[Spooks] The Woodpecker

[Tracy Johnson]

Ah, but since the Soviet Union is no more, do the Ukrainians hate Russia?


On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 9:37 AM john <johnmb at nc.rr.com> wrote:

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> Watched it last night via a Prime stream.
>
> The Ukrainians hate the Soviet Union.
>
> It's a mixture of artsy conspiracy theory and anti-soviet documentary
> with a few min of Woodpecker quasi technical info mixed in.  The photos
> of the antenna array (from which Chernobyl is visible) are staggering.
> It's all been left to rot (and apparently climb).
>
> The Ukrainians hate the Soviet Union.
>
> The premise of the movie is, the Woodpecker , which was enormously
> expensive (2x the cost of the Chernobyl nuke facility) never worked. In
> order to cover up this failure, Chernobyl was purposely melted down.
>
> Plausible, but a real reach.   It could have been shorter than it was (I
> missed the point of the scenes of the main character randomly wrapped in
> Saran Wrap holding a torch. This probably explains why I became an
> engineer not an art major) . On the other hand, it's certainly the only
> video you'll likely see of the Chernobyl nuke site taken from the top of
> the Woodpecker antenna array.
>
> Oh, and the Ukrainians hate the Soviet Union.
>
>
> John K5MO
>
> On 3/2/2019 8:23 PM, Christmas Peter via Spooks wrote:
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> > Take  look on RTVs web site. They did a good piece about it
> > 73
> > Doc
> > W2MFT
> >
> > The DX TRAWLER....a good source for DX information
> >
> > http://wnydxa.blogspot.com/
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> > On Sat, 3/2/19, john <johnmb at nc.rr.com> wrote:
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> >   Subject: Re: [Spooks] The Woodpecker
> >   To: spooks at mailman.qth.net
> >   Date: Saturday, March 2, 2019, 3:48 PM
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> >   Looks like the video is $2.99 on Amazon Prime
> >   Video.
> >
> >   Anyone seen it?
> >
> >   John K5MO
> >
> >   On 3/1/2019 6:06 PM, Dr Jim Kennedy via Spooks
> >   wrote:
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> https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/duga-radar-chernobyl-ukraine/index.html
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> >   >
> >   > Dr. Jim Kennedy - K2PHD
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Tracy Johnson
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