While almost all nuclear sites you can find in European Countries once beyond the Iron Curtain are today totally abandoned … Continue reading Plokstine – A Preserved Nuclear Missile Site in Lithuania
Founded as a trading post back in the 5th century in the Ostrogoth region on the far eastern border of … Continue reading A Walk in Kiev – From Medieval Town to Post-Soviet Metropolis
Possibly one of the world’s best preserved military installations from WWII, Finland’s Salpa Line – the name ‘salpa’ meaning ‘latch’ … Continue reading The Salpa Line – Finland’s Anti-Soviet Barrier
As mentioned in previous chapters on the same topic – you can find the first and second here – the territory … Continue reading Soviet Airbases in the GDR – Third Chapter
Due to its strategic relevance to the Soviet empire in the years of the Cold War, the territory of the … Continue reading Air Museums in the Former GDR
Among the countless interesting places and sights the States of the West Coast have to offer, even aircraft carriers need to … Continue reading Aircraft Carriers of the West Coast
A few miles from the city of Soissons, and precisely in the municipality of Margival in the northern French countryside, … Continue reading Wolfsschlucht II – Hitler’s Forgotten Headquarters in France
Soon after gaining control over French territory in early summer 1940 and after the unsuccessful battle in the sky against Britain … Continue reading The Atlantic Wall – Off the Beaten Track
Like other satellite countries in the Soviet empire, the German Democratic Republic – also known as ‘Eastern Germany’ before the … Continue reading Soviet Airbases in the GDR – First Chapter
