Tito’s bunker - Mila

Tito’s bunker took twenty seven years to build in complete secrecy. But it was kept a secret for another thirty two years and was only discovered by the world in 2011. The people living in the nearby village, Konjic, didn’t know anything about it. It was Yugoslavia’s biggest secret. The bunker was built just in case there was a nuclear war. It was built in a mountain called Mount Zlatar beside a river called Nerbtva. The bunker’s code name was ark d-0. 

Tito was the president of Yugoslavia between 1953 to 1980. His full name is Josip Broz Tito.

We started off by walking to some normal looking houses. But really, one of them was the secret tunnel to Tito’s bunker. We strode through into a long, cold tunnel dug out completely by hand. If they used big machinery then the villagers would know what was going on and it wouldn’t be a secret anymore.

We walked through big iron doors and into the bunker. First we came into the decontamination room. If they had been outside in the nuclear radiation then when they came back in they had to be decontaminated.

After that we went to the dining room for three hundred soldiers who took shifts. Then we went to see the electricity room. On the gas tanks was written, ‘maximum amount of laziness’ which made me laugh.

Next, we went to see the air conditioning. There were big pipes which led air to the rooms for the soldiers. The rooms for the soldiers all had bunk beds and hardly any space to move around. But Tito’s area had a lot of space. He had a double bed and lots of other sleeping rooms for more important soldiers. There were also two conference rooms which had big screens in it.

The bunker was very interesting and creepy. The art work that people had put in it was superb and superior. It would be an honor to go there again.