Soviet military – Abandoned Berlin

Kraftwerk Vogelsang

Spudnik — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 09:48:53 +0000

Kraftwerk Vogelsang is a powerless power plant. People gave their lives building it and fighting over it. Now that they’re gone, nobody wants it at all.

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Wünsdorf

Spudnik — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 21:47:00 +0000

Wünsdorf was the Soviet military forces' HQ in Germany, Little Moscow, the Forbidden City. The Nazis used it before that for their underground army HQ.

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Vogelsang

Spudnik — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:32:00 +0000

Vogelsang still clings to its nuclear secrets. One sneaky deployment of bad weapons was so damned secret it was even kept from the Soviet soldiers involved.

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Flugplatz Schönwalde

Spudnik — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 21:49:00 +0000

Germany's Luftwaffe used Flugplatz Schönwalde for the war. The Soviets took over afterward and left their traces after abandoning the airfield in 1992.

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Flugplatz Brand

Spudnik — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 17:11:00 +0000

Flugplatz Brand was strategically important for the Soviet Air Force. Thankfully its battalions of flying fighters remained on ice for the duration of the Cold War.

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Jüterbog

Spudnik — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 13:12:25 +0000

Jüterbog and its military camps played host to soldiers’ charades, men playing with guns, for around 130 years before the last ones left in 1994.

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Flugplatz Oranienburg

Spudnik — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 11:21:44 +0000

Flugplatz Oranienburg served in the summer of 1944 as a test center for the legendary Horten Ho IX, the world’s first “stealth” bomber.

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Flugplatz Johannisthal

Spudnik — Fri, 29 May 2020 16:23:00 +0000

One of the world’s first motor airfields when it opened in 1909. People used to flock to Flugplatz Johannisthal to see marvelous metal machines with wings actually fly.

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West Berlin’s Lenin

Spudnik — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 10:59:00 +0000

Lenin can't have imagined he’d be spending his 150th birthday alone in a parking lot in West Berlin. But that’s where he is, outside Zapf Umzüge removals.

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Submarine bunker Lager Koralle

Spudnik — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 18:01:00 +0000

Lager Koralle was the forest bunker that controlled Germany’s feared U-boat fleet during World War II, central command for its marauding submarines.

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