Bunkers in Albania

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The concrete bunkers are everywhere in Albania, with an average of 5.7 bunkers for every square kilometer. They were built during the communist regime from the 1960s to the 1980s.
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By 1983 a total of 173,371 concrete bunkers had been constructed around the country.
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The bunkers were abandoned following the collapse of communism in 1990. Most are now derelict, though some have been reused for a variety of purposes including residential accommodation and shelters for animals or the homeless. Some of them are destroyed from people to get and sell the iron inside them.
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Now the tourists can buy a bunker as a souvenir.
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In Tirana (Capital city of Albania) there is a memorial near the former secluded area of residential government, named as Blloku. It features a bunker, pillars from Spac prison (the worst one) and a Berlin wall fragment.Bunker memorial.jpg

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