| Latvia will auction off former Soviet radar base ghost town |
| Saturday, 06 February 2010 | |
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Via HuffPo, news that the Baltic nation of Latvia will auction off a Soviet ghost town abandoned after the Russian military departed. The town, Skrunda-1 (map), centered around a now-abandoned radar base that was part of the Soviet early warning system. Auction starts today, starting bid $300,000. If I'm not mistaken, this is a Flickr set of images from this place....
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