The Soviet Union might not have been able to make a decent car or toilet paper, but you have to give credit where it’s due: when the commies committed themselves to crafting propaganda about secret American experiments gone horribly wrong, they went all out.
When they instituted Operation “Denver” (not “INFEKTION,” as commonly reported, even though that’s honestly a much cooler name) to convince people that AIDS was created in a U.S. military lab, they backed it up with forged documents and hoax scientific papers and stuff.
In 2022, the Soviet Union’s successor state is stealing its conspiracy theories straight from MCU movies:
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