Bunkers in Albania
The concrete bunkers are everywhere in Albania, with an average of 5.7 bunkers for every square kilometer. They were built during the communist regime from the 1960s to the 1980s.
By 1983 a total of 173,371 concrete bunkers had been constructed around the country.
The bunkers were abandoned following the collapse of communism in 1990. Most are now derelict, though some have been reused for a variety of purposes including residential accommodation and shelters for animals or the homeless. Some of them are destroyed from people to get and sell the iron inside them.
Now the tourists can buy a bunker as a souvenir.
In Tirana (Capital city of Albania) there is a memorial near the former secluded area of residential government, named as Blloku. It features a bunker, pillars from Spac prison (the worst one) and a Berlin wall fragment.
Nice pics! Bukners are part of our past.
Yep, that's true. Even there were spend a lot of money building them now we have to save and make them as profitable things, like as historical monuments.
That is definitely a smart thing to do.
What were the concrete bunkers originally built for?
They were built as fire center to protect the country from the enemy, even by people.
Albania's military doctrine was based on a concept of "people's war" drawing on the experience of the Albanian resistance during World War II. Since the Albania was lead by a communism regime, it was supposed to protect the country from the enemy that never came.
Dang, imagine the resources wasted in this preparation. But I think it's getting some sort of use now.
Who knows, maybe one day there will be so many people on steemit, that we will never have to go through war again. A people connected is a people undividable.
Yeah, that's true. Let's make this community bigger
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