The Khodynka aviation museum in Moscow had been left to rot after the fall of the USSR. That was bad. But it now seems that that situation has been dealt with… by sending heavy construction equipment onto the grounds to convert the aircraft to scrap metal. Feh.

Here’s a video of the state of the place in 2009:

Abandoned military aircraft museum by cxpiter

And here’s a Russian-language article from today providing photos of the destruction in process… tellingly, this was done under the cover of darkness.

На Ходынском поле уничтожают экспонаты музея авиации

An English translation of the article, almost readable, can be had via Google Translate:

At Khodynka destroy artifacts Aviation Museum

And the inevitable YouTube video:

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