Inside a Cold War underground bunker hidden in a forest in Poland

@ElentirENG ES 8·30·2024 · 23:32 0

The end of the Second World War came for the Poles without their wish to regain their freedom being fulfilled.

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The remains of the long fortified border that divided Germany during the Cold War

Following the German military occupation, Poland had to endure almost half a century of Soviet military presence on its territory, as the last Red Army soldiers left Polish soil on 17 September 1993, almost four years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Having fallen into the Soviet sphere of influence, Poland was subjected to a communist dictatorship imposed from Moscow and a military alignment with the USSR.

This alignment was embodied in the Warsaw Pact of 1955, created as a response to NATO and which, despite its name, made all the countries of Eastern Europe satellites of Moscow. The Army of the Polish People's Republic, the official name of the communist dictatorship installed by the Soviets, created fortified infrastructures to face a war with the Western democracies.

A few days ago, the channel EBE257 published a video showing one of these bunkers, hidden in a forest in Poland, whose exact location has not been revealed:

You can see some screenshots from this video here. Here we see an outlet from the underground bunker's ventilation system:

Outside the bunker, above ground level, there are these concrete boxes, perhaps to house electrical and communications systems.

The stairs leading into the tunnel. The author of the video points out that this facility was built around 1983.

One of the interior corridors of the bunker. As you can see in the video, this military installation had some very large vaulted rooms. It is curious to see the state of deterioration of this bunker in just a few decades.