A paranoid dictator built 750,000 bunkers no one ever used except for sex
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#76ZMS)
Enver Hoxha, the Stalinist dictator who sealed Albania off from most of the world, was sure enemies could strike at any moment - "like the snake that bites you and injects its poison before you are aware of it." So, from the 1960s to the 1980s, his government fortified the country withmore than 750,000 concrete bunkers, an average of 5.7 per square kilometer, sprouting from beaches, vineyards, mountain passes, and city streets. - Read the rest
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