… never saw.
"This is the launch-pad for a nuclear attack on Western Europe. Soviet nuclear missiles 20 times more powerful than Hiroshima were set up here, primed to be fired at targets including London and nuclear bases in eastern England.
Three years before the Cuban missile crisis, the Soviet Union had already placed nuclear weapons on foreign soil – in this wood, in what was then East Germany.
There was once a garrison town for 15,000 people here, but nature has overgrown this outpost of empire. When the Red Army left in 1994, the trees moved back to reclaim the land.
Only rough forest paths now lead to the complex itself, near the village of Vogelsang.
In the 1950s, huge efforts were made to hide it from Western spies, both spy planes and those with prying eyes in the German population.
It may be partly because the first foreign Soviet nuclear base was so well hidden that no fuss was made. But intelligence agencies in West Germany, the US, the UK and France had a good idea what was going on.
At the heart of the ghost town remains an obelisk on which the silhouette of Lenin can be seen – just – at the pinnacle. There is a school, with peeling murals for children – swans flying and a sailing ship in bright blues and yellows. The upright figure of Lenin, and a mural of Red Army tanks in action, adorn the wall outside.
But the real business of the base lies at its other end – bunkers covered in sand for missiles and hardened concrete bunkers for warheads.
And then, down a short track, there is a clearing. This idyllic glade is where the weapons of mass destruction would have been launched…"
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