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Three relics of a fallen empire, three monuments of a time when half the world lived under the shadow of the Hammer and Sickle. To this day you can find traces left by the Soviet Union wherever you go. We visit a secret bunker for nuclear missile heads somewhere in the backwaters of East Germany, the nuclear power plant Chernobyl and the Beelitz hospital from the days of the German Kaiser.
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00:03The forsaken places of history, ominous and mysterious.
00:11Relics of a fallen empire, the Soviet Union.
00:20For 40 years, half the world lived under the hammer and sickle.
00:24A secret bunker for nuclear warheads in the middle of nowhere in East Germany.
00:33Object 73274.
00:40Clean energy forever, the pride of the Soviet industry, Chernobyl.
00:57First an imperial, then a Soviet hospital full of secrets. The Bailet Sanatorium.
01:07Places full of undiscovered stories, abandoned and in ruins.
01:22Very personal memories.
01:24It's been 41 years ago. We grew up, the trees grew up.
01:46Under the iron fist of the Soviet Union, all of Eastern Europe becomes communist.
01:54Communism. According to Lenin, it's Soviet power plus electrification.
02:00Gigantic power plants are being built to supply the entire country with electricity.
02:13Entire cities are being founded for the personnel.
02:20Pripyat is one of these new satellite cities growing in the west of Ukraine.
02:31The nearby power plant is called Chernobyl.
02:53From construction worker to police officer, Alexei's story has been closely linked to the nuclear power plant for decades now.
03:00My name is Moskalenko, Alexei Timofeyevich. I'm a former resident of Pripyat.
03:07At the end of the 60s, the superpower USSR sees itself on equal footing with the west.
03:14The world's largest territorial state is home to 80 ethnic groups and divided into 15 constituent republics.
03:21The largest of them, the Russian Soviet Republic, followed by Ukraine with Kyiv as the political and cultural center.
03:30Only 80 kilometers to the north, Pripyat, the youngest and reportedly most modern city in the socialist world.
03:42Alexei Moskalenko works at the construction site of the fourth reactor core.
03:47The graphite blocks he sets will bring catastrophic changes to his life.
03:52And put the entire Soviet empire to the test.
04:08For the development of nuclear power, the Soviet Union needed uranium.
04:13A socialist brother state supplies this precious resource, the German Democratic Republic.
04:18But its mountains are not only the source of nuclear fuel for power plants,
04:23but also raw material for the Soviet nuclear weapons program.
04:28The Chernobyl station had reactors type RBMK.
04:32It could be used in two directions.
04:35After burning fuel, it could be used from this burning fuel,
04:41which was then used in nuclear weapons.
04:46This makes the four blocks of the nuclear power plant and the workers from Kripiat
04:51strategically important for the entire country.
04:55We are closely linked to the military power of the Soviet Union.
05:01The Soviet Union was the first of the countries of the Vashav government,
05:07the prototype against NATO countries.
05:12Both parties in the Cold War see the other as the aggressor.
05:18The ideological role is of course.
05:20The history is a range of class battles.
05:24And capitalism is in this view aggressive and dangerous.
05:30That's why the Soviet Union has to protect itself.
05:32And it is also a deep experience in the Soviet history,
05:36that it will always be threatened by the West.
05:38that it will not be threatened by the Soviet Union.
05:40Prestigious buildings and model cities like Pripyat
05:43are shown off as heroic feats by the Soviet propaganda machine.
05:48After the completion of the nuclear power plant in 1978,
05:52Alexei Moskalenko joins the police force.
05:54the city is small, small, compact, so everyone knew each other.
06:05There was a sports complex called the building, there were various types of competitions.
06:12When the competitions were not done, every Tuesday, the police played football and basketball,
06:19they played one against each other, they played one against the police, or on the other hand.
06:27Many of the players died horrible deaths within only a few weeks. Alexei barely survived.
06:37The inspection crew of Reactor 4 was running a safety test on April 26th.
06:42They were simulating a power outage. The test spun out of control.
06:50Police officer Alexei Moskalenko was on duty near the nuclear power plant.
07:19It was actually a explosion.
07:20This building remained a half, 35 meters.
07:24When this explosion happened, there was smoke on the head.
07:29It was very dirty. It smells like a firefly.
07:36what alexei built with his own two hands is now highly radioactive floating down upon him
07:43graphite from the reactor core when i came to my entrance i opened the door and she was already
08:02this quick thinking saves alexei's and his wife's life but his hometown pripyat is already lost at
08:10this moment as a police officer he supervised the evacuation and then patrolled the abandoned streets
08:29for months in the last two weeks of world war ii the fighting comes to berlin it is the fall
08:35of the
08:36nazi empire the soviet army occupies the baylet sanatorium for lung diseases along with the army
08:42come the refugees and the displaced the war started from german soil now many germans from the east have
08:57to pay a high price for this one of them is a root keppner for me andy java java denke
09:07to house in
09:09schlesien was jetzt polen is from 45 an 47 darüber möchte ich gar nicht reden ja wir waren die verlierer
09:23so zu sagen 1947 bin ich nach belitz gekommen mit meine eltern wurden wir
09:38ausgewiesen aus meiner heimat schlesien root keppner worked at the steam laundry the sanatorium is
09:47self-sufficient from growing food to performing complex surgery everything is done under one roof
09:54the facilities were built between 1898 and 1930 the sanatorium is meant to help preserve social peace
10:03because it is mainly the proletariat that suffers from tuberculosis a lung disease
10:08beditz wurde ausgewählt weil der standort mitten in einem riesigen waldgebiet sich befand man
10:14hat ein bahnanschluss mit direkter anbindung in der innenstadt und baute dort die musteranstalt die
10:20vorbild für alle anderen anstalten im deutschen reich sein sollte in 1916 during world war one a german
10:28corporal named adolf hitler recuperates from gas poisoning here he's one of the reasons and not the least of
10:35them that the clinic later becomes part of the soviet union during world war two belitz is converted
10:42into a military hospital for wounded soldiers again in 1945 three thousand of them are transported
10:48to the west shortly after the red army arrives at the gates nach der besetzung durch die sowjetarmee
10:55der belitzer anstalten wurde nicht nur lungentuberkulose behandelt sondern jeder soldat der sein
11:00dienst in der ddr verrichtete kam zu musterung nach belitz belitz is the largest soviet military hospital
11:07outside the ussr germans are hired for all non-medical jobs the wars vanquished work for the victors
11:34for the first time in 60 years ruth ketner returns to her old workplace it used to be loud hot
11:41and moist here
11:47the whole machine was all the way to get rid of the
11:59heiß mangeln gestanden haben und hier hinten das war die wäsche ausgabe da kam die ganze
12:12saubere wäsche rein das war erst mal hauptsächlich militärwäsche von den russen die dicken handschuhe
12:25dieser hatten ihre keppies das wurde alles hier gewaschen dann und getrocknet the soviet system
12:36is foisted upon the countries of eastern europe communists never had a parliamentary majority
12:41anywhere but now they have power everywhere the eastern part of germany becomes the german
12:47democratic republic in 1949 the soviet army stayed in the country as an occupying force
12:53the belitz sanatorium still offered safe jobs
13:10in 1953 workers in the east rose up against the east german leadership it's only with the help of
13:16the soviet army that the government can hold on to its power millions of germans have already been
13:22fleeing into the west since the end of the war nine o'clock on many a morning in occupied germany
13:27when the barriers are lifted between the british and russian zones to date more than 300 000 people
13:32have quit the russian area of occupation this wave of refugees doesn't stop after the founding of the
13:38of the german democratic republic then is my father back and a few days later is the mother
13:48nachgereist nun bin ich hier geblieben in der ddr und meine eltern waren weg ich wollte nicht mehr
14:07wieder unter fremde und wieder sich umstellen und wieder betteln dass man arbeit bekam ich sagte ne sei bei mir
14:18ist
14:20schluss in august 1961 east germany closes the border to the west escape is meant to be impossible from now
14:28on the symbol of this separation the berlin wall da war jeder wirklich am boden zerstört kann man sagen wir
14:40waren
14:40alle wirklich traurig ich konnte meine eltern über 20 jahren nicht mehr sehen
14:58ich denke manchmal noch an die zeit zurück heute frage ich mich das war nur dein leben und so alt
15:11geworden
15:13after the building of the wall in 1961 rud kettner leaves belitz and gets married
15:24at this point the soviet union is already a nuclear superpower with thousands of nuclear bombs and warheads
15:31and just as in the west they built up their arsenal of horror
15:38the deployment of nuclear weapons close to the enemy's borders is particularly effective that
15:44shortens the warning time and increases deterrence the secret object 73274 south of berlin plays a key
15:54role in this built by east german soldiers was a new month was a new month was for the new
16:03start of the year and this is a new standard power offgaben zu erfüllen haben
16:14dieter roland was forced into the national people's army nba for short
16:22founded in 1956 the nba has almost 20 000 professional soldiers
16:31in 1962 the general draft is introduced
16:36im rahmen der wehrpflicht zur ddr zeit hatte jeder seine 18 monate zu leisten egal in welcher einheit
16:44der lander beruf war zimmermann und wahrscheinlich aus dem grunde bin ich dann zu den bau pionieren
16:51gemustert worden on the other side of the iron curtain this new nba gave rise to grave concerns
16:58die nato seite sieht primär die offensive kriegsführungsstrategie des warschauer
17:05packs übersieht dabei aber dass deren kriegsplanung zu immer erst ein eingriff aus dem westen voraus geht das
17:13wurde einfach als propaganda abgetan the soviet union stations more than 500 000 soldiers in east
17:20germany the group of the soviet armed forces called gssd has conventional and nuclear weapons
17:30this massive presence is not only due to east germany's frontline position at the border to nato
18:00this is reflected in the power structure at the secret construction site
18:05soviet officers gave orders and nva soldiers followed them
18:29the only thing dita roland is able to guess is the size of the facility on more than one
18:35hundred and fifty hectares more than twenty buildings are being built from offices quarters
18:42to administrative buildings here in the inner circle and with access only for experts
18:48two extremely hardened concrete cubes most likely bunkers
18:54jeder bunker wird aus einem stück hergestellt man muss sich vorstellen man betoniert einen würfel indem man
19:06sich reinsetzen will um geschützt zu werden wenn der bunker in mehreren bauabschnitten mit fugen und
19:14so weiter hergestellt wird dann würde im ernst fall bei einem bombenangriff wären die fugen dann
19:20schwachstellen und da würde das gebäude heißen bunkers just like political blocs require seamless unity
19:28a fact czechoslovakia will have to learn the hard way in 1968 the political leadership wants
19:35to risk reforms and is backed by its people the soviet union perceives that as a threat and invades the
19:43country the spring of prague is to be stopped it cannot be allowed to turn into a wildfire which
19:49spreads to other countries the nva is supposed to join this invasion but that's cancelled at the last
19:56moment uns wurde nur gesagt wir haben erhöhte alarmbereitschaft und aufgrund dessen mussten wir
20:04die galaschnikow mit auf die bäustelle nehmen und dann wurde angeordnet militärisches bauen und unter militärischen
20:11bauen hat man verstanden von 24 stunden 20 stunden aktiv und nur vier stunden schlaf zur verfügung hatte
20:21und dann ging das wieder vom fronten los the secret bunkers are supposed to be completed ahead of
20:27schedule now the nva corps of engineers begin to realize what they are building here with the
20:33wachsen des gebäudes kamen dann erst langsam die erkenntnisse mit dem bau des mittelschiffes in
20:39zweigeschossiger bauweise und dieser länge aber atomwaffen in dem sinne hat denke glaube ich niemand
20:46dran gedacht dass sowas in dieser form und menge mal hier eventuell gelagert wird object 73 274 is designed
20:56for mass destruction operational 24 7 top secret with more than 16 nuclear warheads each at least five
21:05times as powerful as the hiroshima bomb dita holand built death the house can you ever be proud of
21:15something like that stolz yeah stolz ich meine auf die leistung die wir alle verbracht haben meine kameraden
21:27und ich aber ich meine das speck des baus erfüllt vielleicht nicht immer mit stolz after his military service
21:37titan roland worked as a civil engineer
21:50back to the secrets of belitz 50 kilometers to the north this clinic is a symbol for the fight
21:56against tuberculosis like no other place in germany
22:05industrialization in the 19th century is responsible for formation of slums which are a
22:10perfect breeding ground for the tvc bacteria berlin is no exception the new and often densely populated
22:18workers quarters are hit especially hard thousands of tuberculosis patients come from the capital
22:25to be treated to be treated at the sanatorium
22:34my nooma is also 1927 and tvc gestorben mein onkel auch an lungen tvc ja mein bruder und ich wir
22:45hatten
22:46beide drüsen tuberkulose mein name is rosa tielemann ich habe 1953 tuberkulose
22:57gehabt und bin nach belitz heilstätten gekommen tuberculosis also known as consumption is an
23:06infectious disease that has come in waves and exacted high death tolls for thousands of years
23:12in 1882 robert koch was the first to detect the pathogen in berlin
23:21die infektion kann nicht nur in der lunge vorkommen sondern kann auch an verschiedenen
23:25anderen körperteilen zur ausprägung kommen die halsdrüsen tuberkulose betraf vor allen
23:29den kindern und wurde auch in heilanstalten behandelt allerdings bei weitem nicht in dem ausmaß
23:36wie die lungen tuberkulose ich habe das hier merkt ich war immer müde müde und abgespannt und naja und
23:48das hat mir dann nachher am hals dann wehgetan andere die hatten die auf der auf den lungenstationen waren
23:58die war war natürlich schlimmer dran the belitz sanatorium is specialized in complicated cases
24:07construction started in 1898 the idea healing the workers because only a healthy body can work
24:15by 1930 the complex had grown to 40 buildings an area for women and one for men in 1942 the
24:23so-called
24:24eiermann buildings are added which later will remain open to east german patients
24:32the majority of the grounds becomes soviet territory and thus a restricted area for germans
24:39not much of the medical equipment remains today until the 1940s the options for treating tuberculosis
24:46were limited physical activity fresh air rest and if that didn't help emergency surgery
24:53on the afflicted organs in 1943 the antibiotics streptomycin made active therapy possible however the
25:02bacteria quickly become resistant to the antibiotics improving people's living conditions proved to be of
25:09much greater impact we're doften auch kleine spaziergänge im harik von billet zeilstetten machen
25:19rose then 18 years old is healed in belitz and she meets her future husband he suffers from open lung
25:27tuberculosis she kisses him anyway the couple gets married in 1957 thanks to vaccinations and better treatment options
25:52tuberculosis tuberculosis had been pushed back in east germany to fewer than 65 new cases per 100 000
25:59by 1972 today the disease is history in most of the western world but globally up to 2 million people
26:07still
26:07die from it every year
26:13change of scenery the soviet union for some time it looks as if communism can create a better more just
26:20world but the planned economy does not run as planned a model project of the energy sector deals a heavy
26:27blow
26:28to the soviet self-confidence
26:36in 1986 unit 4 of the nuclear power plant called lenin explodes the state's leadership covers up this
26:44catastrophic accident that was never supposed to happen it is the end for the city of pripyat
26:50but only few of the town folks know what's going on in the nearby power plant a young engineer
26:56has growing doubts about the job he's doing
26:59the second half of the day 26 april when i knew that there was no reactor and i tried to
27:07not to put it in the water it was a full of absurd and a full of nuclear surrealism as
27:11i said
27:14my name is Alexey Breus in 1986 i lived in pripyat and worked on the chernobyl
27:21in 1977 after seven years of construction the first reactor of the nuclear power plant
27:29vladimir ilyich lenin or chernobyl for short is switched on by 1983 three more reactors have been added
27:3712 reactors were planned originally the last one is scheduled to be connected to the grid in 2010
27:46chernobyl utilizes so-called graphite moderated light water cooled reactors
27:52radioactive uranium pallets and graphite tubes sustain a nuclear chain reaction that generates heat
28:00this nuclear fission is controlled by control rods the more they're pulled out of the reactor the stronger
28:06and hotter the reaction the reactor is cooled with water that evaporates driving a turbine that generates
28:15electricity what the chest of the turbine is generatory which is called it so as well it's a rotor
28:23and i wish it 120 ton the crazy son of a scourge to 3 000 about of minute so growing
28:30a
28:35energy on april 26 1986 this is to be tested they switch off the reactor
28:48they want to use the residual energy of the rotor to keep the cooling water running
28:54they also turn off the reactor's safety systems
29:17the turbine slows down and along with it the flow of cooling water slows down too
29:24steam bubbles form and they cannot dissipate the heat quite as well as water to end the test the
29:31control rods are lowered into the reactor again due to a design flaw the control rod tips speed up
29:39the reaction instead of slowing it down the uranium elements start to melt
29:46the reactor explodes at 1 23 a.m at this very moment alexei is still asleep his shift starts at
30:038 a.m he is
30:05asked to help in the desperate rescue operation
30:07the open reactor released twice as much radioactivity as the hiroshima boom
30:37a lethal danger invisible and odorless the power plant workers are contaminated and slowly realized it
30:49met a day after the vehicle
30:51the other day
30:51by the moment
30:52the other day
30:53our second day
30:55our second day
30:57the other day
30:58we go to work
30:58the other day
31:23The long-term effects of the accident have been hard to assess even to this day.
31:28Thousands die, millions fall sick, in most cases with cancer. Alexey Breuss is one of them.
31:48The plutonium they breed in nuclear power plants, such as Chernobyl, ends up in the nuclear weapons of the Soviet
31:54Union.
31:55Hundreds of warheads that are deployed at secret locations in East Germany.
32:02One of these locations – Object 73274.
32:08Nuclear weapons require regular inspections and maintenance.
32:12Tricky manual work for specialists, who are also employed at Object 73274.
32:19From the beginning, I tried to not stress myself, not to think about how it is harmful.
32:26And the last one, I always motivated myself to do my job well.
32:33My name is Budzikhovskiy Viktor.
32:36My military specialist is an electrical engineer in the field of nuclear weapons.
32:41I have a military name.
32:43At that time, I was a lieutenant.
32:46There are 80 officers and 80 soldiers stationed at the secret nuclear weapons depot.
32:55A total of several thousand Soviet soldiers, just like Viktor, work at the nuclear sites of the Soviet Army in
33:02East Germany.
33:02All together, there are 16 such special weapons depots.
33:07In South Brandenburg alone, 120 warheads for short-range missiles are stockpiled.
33:13It's more than a thousand in all of East Germany.
33:42The Hiroshima bomb unleashes an amount of attack.
33:46of energy that is equivalent to 12,000 tons of TNT.
33:54Nuclear weapons like the ones in the south of Brandenburg are multiple times more powerful.
33:59As so-called tactical weapons, they are supposed to destroy the enemy's airfields or any advancing
34:05troops in war.
34:36The separated Germany is designated as a nuclear battlefield by both sides.
34:45Every single one of these warheads can take out an entire city in West Germany.
34:53A rigorous maintenance plan is set to keep the secret arsenal operational.
35:00Here in the main hall of the bunker, the electronics are inspected and effective parts
35:05were replaced.
35:06In case of an attack, these warheads would be hoisted to the upper level by train and handed
35:12over to the East German missile unit.
35:16The weapons that were here were ready to use.
35:25They were at the highest level of ready.
35:28And no additional work they needed.
35:36Look, the nuclear weapons, which were held in our parts, were designed for the transfer of the German national
35:48army.
36:00The East German army doesn't have its own nuclear weapons, only the delivery systems, the principle
36:07of nuclear participation.
36:14Nukleare Teilhabe bedeutet lediglich, dass der Verbündete die Trägersysteme für nukleare
36:20Waffen erhält.
36:22Auf gut Deutsch die Raketen, auf Seiten der Bundesrepublik auch noch Flugzeuge, auf Seiten der DDR
36:28ausschließlich Raketen.
36:45The range of those delivery systems only reached the River Rhine.
36:49In case of an attack, the two German armies would have to fight each other.
36:57World War III would have started as a war between Germans.
37:04Also, die Deutschen im Kalten Krieg, das ist wirklich das Schlachtfeld, auf dem der künftige
37:10Dritte Weltkrieg nuklear ausgefochten werden soll.
37:12Und da wäre von Deutschland wenig übrig geblieben.
37:16Soviet soldiers stationed in East Germany discovered a world full of surprises.
37:21Soviet propaganda has left them completely unprepared for life here.
37:32Wir sind in einem der größten sozialistischen Länder, dass wir uns soziallismusverteilen
37:45sind, dass wir in der Zeitung von der Union leben in einer der größten sozialistischen
37:45Länder, dass wir uns soziallismusverteilen, dass wir uns soziallismusverteilen sind, dass wir
37:47bereits einmal in der Kommune sind, in der nächsten Stufe.
37:51Und hier bin ich in der DDR und sehe, dass mich einfach verabschieden.
37:54There were many things in East Germany which back in the USSR were reserved only for the privileged.
38:01Transfers to East Germany were considered a jackpot in the Soviet army.
38:09At that time, in the Soviet Union, somewhere in a book store,
38:13there was a road for a toilet paper.
38:15It's probably hard to imagine.
38:22Victor and his family left the base in 1994.
38:26He found a new job in civilian life.
38:38Inside the Soviet Union, a few cities enjoy a special status.
38:45Припьет is one of those paradise islands surrounded by a world of need.
38:50Here you find enough cars, good food, and spacious apartments.
38:57This is a house that we received in the 1970s on February 20th.
39:04We lived here for 12 years.
39:11When we arrived, it was very clean and clean.
39:16But in the real time, it was very painful.
39:21I'm Valery Nikolaevich from Lutsky.
39:23I sent first firefighters to Kyiv, to Boryspol.
39:30The firefighters from Припьет are at the front line of the burning reactor.
39:37They have an inkling that they are being contaminated, even if the political leadership wants to downplay
39:44the catastrophe.
39:56Valery is supposed to drive the injured to Kiev in the morning.
40:05In April, we with our partner arrived to this building to load the injured injured in the Chernobyl C.A
40:16.S.
40:18We sent the bus Icarus 92-41 to load the injured injured injured injured in the C.A.S.
40:35The firefighters are weakened, are throwing up and suffering from bloody diarrhoea and burns on their bodies.
40:42Radiation sickness causes delayed damage to the inner organs and disintegration of the blood vessels.
40:53We went to Boryspolis, the fire department, and we cleaned the bus, because the bus was very unpleasant.
41:05They were almost blown away, and we were at 7 o'clock in the morning, in Pripyat.
41:17No one was told what really happened.
41:20The truth was a state secret.
41:23The official information was the fire on the roof of the Marshal between the 3rd and the 4th energy block.
41:29This is all official information that was given to the Soviet Union and the residents of this city.
41:37The government has helicopters dumped tons of sand and boron on the reactor.
41:43It's supposed to smother the fire and stop the meltdown.
41:47Scientists convince head of state Gorbachev to evacuate Pripyat.
41:5150,000 people have to leave their city, only for a short time, so they will leave.
41:58This is already 27th.
42:00They said, well, it's for 2-3 days, take the documents with me, and everything.
42:10And practically, the autobuses came to Pripyat at 11 o'clock in the day, 27th.
42:18And at 17 o'clock in the day, Pripyat was free.
42:25Two days after the explosion, on the morning of April the 28th, radiation sensors, 2,000 km away in Sweden,
42:33sound an alarm.
42:36No nuclear incidents have been reported in the West.
42:39The Soviet meltdown cannot be kept a secret any longer.
42:54Radioactive isotopes are carried on the winds going north and west.
42:58They reach regions in the Soviet Union first.
43:01Belarus and Western Ukraine, then Finland and Sweden.
43:04And a bit later, Central Europe as well.
43:07In Germany, it's mostly in the Southeast, where a spike in radiation is measured.
43:14All the machines in the immediate proximity of the reactor fail due to high radiation.
43:20Now, disaster relief workers are trying to remove contaminated material at any cost.
43:27Soldiers are deployed, with no regard for their health.
43:50In 1987, Valery Sluitsky returns to the evacuated zone to help with decontamination.
43:58Today, he lives in the recently established settlement of Chernobyl, right outside the zone.
44:05Experts assume that Pripyat, Valery's old home, will be inhabitable again in two to three hundred years.
44:27Secrecy was part of everyday life in the Soviet-dominated Eastern Bloc.
44:31That's especially true for the military.
44:34Estimates say that in 1948 and 1991, the Soviet army is on average four to five million troops strong.
44:45500,000 of them are stationed in East Germany.
44:48Of particular importance, the specialists of Object 73274.
44:54Guardians of nuclear weapons who live here with their families.
45:21The secret bay south of Berlin is divided into three zones.
45:25The restricted zone with the nuclear weapons.
45:27nuclear warheads, a barracks area, and the civilian zone for the families.
45:32Here you can find prefab housing, a library, and a little bit of private luxury in the form of a
45:38swimming pool.
46:01The armed forces stationed in East Germany belong to the elite of the Soviet army.
46:07They are relatively well provided for.
46:11There are television sets and children's bicycles.
46:19The apartment blocks are well furnished and modern.
46:22A children's room and bath in every apartment.
46:25A novelty for many of the residents.
46:28However, there are some special features.
46:32In one of the rooms, in the middle of the living room,
46:37the family of the commander of the unit,
46:38the first person.
46:40In exactly the same room, the family of the living room,
46:45the second person.
46:46Why it was done?
46:47In my opinion, because the bomb will fall in one,
46:51the second one will remain alive.
46:52Well, maybe, this is the logic.
47:02Oneplugely, and it is the logic.
47:02Ah, enter it in the silhouette of the audit to consist of ''20 temos'is''
47:07The IRS and theabi aunt's house,
47:08KWHC, the metro line I إلى the room.
47:09And this was my room, detective 2000 husbandry.
47:12It was the first My room, the one of my behave in a random school of life.
47:18There is a number which was in my life.
47:20The silence was in the continues.
47:39In January of 1991, the last Soviet soldiers leave Object 73274 and return home.
47:47The living situation there is a rude awakening.
48:14Today, Object 73274 is owned by a building materials company.
48:20Most buildings have been torn down and converted into gravel for road building.
48:35The Belit Sanatorium has been under Soviet management since 1946.
48:40With 1200 beds, it is the largest military hospital outside the Soviet Union.
48:47This makes the new masters of these grounds the heirs to the Prussian architecture of splendor.
48:52Even today, some are still mesmerized by this greatness.
49:23Be it complicated births.
49:25The wounded from Afghanistan or patients with radiation sickness after Chernobyl.
49:31Belit Sanatorium was equipped to handle everything.
49:43Under Soviet control, the hospital, just like all other bases in East Germany, is kept state-of-the-art.
49:50But the costs were staggering.
49:53In 1986, head of state Mikhail Gorbachev starts with long overdue reforms.
50:00In 1988, Gorbachev convenes a conference on the Warsaw Pact.
50:05The task at hand is cutbacks, even in the military.
50:09On this conference, the Soviet Union was established from the Soviet Party and Regierungschef, Mikhail Gorbachev,
50:16a change in order for the Warsaw Pact of the strategic concept.
50:22We had always a double loan received.
50:26Here we had the market and the market received.
50:42The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 made the Soviet troops' presence in East Germany uncertain.
50:49One of the last actions of the Soviet Union as a protective power is granting Honecker asylum.
50:54The former DDR-Stats- and Parteichef was in April in the Soviet military hospital Bielitz.
51:01In March 1991, Honecker flees to the Soviet Union, a country that will cease to exist only nine months later.
51:11And the Soviet troops stationed at East Germany are preparing their final drawdown from the promised land of East Germany.
51:22We have between us already predicted that the Soviet Union would go back to Russia.
51:29The whole hospital with its devices and its employees are officially back to Russia.
51:39The destruction, which we know today, is actually just after 1994,
51:46through the montage, through the vandalism, through the long-term protection of the equipment.
51:52Whatever is left of the equipment, no matter if from the days of the Kaiser or the Soviets, is stolen.
52:02Lydia does not return to Russia with the other staff.
52:07She found a new home in Germany.
52:13I have always wondered, why it is on the German territory, the Soviet army,
52:19because there is no war and what do we do here?
52:22And I can honestly say, in my heart, I am happy that this territory,
52:32which we have besotted, is again to German people.
52:39In 2015, the first treetop path in Brandenburg is opened at the Beelitz Sanatorium.
52:45Sections of the clinic have been converted into residential buildings.
52:50On December 25, 1991, the Soviet Union was officially dissolved.
52:58Only memories and some very unique places harken back to the former empire.
53:03Old weapons depots have fallen apart.
53:07Pripyat might be inhabitable again in 200 years.
53:11And the Beelitz Sanatorium has a new purpose in life.
53:26Part 2
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