Missile pointing to Europe Photo

Photographer’s Note

In 1962 this missile based was opened by the soviet-union army somewhere lost in the middle of a forest in Lithuania. Four silots like this(covered by a dome) where ready ! Each of them contained a nuclear missile (22m high - 2000 km/H - 10 times more powerful than Hiroshima).They were pointing at different big European countries. The cold war threath was a reality ! Hopefuly nobody pushed on the button. In 1978 it was dismanteld. Today you can visit the empty silot.... and empty bunker.

KevRyan, Davids, jarkko, mike-tango, s_lush trouve(nt) cette note utile

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KevRyan (22418) 2005-06-21 16:21

Living through the feelings of the cold war it's quite chilling to see this source of potential megadeath - it seems such a simple non-descript place - perhaps like the simple non-descript palces that killed millions in WW II - governments favour out of the way places to hide their ability to deal death - but how culpable are we as citizens in abdicating too much of our responsibilities to politicians?

Thanks for showing us this.

LEA (4821) 2005-08-09 16:08

Grandeur et décadence ! Que de follies ne fait on pas avec l'argent du contribuable ! Encore un monument à la bétise humaine . La note vient à point nommé car sinon on n'aurait jamais deviné que c'était un ancien dépot nuclaire.

jarkko (1169) 2005-09-02 5:54

Thanks for the note AnneFrance. The note totally changed my point of view to this photo. The photo is just quite usual photo with a bunker but when I read the note I see the photo in different light. Such a horrible things happened so near - all the things that happened during cold-war and during the fall of the Soviet Union. Really hard to think of it, but this photo and note made it a bit more realistic to me. Thanks again and have a nice day in there.. =)

Just started to browse your collection, you have lot of good photos..

regards, Jarkko

mike-tango (163) 2006-08-04 19:25 [Comment]