Was wondering when someone would inevitably bring this up. The plague technically isn't a weapon though, and certainly not in this case. Much as the idea of the Ukies lobbing diseased corpses toward enemy positions amuses me. Perhaps via some sort of trebuchet? Or maybe attached to drones with strings...

Buy an Ad, Annie

If it ever escapes containment it will be on purpose. Having said that I find it happening entirely plausible

>>65562575
So they recreated WW1 right down to the Spanish flu?

Monke's going to need a bigger table

>>65562876
Well, not exactly. The difference is that since Spanish Flu was a novel virus, it was essentially untreatable. Plague is completely treatable with even first-gen antibiotics (provided you get treatment immediately after developing symptoms), so it's only a serious threat to shithole countries without a functioning medical industry.

Monkepox outbreak?

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>>65562980
No, it's not on the frontline.

YET

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>>65562949
>Plague is completely treatable with even first-gen antibiotics
What do you think was happening at the research institute?

>>65562949
>Plague is completely treatable with even first-gen antibiotics
I'm sure that comes as a comfort to the lab worker that got exposed.

>>65565573
>the lab worker that got exposed
And died from it.

>>65565573
Well from what I heard, they explicitly tried to hide the fact they got exposed in the first place.

Russian Disasters & Miseries — 1547–Present
Nuclear / radioactive disasters
Kyshtym/Mayak — 1957: radioactive-waste tank explosion; major contamination and evacuation.
Techa River / Mayak — 1940s–50s: radioactive waste dumped into river system; chronic exposure, cancers and leukemia.
Lake Karachay — Soviet era: radioactive waste lake; contaminated dust spread when it partially dried.
Mayak criticality accident — 1958.
Nedelin catastrophe — 1960: missile exploded during launch preparation; dozens killed.
K-19 — 1961: nuclear-submarine reactor accident; severe radiation exposure.
K-27 — 1968: reactor accident; radiation injuries/deaths.
K-8 — 1970: nuclear submarine lost at sea; 52 dead.
Leningrad NPP — 1975: serious reactor accident.
Chazhma Bay — 1985: nuclear-submarine reactor accident; acute radiation injuries/deaths.
Chernobyl — 1986: Soviet nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine.
Tomsk-7 — 1993: radioactive release/explosion at nuclear facility.
Numerous lesser-known Soviet/Russian reactor, submarine, weapons-production and nuclear-test incidents.
Biological / chemical disasters
Sverdlovsk anthrax — 1979: military-biological facility accident/release; dozens officially acknowledged dead, with higher estimates possible.
Soviet Biopreparat program: clandestine biological-weapons development, including laboratory accidents and exposure incidents.
Chemical-industrial disasters: repeated major releases associated with Soviet/Russian chemical industry.
Irkutsk plague incident — 2026: reported suspected laboratory exposure involving Yersinia pestis; circumstances/outbreak status disputed.

Government shoots people / state violence
Bloody Sunday — 1905: troops fired on demonstrators in St. Petersburg.
Lena massacre — 1912: troops fired on striking miners.
Kronstadt — 1921: Red Army crushed rebellion.
Great Terror — 1937–38: mass executions, arrests and deportations.
Katyn — 1940: Soviet NKVD mass execution of Polish prisoners.
Vorkuta uprising — 1953: Gulag prisoners killed during suppression.
Kengir uprising — 1954: tanks and troops crushed Gulag prisoners.
Novocherkassk massacre — 1962: Soviet troops fired on striking workers.
Tbilisi — 1989: Soviet troops attacked demonstrators.
Numerous additional shootings, deportations, executions and massacres across imperial and Soviet history.
“The government built the thing” disasters
White Sea–Baltic Canal — 1931–33: enormous forced-labor project; tens of thousands died.
Moscow Canal — 1930s: Gulag labor and mass construction.
Rybinsk Reservoir — 1930s–40s: enormous flooding project; Mologa and hundreds of settlements submerged; ~130,000 people relocated.
Soviet reservoir program: roughly 640,000 people displaced by major reservoir projects in one academic estimate.
Volga/Kama hydroelectric projects: enormous forced relocation and environmental transformation.
Bratsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Zeya, Sayano-Shushenskoye, etc.: settlements and land sacrificed to giant infrastructure projects.
Aral Sea catastrophe: Soviet irrigation policy devastated the sea and surrounding environment.
Nuclear cities: entire communities created, concealed and sometimes relocated around secret nuclear facilities.

Engineering / infrastructure catastrophes
Ufa railway disaster — 1989: leaking gas pipeline ignited as two trains passed; hundreds killed.
Chernobyl — 1986: engineering/design, operational and institutional failures.
Sayano-Shushenskaya — 2009: turbine/hydraulic failure; 75 killed.
Orsk dam collapse — 2024: catastrophic flooding and mass evacuation.
Numerous bridge, mine, factory, aviation, railway, submarine and industrial accidents.
Famines / food catastrophes
1601–03 famine: one of Russia's worst pre-modern famines.
1891–92 famine: enormous Imperial Russian famine.
1921–22 famine: war, requisitioning, drought and economic collapse; millions died.
1932–33 Soviet famine: mass starvation across the USSR; exceptionally severe in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and parts of Russia.
1946–47 famine: postwar famine exacerbated by drought and state policy.
War / invasion / societal catastrophe
Time of Troubles — 1598–1613: famine, civil war, invasion and state collapse.
Napoleonic invasion — 1812: enormous military and civilian losses.
Crimean War — 1853–56: military catastrophe and institutional failure.
World War I: enormous Russian military/civilian losses and state breakdown.
Russian Civil War — 1917–22: war, famine, disease, executions and displacement.
World War II: catastrophic losses, occupation, siege, famine and mass destruction.
Afghanistan — 1979–89: Soviet war with enormous military and Afghan civilian consequences.
Chechen wars — 1990s–2000s: massive destruction and civilian casualties.

“Just make the population disappear”
Soviet collectivization/deportations: entire communities relocated or destroyed.
Kulak deportations: millions subjected to forced relocation.
National deportations: Chechens, Ingush, Crimean Tatars, Kalmyks, Volga Germans, Balkars, Karachays and others forcibly relocated.
Gulag system: huge population transferred through forced labor camps.
Reservoir projects: villages and towns literally erased from maps.
Closed Soviet cities: populations created, moved and controlled for strategic projects.
Environmental mega-disasters
Aral Sea: one of history's largest human-caused ecological disasters.
Techa River/Mayak: radioactive river contamination.
Lake Karachay: extreme radioactive contamination.
Norilsk: massive long-term industrial pollution.
Dzerzhinsk: chemical contamination.
Chernobyl exclusion zone: enormous contaminated territory.
Soviet virgin-land/irrigation schemes: soil degradation, erosion and ecological damage.

And that's just what AI found kek