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Those are air-raid shelters, like we have in Sweden, right?

In Sweden every new building with more than so many occupants had to have a 'skyddsrum'. Local government also had skyddsrums they could manage the civil response to emergencies i.e. attack from.

This is all quite separate from the military bunkers.

And all this isn't quite like these pillboxes that are littering the Albanian countryside.

One country that did build lots of pillboxes after WW2 is Switzerland. If you visit, locals enjoy pointing out various buildings that look like normal mountain chalets but actually have several-meter-thick ground-floors with gun emplacements hidden inside. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Redoubt_(Switzerland)



Yes you are right, ours too are for protection, not fighting off an invasion. I should have made that more clear.




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