untrue), we do not have to do anything.
Another approach is: The regulations
did indeed exist, and we have been at
least keeping records. Unfortunately,
the first approach is adopted by
a majority of the local authority organs,
statewide.
Technically speaking, shelters and
bunkers in Poland were being built
across a longer timeline, based on
a variety of regulations - norms,
directives, rules, and so on. Not
only were those regulations used to
create individual facilities, usually
underneath the existing buildings,
but urban planning assumptions were
based upon them - for districts, or
estates (such as the famous TOPL
estates, built based on guidelines of the
Terrain Air Defence, Polish: Terenowa
Obrona PrzeciwLotnicza). Not only did
those guidelines define the technical
parameters for the facilities (types,
thickness of the materials, autonomy),
but they also specified the location
layout, designated the decontamination
areas, medical aid points, observation
posts, and so on.
Before the readers ask, it shall
be pointed out that the baseline
parameter defining the resilience of
the shelter structures back then (and
- now, as most of them still exist) is
the so-called resilience from being
rubbled up. That means that the
shelter, located underneath a building,
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