Once per month, the municipal district of Prague 2 (our favorite neighborhood) opens an underground shelter built in the late 1950s and early 1960s for civil protection. It could house up to 1,300 people for 72 hours in case of aerial bombardment, and it includes toilets, showers, a first aid room, a power generator, multiple air filtration systems, telecommunications systems, and even two morgues.
The air filtration systems could handle dirt, dust, carbon dioxide, and even some chemical warfare agents. I could find no mention of nuclear fallout handling capabilities. I suppose that this was created to protect from any hostile attackers, and maybe there was thought of protecting from the US and its allies, though history has shown that the Soviets and Warsaw Pact members were the only ones to eventually attack the city after the shelter was built. That said, there is a defused American bomb on display from WWII. But of course, it wasn’t the Czechs that were the target — it was the Nazis.
As you can envision based on the photos below, this is not a place you’d love to hang out in for long. It was really wet and a bit smelly down there, not to mention dark and depressing.
Today’s dad joke: What do you call contemptuously ironic remarks that cut deep?
“Scar-casm”
Today’s side note: This summer I bought an autonomous vacuum cleaner for Colleen. I was admittedly hesitant about such a device, but now I’m a true devotee to our “eufy.” I have a hard time not seeing it as a pet. It wanders around our entire one-floor apartment daily, traveling through the various rooms, bumping into things, but always finding its way back to home base, and always doing a great job at cleaning up after itself. On the morning of our flight to Prague, I had it running while I was taking a walk, and when I got back I saw it driving by, but dragging my cloth shorts belt behind it! I needed that belt for my time abroad, and thought I had packed it, but I then realized that it had fallen under the bed, and I hadn’t noticed it until eufy brought it out for me. Good eufy.
Today’s travel quote: (thanks, Joe)
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu
Major Meander 
Aw, the eufy is such a good boy 🙂 That’s hilarious!
Underground bunker is creepy, but understandable based on the historical context.