{"id":56952,"date":"2024-08-30T23:32:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T21:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=56952"},"modified":"2024-09-01T23:44:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T21:44:44","slug":"inside-a-cold-war-underground-bunker-hidden-in-a-forest-in-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/08\/30\/inside-a-cold-war-underground-bunker-hidden-in-a-forest-in-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside a Cold War underground bunker hidden in a forest in Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the Second World War came for the Poles without their wish to regain their freedom being fulfilled.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/05\/26\/vistula-program-the-terrible-secret-that-the-ussr-hid-from-the-poles-on-their-own-soil\/\">Vistula Program: the terrible secret that the USSR hid from the Poles on their own soil<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/06\/13\/the-remains-of-the-long-fortified-border-that-divided-germany-during-the-cold-war\/\">The remains of the long fortified border that divided Germany during the Cold War<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Following the German military occupation, Poland had to endure almost half a century of Soviet military presence on its territory, as <strong>the last Red Army soldiers left Polish soil on 17 September 1993<\/strong>, almost four years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Having fallen into the Soviet sphere of influence, <strong>Poland was subjected to a communist dictatorship imposed from Moscow<\/strong> and a military alignment with the USSR.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This alignment was embodied in the Warsaw Pact of 1955,<\/strong> created as a response to NATO and which, despite its name, made all the countries of Eastern Europe satellites of Moscow. <strong>The Army of the Polish People's Republic,<\/strong> the official name of the communist dictatorship installed by the Soviets, <strong>created fortified infrastructures<\/strong> to face a war with the Western democracies.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, the channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Overlandtraveladventure\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EBE257<\/a> <strong>published a video showing one of these bunkers, hidden in a forest in Poland<\/strong>, whose exact location has not been revealed:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amazing Find No2 Hidden deep within a Polish forest we discover an underground Cold War Bunker\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ggq2BT1OUPc?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 some screenshots from this video here. Here we see <strong>an outlet from the underground bunker's ventilation system:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53959271821_988f2d795f_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Outside the bunker, above ground level, there are these concrete boxes,<\/strong> perhaps to house electrical and communications systems.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53959727445_7364c61a8e_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The stairs leading into the tunnel.<\/strong> The author of the video points out that this facility was built around 1983.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53959520338_c40bd9193d_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the interior corridors of the bunker.<\/strong> As you can see in the video, this military installation had some very large vaulted rooms. It is curious to see the state of deterioration of this bunker in just a few decades.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53958377057_6b352d7646_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the Second World War came for the Poles without their wish to regain their freedom being fulfilled.<\/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":[19535,16879],"tags":[13921,10370,18312,11978],"class_list":["post-56952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring-portada-eng","category-fortifications","tag-cold-war","tag-poland","tag-undisclosed-locations","tag-warsaw-pact"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-30 15:48:24","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\/56952","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=56952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}