Hey, true weirdos, at the end of this episode, stick around if you want for a little bonus

content and conversation.

What would you trade for a better life?

For yourself, for your family?

Would you agree to a job that paid really well, came loaded with perks, and promised you a place in history.

If taking that job meant having your identity erased.

If taking that job meant you could never quit, never leave,

never even travel outside the boundaries of your new home.

Boundaries made of barbed wire and patrolled by guards with guns.

Your children will grow up here. They'll following your footsteps, they'll do the same work you do.

And like you, will live out their entire lives in this place. Your choice to come here will change your family for generations. But you

believe, you believe with everything you have that your work here just might save the world

or end it. So, what's your answer?

And they got a small beam of light against the mirror.

True. stuff.

The program of closed or secret cities began early in Joseph Stalin's regime.

When the Nazis invaded Russia in June 1941, Stalin wasn't about to admit that having executed roughly 30,000 members of his own military in the Great Purge was a terrible

idea, but the diabolical dictator also wasn't inclined to make an invasion easy for the Nazis. Stalin ordered hundreds of

Soviet factories to be taken completely apart and relocated to Siberia, far from the front and the threat

of German military action. The workers sent to these secret science towns were completely

isolated, cut off from their former lives

and the world. They were housed in what were called administrative units, apartments, schools,

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