Politics
Duga Radar
The Duga was a Soviet “Over the horizon” radar system, and was a part of the Soviet missile defence early warning system that operated from July 1976 to December 1989. The first signals (probably from a predecessor) were detected in…
Buzludzha
This monument was built on the site of a historic battle, where 30 Bulgarian rebels fought against 700 Ottoman troops on the 31st of juli 1868. The Bulgarian rebels lost, and only 4 of them survived the battle, but it…
German WWII Radar
Bornholm is situated between Sweden, Germany and Poland, and all traffic between Russias baltic ports and the rest of the world must pass the island. Therefore the Germans had placed a radar, two submarine listening posts and began the construction…
