Bunker country Albania

Small country 11,110 square miles Albania This small country of Europe has been known as the country of Bunker in the world. It is difficult to find the exact information about how many bunkers exist across the country. According to some, the number is 1,75,000 According to someone, 7,50,000 There is no place in the streets of Albania, crop fields, mountains-mountain, hotel-motel, school-college-room courtyard, markets where crochet-muffled shaped bunkers, like crochet moles, can not be seen to blow out the soil.

As a result, 2.2 bunkers were made in every square mile in Albania. There are also bunkers to protect the entire cabinet from bunkers, from two-thirds capacity bunkers to nuclear attacks. And it was created during the reign of Enver Hoxer, the Left ruler of Albania who ruled Albania from the second world war until the death in 1985. During a long period of his reign, Albania was a isolated country from the rest of the world.


Albarussian ruler Enver Hoxa is taking salam of freedom parade; Image Source: USHMM
Numerous bunkers were created across the country by direct directions to Enver Hoxer. From 1944 to 1985, Enver Hoxa was always afraid of being attacked by NATO or the Soviet Union when he ruled the country until his death. Hoxa was at the beginning of power, the Soviets. After the Second World War Albania signed the Warsaw Treaty with Soviet Union and joined Soviet Bloc in the Cold War.

But after the death of Stalin, the Soviet Union's tension began with Hoxa. Some steps in the Soviet Union, such as reducing Soviet control over neighboring Yugoslavia, excluding industrialization, have not taken much to encourage Moscow's additional encouragement to farming. In 1938, Alexander Dubeck, the reformist leftist leader of Czechoslovakia, started liberalizing the country in front of the slogan of humanitarianism.

Due to the proposed reform of Dubey, there were some activities, including reducing government control over the people, which caused unrest in the Soviet Union. In August of that year, the combined army of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact's allies entered Czechoslovakia and overthrew Alexander Dubeck.


Thousands of bunkers are lying in this way; Image Source: Works That Work
All the countries signed with the Soviet Union in Warsaw Pact with this aggression were not sure. Although they did not leave the Soviet force. But when Enver Hoxa withdrew Albania from Warsaw Pact, Albania left the Soviet block. At the same time, Hoxa did not join NATO, but rather decided to walk alone.

Bunker construction began in Albania, under the direct supervision of Hossea in the year when the Soviet bloc broke out. In 1968, he approved the model of various bunkers. He feared that the Soviet Union could attack Albania at any time. He thinks that many bunkers need to fight against Soviet or extermination and take shelter. At the same time the countrymen are prepared for the guerrilla war.

An estimated $ 1,100 is spent on building a small bunker. During the construction of the Bunker model, it is noticed that each bunker can withstand a tank attack. It is reported, before approval of the bunker model across the country, Hoxa model was inserted by the builders into the bunker and attacked it with tanks, so that he could see Bunker's power visually. After leaving Russia, Albania chose China as a friendly country. But their friendship with China also ended in 1977. Apart from the Soviet invasion, Hossea was afraid of NATO's military expedition.


This bunker is beautifully turned into a restaurant; Image Source: worksthatwork.com
This great matter of concrete bunker in Albania is not a global issue at that time. During the reign of Enver Hoxer, Albania was a land locked in the iron box. While Albania was originally a religion of Islam and Christianity, religion was forbidden at that time. All the way to travel abroad or to facilitate easy contact with the general public was closed. The people were kept under constant scrutiny by secret police. There was a lot of restrictions for the entry of foreigners.

This act of building bunkers in the fear of the Soviet and NATO has greatly influenced public opinion at that time. The countrymen were ready for an hour and a half. Regular training was also given to young people about how to take refuge in Bunker when the war started. Enver Hoxa thought that everyone outside the border would be a warrior. In his thought, he was a stalin-like regulatory government. After five years of his death, this Communist regime collapsed in Albania in 1990.

Many information is still unknown to the bunkers. In 2014, the then Albanian Prime Minister Eddie Rama, during a ceremony organized on World War II, invited some invited guests in 1978 to turn 106 buildings of a huge bunker built in 100 feet deep in the ground. The bunker built near the capital Tirana was built in fear of a Soviet or American attack. The bunker is now being used as a hotel and a museum that can be protected by nuclear attacks. The interest of people around Bunker is not low. In 2014, it was converted into a hotel and a museum. In the first two years of the opening of the hotel, over 70,000 tourists come to the bunker-hotel.