Then And Now – Abandoned Soviet Military Base

МАЛЕНЬКАЯ МОСКВА (Little-Moscow) With the fall of the communism the soviet forces left Europe and the invaded countries including Hungary. The cities and parts of the cities, barracks what bulit over the decades, stood and still stands empty. But the barrack which is called Little-Moscow was different from the others. The barrack which was hiding deep in a little forest, masked as a small town turned out to be a nuclear storage. In 1989, the Soviet troops (the Southern Group of Forces) started leaving Hungary. By July 1990, some 15,000 Soviet soldiers and their dependents had left, taking about 60,000 of the 560,000 tons of equipment they had stored there. There were 5,750 buildings left on the 60 army camps and 10 air bases maintained by the Soviet Army in Hungary.

The present:

1st part: https://abandonedinhungary.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/abandoned-barrack/

2nd part: https://abandonedinhungary.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/abandoned-soviet-military-base-ii-2/

3rd part: http://abandonedhungary.com/2015/03/15/abandoned-soviet-military1-base-iii-the-nuclear-storage/

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Abandoned Soviet Military Base I

МАЛЕНЬКАЯ МОСКВА (Little-Moscow) After the collapse of the Communism, the Soviets withdrew from the occupied countries, including Hungary as well. Their small towns, neighborhoods, and the barracks became empty from the begening of the 90’s, and many of them are still empty, waiting for recovery. However, the barracks of „ Little-Moscow” was different; as it … Continue reading Abandoned Soviet Military Base I