![]() ![]() I visited the Bezovka Shelter in Prague’s Žižkov district. Blast and fallout shelters are built into hillsides, found in various tunnels, located in deep sections of the subway, and installed in reinforced basements of buildings.ĭoor to enter the Bezovka nuclear bunker which is built into a hill at Prague’s Parukářka Park. Municipal authorities are obliged by law to provide shelters, and Prague’s nuclear bunkers take on many forms. In 2019, it was estimated that there were 768 permanent shelters in Prague, with a total capacity for about 150,000 people. However, the leftover communist era physical infrastructure for civil defence remains mostly intact. ![]() The development of Czechoslovak civil defence included not only the building of bunkers, but also school education focused on topics of moral awareness, physical fitness and civil defence training.Īfter the Iron Curtain fell, citizens of the Czech Republic rejected communism in favour of parliamentary democracy. In the context of the Cold War, belief in the duty to defend against external enemies and ideologies of militarism resulted in massive civil works projects building underground bunkers. Czech infrastructureīorn out of the Velvet Revolution in 1989, for much of the 20th century, what is now the Czech Republic existed as Czechoslovakia under the Soviet sphere of influence. In the Czech Republic, my findings from a case study of preparedness in the capitol city of Prague have shown that leftover Cold War-era bunkers are currently kept in a state of readiness to protect the population from nuclear war. ![]() In Europe, fears of bunking down for COVID-19 lockdowns are being replaced with fears of bunking down in shelters for nuclear attacks. director met with his Russian counterpart on Monday to warn against the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Current events show that Russia is searching for a pretext to unleash nuclear weapons. ![]()
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