From Stalin’s nuclear bunkers to modern shelters: Russia’s doomsday legacy

During World War II, the Soviet Union built underground bunkers, fearing a German nuclear bomb. These bunkers were strategic control centres, not public shelters, and played a key role during the Cold War. One such bunker, Bunker-42, could have issued a retaliatory nuclear strike during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Declassified in 1987, it is now a museum. Meanwhile, modern Russia has seen rising interest in private bomb shelters, with new mobile units developed for nuclear plants and disaster zones. Moscow claims it can quickly convert over 2,500 facilities into shelters if needed.

Al Jazeera’s Yulia Shapovalova reports from the Bunker-42 museum in Moscow.

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