This is a typical view of the Lithuanian countryside and that's how the small pillboxes which dot the landscape look like. In fact you can't see this one at all, it's all covered with an extra embankment, overgrown with bushes and the local farmer added to the camouflage by stacking some firewood and wood logs nearby.
This forgotten concrete slab is the smallest type of pillboxes built on the Molotov Line. Single firing chamber, single Maxim heavy machine gun – that's all. Their loopholes seldom faced the direction from which the expected enemy might've come. They were usually built fdeeper inside the strongpoints and their role was to cover the back of the bigger pillboxes in order to make sure there were no dead zones left in the firing system of the strongpoint.

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