Art of war 3 bunker
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By the time of the dictator’s death in 1985 it remained unfinished however. More than a hundred rooms are linked by a three-dimensional labyrinth of passages, bulkhead doors and stairwells.Ĭonstruction of the project – codenamed ‘Objekti Shtylla’ – began in the 1970s, and it was intended to serve as a nuclear shelter for Hoxha, his officers and guards should the Cold War ever get hot. It was five levels deep – some 3000 square metres of offices, furnished rooms, stores, dormitories, assembly halls and private suites. Not that he ever got to use it.Įnver Hoxha’s emergency shelter was built into a hillside just east of Tirana. With all the many thousands of bunkers that Albania built to defend its borders, it would make sense that the leader himself had the biggest bunker of them all. And that’s when I spotted the sign, an A4 black-and-white print-out pinned to a wall: “Visit an Abandoned Nuclear Bunker,” read the title, followed by a map. I went inside, surrounded by the sweet smell of cannabis, and the sound of water dripping from raincoats onto a polished wooden floor. They had closed the doors against the rain, so instead the fumes were drifting back into the building. When we got back to that hostel in Tirana one evening, there were five Albanian men sat smoking joints in the conservatory.
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I didn’t even know about this place, in fact, before I visited Albania. The piece was already long enough so I decided against mentioning Bunk’Art at all. When I wrote my recent article about communist-era architecture in Tirana, I didn’t tell you the whole story. The first few I saw were intriguing but it was only after taking a bus around the country, driving through miles and miles of rugged landscape peppered with steel and concrete domes, that I really began to appreciate just how utterly paranoid Enver Hoxha’s regime had been. It takes a few days for the madness of Albania’s bunker-building project to really set in. Maybe you can’t see them all… but they can all see you. In the picture on the right, there are five bunkers.