control treaties with the United States. Anti-war activism was still a major force in 1979, with activists demanding that the US dismantle its nuclear program and claiming that if they did, that the Soviets would surely do the same. The USSR's calculation was simple: America's open society and free press made it difficult for the USA to cheat, at least on a large scale, whereas such cheating was already easy and routine for the Soviets. Playing on idealistic activists, disinformation campaigns, and the existing political polarization in the West, the Soviets hoped to turn what they saw as western naivete into a hard military advantage. So in addition to the scandal making communism and its leaders look bad, an important consideration in itself, such a massive and obvious violation of the Biological Weapons Convention as this anthrax accident would have destroyed the SALT II talks and squandered all the pressure the Soviets had managed to generate for the West to reduce its stockpiles of nuclear weapons. It would have also undermined public support for nuclear disarmament and the peace movement in general. That ended up happening anyway. Jimmy Carter _did_ sign the SALT II agreement, but it was never ratified by the US Senate. This wasn't because of the anthrax accident revealing the illegal soviet bioweapons program; that was successfully covered up. Instead, six months later, the Russians launched a surprise war of aggression against Afghanistan. A month after that, it came out that the Soviets had secretly placed a unit of several thousand combat troops in Cuba. To my knowledge, the action in Cuba didn't break any treaties, but those events reversed American interest in arms control agreements with the Soviets for several years, and support for the unilateral nuclear disarmament movement fell apart and never entirely recovered. (In a weird epilogue, though, both sides did adhere to SALT II's terms despite the treaty never having taken effect.)

Well the US has invaded a dozen countries illegally and recently got busted trying to help ukraine develop bio weapons the same weapons they falsely claimed saddam owned ,used it as a justification for the iraq invasion so idk about that the US seems to be on the same level if not worse

Lol Time off from the on going nightmare of the 2020s and potential nuclear war.

Same haha.

Listening to ANTHRAX YEAH🤘

CoM£19 as a rapper name

Could be a part 2 to hangar 18? Lol

Yeah Scott Ian f’d up naming the band Anthrax 🤘

@@KillsAll. They could've named their first album "Fistful of Anthrax"

@@KillsAll. Perhaps Compound 19 could warm up for Anthrax! :P

A novichok agents video is a must!!

Allegedly from Russia... :P

He won't do it. Every other word would be allegedly

Want.

@@JPaterson8942 It's from Russia alright.

A very good lesson to learn. Well summarized.

Never doubt the depths of depravity and lack of empathy that humanity can display. Atleast half of society in developed countries would do well to remember that.

Governments are the enemy of the people.

Doctors now lack any honor or bravery, they only care for who puts weight in their wallet

For what though? What good is the truth really when nobody will ever be held responsible? Slowly this is what capitalism in the U.S. is becoming. Nobody is ever criminally charged; at worst they're made to pay a fine, which is usually reduced to a pathetic amount. This is just considered the cost of doing business now. Businesses pay the fine, personal wealth is shielded from lawsuits, and they move on to their next shady practice that ruins more people's lives in search of the next billion dollars.

I see little difference between all his channels except for business/brain blaze..... they are all just simon narrating interesting things in slightly different areas of his studio, with slightly different camera angles and lights and he slightly adjusts his level of formality each time

I know. I heard him say stop messing with crazy shit. I'm like dang that's new haha

I like that the disease episodes are in this channel but there's definitely crossover.

I own the book. Very Interesting, but also terrifying at the same time. Imagine, with today medical and technological achievements, what governments around the world are working on....

I would never be able to read that after becoming a long hauler. What really happened in Wuhan - by Sharri Markson was bad enough.

Thanks for the recommendation! Book sounds great and really interesting; going to buy it.

Is this the set list of last night’s Anthrax concert son??

@@KillsAll. i laughed hard that

Oooo seconded! That would make a great video topic

I could be mistaken, but isn’t there a 4th component to NBC? I thought there was, but it’s escaping me.

China too

Oopsie

You ate breakfast after watching an Ed Gein video? You have a stronger stomach than I!

I have learned not to trust, haha!

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@@PerfeckteDroge during

Don't worry same lab and same country are at it again. All in the name of research. Ask any mose with humane cells.

*Looks intensely at Ukraine and China*

@@killman369547 tbf, the Ukraine ones are US labs

LOL no couldn't be

Right? Sounds awfully familiar.

​@@killman369547 ah yes "bioweaponised Ukrainian pigeons", try to provide a little bit of evidence next time tankie)

You mean the nice safe containment where they were sweeping up Anthrax spores with *yard brooms* - an action by the way instigated by everyone's favourite pisshead Russian - Boris "off-licenceski" Yeltsin that almost managed to infect everyone within a half mile downwind. The accident happened because some twerp ran out of filters on the uptakes and some other twerp put a note "do not use *until* I have a filter. Which of course - the pointy haired managerial twerp didn't read..

Huh? It's not a contagion.

@@rosiehawtrey nope, You're confusing Aralsk and Sverdlovsk.

@@wingerding Smallpox is, which is what hit Aralsk.

@@rosiehawtrey It happened in 1979, how did Yeltsin have anything to do with it?

Wish such perfidy was restricted to the USSR, but was standard procedure during that time, on both sides.

Anthrax has great world tours son, Clash of the Titans was a good tour for moshing 🤘

Same, I remember an Alex Rider spy plot about this. I knew USSR was well dodgy but JESUS

Take a look at Ken Alibek's autobiography BioHazard.

The filter needed periodic replacement. The technical crew was probably not informed of the real nature of the facility, so they might not have had thorough procedures in place to prevent accidents.

Siberian labor camps are not fun.

No one wanted to punish anyone because they didn't want it reported.

Sure you did it happened two years ago in China

Check the tour dates for Anthrax’s next tour son🤘

Agreed it should become a episode Simon and all the other people who help put this channel segments together should seriously do! 👍😃

there's a team?

11:55 Another premonition! Crazy!

So true!!

I learned about this about 6 months ago...40 years late. Just like USA it takes about 30 years to find out some of my Country's secrets. I'm American.

Um, America, black men, syphilis anyone ?

@@iamperplexed4695 At least that came out in time to end the experiment, save some of the victims, and get them restitution. When the experiment started in 1932, there was no treatment for syphilis, so watching the disease progress without treating them was all the doctors could do anyway. When the cure came out in 1947, that's when the scandal started, because the doctors could have cured them but didn't. In 1972, it hit the newspapers and the experiment was immediately shut down. Surviving victims got a $10 million settlement, a year later. Lots of scandals either never come out, or come out decades after all the victims are dead. Or they come out, but it's like Russia: everybody knows what happened but the government just keeps insisting that it's all a lie and will keep saying that forever. Armenian genocide is a good example of that.

Yes. As said in his book BioHazard.

If you saw the videos that got out of China early on during the pandemic it seems like some truly nasty stuff leaked out of that lab, people were dropping dead in the streets

Nobody would create covid as a weapon. The virus breaks down almost immediately outside the body, it's probably not infectious enough to be a good weapon and the mortality profile means it's almost no threat to healthy people of fighting age while it mainly kills the elderly and very sick. That's about the most useless weapon you could create - all you'd do is improve your enemy's economy by killing some pensioners.

@@trolleriffic they let it out too early by accident. They were doing GoF research since 2012 and it likely wasn’t in its final stages.

Ah yes, conspiracy theories without any proofs - my favourite!

I hope you feel better soon.

@Liliana Bray Thank you, I appreciate it. Yes, I hope so too.

@@MrSuperMichel1997 I came down with the coof myself and it's like I've got a bad cold. Going on a week and I feel a lot better. It's been months for you, so you're definitely over it and back to normal, I hope.

Sounds like modern day america. Well, upto the beginning of last year anyway. Still a wierd situation now though too.

... that can still happen today

Sounds scary with all the bioweapons, gain of function research making man made viruses, experimental vaccines& drugs, nuclear capabilities & mad people, politicians & scientists all in charge of them.

I'm no biologist but I did pay attention in school, and I'm with Melinda here. Whether or not it's a weaponized strain (that is, selected or bred to resist antibiotics or vaccines) and whether or not the dried bacteria (spores) has been ground down to the individual spore the net result is the same once it's in it's natural habitat: the spores will hydrate back into living bacteria and start multiplying as best the conditions allow.

Yes, but worse because what's in the spores is designed to be much nastier than usual - see Gruinard Island.

They're viable for decades if not centuries and are very hard to get rid of.

... and that every disaster in Russia is the result of Western interference

Learn about the west nile virus and how george bush had it classified...go to gresham college on u tube and learn how our government covered it all up!!! And still does to this day..there are scientists STILL IMPRISONED UNDER THEIR SUPER.SECRET EXECUTIVE ORDER...

@@sislertx @Russell Fitzpatrick 50 cent party or the internet research agency / Glavset?

It kind of was and it wasn't. Obviously it was good that the Soviet Union with all its associated evils disappeared, but the aftermath of its fall also threw millions of people into desperate poverty and chaos that's still being felt today.

Every country in the world that works with bio weapons does so in major cities. Wuhan anyone? Atlamta?

@@iamperplexed4695 I know the Chinese have a reputation for making useless cheap knock-offs that fail even basic functionality tests.... but if you think the 'rona is an escaped bioweapon you're simply not giving the Chinese credit enough. I mean, it's barely any more effective than the harsher strains of Influenza. And they actually do produce fully working cars and shit...

@@andersjjensen maybe the omicron strain, but the original corona strain was pretty bad dude

@@OF01975 Here in Denmark they put the mortality rate at 1.4%. We've had flu variants in the 1.1-1.2% range in the 80s. Current strains are in the 0.5-0.7% range. I'm not downplaying that Rona 1.0 was nasty. I'm saying that as a bio weapon it's so laughably bad that anyone who think it was constructed in a lab for nefarious purposes need to look into what third world countries was capable of producing already in the 1950s - and then promptly remove their tin foil hat.

It would be a world of stagnation

The lab leak theory of Covid was debunked weeks into the pandemic