Albanian Bunkers
Albania built approximately half a million bunkers between 1975 and 1989. The Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha feared that other countries wanted to invade Albania and overthrow him. He commanded that every municipality in the country should produce and build bunkers,…
Duga Radar
The Duga was a Soviet “Over the horizon” radar system, and was a part of the Soviet missile defence early warning system that operated from July 1976 to December 1989. The first signals (probably from a predecessor) were detected in…
The forgotten tanks of Lesvos
The island of Lesvos is less than 10km from the Turkish main land, and the two countries have a long history full of conflicts. Several places along the island’s coast, tanks like this one can be found, dug halfway into…
