One of the most interesting sights in the vicinity of the Lithuanian town of Plungė is the Cold War Museum (Šaltojo Karo Muziejus, Plungė), where I expected busts of Lenin and Soviet era utensils. It turned out to be a missile silo, without missiles, but with an underground command center, and most importantly a 30-meter deep, 7-meter wide “well” where the missile with the nuclear warhead used to be stationed, ready to “fire” (there were actually 4 launching “wells”). According to the exhibit, the missiles in 1968 were actually pointed at Czechoslovakia/Germany, the first one being my home country.

Wikipedia: Plokštinė missile base (…) was an underground base of the Soviet Union. It was built near Plokščiai village, 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north of Plungė, in the sparsely populated Plokštinė forest near Plateliai Lake, Samogitia, Lithuania.

Cold War Museum (Šaltojo karo muziejus), Lithuania

This picture is from the home museum of military technology on the Estonian island of Saaremaa, namely at the southern tip of its Salme peninsula, incidentally near another attraction, the lighthouse marking the entrance to the Bay of Riga from the north.

So far this one photo of the author with a rocket, I’ll keep an eye out for more.

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