{"id":49147,"date":"2022-10-30T23:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T22:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49147"},"modified":"2023-10-30T00:08:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T23:08:43","slug":"hungary-an-underground-cold-war-military-bunker-with-its-equipment-still-intact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/30\/hungary-an-underground-cold-war-military-bunker-with-its-equipment-still-intact\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary: an underground Cold War military bunker with its equipment still intact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of exploring abandoned military installations almost always come across places vandalized and in ruins.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/17\/island-of-vis-an-abandoned-secret-submarine-base-and-battery-in-the-adriatic-sea\/\">Island of Vis: an abandoned secret submarine base and battery in the Adriatic Sea<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/13\/an-abandoned-air-base-and-a-large-submarine-base-in-a-small-country-in-europe\/\">An abandoned air base and a large submarine base in a small country in Europe<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This is not the case with the installation that concerns us today, which was shown in a video published this afternoon by the channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/ExploringtheUnbeatenPath\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Exploring the Unbeaten Path<\/a>. On this occasion, <strong>what we see is a Hungarian Army communications bunker from the Cold War era.<\/strong> At the end of World War II, the Kingdom of Hungary was occupied by the Soviet army. <strong>Stalin established a communist dictatorship controlled by Moscow<\/strong>, as happened in other countries of the so-called Soviet bloc. <strong>In 1950 the Hungarian People's Army<\/strong> was formed, with two branches: the ground forces and the air forces, with a total of about 70,000 soldiers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The facility that concerns us today was intended to keep military communications active in the event of a nuclear attack.<\/strong> To do this, the bunker was built underground, in order to withstand an atomic explosion. It also had radiation decontamination equipment. According to the documents that are still there, <strong>these facilities were in operation until 1997<\/strong>, eight years after the fall of the communist dictatorship in Hungary. The date of its abandonment and the fact of being located in the middle of a forest would be the reasons why<strong> this bunker is in good condition, with no signs of vandalism and with its equipment intact<\/strong>. Something very rare in this type of facility. Here the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Intact Hungarian bunker hidden in a forest | ABANDONED\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xd8r1nTZMnQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Below you can see some screenshots of the video, as a preview. <strong>When entering the bunker, the first thing explorers encounter is this \"guardian\":<\/strong> individual radiation protection equipment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52465618206_de82637406_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Hungarian firefighters cap in one of the bunker rooms.<\/strong> The cap is post-Cold War: it bears the Hungarian coat of arms with the crown of King Saint Stephen, recovered as the official symbol of the country in 1990 , after the fall of the communist dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52466082825_c17a07f6b7_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A meeting room<\/strong>, curiously with the chairs anchored to the floor. I do not know the reason for this: were they afraid that someone would steal the chairs? It must have been really uncomfortable having to sit down with that anchoring system.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52465118042_b823910bd4_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A box for an oxygen supply kit<\/strong>, with texts in Hungarian and Russian.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52465118027_6d88f07a36_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the bunker there are several well-preserved old telephones.<\/strong> The authors of the video have not released the location of the bunker, so let's hope it remains in that good condition for years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52465900179_58468f185b_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The communications room of the bunker<\/strong>, with a telephone switchboard in good condition. Everything is as if it had been abandoned only a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52466082765_420c418e11_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The generator room<\/strong>, also in good condition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52466082895_8c406893a5_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of exploring abandoned military installations almost always come across places vandalized and in ruins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,16879],"tags":[13921,10670],"class_list":["post-49147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-fortifications","tag-cold-war","tag-hungary"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 18:31:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}