Inside Lithuania’s secret cold war missile base: from top-secret silo to local gold mine.

Simas Prašmantas   LRT11 October 2025
“Pure Tarkovsky. You could have filmed Stalker here,” recalls journalist and ethnographer Eugenijus Bunka, remembering his first steps into the secret underground nuclear missile base hidden in the Plokštinė forest, near Lake Plateliai, just three days after it was abandoned by Soviet troops in 1979.