Soviet Army Military Base in the Green Forest / “Bunker” Park of Ideas
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It is located near Paliūniškis, on the left side of the Paliūniškis- Vabalninkas road (KK191) (a signpost is installed), and it is accessible by a forest road.
Green Forest is the place where the participants of the 1863–1864 uprising, the murderers of the Jews of 1941, as well as the Soviet and Lithuanian partisans, have left their traces. It was also used by the Soviet Army. The forest was the site of a Soviet Air Force training ground, where bombing and shooting exercises took place. Locals have nicknamed the site “the bombarderia” because of the bomb pits that still persist. A Soviet military base was also stationed in the forest. Little is known about its purpose and history. It was probably built between 1961 and 1977 and is believed to have been a reserve base for military communications. The media, however, likes to refer to it as the Reserve Command Post of the Baltic Military District. A reinforced concrete panel fence, a bunker and ruins of ancillary buildings have been preserved.
In 2019, an amusement park – the “Bunker” Park of Ideas – was created here. The former bunker has Cold War-era military and civil defence equipment on display, and there is also a horror room in the bunker, with extensive use of military equipment and Soviet-era household items as decorations. The bunker is surrounded by a park of metal sculptures.