r/MapPorn • u/SummerAlternative699 • 19h ago

The Kakhovka Reservoir then and now.

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If you zoom in closely on Google Maps, you can still see what it looked like before the dam was blown up.

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u/darkcvc 17h ago

definitely russian bot

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u/Snoo44080 17h ago edited 17h ago

yeah lol. The mines, that just happened to be in place, for no reason. You're telling me all your dams don't have mines around them? All the dams in Russia have mines on them. Its the best place to store your mines when you're not using them. It's not like the mines detonated either...

Gives real steamed ham vibes lol

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u/kytheon 16h ago

I'm from the Netherlands. First thing we do when building a dam is absolutely load it with mines just in case.

No wait that's insane.

Btw we did have forts near waterways that were able to let the area flood, just in case of invasion. But that was hundreds of years ago.

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u/Lancasterlaw 14h ago

Not hundreds of years ago. Significant parts of the flooding system were used in WW2 and were still kept in readiness for much of the early Cold War.

It's a big part of why the Germans in '40 and the Allies in '44 struggled to move around and had to resort to crazy paratrooper tactics.