Nefieslab

I'm thinking of starting a story based around two, British, Ks (Deniable operatives) that are living in soviet held territory. I just need some advice as to where in soviet controlled territory to put my Ks. The Ks main mission is to assasinate a high ranking soviet general who never leaves his home without armed guards and at least six body doubles. So the setting will probably need to be one with lots of rooftops for sniping. A little help would go a long way

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Cervantes

I am the man to answer this question (I am a history major in college).

It would seem wise to place them in East Germany. After all, the English are relatives of the Germans; also, Hitler wanted the United Kingdom to ally with his Greater Germany, but Churchill refused. Plus, the British already had a "sector" in West Germany.

Here's the list of Communist countries during the Cold War (1945 - 1992):

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The Baltic Nations (Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine)
Poland
Romania
Bulgaria
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Albania

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Non Serviam

Bucharest in about 1979.

Romania under Ceauşescu's regime is a cauldron of story, a whole lot more flavourful than the generic cold war thing. And Bucharest's a brilliant location for a spy novel--a huge, modern city torn apart by war, rebuilt, torn apart by earthquake, rebuilt again, then torn apart by Ceauşescu's henchmen under systematisation and rebuilt for a third time, to create a chaotic melange of different architectural styles all jumbled together.

If you know the bits of London that were bomb-ravaged during the Battle of Britain and rebuilt with the 1960's structures next to late mediaeval ones, imagine that, only even more so.

It's got extensive underground rail, surface trains, trams and two airports, a river, several lakes, and plenty of little outlying dormitory towns and villages in a rural setting.

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Born naked, helpless, unable to care for himself and completely open-minded, Non Serviam has subsequently surmounted all these difficulties and gone on to become a decently-clothed, self-sufficient, close-minded sod.

Bud Wiser

One good location is Prague, Czechoslovakia, with its Baroque architecture. East Germany was too Stasi-controlled, while Romania had a touchy relationship with the USSR and a very high-ranking Soviet general would not likely have been stationed there.

Or you could broaden the story to include Soviet-allied territory, which would give you Havana, Cuba, with its New Orleans-style buildings in the Old City; or Syria, with Danascus.

Good luck!

lin

Chechnea. Get some REAL crazies involved.

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