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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, www.fragoutmag.com

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