Martin Kaule
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Prague's Jalta Hotel reveals its Cold War-era spy bunker
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Martin
ONE thing was for sure when foreigners stayed at a prestigious Prague hotel during the Cold War era - their telephone conversations were carefully monitored by secret police in a hidden underground bunker some 20 metres under the building. The Jalta hotel at Wencaslas Square in the heart of the Czech capital was built in 1958. Its massive bunker with its reinforced concrete walls was meant to provide Communist Party members and military officials a shelter in the case of a nuclear attack.
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Martin