5 Creepiest Secret Soviet Experiments

In the 1930s, the Soviet Union funded the development of a Combat Mole prototype. This complex and powerful drilling machine would be used to burrow underground to breach enemy lines and destroy highly fortified underground infrastructure.

The Combat Mole was first designed by the Russian Pyotr Rasskazov in 1904. His design would be used to fight the Great War's trench stalemates, but the Russian retreat in 1918 to fight the Reds in the Civil War left the idea in the past.

In the 1960s, during the Cold War and the Arms Race, a new top-secret project was launched to produce a next-generation subterranean weapon. This project, actively supported by the Soviet Leader himself, Nikita Khrushchev, was even more secret than the Russian ICBM program.

In 1964, the first Russian subterrene was unveiled at a facility in Ukraine. It was baptized the Battle Mole. At 115-ft long, the nuclear-powered capsule carried up to 20 soldiers at a time and had a top speed of 4.4 mph.

These colossal underground vehicles would be carried to the US on submarines for an invasion. Once there, they would drill on California's coasts to install nuclear charges that would provoke earthquakes and tsunamis. Keeping in mind the existence of the San Andrea's Fault, the Soviets knew the mole would maximize the path of destruction.

The first test of the mole seamlessly cut through a mountainside "like a knife through butter," destroying an empty test bunker. However, the second test failed spectacularly when it exploded with its crew still on board during an exercise in the Ural Mountains.

After the failed test, the project was abandoned for other priorities Comrade Stalin had in mind.

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