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A Tunnel to the Other Side
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2013-09-02
In the late 1970s, Communist Czechoslovakia came up with a remarkable proposal: a 410km railway tunnel under the Alps, linking the Czech city of České Budějovice with the Yugoslav port of Koper. The governments of Czechoslovakia, Austria, Italy and Yugoslavia went so far as to open tentative discussions. Then, suddenly, it was shelved – a victim of Cold War politics.
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