This small, single-loophole machine gun pillbox sits quietly on a forest clearing. It can hardly be seen and that's exactly how they were supposed to look.
Some of the pillboxes were indeed built in the forests; trees were then cut down all around to provide clear field of fire. What's interesting is that 30-40 cm tree stumps were always left in place. It was a clever approach – they did not provide any significant cover for the attackers but made any wheeled vehicles movement practically impossible.
There were so many of these stumps left along the Molotov Line that even today, after more than 70 years, this kind of deforestation is called by the locals “a Russian forest”.

This photo is Best on black at Fluidr

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