An air base with a long history: Third Reich production site of the world's first jet-powered bomber, taken over and extended by the Soviet air force, for some time the last commander of the MIR space station was stationed here, and finally the base was abandoned in the course of the reunification of Germany and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
While these photos were taken, only a few hundred kilometers east of this place the Russian army was bombing and shelling the cities of Ukraine in a lunatic attempt to re-establish the Soviet Empire under Russian supremacy. It's history repeating somehow, and we all hope that the Russians love their children too.