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The Helsinki metro stations double as hard shelters. The Finnish shelter system is among the most comprehensive in the western world, being capable of accommodating the country's urban population completely. Civil defence in Finland is the responsibility of the Ministry of Interior under the Civil Defence Act of 1958
Finland has finished inventorying its existing bomb shelters in a government effort prompted by neighbouring Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year, and found it has 50,500 of them, its interior ...
A bomb shelter is a structure designed to provide protection against the effects of a bomb. Types of shelter. One-man shelter from WW2 Germany, Bundeswehr Military ...
During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the metro stations doubled as bomb shelters, as residents took shelter from Russian bombs. [56] Like other former Soviet metro systems, the Kyiv metro was designed with this purpose in mind, and 47 of the city's 52 stations were designated for this purpose. [ 57 ]
In that manner, the Soviets hoped to force Finland to break its ties with Germany and agree to a peace settlement. Finnish air defence forces counted 2,121 bombers in the three raids of February 1944, which dropped more than 16,000 bombs.
STORY: This is Robert Schwienbacher and he's taking us on a tour of a fallout shelter here in Cologne, Germany - designed to protect over 2,300 people from a nuclear war.It's decommissioned. It's ...
A view in 2007 to the south-east from Sturmbock-Stellung, a fortified German position in Finland 100 km (62 mi) from Norway. Germany and Finland had been at war with the Soviet Union (USSR) since Operation Barbarossa began in June 1941, co-operating closely in the Continuation War and Operation Silver Fox with the German 20th Mountain Army (German: 20.
In the First World War the belligerents built underground shelters, called dugouts in English, while the Germans used the term Bunker. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] By the Second World War the term came to be used by the Germans to describe permanent structures both large ( blockhouses ), and small ( pillboxes ), and bombproof shelters both above ground (as in ...