Among all oddities populating the extensive area of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone – the immense cordoned area surrounding the ill-fated … Continue reading Chernobyl Exclusion Zone – Third Chapter: Pripyat
Just like West Germany, post-WWII Italy found itself on the border with a communist dictatorship, Marshal Tito’s Yugoslavia. Even though … Continue reading Base Tuono – Cold War Surface-To-Air Missiles in Italy
Architecture is possibly one of the disciplines where the ringleaders of the Nazi dictatorship invested most, for it provided a … Continue reading A Few Remains of Nazi Grandeur in Germany
Between the end of WWII and the collapse of the USSR in the early Nineties, Germany was caught in the … Continue reading Traces of the Cold War in Southwest Germany
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
Not so well-known to the public as the ‘fort city’ of Verdun, the region between that town and the baroque city of … Continue reading World War I Trenches in the Saint-Mihiel Salient
Probably not so famous for bush-flying activity as other locations on the West Coast, especially British Columbia and Alaska, the … Continue reading Flying over Moosehead Lake & Lobster Lake, Maine
Among the most unequivocal signs of the oppressive communist dictatorship in the former German Democratic Republic – ‘GDR’ or ‘DDR’ … Continue reading STASI Prisons and Headquarters in Berlin and the GDR
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
‘The lost city of Vogelsang’ – this is the complete name often attributed to this former Soviet installation built under … Continue reading Vogelsang – Soviet Nuclear Base in the GDR
