Why does Russia have the best maps of Britain?

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[lightningpotato]

There was only 1 “men” in the intro we’ve descended into chaos

[JuzefaWingedCat]

I am from Latvia. My classmates and I visited an old Soviet bunker once. There was a huge map we could look at but were forbidden to photograph...and there I found my tiny county home marked there in better detail than the land deed I have

[jessecampbell]

"Today the conflict between East and West is now at satisfactory levels" is not a quote that has aged well lol

[ВячеславФролов-дя]

In Russia, cold War military maps are still widely used for tourism/alpine climbing. And although most of them are 50 years old, they are incredibly accurate, and you can navigate by them without any problems

[MsSteveyGEE]

Vlad: ‘’I’m a Russian Spy.’’
Natalia: ‘’Oooh that sounds bad ass, field?’’
Vlad: ‘’yeah fields, roads, buildings, we draw everything really.’’

[Eli_Is_Cool]

It's wrong having the single 'men' at the end of the intro.

[seriossuperman]

As an actual Russian cartographer, I can say that most of the map making was military founded so they had put all the info they could find. For example distance between trees, that was mentioned, goes with average height and width, which is used for determining whether tanks could easily go through it.

[Snwjunke]

"The baddies, or as we in britain call them, the goodies"

[KrulliKlikk]

I think my brain had a spasm when there was only one “men” and it actually made musical sense for once.

[sharefactor]

The Soviet maps warmly recommends the 123-metre spire of Salisbury.

[DIOS-M]

Вы угадали, в данный момент я сижу в вашем компьютере и составляю карту материнской платы....

[neelparmar]

2:24 I like how they went to space just to film that one shot

[andyzhao]

Britian: Here's a map of my country.
Russia: Here's a better and more detailed map of your country that you don't know of.
Britian: What the f-

[MedlifeCrisis]

I'm not sure SONAR works in space

[WillKemp]

I worked in Afghanistan in 2006 and 2007, in a job that required having some grasp of Afghan geography. The most useful maps I managed to get hold of were Russian topographic maps (a few digitised sheets of which, I still have on this laptop, along with a cyrillic / english table)

[graf]

seeing the polish phonetic map of the UK reminds me of a map of Poland in my old GCSE Geography textbook where half the towns had spelling mistakes
I guess the score is 1:1?

[TotoDG]

When they only say a single “Men” after the “Map, Map, Map” part:

“My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.”

EDIT: You hear that, Jay? Even Mark’s telling you to fix it!

[lucyhtml]

when is the intro going to just be "map map map map map map map map map"

[nafslee]

I remember when I did geography at uni, we had a Russian exchange student and she mentioned that unlike most of the world, in Russia, geography was considered as important if not more than your standard STEM subjects like maths, physics, chemistry, etc.

[KExplorer]

I'd love to see how they got on with a phonetic map of Wales.