If you’d like to walk for miles in concrete burrows built to defend an isolationist regime that nobody wanted to attack, Kukes in northeastern Albania is the place for you. The small Balkan country’s post World War II communist leadership reveled in massive defensive works; the countryside is still littered with the crumbling remains of 175,000 concrete mini-bunkers — again built to stop imaginary invaders. But Kukes’ tunnels take the prize. Tourist guide Afrim Cenaj, 44, shows the underground tunnels beneath the city of Kukes, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) north of Tirana, Albania, Wednesday, March 15, 2023.(AP Photo/Franc Zhurda) Dug from the 1970s to the early 1990s — just in time for the communist regime’s collapse — the underground network was meant to house the town’s ent...
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