This two-loophole heavy machine gun half caponier looks realy nice from the front. It even had its armored housings fitted which is not a common sight when it comes to majority of Soviet pillboxes in Lithuania.
Actually this pillbox, screening a vital road hub in the city of Sakiai, is effectively a pile of rubble. Its rear wall is entirely torn away and huge chunks of reinforced concrete litter the field at the back of it, surely giving enough reason for the local farmer to curse its existence. The interior is swept clean with the same massive explosion which disintegrated half of the pillbox including part of the roof.
These are not typical combat scars, this bunker shared the fate of many of the neighboring structures in the Sakiai strongpoint.
Right after the war tons of munitions were littering the fields and they had to be disposed of somehow. There was no time and resources to move them away to remote locations or firing grounds and these abandoned fortifications came in as a handy place to blast whatever dangerous stuff army engineers had collected.
It was a “controlled explosion”.
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