Eerie Cold War Soviet maps reveal Russian plan to invade UK city with tanks
dailystar.co.ukRussia reveals the outlines for its invasion plans to take over a British city during the Cold War. Thick orange lines running through a map of Manchester show how the Soviet military planned to storm the city on tanks and what local sites were to be targeted.
Russia's unrelenting bloody invasion of Ukraine over the past month serves as a reminder of the country's plotted 'special operations' of times gone by.
At the height of the Cold War in the 1970s, the Soviet Union's military strategists were preparing for a potential invasion of the UK which included drawing up maps so tanks knew which routes to take.Precise maps included routes for tanks to take in orange and other targets coded by colour — black for industrial sites, purple for public buildings and green for military sites.
One map shows Ramsbottom, Bury and Bolton, while another shows orange tank routes coming off the M62, and going right down Bury New Road.The maps, drawn up from a mix of official maps, spy planes, satellites, road maps and on-the-ground spies, were bought on the open market after they were declassified at the end of the Cold War.One map, from 1974, shows how the Soviet Union planned to invade Manchester.
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