{"id":51580,"date":"2023-05-14T23:16:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T21:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=51580"},"modified":"2023-05-17T07:27:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T05:27:23","slug":"an-abandoned-air-raid-shelter-still-containing-cold-war-military-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/05\/14\/an-abandoned-air-raid-shelter-still-containing-cold-war-military-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"An abandoned air raid shelter still containing Cold War military hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Cold War years, many countries built all kinds of shelters in the face of possible air and nuclear attacks.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/04\/f-4-objektum-a-secret-nuclear-shelter-for-the-communist-elite-under-budapest\/\">F-4 Objektum: a secret nuclear shelter for the communist elite under Budapest<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/30\/hungary-an-underground-cold-war-military-bunker-with-its-equipment-still-intact\/\">Hungary: an underground Cold War military bunker with its equipment still intact<\/a><\/rek><\/p>\n<p>In the 1950s, <strong>the communist dictatorship in Hungary launched the BGS program, initials for \"Bomba-G\u00e1z-Szil\u00e1nk\"<\/strong> (Bomb, Gas and Shrapnel), with which many shelters were built by the whole country, most of them underground and others on the surface, like big concrete cubes. <strong>These shelters were theoretically protected against bombs weighing up to 250 kg<\/strong>, they were self-sufficient and had space for dozens of people. <strong>All buildings made in Hungary since 1950 had to include this type of shelter in their basement<\/strong>, including houses and schools.<\/p>\n<p>After the fall of communism, <strong>many of these shelters were abandoned and looted<\/strong>. Others, mainly the military shelters, were preserved for more years. Over time, these abandoned shelters <strong>have become a magnet for urban explorers<\/strong>. Today, the channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ExploringtheUnbeatenPath\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Exploring the Unbeaten Path<\/a> has published an interesting video showing <strong >one of these Cold War BGS bunkers in Hungary, without revealing details about its exact location.<\/strong> The most interesting thing is that this bunker still contains a large amount of unused military equipment:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stocked Cold War air raid shelter\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ODXx3z7nN9E?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>You can see below some screenshots of the video, as a preview of the many things that can be seen in it. <strong>Here we see a Geiger counter to measure radioactivity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52898418693_93896ae453_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Among many other items, <strong>this bunker still contains a large number of Cold War-era military uniforms<\/strong>, mostly rain coats.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52897395757_1cc4c27f51_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the shelter there are also <strong>gas masks<\/strong> of various types.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52897395707_144d80bd73_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Much of the material has never been used. <strong>Here we see the air filters of the gas masks<\/strong>, still in their packaging. They are as new as if they had just been manufactured yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52897969651_69700397fe_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Several fire approach suits.<\/strong> Care must be taken with this type of material, since years ago these suits were made with asbestos, a material that causes asbestosis and cancer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52898015796_10b1123d55_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Cold War years, many countries built all kinds of shelters in the face of possible air and nuclear attacks.<\/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":[12876,16880],"tags":[13921,10670,18312],"class_list":["post-51580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-infrastructures","tag-cold-war","tag-hungary","tag-undisclosed-locations"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 20:03:49","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\/51580","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=51580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}