“They thought that a war had started” – this is how eyewitnesses recall the most terrible railway catastrophe…

“They thought that a war had begun” – this is how eyewitnesses recall the worst railway disaster in the USSR. On June 4, 1989, near Ufa, two trains were traveling towards each other. Suddenly there is an explosion, the cars scatter along the embankment, the fire engulfs the entire forest and land in the area. 575 people died – and this is only official. The fire and high temperature literally turned the bodies into ashes, so not all of them could be identified.
How did it all happen? What does this have to do with excavators? And is it true that the trains should not have met at this point at all? The whole story from effect to cause is in the new reverse of Mash Paradox.
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