By Daniel Bardsley Covered in graffiti and with every window smashed, this is the crumbling Russian village in the Czech Republic that was abandoned two decades ago at the end of the Cold War. Eerily quiet today, it once bustled with hundreds of residents but all the workers and their families went back home to Russia after the Iron Curtain came down. Named Bozi Dar, which is Czech for God's Gift, the village was built after Soviet forces invaded what was then Czechoslovakia in 1968. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO Derelict: The abandoned town of Bozi Dar in the Czech Republic which has been empty since the end of the Cold War. There were once hundreds of residents but they went home to Russia after the Iron Curtain came down
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Bozi Dar which was home to thousands of Russians was built after Soviet forces invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968
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Village, which was abandoned in 1991, was heavily guarded because it housed a top secret Russian military base
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It is widely thought the village was used to secretly store nuclear warheads
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Thousands of apartment blocks are now concrete shells covered in graffiti with broken glass on the floor
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Walls of apartments are lined with Soviet newspapers from the mid-1970s
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Plans to use the old Soviet airfield as a cargo hub never got off the ground and the area has been left to its fate
@placeholder secrets: The area was closely guarded during the Cold War because it was part of a top-secret military base rumoured to house nuclear warheads