Oldtimer meeting on "Hahnweide"

[Buran-Pilot]

I was on the Oldtimer Flight Show on the Hahnweide airfield in Germany a few weeks ago - here are some photos

http://www.aviapedia.com/photos/v/bu...lot/Hahnweide/

[sicsok]

An attached book is here about even older times. It is not about flying --- that old days of the Siberian conflicts (when everyone was enemy to every others).
The last chapter has a few interesting statements and predictions of the - the future - today.

[sicsok]

One of the abandoned camps from Stalin's time. I have to admit that the buildings are sturdy and well built, the nature is pristine. Maybe with possibility to take family (or balanced girls-boys company) and disposing of the guards - I would say it could be as liveable as the Mojave Desert was.
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NOTE:
No fence of any kind at this gulag camp. The barracks of prisoners are bordered by the river and by a ring-road path where the guards with dogs could stroll and hunt. Just outside the ring-road are the offices and the quarters of the guards personnel (there is a large red star on the building in the lower left corner, I guess: to scare the tigers away).
The only traffic access to and from the camp was the railroad bridge (heavily guarded of course).
This camp was far from being the ugliest one.