Exploring the abandoned Soviet Nuclear-missile base: Vogelsang
Finally we spotted it, deep in the woods, the forbidden, abandoned nuclear base, Vogelsang:
I checked my Guide to the Galaxy:
From 1952, a barracks town was constructed within the woods, that eventually was capable of housing 15,000 people, including military personnel and their families. The town was self-contained and off-limits to non-essential personnel, and contained a theatre, shops, offices, a gym, school and medical facilities. During the Cold War, it was the third largest Soviet base inside East Germany.
Most exciting of all, or perhaps chilling, this was a nuclear launch site. In early 1959, three years before the Cuban Missile Crisis, twelve R-5 Pobeda nuclear missiles stood in the forest here, waiting to flaming-phallus themselves into the sky and over to The Home of The Brave. Luckily, everyone just chilled the fuck out instead.
Soon I came across this Soviet mural. Did it depict a utopian sunset, or a nuclear holocaust?
At this point I'd had enough of the adventure and radiation, so climbed back to earth and home.